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This is why I give some leeway to companies like Hasbro for their collectors figures; in America collectors figures for the longest time just meant rarer older figures like 60's GI Joes or 70s Megos or harder to find variants or in-demand characters of standard toy lines like Boba Fett, or a gold colored version of a main character. Today's design side of the toylines are very likely more in tune with what collectors want in a "collector's figure", butt hey ave to deal with 50+ year old execs who think a collector's toy is rereleasing a 30+ year old figure or slapping gold on a $10 retail figure.
What was nice was that point in time after McFarlane got big in 93/94 where other companies started upping their game in terms of detailing in figures. Articulation was still primitive but figures looked a lot better and a lot of that stuff from that era is still displayable. Trendmasters is one of the best companies from that era. Everything from their sculpting to their packaging felt like they were trying to release a product above just being a cheap kid's toy.
