Will Hot Toys ever lose their value?

[JohnnyT]

Hot Toys are so awesome right now. But Sideshow 1/6th was awesome in their day. Now, Sideshow 1/6th look silly. When will Hot Toys start looking silly and losing their value? Some of the older figures (John J. Rambo and the original Prison Break) already look silly, but are still valuable. How long will this last!?!

 

[karamazov80]

When the speculative bubble bursts, probably. I give it another 6 months to a year.

 

[darthviper107]

Certain ones, sure--the Hot Toys Two Face figure has gone down considerably in value. Most likely figures will either maintain their value or go up.

 

[EVILFACE]

I would say not much if any. Sure if they put out a new Rambo III the original will drop a bit, but not a lot.

 

[Darkseed]

HT will eventually price themselves out of the market. At such time, everything will come crashing down.

 

[Batty]

Eventually HT will develop the technology to clone actors and shrink them down to 1/6th size, giving every collector an actual living breathing action figure. This will make all current HT figures obsolete.


Although it will not prevent people from doing PS manips.

 

[Batty]

This will also open up the the 1/6th toilet market since all our figures will now need to pee and poop.

 

[fosing]

try buying hot toys from a crack addict.

 

[EVILFACE]

I hope they are mute, cause I don't want to hear my figures whine when I pose em.

 

[karamazov80]

This will also open up the the 1/6th toilet market since all our figures will now need to pee and poop.

Savvy collectors will do like I am and get in on the ground floor here.

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=LTY10004&mode=retail

50 of these babies pre-ordered

Only one will be used with my custom "Dude" figure. The rest are an investment to pay for my child's college fund--as are all my Hot Toys purchases. This is gonna be even more lucrative than all those comics I picked up in the early 1990s!

 

[78Myers]

YES...like many toys. Especially when they are mass produced. People talk about HT making limited runs, but in comparison, those runs are large and big enough to devalue the figures. It's not like the vinyl-urban art world, where those pieces are truly limited based on the output.

 

[Calcifer]

Living hot toys figures you say? ..if that were the case i'd have a great time parting out a black widow!

 

[Oh_No]

of course

just like baseball cards

 

[karamazov80]

of course

just like baseball cards

Last I checked (circa 1998), my Mark McGwire Donruss Rated Rookie card was worth over $100! I bet its price has increased 10-fold since then.

 

[Darkseed]

I hope they are mute, cause I don't want to hear my figures whine when I pose em.

Whiny little chipmunk voices pissin and moanin, ugh

 

[The Ringer]

When the world ends, yes.

 

[Lejuan]

Hot Toys are so awesome right now. But Sideshow 1/6th was awesome in their day. Now, Sideshow 1/6th look silly. When will Hot Toys start looking silly and losing their value? Some of the older figures (John J. Rambo and the original Prison Break) already look silly, but are still valuable. How long will this last!?!

The bottom is about to drop out of the HT 1/6 market, starting with Blade and Mk I. You should sell these to me immediately before this happens. My offer of $400 for the pair is comfortably above MSRP, pm me if you want to make this very sensible and prescient transaction.

 

[Gully Foyle]

 

[78Myers]

Here's the big key: what developments in realism and immersion will we get in the next few years in the 1/6th scale figure market?

Look at some of the pieces being released now, in terms of realism of sculpts, clothing tailoring et., it's quite incredible.

How much better can that get? And if there is a change and evolved movement to more realism, that's the only way I can see these figures losing their value at a incredible rate.

Something, any new movement, will have to make what we are seeing now, obsolete. Then we can look at the pricey HT that are in the market now as undesirable and they then will lose their value at a rapid rate.

But what will it take?

1/6th scale figures that do what? Look like what? et?

 

[Darkseed]

^^^^^^ Seamless bodies that have great articulation and durability. All the TT figures will then look like poo