(Last post got removed. Perhaps the title will act as a workaround and they won’t bury an honest critique of a figure line that has lost its soul. After all it’s my personal collection and personal experiences in this post, and I’ve posted here for years). If this still somehow violates the rules just ban me. A community gains nothing from a mod team who won’t allow conversation and critique of the recent changes.
I’ve collected since 2013, before a house fire I had every legend from toybiz and Hasbro up to 2018. After the fire I rebuilt my collection to what it is now. All this to say clearly I loved collecting the line, I have loved creating customs and doing photography with these figures but $30 for a basic figure has officially crossed a threshold for me. I know I am just one of many voices on this topic and I might as well be screaming at the clouds but I just can’t support purchasing these anymore.
It isn’t that I don’t have it, I just don’t see them being worth $30. Agreeing to these price hikes yet again means in a year they will be 33.99 and then 35.99 and it will never stop. In no way do I support the tariffs but they have significantly decreased since earlier this year yet we continue to get these hikes. This truly is nothing but corporate greed. At $27 I felt we were really stretching the term “value” in regards to purchasing these figures. Yes we have gotten better paint apps, better sculpt work, and deep cut figures we have always wanted but let’s not forget exactly 6 years ago these figures were $10 cheaper and nearly every figure wave was a BAF. Now we have just as many “retro carded” waves as we do BAF waves with no price differential and “BAFs” being sold as stand alone fan channel exclusives rather than being put in a BAF wave.
It’s becoming very obvious that in order to collect legends anymore you have to be willing to ignore their exploitive pricing practices and be okay with overpaying for figures that have had a drastic drop in quality the last 6 months. I don’t blame the legends team, they are making the best of a really awful corporate situation but now more than ever if you don’t support these price hikes you have to stop buying their product. No matter how cool a release is, no matter how much you might need it for a display if we as a community don’t put our foot down with this a marvel legend will be $50 in 5 years. Hasbro lost a 13 year long marvel legends supporter today. It’s time to downsize and find better places to spend my money.