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Honestly I get Japanese statues way more than I do western/ premium high end ones. Japanese statues are nice alternative to figures; they trade articulation for a more streamlined /dynamic sculpt, they're affordable enough to easily collect and resell, and made with materials that aren't terribly fragile. If they're redesigned, they're generally by known artists(not some random concept artist at Sideshow's interpretation of what Wolverine would look like). You have the same pratfalls of any kind of figure where you could end up hoarding them, but my point is they're seemingly more manageable.
With these giant, polystone or resin behemoths of redesigned superheroes fighting on gargoyles, what do you do if you run out of space and want to resell it? Hope you kept the massive fucking box and hope to any supreme powers out there that a single piece of that polystone/resin doesn't break in transit, because if it does, whoa boy, the price I stumbled upon a video of a statue collector a few months back where he lamented that he wouldn't be able to resell his custom made 3 ft tall venom statue because the toe nails had broken.
Whats crazy to me is not only that some people buy some of the crap thats churned out, but that it always sells out. Even if Prime 1 only makes 200 of these, who wants to display it that badly?
>why yes this is my 2.5 foot, $2,000 statue of Optimus Prime from the Transformers movie no one watched
