>>10812212Pre-oders are a false scarcity thing. If we're talking about a truly limited item, which is mostly a statue, then maybe, but spending the amount of money your grandfather might have bought a car or put down as a down-payment on a starter house to own as a statue is absurd if you aren't a first round draft pick who got a $20M signing bonus.
>rarely buy figures for aesthetics alone since I need some emotional attachment to the character or else In my case, most of my emotional attachment is related to the characters and is also related to the stories that underpin them. So the look of the figure - its aesthetic as you put it - is LARGELY the reason I buy or own some of this stuff, but I rarely chase it down for the nose bleed prices some people want to charge for it.
I really liked the Superman Batman 2000s run, and the artwork by Ed McGuinness and even though those DC Direct figures were before my time as a COLLECTOR, I've been able to find what I want at affordable, even bargain prices, on the secondary market. And I own them largely for aesthetic reasons, to the point that I've gotten some other figures that I don't care for as characters or stories for that aesthetic match (Captain Atom from this line, for example).
But otherwise, very valid points.
