General Marvel Legends

Opened my Storm and I'm kinda surprised how much I like her. This is probably my second favorite costume for her, but for whatever reason the pics of the figure were leaving me a bit ho-hum. In hand though, really dig her. Only improvement that I think could be made (aside form the head which has been covered) would be a shiny black sheen to the figure. But I'm happy to compromise on that. I think this one will suit me fine and is probably the last Storm I need.
 
The more I look at the photos, the less excited I am about the Secret Wars Iceman. The articulation doesn't look great on a transparent figure and some of the pinless parts like knees are a solid color, it looks like.
 
I plan on paring down to…

All New, All Different
Outback
Blue and Gold (MAFEX)
Astonishing

…as far as X-Men proper teams are concerned. Believe it or not, that still leaves me with a boatload of ML X-Men figures to sell off. I love Rogue, but I don’t need four different figures of her in her in her Jim Lee era costume (MAFEX, Juggernaut BAF, Target exclusive, X-Men 97). The X-Men 275 team is cool, but I have no real connection to that issue or that team. Things like that.
 
Darkmoon766 said:
We should all really be pairing down to ONE team, and maybe dabbling in our other favorite looks for other characters not in said team. The curation of limited space and upkeep time is drudgery.
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This is what I’ve done. I have the Giant-Size team and the immediate preceding Bronze Age (Neal Adams-era?) originals with them (along with era-appropriate Havok and Polaris). So I’m really dying for a human Beast in his graduation red-and-blues.
 
Couples goals:

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Revox said:
Kinda. Generally speaking, I don't/didn't do Legends figures at all. A couple of years back I caved on Spiral and Longshot because I knew there's no chance of Medicom or Bandai doing them in my lifetime and that era of X-Men is very much my jam. Then they did Apocalypse, and the Hellfire Club set so I had to get those two but that was it, the line was drawn.

Then last year to make up for a shipping balls up, Hasbro offered me something to make up for it and of the options, I went for the Destiny/Rogue 2 pack because again, ain't no one else ever doing Destiny. But now I have Destiny, I kinda have to get Mystique too? So she's arriving this week. And when the comic Banshee came up, again, I couldn't pass it up, I love me some All New, All Different. Plus someone on eBay was selling Jason/Mastermind for a fair price, so I got him to finish the Hellfire Club crew. But that really is it, right? RIGHT?

No because then they go and announce Rachel, damn it. Plus if I have Mystique, Destiny, and Spiral, that's practically half of Freedom Force, right? So today when Blob popped up on Amazon, I nabbed one. Which means I have to go hunting for Avalanche now, and hope Pyro gets a re-release some day.

It's a slippery frickin' slope, damn it.

(I'm also debating the Magik re-release but ugh, pins)
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It is indeed a slippery slope. I am more an Avengers/street level lover and the X-Men and Cosmic stuff not as much. Yet I have way more X-Men and Cosmic figures than I ever thought I would. I bought a lot of them for the same reason you did- when will I ever see comic Yondu, Nova, Quasar, Dazzler, Pyro etc..again? The Avengers take like 3 drawers I keep my legends in because of characters like Rage, Tigra, Stinger, etc. Let alone the multiples I have my favorites like Cap, Spidey, Iron Man and Black Widow. I have even gotten rid of a lot of them and replaced with upgrades. Sigh. I think the whole ebb and flow is because I have been collecting legends since the Toy Biz days-the only line I have collected for that long and this consistently. I doubt I can ever stop. Started when I was in my late 30's/early 40's and now I'm 60. Probably will at 80 if they and I are still around!
 
Darkmoon766 said:
We should all really be pairing down to ONE team, and maybe dabbling in our other favorite looks for other characters not in said team. The curation of limited space and upkeep time is drudgery.
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I did this over the summer with all my ML collection, and I dig the result. It leads to really cohesive, clean looking shelves. Makes me really appreciate each individual figure more, too, since they aren't occupying overstuffed displays of twenty to thirty characters.

And, with prices where they are, it really inhibits my impulse purchasing. Every new figure has to justify its place within an existing shelf/ team.
 
I'm tinkering with the idea of getting rid of older releases that have been completely replaced by updated figures. 90% of the Toy Biz stuff... a ton of early Hasbro releases... things being converted to updated and pinless bodies like Silver Surfer and Mystique most recently... This is new and big for me.
 
Yeah my Toybiz Legends are long gone. I think the only thing I have left is the Spider Man Classics Doc Ock tentacles from those days. I use them on current classic Doc Ock because of the bendy wire. I can't stand the pre posed ones that came with him as I have no idea how to make them look good in a fight scene.
 
I have a large bin of ToyBiz and redundant Hasbro Legends in my garage, and I'd like to get rid of them, but the thought of eBaying them individually or in small lots for years sounds miserable. Did any of you get rid of a large lot at once? Like maybe Offer Up or Facebook marketplace or something? I'm not looking to make a huge profit, like maybe $100 for the whole tub, but I also would never just throw them in the trash.

But yeah, I need to get rid of some figures.
 
renfield75 said:
I have a large bin of ToyBiz and redundant Hasbro Legends in my garage, and I'd like to get rid of them, but the thought of eBaying them individually or in small lots for years sounds miserable. Did any of you get rid of a large lot at once? Like maybe Offer Up or Facebook marketplace or something? I'm not looking to make a huge profit, like maybe $100 for the whole tub, but I also would never just throw them in the trash.

But yeah, I need to get rid of some figures.
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I usually sell to local comic shops. I don't get nearly as much as I could on eBay, but to me it's worth not having to deal with the hassle of selling online.
 
My local Target went from embarrassingly weak to surprisingly chic overnight. Weapon X, Outback Storm, MTG battle damaged Spidey, MTG Anti-Venom, remnants of X-Men 97, and McF Sandman were on the pegs and shelves. I walked out with Storm, Sunspot, and Sandman while thinking about this conversation we’re having from the register to the car and all the way home. I couldn’t pass on the 2025 “Pay for Four, Walk Out with Three” special though.
 
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