Mattel WWE From the Vault 1 RSC Ex Special Edition Cena Vid!

I gotta think parents still buy kids figures. Every Vintage Stock I go to or Craigslist lot is beat up figures from a kid that outgrew them or whatever. After all these are meant to be played with not treated like holy grails of action figure collecting. Maybe in 30-40 years…

They’re all on back order except HHH, Warrior and Undertaker.

This is just what the bourgeois wants. Us fighting over toys instead overthrowing our oppressors! Viva la revolution!

Kane is on back order now.

that's not what I'm talking about or have been talking about AT ALL. holy point missed, Batman.

Not once have I said "I should be rewarded in my hobby by having all my old figures be worth hundreds and everyone who didn't get them either pay up or be out! mwah hahahahahahahaha"
Not once have I said I feel a sense of superiority because I bought Elite Series 7 DX when they came out

All I have stated from the beginning, is that, to me, personally, I enjoy when the figures I've bought are worth more than what I paid for them.

Collectible hobbies by and large are driven by..... *gasp* .....VALUE

MOST people who have hobbies involving collecting are doing it because of the worth of the items they are purchasing/owning
Toys that are worthless, are not appealing to the majority, hence their worthless-ness. Very few people are out searching for things that don't have or couldn't potentially have a higher value than what they are paying.

Imagine coin collectors being like "well I don't want these coins increasing in value so they should just keep printing the same coins!"
Value is always going to be subjective, I wouldn't pay $1 for any Pokemon card, because I don't collect or care about them, but that doesn't mean they're all worth $1. It's all the same boat we're in

Others have pointed out comics and cards, the same thing applies.
There's a reason people pay a premium for a trading card of a rookie that's numbered to /99 versus a base trading card of the same rookie that's produced in the tens of thousands.

The attitude of people who are celebrating these vault figures is incredibly bizarre. It's like you're all jumping up on these horses trotting around the course declaring you've somehow conquered this great injustice because you didn't want to pay $100 for a wrestling figure released a decade ago that was in an attire that you like, that others have already had and appreciated the fact that something they bought for their collection is valued much higher than the original cost by the demand.

What point did I miss exactly? You're entire argument, as spelled out in this LITERAL post, is the idea that perceived secondary market value (whether for the purposes of selling or simply the purposes of enjoying the fact that said value has gone up) is an integral part of the hobby.

And there certainly seems to be a sense of superiority in the idea that since you bought the ones released when they came out, anyone who wants that look now should have to pay secondary market prices for it.

Re: the highlights card portion, that's kind if the point: NO Mattel figure outside of SDCC figures have (to my knowledge and recollection) have ever had a number associated with them. They are ALL, including RSC exclusives, the "base card" in that that's no rarity cap on how many can be produced nor any assurance at any point there won't be another production run.

This straw man argument that the people who think the re-realses are bad keep using that figures going up in value is looked at and an "injustice" or bad in concept is nonsense. No one is saying that in a vacuum. What people are saying is that that secondary market value in any non-numbered products case is illusory at best.

You want to talk about bizarre attitudes being broken out? It's incredibly blizzard to feel personally attacked and that an injustice has been done to someone as collector because the Elite 7 HBK they bought almost 13 years ago might slide down in value because the attire is being re-released, and that somehow affects their collection.

Probably going to be an unpopular opinion about the actual line, but I’m kinda of hoping they do the ECW Punk before the SES one.

Grand scheme for sure. Admittedly selfishly I would want the ECW first since it's the only time Mattel visited that era and it doesn't seem like one they'd likely visit in any other line all that quickly since besides modern Punks, the money is likely more in either redoing or filling in gaps of the 2011-2013 run, which is close to the SES look.

They need to do AEW Punk. All Out 2022 UE. Punk owns the rights to his name and likeness and attire so there’s no way they couldnt or shouldn’t do it. Kinda sounds ridiculous, right? But that’s the same argument people make for Sting and Owen.

To be fair, I'm of the conspiracy that they made the crapOwen first because they wanted to sell a good one later on. If Legends of Wrestling can use black and pink gear then so can Jazwares. Sting on the other hand is just a case of AEW ing up their own prospects by alienating the only companies that would make it possible for them to do so.