Super 7 Ultimates Thread

Damien said:
Can you imagine being one of those people that buys action figures because of rarity and value? Hahaha.. oh my god.
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I literally had a fight about this with my buddy on the drive home from San Diego. He said that if you didnt want the in-store hunt, the search at multiple stores, to finally find that 'rare' figure then you aren't a collector, you're just a buyer. I told him how absurd that is but he dug in hard. He says he loves McFarlane's current model because it enhances the chase. I pointed out that his perspective on this may be colored by the fact that he drives a service route that takes him all across the city and county allowing him to pop in to 5 or 6 different stores a day. For others who have desk jobs and life commitments that don't allow for that kind of retail hunting it just means we can't get the figures. And he said "you can, you just have to pay more to someone who could do the hunt"

The idea that i, with my thousands of figures and 10,000 comics, am NOT a collector because I don't want to participate in a retail hunt was crazy to me.

And he scoffed at me saying that I don't care if my stuff is rare... I collect for me... not for some fictional future resale windfall. He shook his head and said I am definitely not a collector.
 
PantherCult said:
I literally had a fight about this with my buddy on the drive home from San Diego. He said that if you didnt want the in-store hunt, the search at multiplebstores, to finally find that 'rare' figure then you aren't a collector, you're just a buyer. I told him how absurd that is bit he dug in hard. He says he loves McFarlane's current model because it enhances the chase. I pointed out that his perspective on this may be colored by the fact that he drives a service route that takes him all across the city and county allowing him to pop in to 5 or 6 different stores a day. For others who have desk jobs and life commitments that don't allow for that kind of retail hunting it just means we can't get the figures. And he said "you can, you just have to pay more to someone who could do the hunt"

The idea that i, with my thousands of figures and 10,000 comics, am NOT a collector because I don't want to participate in a retail hunt was crazy to me.
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Respectfully, your friend is being a twat.

What a ridiculous position. He's even contradicting himself, because he says you can be a collector if you pay someone else to go hunt for you, but not if you just order something and don't want to hunt for it? How does that have any internal logic at all?

Also, collectors collect things. It's kind of in the name. It's an absolutely ludicrous assertion that you have to enjoy actively running around hunting for things to enjoy -having- those things. Here's the thing, even though I am perfectly capable of hunting for toys; I don't enjoy doing it. I would never want to do it. Even if I were retired with nothing but time, the LAST thing I can imagine doing with that time is running all over the city every day or two hunting for a 30 dollar action figure. Fuck that.

Maybe he's not a real collector, because it kind of sounds like the actual collection isn't what he really enjoys.
 
I agree with Damien. I know he's you're friend, and I hate to disparage someone you care about, but I'd have had to tell him "you're the one who isn't a real collector. You're just a douche".
 
I have seen the whole "my collection is rare, don't re-release things, etc." toy collecting attitude going back to the earliest days of the internet, and I am sure before that - I never personally cared if 5 or 5 million people had the same toy at home and find it a bit of an odd attitude.

But I think for some folks, who are trying to justify the whole idea of collecting toys and having a collection as an adult, focusing on how the whole thing has "value" or their collection is "special" because of scarcity is a way to not admit they are focused on plastic, mass-market product originally designed for kids.

And I also think some folks use more of their income than they ought to on the hobby, and another way to justify that is they are "investing" and not just "collecting".
 
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While I collect for what I like, I'm not going to lie and say I don't get a kick out of having things that are rare/expensive. I mean I am always looking for deals (I started a whole thread to brag about it), but I also don't mind having stuff that is a little more exclusive. Of course the bigger thrill for me on that end of the collecting spectrum is when you get something cheap, or at "retail", and it skyrockets on the secondary market for whatever reason.

I don't think that aspect will ever leave me for my collecting, but it certainly isn't the driving factor for me for collecting.
 
TheGillMan said:
I agree with Damien. I know he's you're friend, and I hate to disparage someone you care about, but I'd have had to tell him "you're the one who isn't a real collector. You're just a douche".
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I don't think he's necessarily a douche. Just has a really silly opinion. If I know PC, I doubt he has a lot of long-term friendships with outright shitty people. This is probably one of those situations where someone otherwise totally cool has just the dumbest possible opinion on a topic. Luckily, it's a topic that doesn't matter at all and doesn't hurt anyone beyond... like.. our brains when we have to hear it.
 
KD has it exactly right.

Also his lifestyle is just very different from mine. He's a single guy who owns his own 2 bedroom house that he fills with collectibles in every room. No wife or kids to pay for, plenty of disposable income and a job that allows him to hit every retail outlet across three counties on a daily basis.

But he's a good dude who is fun to hang out with. Extremely devoted to his sisters and their kids. He's just wrong about what toy collecting "is".
 
PantherCult said:
I literally had a fight about this with my buddy on the drive home from San Diego. He said that if you didnt want the in-store hunt, the search at multiple stores, to finally find that 'rare' figure then you aren't a collector, you're just a buyer. I told him how absurd that is but he dug in hard. He says he loves McFarlane's current model because it enhances the chase. I pointed out that his perspective on this may be colored by the fact that he drives a service route that takes him all across the city and county allowing him to pop in to 5 or 6 different stores a day. For others who have desk jobs and life commitments that don't allow for that kind of retail hunting it just means we can't get the figures. And he said "you can, you just have to pay more to someone who could do the hunt"

The idea that i, with my thousands of figures and 10,000 comics, am NOT a collector because I don't want to participate in a retail hunt was crazy to me.

And he scoffed at me saying that I don't care if my stuff is rare... I collect for me... not for some fictional future resale windfall. He shook his head and said I am definitely not a collector.
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I know people like this about various hobbies and it stems from them not having any real output or investments in life that matter. The hobby is their personality and they are threatened by those who have other things going on, and don't want people to get what they get in addition to being able to do what they do outside of the hobby.

I don't know your friend, but you chose to share and that's just my post workday beer take.

I'm actually going through a thing where some people from my Magic. The gathering pod are trying to gatekeep me from a certain store because they hired a hot girl, and the one time I went with them, that girl was very pleasant to me. I'm not even interested in her. She was just nice. But apparently she's not nice to anyone else at the store. And for that reason, I was strongly dissuaded from returning with them to play Commander for Reasons.

You know like when they try and keep Seinfeld out of Tuscany there's no houses to rent. I didn't want to go to Tuscany. Now you're telling me I can't go? I'm showing up for Thursday Night Magic tomorrow. And I'm going to do something the rest of that store doesn't.

Shower.
 
Today BBTS special deal is Wave 2 of GI Joe Ultimates for $55. So, if you grabbed Wave 1 at $55, might as well grab Wave 2.
 
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