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My Top 10 Favorite Figures of 2025: Storm Collectibles Kim Kaphwan (KOF 98) Marvel Legends Husk Marvel Legends Marrow Lazy Monster Studio Oak Town Fairy Elf Gaurd McFarlane Silver Age Superman McFarlane Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) McFarlane Hawkgirl (Standard) Storm Arena Ryu/Ken Jada Toys Vega...

“Either you collecting do ‘yes’ or collecting do ‘no’. Collecting do ‘guess so’ [makes squish gesture] just like grape.” I think a lot of us are either at or nearing the “guess so” point with respect to collecting. We’re not seeing the value in it that we used to, but we’re not ready to let...

I’m so confused. Has Zatanna gone up for preorder yet?

He only mentioned having ducks on the pond. He didn’t say anything about geese.

In no particular order: Red Tornado Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) Superman (Silver Age) Two Face (Silver Age Platinum) Hawkgirl (My vote for best McF of the year) Supergirl (Woman of Tomorrow) Mister Terrific (JSA - Platinum) Shazam! (Dawn of DC) Power Girl Guy Gardner Honorable Mentions; Captain...

😂 An instant classic… …and perhaps unintentionally (or perhaps not), a really good barometer. Most of my Marvel Legends purchases this year simply checked a box, but there is one that brought me a modicum of joy. Husk. I love Paige, she was in my Top Ten most wanted, it’s her first time in...

I preordered Ice. Flash is tempting, but truth be told, I don’t have much of a connection to DC in the 90s, and I’m more interested in characters that don’t get figures very often. My McFarlane collection is more of a random assortment of characters than a cohesive representation of the DC...

This is what I’ve always done except I do love my brown packing paper. Balled up pieces of brown packing paper are excellent at filling space and keeping items from moving around. A little goes a surprisingly long way. I have a little blurb in my eBay descriptions that says “I don’t entertain...

Fred was a self centered dick with a good heart…so I could relate to him. I’m definitely in for these. I was born in ‘66, so Jada can hit me up with all the Hanna-Barbera goodness they care to offer.

L No. It’s comic accurate (Rebirth) but I think it makes her look like a floozy (as they used to say back in the day).

I’m one of the weird exceptions to this rule. I don’t maintain a display. I found doing so to be tedious. I’m much happier just pulling out my bins on a regular basis and going through them when I want to see my figures, although I will have a few on my nightstand at any given time. At the...

I will never understand why producing action figures within a reasonable time frame is so much more difficult for Medicom than it is for any of their competitors. Rogue has been especially frustrating.

I’m married 34 years, and I only remember my wife commenting ONCE on my collecting. It was on my birthday when I received DCUC 9 Black Canary, Green Arrow, and Wildcat in the mail. I was putting Chemo together and out of nowhere, she laughed and said “That has to be the most ridiculous...

The next Black Canary we get in action figure form won’t be wearing that God awful Rebirth costume?

Really? We have that beautiful new She-Hulk sculpt, and this is what they decide to do for Red She-Hulk? At least I still have the near perfect (for the time and scale) Marvel Universe 3.75” version.

In my example, I bought the Savage Land three pack, but I only wanted Shanna. I had already made arrangements to sell Rogue and Sauron to other collectors before the set even arrived. So in my mind, I only purchased Shanna. Rogue and Sauron were simply means to that end. If you bought the...

I’ve had that “Who’s your imaginary friend that you’re building this collection to impress?” conversation with myself plenty of times.

I think it depends on your era. A bare minimum X-Men display for me would be Cyclops, Wolverine, Storm, Colossus, and Nightcrawler. They were the mainstays from GSX 1 to Uncanny 143. Now if you want to add every character that appeared during that run that has a semi-accurate Marvel Legends...

I netted about 2/3 of my money back on my collection of 1/6 figures. I think I had just under 30 of them. It was a pandemic thing, but I soon grew frustrated with the cost, the space they took up, and the durability (or lack thereof) of the soft goods, especially pleather.

As someone who has first hand experience with all three of those habits, I’ve found that the only true antidote is to have very specific (and achievable) financial goals. Otherwise, why wouldn’t you spend your money on those things? Food, frapps, and figures rock!

The Scream Man’s list is a lot closer to what a typical year of Marvel Legends purchases used to look like for me. I miss those days. I refer to them as the “Cool Toy Days”. I think I made a semi-conscious decision that I’m only buying 616 figures moving forward, and only 616 figures of...

I couldn’t agree more. Somewhere between one Batman on the market and a few hundred lies the sweet spot, and it’s probably a lot closer to one than a few hundred.

I think this is the underlying issue for many of us, and it’s not always easy to recognize, It’s simply a function of time. The longer we’ve been collecting, the more prevalent the issue becomes. Look at DC as an IP. How many different DC lines and sub-lines have there been over the last...

Marvel Legends I’ve bought (and kept) in 2025: Husk Marrow Banshee (Giant Size X-Men) She-Hulk (Fantastic Four) Psylocke (Gamerverse) Shanna (Savage Land) Phoenix (Rachel) Beast (Astonishing) Punisher (Gamerverse) Black Bolt Triton Medusa Gorgon Only thirteen. Wow.

Good things come to those who wait over 23 years and wade through over 2,000 releases.