You ruined the chance. You should have said he needed to post more ****ies. The temporary ban was a test to see how dedicated you are to ****ies. You don't deserve "Victor." Go back to darthkostis.
I have only two current PO's, but plan on getting 9 total.
Classic SM
Snowspeeder Luke
Batman XE
Mando Luke
Green Goblin
Doc Ock
The Batman
Batcycle
Moon Knight
Bespin Luke
Going to hold out as long as I can on the classic SM in case they do a NWH final suit. A shiny take on the Classic SM is what I might be up for. I'd rather have a battle damaged final Green Goblin, so if made, I will replace the current one with the BD. Bespin Luke was quite the surprise and I am all about Luke as the rest of SW is trash for me.
I've got Mando Luke on PO, so I'm good there. I'm not a huge Luke fan, so I just need one "perfect" look for my Jedi set-up, and Mando Luke satisfies me, as an EU representation of sorts too. I was rooting for Kenobi to feature flashbacks and give us some form of Anakin & Obi-Wan, but I'm not so sure now... Everything Spider-Man I'm skipping beyond a Tobey. I'm skipping Battinson too considering we'll get at least two more figures and InArt's in the game now too. Really, Batman-wise I've downsized it a lot to just his Gothic-themed foes if they ever get made. Scarecrow, Strange, Azrael, Ras and Slade as extras, a good Batman, and that's it more or less it. I'm curious to see if InArt will go after the Arkham license too. Maybe Battinson will have a cool Ivy or whatever that'll tempt me, but my Bat-List is significantly smaller these days.
A good Thrawn I will take and a Blade for next year. Don't think F4 is coming in 2023 and 2024 just feels right. X-Men will be a big facet so I am not going there yet. Then maybe another Battinson down the road.
Yeah, I doubt F4's coming in 2023. They aren't even any leaked casting calls yet, meanwhile Blade's been slowly rounding up the cast for months now. But both F4 & X-Men will be there for around a decade, so I'm taking it slow and waiting to see what costumes they make. It'll be easy to space them out and pick and choose at least.
I've played the Hot Toys game and I know how it goes for the most part. I've played the Marvel game pretty well. You know there will be many iterations over the years and I've done it right in waiting for my specific taste for Avengers (Road Worn Thor, Endgame IM, Gladiator Hulk) while whoring out some on my boy Cap. I did sell some Caps due to age and downsizing.
That's how I did it myself. It's why I'm still in the 10s; none of the characters interested me enough (being primarily a Cosmic/Supernatural & X guy Marvel-wise), and the ones that did I waited for the right costumes, which is the same I'll do here. Doom's the only one I'd buy multiples of, and then spread them around (one with the F4, another with the Sorcerers, and so on). And I guess Dr. Strange if DS2 gives us all his costumes. I'll need doubles of Xavier & Reed too for the Illuminati, which is why I'm hoping the DS2 Variants get figures now, so that I won't have to be POing doubles in the future.
I passed on early SW like the DX07 Bespin Luke and Han and Chewie. "I will just get the next one." Problem is they never did! At least the ones I wanted, besides Jedi Luke. Cannot pass on SW, got to get them when they are there. Paid the price for Heavy Mando, Deluxe R2.
I'm realising that these days. I passed on General Skywalker because I thought there'd be another version from the Kenobi show (plus they still haven't released that General Kenobi and I wanted them as a pair). But now I'm fearing that there'll not be another version and I missed my chance.
SW is too huge for me to try and get it all, so I'm sticking with just the Jedi & Sith with some Empire/Republic bits maybe; no Hans and Bobas for me. And even then I'm not going to buy Ki-Adi Mundi or whatever; just the big names. If I'm going to deviate beyond the PT/OT Jedi, it'll be someone like Cal Kestis or Ezra; I'm not spending 350€ on a goofy alien. I'm hoping that they do reissues of ROTS Anakin & Obi-Wan for ROTS' 20th anniversary in 2025, give us a Palpatine and a Grievous, stuff like that. I assume they'll have made a Mace Windu by then.
Prices are getting crazy. The recent DX Luke is 420€ in my neck of the woods, with shipping and taxes. I'll have to start ordering everything from OSK and hope there really aren't any taxes through his system, otherwise I'm screwed. The DX Mando Luke I've got on PO costs me 320€, but somehow the new one is 100€ more. It's getting waaaaay too expensive to be buying anything beyond the absolute favourites plus some extras to round up a display or two.
Glad I am back chatting with you Victor.
Likewise!