Sassafras
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I've been collecting for twice as long and barely even have 20 figures, so 34 sounds like a lot to me. Then again, I may also be an outlier on the low end...
There was a time when collectors were making/cancelling preorders everywhere (myself included), so NRDs make sense as a commitment device to weed out the non-serious preorders (otherwise, there's a bunch of excess inventory being made/floating around, which doesn't help HT or its retailers... it's just wasted resources that could be better spent elsewhere). I know a lot of collectors want to avoid NRDs or wait to preorder, but that deflates preorder numbers... which in turn deflates the size of final production runs... which might be partly why so many figures are skyrocketing in aftermarket value. Not saying there's a direct causality, but I do find it curious that so many figures are rising in value when the number of collectors seems to be bigger than ever (or people are just more willing to pay those prices than before). Anyways, that's just the economist in me.
Back to complaining about toys!
At least some of that I think is the "10-year MCU thing". I started late into the MCU; definitely own a few that I paid upmarket prices for after the fact - within reason. But I'd hate to try to source "10-year figs now" - TWS Bucky included.
Re newer figs - prices seemed to climb after Civil War - at least for me at this point, every purchase has to be very carefully considered. Took me forever to pay off Infinity War War Machine.