>>11404219>what is fanboyismYou say you haven't noticed the shilling effect on /toy/, but i guess you weren't here in the early mid-10s?
People LOOOOOOOOVED figures like this, saying they were the greatest toys ever made, but a month or two after its release, it was no longer good. 1 years later, everyone pretended it was always shit, and no one spent hours defending it: NOW PREORDER THE LATEST GREATEST ONE THAT JUST GOT ANNOUNCED (that is also hugely flawed, so they'll spend the next few months defending it non-stop).
If i didn't know how bad fanboys are, I'd swear it's shop owners who needed to get rid of their stock.
Anyway, fanboys are almost always indistinguishable from actual shills (especially now real shills are hired from third world countries). A lot of times, these fanboys don't even buy the products they're trying to shill, just because they think they owe the company/franchise a life debt. So of course you rarely see photos of said toys in anyone's collections.
Oh, and file name is just to prove a point I was making. Play Arts Kai figures barely had fans, thanks to their price points, so people were able to correctly point out how flawed they look. Figuarts are probably the cheapest collector import line there is, so it had a lot of fanboys who didn't want to admit how flawed they are. So this Iron Man figure was the only Iron Man figure you needed to buy, despite having the same flaws as PAKs at the time.
Also, Sakura Wars used to be pretty big. No doubt, people were hyped up for a new game.