to those keeping track...

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Originally posted by Luke
most people here HAVE them all

I'm proud to say I don't own one dang figure yet!

Really!

I don't!

LOL!!

I may buy Dr. Teeth, but not till I have $$$...can't buy stuff without it, ya know.

Of course I'll buy 1 of my 2 gals when they put her out, but till then, I don't think I'll buy very many. Then again, depends on how I feel when I see 'em in person.

 

[Luke]

Actually yeah, i just have two coming at a push from the first wave. I'll get another two from the second wave and probably one of the Fozzie variants. Basically i'm just getting the ones i REALLY like, whether thats the originals or variants etc. I'm not much into playsets (too expensive) but if one takes my eye i'll get it.

I just thought that with the amount of posts asking about the variants most people were trying to be completists. Thats why i didn't get the impossibility of it all. If you have the $$$ anythings possible right now.

I'm gonna try to get all the Osbourne figures at christmas though besides the chase ones.

 

[uncleduke]

I have been a toy collector for a while, and I hope Grail will back me up on this.
It is not part of the assortment unless it is mass produced and packaged.
Weird one of a kind mistakes, factory errors, and prototypes of unproduced figures, while neat to have, just are not consdidered part of the assortment.
If they were, the ones that did make it out to the mainstream like
Tux Kermit with no Hat
Beaker with Bloody Fingerprints on his back, and other factory mistakes would be included, since they are just as rare.

 

[beaker]

>>>If you have the $$$ anythings possible right now<<<

Then why dont I have that MV3D labcoat or unreleased MFS Zowie Entertainment playset that has been floating around collector markets? ^_^

 

[frogboy4]

OMG - someone get this boy a lab coat!

 

[beaker]

uncleduke:

>>>I have been a toy collector for a while, and I hope Grail will back me up on this.
It is not part of the assortment unless it is mass produced and packaged.
Weird one of a kind mistakes, factory errors, and prototypes of unproduced figures, while neat to have, just are not consdidered part of the assortment<<<

youre righ ton mistakes and factory errors...those are just silly, and typical of some POTF collectors. Ive been a huge toy collector for 2 decades, so I have some background on collecting as well.
I think youre wrong tho on protoypes. Look at the indianna jones
figures. If youre a collector of those, youve gotta at least try and get ahold of those. OR what about Transformers? What hardcore
Trans fan hasnt dreamed of trying to get ahold of Unicron?
Heck...I SO want a freaking Dark Crystal prototype set! And if ya collect the 1990 simpsons figure line, youve gotta try to get the
krusty prototype. Any star wars fan will tell ya about rocket firing boba. the fact is, the most diehard of series like me with Muppets, protoypes are the holy grail.

 

[Luke]

Whats POTF ???????

 

[beaker]

>>>Whats POTF ???????<<<

luke, that would be power of the force, the pen-ultimate mother of all figure collecting market series over the last 25 years.

 

[grail]

I will indeed "back you up" on this point.

One person's mistake should NOT be another person's variant!

The problem (as I see it) is this:

Back when the Star Wars toys were at the peak of their popularity, they were putting out so much stuff, from so many different factories, that an overall QC was virtually impossible. This created a lot of different "variations" of the different figures. Then, in an effort to raise their (already inflated) prices, the dealers started calling these "variants" - toys that are made differently from what everybody else got. Now true collectors have a tendency to want to have the thing that "nobody else has", so this caused a frenzy that did NOT escape the attention of the toy companies...and this was really the birth of the exclusive.

Basically, they're based on people being greedy...they're just a mistake, they should be worth the same or LESS than the real thing, but almost never should they be worth more.

 

[frogboy4]

Very cool insight. American capitalism at its best. Gotta love it!