Toys and Collectibles 8/29/08

[LA Rabbit]

I am new to the Comic Book page world. I am pillaging the the old podcasts and listening to this one now. I don't collect the figures (need to keep my wife) but find it interesting. Did you do any more on this topic? I would certainly enjoy listening to more if you guys put together another. I do enjoy the pictures that you post as well. Great job. Thanks.

P.S. From your photos, it looks like you finished Fin Fang Foom I see (at least it looks like him next to Galactus).

[deadpool]

I am new to the Comic Book page world. I am pillaging the the old podcasts and listening to this one now. I don't collect the figures (need to keep my wife) but find it interesting. Did you do any more on this topic? I would certainly enjoy listening to more if you guys put together another. I do enjoy the pictures that you post as well. Great job. Thanks.

P.S. From your photos, it looks like you finished Fin Fang Foom I see (at least it looks like him next to Galactus).

not sure about the boys here, and i hope they don't mind me pimping another podcast but sure they won't, but it may interest you to check out the World of Toys podcast thats a spin off of Comic Geek Speak if you haven't already.

enjoy and welcome to the boards

[JohnMayo]

I am new to the Comic Book page world. I am pillaging the the old podcasts and listening to this one now. I don't collect the figures (need to keep my wife) but find it interesting. Did you do any more on this topic? I would certainly enjoy listening to more if you guys put together another. I do enjoy the pictures that you post as well. Great job. Thanks.

P.S. From your photos, it looks like you finished Fin Fang Foom I see (at least it looks like him next to Galactus).

not sure about the boys here, and i hope they don't mind me pimping another podcast but sure they won't, but it may interest you to check out the World of Toys podcast thats a spin off of Comic Geek Speak if you haven't already.

enjoy and welcome to the boards

Yeah, Bob was a guest on the first World of Toys podcast which was originally recorded for a regular episode of Comic Geek Speak. They later edited out parts of the original conversation and re-used it for the initial episode of the World of Toys spin-off podcast.

Personally, I've scales way back on my action figure purchasing. I still get some but having accumulated around 1,000 of them, space has become something of an issue. Some of my recent purchases include the Black Vulcan/Apache Chief/Samurai set and the Paul Kirk Manhunter figure from the History of the DC Universe Series 1 set from DC Direct. If I see the Earth-2 Robin, I'll probably pick that up.

[torchsong]

I forswore action figures for the lucrative world of statue collecting. I'm a sucker for a good Ame-Comi or Women of the DCU statue, or the great stuff Kotobukiya and Revoltech put out.

The beautiful thing is that I buy fewer of them, so there's less clutter, but I tend to enjoy them more than my actual figures. Something about a really nice sculpt of a character you love in your personal trophy case that's just fun, eh?

[BobBretall]

I used to be way more into the action figure collecting than I am now. Mostly space concerns, as I get more of the busts & statues and prefer to use the space for them instead of the action figs. I just put some more figs away today to make more room for the Kotobukiya busts I picked up at the Anaheim con for a steal of a price.

Anyway, I would consider myself somewhat of an authority on busts & statues, so can field questions there. Not so much any more on current action figures.

Action figure observation:

* Action figures now regularly cost in the $12-$18 range. Ones for the "mass market" frequently have "Chase" figure that you either need to be really luck to find in a store or be will to pay $30, $40, or more from a "scalper". At those prices, it's not that much more expensive to pick up some nice statues or busts.

[BobBretall]

P.S. From your photos, it looks like you finished Fin Fang Foom I see (at least it looks like him next to Galactus).

I used to do all the "build-a-figs". I completed the following (which means I have all the figures that went with these parts too!):

Marvel
* Annihilus
* Apocalypse
* Brood Queen
* Fin Fang Foom
* Galactus
* Giant-Man
* Mojo
* MODOK
* Onslaught
* Red Hulk
* Ronan the Accuser
* Sentinel

DC
* Ares
* Atom Smasher
* Despero
* Gorilla Grodd
* Kalibak
* Solomon Grundy

Indie
* Monkeyman
* Pitt

The problem was that it was becoming increasingly difficult/expensive to collect all the figures necessary to build the "bigger figure". It always seemed like one or 2 of the figs in the set were short packed or scooped up by the toy scalpers who buy things up from retail outlets for resale at jacked up prices. I was finding it not unusual to have to spend $120-$150 to get all the figures in a single "Wave".

For that kind of $$ I can buy a really nice Bowen statue.

[torchsong]

* Action figures now regularly cost in the $12-$18 range. Ones for the "mass market" frequently have "Chase" figure that you either need to be really luck to find in a store or be will to pay $30, $40, or more from a "scalper". At those prices, it's not that much more expensive to pick up some nice statues or busts.

This is pretty much my rationale as well. Plus my wife gets into it more when we're flipping through Previews and one catches her eye.

[LA Rabbit]

not sure about the boys here, and i hope they don't mind me pimping another podcast but sure they won't, but it may interest you to check out the World of Toys podcast thats a spin off of Comic Geek Speak if you haven't already.

enjoy and welcome to the boards

I went to itunes and listened to the World of Toys podcasts. Thanks they were fun.