Is it worth it to start collecting again?

I would have to agree. If you haven't made that decision yourself based on the product that's out there then you shouldn't be asking.

Hey I'm from Canada too!!! I love Mattel's figures!!!! I would definitely start collecting if I were you. Come join myself and other Canadian members in the Buy and Talk thread, which is in the Canada board.

Here's what I can tell you.

I was a Jakks collector, bought nearly every WWE figure they made, and then sold them all off once Jakks lost the WWE contract. I never really got into the idea of Jakks and TNA. Then, at some point some time ago I found a Brian Pillman figure on clearance at Target and bought it because he is my all-time favorite and Jakks never made him in such an attire. Then I found Alberto Del Rio and Evan Bourne Basics on clearance and bought those to see what they were like. It's just been a spiral since then, though I also have a son now and he helps decide who we should and shouldn't buy (He recently turned down that new Prime Time Players Battle Pack, probably because he doesn't know/care who they are) I only really buy the figures I want and don't feel the need to buy one of everybody or buy an updated figure when someone changes their gimmick, as I did in the Jakks days. Still, I have a collection now of just over 100 figures in total and am happy with them.

My thing about collecting WWE Mattel figures is this. There has never been a time when you could have as complete of a collection of wrestling figures as you can now. With Jakks, I only dreamed about guys like Daniel Bryan, Samoa Joe, AJ Styles, Kevin Owens and others. Now they are a reality. But with these modern wrestlers (Cesaro, Kalisto, etc.) you also get a wonderful mix of classics. I have a (modern) Hulk Hogan, WCW era Macho Man, DDP, Four Horsemen, Yokozuna, Andre the Giant and just so many other characters are out there if you want them. Granted, Jakks made characters that Mattel hasn't (Abdullah the Butcher, Sabu, Sandman and Bruiser Brody come to mind) and Mattel has made characters Jakks hasn't (Macho Man, Sting was never part of the WWE line, etc.) but Mattel isn't done yet. The idea of having a Raven or Sabu in my collection is as much reason for me to collect as anticipating Austin Aries and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Again, I'm not saying that I buy *every* single Mattel figure ever made and I tend to stick to the modern characters and even then I don't go out of my way for the ones I don't like, but right now, Mattel has what I consider to be the most complete collection of wrestling figures available and it will only grow from here.

As for "catching up", since I got into the game late as well, my advice is this: Watch the secondhand market (the bays of the E) and look for good deals because they aren't always out there but they do come through once in a while. I've purchased maybe twenty five to thirty of the figures in my collection second hand to get guys I missed in stores like Matt Hardy (He was part of a group set for $4), Primo, Epico, Shawn Michaels, Trent?, Curt Hawkins and if he never comes back around again I might be hunting Carlito next. Just the other day though, I won a CM Punk figure at auction for $9.49 shipped, which was his last Elite figure that I passed on in stores because I thought he'd get another figure after it, a better one. But to not have CM Punk in with Daniel Bryan, Samoa Joe, Hideo Itami and eventually Austin Aries just didn't seem right, so I had to add him in and I just waited for what felt like the right price and the right time. So just build slowly and don't expect it to happen overnight and, yes, you too can have the most complete collection of wrestling figures one day.

Thanks for the advice man:)

If you're trying to collect every figure ever produced by Mattel, I'd say save your money. If you have a specific time period or range of figures to collect, that would be a better approach.

I collected Hasbros as a child and then the early releases of Jakks but stopped around 97/98. As an adult, I began collecting Mattels around 2011 which was probably about a year after Mattel had the license to WWE. I only wanted the legends/flashbacks and, to narrow down even further, only focused on figures of characters that appeared on WWF television from 1988 through early 1998. Even with that range though I'm up over 90 figures but I do love my collection and have had some positive feedback on here about it. Here are some quick photo samples: