Marvel Legends Preorders - When and Where

PanchaMaestro said:
100% a space thing. The money part just means you lost a little less collecting what you liked over the years. If your personal collecting is intaking that much that's a separate issue. Does it all spark joy? I mean I'm not talking shit or anything. I'm on this board too. Just offering self reflection.
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I'm definitely doing the spark-joy thing. Like, Spidey figures have come so far for so long but I pulled out the Pizza Spidey black suit version where Pete's unmasked head is all beaten and bruised and I'm like - sure, he's outdated, but "I can do this all day" Pete can stay, he still makes me happy. There's some Caps and Tonys (Tonies?) I can live without now though.
 
It's funny, this convo has got me doing a bit of internal assessing of 'does it spark joy' and it occurs to me while a STUPID amount of my action figure collection truly makes me happy (I mean, I pulled CAPWOLF out of the storage bin to mess with this weekend) my BOARD GAME collection sparks STRESS. That's something I'll need to assess over the fall/winter. I got so many games with the intent of painting the pieces, which is my favorite hobby, but I'll die before I paint everything I own so maybe it's time to divest some shelf space there. On the toy side though I'm like: does Rock Python spark joy? YES. Does that wonky first attempt at Emma Frost spark joy? yeeaaah okay maybe I found one I don't want anymore.
 
For me it can be a little simpler. In theory, I have every single Legend ever (including multiples where I want alternative or kit bash heads/belts/hands displayed) and the justification is that I want a figure for every character and costume. This is so that I have to most options available when it comes to my action figure photos. If you take that at face value, 40% of my collection could be sold as I have either a total replacement or improvement figure released. Will I ever do anything with my Hasbro BAF Blob... Toy Biz Dragon Man... Toy Biz Modok? Nope - there are better Hasbro versions. I have a few of the old shitty Iron Spiders that can go... I mean, there are so many figures I would never use for photography because far superior versions also exist in my collection. That said, it's the old versions that make me appreciate the new ones so much more and I do get the joy of a nice new improved figure. But I could definitely half my collection by selling off the redundant figures. I could see this happening sooner than later for stuff I have no need to revisit.
 
docsilence said:
I've only just recently hit the panicky "I should start selling stuff, huh" stage (though it sounds like that'd just be a space thing than a profit thing given we're about to tank the economy). I started collecting late so it took a while to hit critical mass, but also (I know I've told the story on the boards at some point) a house fire wiped me out in my 20s so I basically had no collection til I was in my 40s. Which makes me, admittedly, VERY VERY neurotic about divesting stuff I care about cos I always just kinda expect another disaster to clear it out for me again. (My partner always laughs that she can hear me checking the house for fire / flooding risks at 3 a.m. to this day.)
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In my late 20's I had a similar thing, but it was due to making so little money that I was just forced to sell basically everything non-essential I owned at the time. My attitude when I had money again really changed my collecting. The stance I have now (for myself, no judgement here to anybody else) is very anti-completionist. I set some arbitrary boundaries on quantity, but one of the main rules is don't get *everything* just because it fits in a set.

My numerical boundaries are largely geared towards the maximum I think I could display nicely in a future where I actually owned a house. Seeing my mom's place and how stuffed it is (no walking room in a 4 bedroom house where one old woman lives) just makes that more imperative. I get stuff, but I cancel about half the pre-orders I make these days after a week or two because I let the FOMO wear off and realize I won't really miss a thing.

I've kinda gotten to like selling stuff. So far, by the time I decide to sell something I haven't yet turned around and regretted it. So I get a little money back and some more space to boot.
PanchaMaestro said:
100% a space thing. The money part just means you lost a little less collecting what you liked over the years. If your personal collecting is intaking that much that's a separate issue. Does it all spark joy? I mean I'm not talking shit or anything. I'm on this board too. Just offering self reflection.
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Yeah. The "does it spark joy" is a pretty good one. Do I like the look of it? If I dragged it out would I leave it on my desk for a week to mess with it?
 
JakeEkiss said:
In my late 20's I had a similar thing, but it was due to making so little money that I was just forced to sell basically everything non-essential I owned at the time. My attitude when I had money again really changed my collecting. The stance I have now (for myself, no judgement here to anybody else) is very anti-completionist. I set some arbitrary boundaries on quantity, but one of the main rules is don't get *everything* just because it fits in a set.

My numerical boundaries are largely geared towards the maximum I think I could display nicely in a future where I actually owned a house. Seeing my mom's place and how stuffed it is (no walking room in a 4 bedroom house where one old woman lives) just makes that more imperative. I get stuff, but I cancel about half the pre-orders I make these days after a week or two because I let the FOMO wear off and realize I won't really miss a thing.

I've kinda gotten to like selling stuff. So far, by the time I decide to sell something I haven't yet turned around and regretted it. So I get a little money back and some more space to boot.

Yeah. The "does it spark joy" is a pretty good one. Do I like the look of it? If I dragged it out would I leave it on my desk for a week to mess with it?
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My place isn't too cluttered at the moment (my partner is a neat freak extraordinaire and if I have one goal in life it's to not make her miserable) but I do sometimes look at the stuff I can't currently display and just get sad. I don't want to get rid of it. I want more than this lil house I bought alone at the bottom of the market, but I know I got VERY lucky buying a tiny house for almost nothing compared to today's prices and will just have to settle for never being able to buy something bigger unless a tidal shift in the housing market happens in the US. All I need is a bigger office and I could do so much more fun stuff with my collection and never annoy her with my stuff. (Hilariously, she has no problem with nerd stuff out and about as long as isn't a temptation for the cats toward destruction, which is why the old Disney Toybox figures I used to have in the living room are now in storage. The cats HATE the avengers, apparently. Or love them too much.)
 
Ironically, I think putting parameters on your collection is the best thing you can do. I love my current collection, which is penned in by 100 guardrails. My teenage collection exceeded my wildest dreams, and I hated it. There was no focal point and no figure I'd turn down, no matter how tenuous my tie to the character.

We had some great discussions about this in the Quitting/putting collecting on pause and Display and Organization threads a few months ago.
Reno said:
My youngest son graduated college in May of 2024 and still has never found a full time job. He's been working multiple part-time gigs the whole time while applying for hundreds of jobs and usually hearing nothing.
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This is very much an aside in a Marvel Legends pre-order thread, but I'm sorry to hear that. I was unemployed for eight months after I graduated. It took a move halfway across the country and the start of a grad degree I didn't want to find a job. There's nothing worse than that helplessness coupled with the idea that you're not good enough or doing something wrong. In reality, it's a shitty labor market and totally out of your control.
docsilence said:
given we're about to tank the economy
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Oh, we're doing that, are we?
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Oh, we're doing that, are we?
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Well, by "we" I mean "those motherfuckers" but you know what I mean.

I had suuuuuch hard guardrails on my collecting when I started, went overboard because I got stupid lucky with three simultaneous complimentary jobs, but I just gave up the unethical job so I'm ready to tap the breaks. Fortunately like four of the lines I like I'm pretty done with. UNfortunately the two I'm most in love with are apparently trying to bury us in plastic this year. That being said, I'm still at the stage where I can quite literally put my hands on any figure I own within five minutes of looking for it, so It's not at hoarder capacity yet.

Particularly with Legends I'm at the "I just can't quit you" stage, though I did realize this week that I'm pretty much done with MCU stuff for a while. F4 was the last set I desperately wanted. (Well, F4 and finally getting the exact Red Guardian I've wanted all along.)
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Joes and 4H?
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Yup. I have a MODERATE amount of Legends incoming, which I think is probably "too many" by normal human standards, but Mythic/Cosmic/Obscura are trying to kill me.

Star Wars is probably my favorite franchise of all time but that's been a drip drip drip of shipping this year. Figure here, figure there, generally amazing, but never anything I have anxiety about. Looking at the Joes preorders due in November and I'm like WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME
 
I've done purges in the past, and I usually don't regret most of them...though there is the occasional exception. I just put a whole bunch in totes with the intention of preparing them to sell. I've also cut WAY down on purchases, primarily due to finances (with space issues being a close second). While there is the fact that I'm no longer getting that dopamine rush as often from buying a new figure, I am finding that just appreciating the figures I have is something I haven't done enough of. I'm really looking at this as the silver lining to the utter suckage cloud that is hanging over me due to financial constraints.
 
I did a massive purge of extra random carded stuff like 8 years ago, and my biggest regret was selling off the zipped up variants of Storm and Jean from the first movie. So rare. So impossible to find now.
 
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