>>9691358>You mean just like the 4 pack people are currently scalping for double the price?LOL, so what? Some of my McFarlane Walking Dead lego sets are going for 5x their price, but all of his lego sets bombed because they weren't popular. I have posters by Geof Darrow that go for hundreds of dollars, but do you even know who that is? Comic book artist whose books sell in the low 20ks.
Don't confuse secondary market value for popularity.
>it was frankly a few years too early for TMNT nostalgia to be in full swing.LOL no. TMNT was at the TAIL END of their full swing by the time the Figuarts came out in 2016. They still had a good two or three years before it petered out, since there was a TON of media tie ins. Live action movie in 2014 and 2016, video games every year until 2017 where after that it was just guest appearances and shareware crap, a highly popular Nickelodean cartoon until 2017. WB/DC came out with the Batman/TMNT cartoon in 2019.
In 2012, Playmates had released their CLASSICs line, which was very popular with collectors and we had a ton of thraeds here on /toy/. They released all manner of nostalgifag shit from 2011-2017ñ. Diamond had been releasing a ton of TMNT. NECA was starting to reveal shit and super hyped in 2015/2016. Revoltech made their TMNT in 2014. Mondo in 2017. Kid Robot in 2016.
You only think it's popular NOW because you just started collecting. A self centered teenager, no doubt. I hope. Right now there's nothing but shovelware games. No movies. No cartoons. Half as many licensors making toys, but I'm sure you think it's a lot, because two whole companies are releasing a cast of characters the 50k range vs 234098 companies trying to cash in TMNT's second golden point in popularity and shit was selling in the millions.
Anyway, the Figuarts figures were pretty bad and your rationalization was pathetic.
