Plastic Bateman
Super Freak
Had a few people at my place last night and this guy saw my Robocop and was in love. He was like, "Dude, I'll buy this from you right now for $100!". I just started laughing and he was like, "Yeah, I know that's a lot but I love Robocop." and I was like, "That's not why I'm laughing, that figure is worth over $250.".
I started listing off the prices of some of the other Hot Toys on my shelf and I think I blew his mind.
that's a perfect story of our collecting
just have read it to my colleagues who are constantly shocked when i tell them the prices of our toys.
I know its funny when you tell them the price of the hot toys figures and they're like 'but they're just toys' and 'i wouldn't pay that much for a figure' and so on...
My mom and older sister used to give me crap about spending so much on hot toys figs but I haven't heard a peep from either of them since I sold a few for almost double what I paid for them
I love the fact that we live in a world where people spend £500+ a year, every year, on new phones that they'll use exclusively to send text messages and occasionally ****post on Twitter with just like their old phone was capable of, £15,000 on a Hermes handbag, £100 on a plain white t-shirt from ACP, £1000 on a pair of 'limited edition' trainers, and so on - and we're the weird ones for spending money on figures
I'm pretty sure it was just a couple of people who were too rough when moving the arms.
It happened to mine, and I never took it out of a museum pose. The replacement arm I sourced has been posed far more and shown no signs of deterioration or damage. Now admittedly I have been treating the rubber parts with Shin-Etsu since replacing the arm, but honestly I think it was an issue affecting a very small batch of parts. Annoying if it does happen to you, though.