Re-release of older UE figures ?

Can you or anyone else give a legitimate explanation as to why anyone should care? Or why those people should be catered to?

If you guys really cared about rare or valuable figures, you’d be collecting statues, or Hot Toys, or prototypes. But you’re not. You want Mattel to put out fewer figures but at the same $20-$30 price. But it doesn’t work that way. The reality is that none of these figures are that rare or valuable. There are minimum production numbers that a company the size of Mattel has to hit to keep the MSRP what it is, and those numbers don’t approach what anyone would consider “rare”.

Complaining about a potential decrease in the value of action figures branded for children ages 8 and up smashes right through the ceiling of first world problems.

They're targeted and marketed to collectors, yes.
The box still says 8+ right on the front of the package.
We can slice it and dice it any way we want - they're still toys, and that's okay.

One should never collect figures just for the idea they will increase in value. If that's what you're doing, you are taking a risk just like any other investor. I say rerelease every and any figure you can. I myself have collected the line from the beginning and have plenty of "high valued figures". It wouldn't bother me one bit to see someone get a Harley Race or the Legion of Doom.

And it makes sense when you look at the branding of the various lines: If you're a kid and it's your birthday, are you asking for "basic" Shawn Michaels or "ULTIMATE" Shawn Michaels?

UE isn't "intended" for collectors as much as it's a line that also suits collectors. It's the perfect storm of appealing to kids and adults.

Yep, great example.

End of the day, "Adult" toys like Super7, Hot Toys etc., generally, are not sold in toy stores. Ultimates are - and as was said above, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But they're not some sort of adult-only investment grail - they're kids toys with adult appeal.

I have to say I do feel quite bad about this. Think of the amount of people out there whose lives are in dire straits now. Those HBK figures were someone's pension. That Brock was going to pay for food and drink for a couple of years. Haha.

I can't understand getting upset about a wrestling figure's value going down. In the grand scheme of things, it's worth nothing anyway. It's at most a couple of hundred, and even then many of them sit on ebay for months upon months because people won't pay the prices some sellers want.

If you're getting upset about the value of your wrestling figures going down, then you really need to invest your money in actual investments. Do some people think that figures released now (arguably a time when every figure line is so over-collected that nothing holds value anymore) is somehow going to be worth a lot of money in future or something? Like you're gonna sell your HBK for half a million in 2050 or something? It'll never, ever happen.

Oh, most definitely. I'm almost embarrassed at how much I offloaded my Urza's Saga-era Magic stuff for, it feels wrong somehow. But card games have the benefit of a tourney scene (and a thriving casual scene like Commander for Magic), so there's always going to be demand for powerful and useful cards that goes beyond rarity and age. If you're looking to invest in a nerd hobby for value, a card game is the easiest one to predict as long as you know the game.