>>11607126>I'm not paying $30 for a small transformer or joe, so I'm basically done with modern too.I sold off my collection ten years ago due to a big personal issue and needing the money, but over the past year or so I've been re-collecting the vintage stuff. I put it on pause for the past few months while trying to collect Classified Joes, but now that it's reached shit levels like $60 for a Ghost Viper that's 85% recycled from other figures, well fuck that. That same money can get an original Cobra Commander or Zartan without swamp skier in good shape. I'll pay that price for something vintage with no guilt at all, but not for modern. Even the $30 regular figures are too high when considering how many loose 80s Joes in good condition I can get for that.
My biggest modern splurge was Rattler Baroness for $150. I figured that it won't get any cheaper and it really is one of the best in the line. I know I could have gotten a perfect Snake Eyes 1985 for that money, though, and that's always in the back of my mind when I look at what I paid for something new instead of vintage.
So yeah I'm being pushed back into filling in my vintage collecting, which is fine. That's how I started off collecting anyway.
