Darth Maul Legendary Scale Figure

[toomanyfigures]

500 pieces would help me sleep at night when you have to explain to people the price it does help justify such an amount to some extent

 

[ProgMatinee]

How so any more than 1000? There are 6 billion people in the world. Whats the difference between 0.0000083% and 0.0000167% having it? The shipping cost of moving 1 of these to a buyer is going to be pretty prohibitive for the secondary market anyway. People better be buying these because they want it, not based on whether they can sell it.

 

[toomanyfigures]

if 6 billion people collected the price would be 100k lol

 

[toomanyfigures]

i guess the real difference all jokes aside is 500 pieces, not percentages

 

[ProgMatinee]

but why does it matter that you own 1/500 vs 1/1000? If it makes the item more attractive to you, then you don't really like the product. when you are talking miniscule numbers like 500 or 1000 I don't see a material difference. This isn't 500 vs 5000 or 50000.

 

[cstojano]

but why does it matter that you own 1/500 vs 1/1000? If it makes the item more attractive to you, then you don't really like the product. when you are talking miniscule numbers like 500 or 1000 I don't see a material difference. This isn't 500 vs 5000 or 50000.

500 vs 1000 is 100% more pieces in circulation. The 6 billion number doesn't work because we only have to consider the number of people that would take one of these if they were free.

 

[ProgMatinee]

But why is 500 vs 1000 important to a collector that only wants 1 and has the opportunity today to buy 1...? The fact that 500 less people have 1 really makes this product better?

 

[toomanyfigures]

im not saying its the only factor period, i said it would help me sleep at night,
edition size is a big draw of collecting, thats why es exsists
obviously 500 is better then 1000 thats just how it goes

 

[cstojano]

But why is 500 vs 1000 important to a collector that only wants 1 and has the opportunity today to buy 1...? The fact that 500 less people have 1 really makes this product better?

This relates to my comment above. There are all sorts of reasons people have to sell stuff- moves, marriage, financial hardship, etc. ES helps guarantee future price stability if not appreciation. I am not condoning collecting to invest or anything like that but when something is priced in the thousands rather than hundreds I would like to have some sense that the piece is going to be limited. What the perfect ES is would be anyone's guess. Demand is very hard to gauge. a 30% drop in aftermarket value hard to swallow on a 2000 dollar piece.

No one buys something like with the mind to sell it later but you really have to keep this in consideration.

 

[ProgMatinee]

If they set it at 500 would you be regretting that it wasn't set at 300?

I guess the question is what is the base number for what is a good edition size and a bad edition size? Are you just being arbitrary?

Thats why I threw out the world population. 500 vs 1000 is insignificantly miniscule in the grand scheme. If you arbitrarily pick 500, then someone who arbitrarily picks 400 will dislike your number and say the 500 was a 25% increase.

Whats the baseline for rare? IMO the baseline is set partly by the MSRP.

An edition size of 500 is low for a $100 toy... because demand is high for easily affordable items. 500 for an item that only a few can afford and will not have much turnover due to high MSRP, 500 is not that low because the people that purchase a $2000 item are more likely to hold it forever.

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

It's only important because there's a chance that if many more are made, the quality of them will be worse..and for 2k, this thing better be pretty perfect.

 

[ProgMatinee]

It's only important because there's a chance that if many more are made, the quality of them will be worse..and for 2k, this thing better be pretty perfect.

Thats an interesting point. On the other hand, if no edition size is set and they are made to order, then perhaps attention to quality will be better observed.

 

[thenammagazine]

If they set it at 500 would you be regretting that it wasn't set at 300?

An edition size of 500 is low for a $100 toy... because demand is high for easily affordable items. 500 for an item that only a few can afford and will not have much turnover due to high MSRP, 500 is not that low because the people that purchase a $2000 item are more likely to hold it forever.

People are _____ing for the sake of doing so.

 

[toomanyfigures]

If they set it at 500 would you be regretting that it wasn't set at 300?

I guess the question is what is the base number for what is a good edition size and a bad edition size? Are you just being arbitrary?

Thats why I threw out the world population. 500 vs 1000 is insignificantly miniscule in the grand scheme. If you arbitrarily pick 500, then someone who arbitrarily picks 400 will dislike your number and say the 500 was a 25% increase.

Whats the baseline for rare? IMO the baseline is set partly by the MSRP.

An edition size of 500 is low for a $100 toy... because demand is high for easily affordable items. 500 for an item that only a few can afford and will not have much turnover due to high MSRP, 500 is not that low because the people that purchase a $2000 item are more likely to hold it forever.

the companies set the edition size based on there own research
it affects the collector but its not up to the collector
500 vs 1000 is just a base number that you threw out and your "grand" scheme assumes every person in the world collects, which is far from the case

 

[cstojano]

We can't ever know true demand for a piece now or in the future. All we can know is price and edition size and SS seems to have taken the latter away from us. Yeah 300 vs 500 is arbitrary. I mean it takes them how many years to sell 50 bronzes at twice the price, but at least you know going in how many pieces will ever be made for the bronzes. Demand is clearly way higher for these pieces since 50 LSF Mauls I suspect would be scarfed up and the tone here would be very different. I would guess that an ES of 250 would be gone by now, 500 may be close to selling out by now, 1000 I have no clue. With an open ES Sideshow could be selling these made to order FOREVER. So in 5 years anyone that needs to sell will have to significantly discount on the after market.

 

[nemenforcer]

In most collectible art mediums edition size is important. Even if it is not numbered its useful to know how many are in circulation.

 

[Gipetto0812]

People are _____ing for the sake of doing so.

seems to happen a little more every day now it seems

 

[Bloodsport]

Does anybody know what type of clay sideshow used for Darth Maul and other statues? Is this done with polymer clay?

 

[The Josh]

Most of their stuff is done in polystone. Unless you mean what its initially sculpted in?

 

[Evidicus]

So has ANYONE ordered one?

I've been collecting sideshow statues on and off since 2004 and only recently have I been really getting into it. There are a ton of pieces that I really want but I have to be picky on what I order due to space restrictions in my office. When I saw the Darth Maul LSF I got that feeling of "I have to have this..."

After hours of meditation and perfecting my technique...I successfully Jedi mind-tricked my wife into giving me the "green light" to order this masterpiece.

2nd QTR 2012 can't get here fast enough.