Toy purchase disappointments

[docsilence]

I buy doubles of stuff I genuinely like for that specific reason. Stuff like the classic Nightcrawler from 5 or so years ago I bought 4 of. Certainly they've come out with pinless bodies since then and I'm more limited on the figures I'll buy duplicates of due to space and cost, but when I first got into Marvel Legends with the Apocalypse BAF wave, I was buying doubles of all the major X-Men and 4 of characters like Gambit and Nightcrawler. McFarlane's sunsetting the DC license will save me a lot of money that can be saved or redirected back into my original "I'm only collecting Marvel Legends X-Men figures" promise; a promise that was blown long ago. But at least I'll be all good on DC stuff as Batman stuff commands its own budget.

I've bought doubles of really beloved figures for Legends or Classified, yeah, but I don't have the money or space for doubles of those high-end figures. I think at the end I may just be more a toy-guy than a collector-guy, because the regulations toy manufacturers have for safety actually mean the material is less brittle. I see more breakage or QC stuff with those rare expensive figures I get once in a while than I do on the less expensive mainstream stuff.

 

[TheSameIdiot]

So as I snapped the leg off an expensive and irreplaceable figure tonight I think my biggest disappointments will always be expensive and irreplaceable figures. We complain ENDLESSLY about big retailers and deservedly so, but man... "Fuck, I just broke my Spider-Man, let me go on Amazon and buy a new one for 22 bucks" is so much less stressful than "fuck, I just broke an 80 dollar figure that is now going for $250 on eBay, guess that collection is dead" is way worse. I think I'm just over scarcity collecting. I don't want to chase figures anymore and I REALLY don't want them to be unfixable or irreplaceable, because in the end I just want to enjoy the figures I buy and not worry about them.

Don't leave us hanging. What was it?

 

[docsilence]

Don't leave us hanging. What was it?

Oh, I already whined about it in the Frazetta Icons thread. I broke Teegra just bending her knee.

I'm also still struggling with the neck peg on Jessica Aster. 2026 may be the year I don't spend over a specific number on a single figure.