This is a boredom post but I was looking at collectibles online and came across pictures of some things I passed on, or sold, and now regret it. What have you missed out on?
These are things I often look at on eBay like an orphan in a Dickens novel with his nosed pressed against a window watching a family eat.
I had the Hot Toys Arkham Knight Batman fully paid off but had an unexpected bill so I cancelled it for a refund. It haunts me.
Still don’t have this one, and I’ve kinda cooled on it. See that Chris Reeve statue in the picture I shared above (behind Wonder Woman)? That currently serves as my big Christopher Reeve piece.
New regrets? Honestly not many. Narrowing things down to Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman has made newer pieces easier to acquire. I also have been collecting retroactively, meaning hunting down stuff that sold out before I started this addiction.
I kinda miss my Super Powers figures. Think I had maybe 20 of the 36 or so they released. That’s how my collection habit started. Sold ‘em all save for the Trinity.
I have Hush Superman on order and really wish Wonder Woman had appeared in Hush so they would make her. Jim Lee drew her in For Tomorrow so maybe they will branch out.
That Reis Superman is a beauty.
I have all of my Super Powers from childhood and have slowly been filling in the gaps. This is an old photo and I was able to add Shazam, Plastic Man, and Mister Miracle. I’m eventually going for Mr Freeze, Steppenwolf, and Orion and will consider it complete. I know I’ll never get Cyborg and don’t care about the others. And I took my own post off topic.
That’s an awesome Super Powers collection. I had Cyborg. Sold him for a pretty penny. Helped pay for 1/3 scale Superman that I have, so no regrets there.
Let me bring things back on topic for ya. I’m a big fan of DC Direct/Collectibles up to the point where they started DC Essentials. Things started going downhill for them from that point, imo. No “regrets” here really, other than starting with the collection a lot later than would have allowed me to amass all their stuff as it came out. Here’s a non comprehensive look at what I would be hunting down if space and money were not issues (excuse the picture dump):
I had all of the Alex Ross figures from Kingdom Come to Justice but sold a bunch. I think I kept Batman and Superman but have no clue where they are.
What are the 3 that start under the Justice armored Batman?
I have noticed that your collections lack LEGO versions of the Trinity.
Those are from the “Justice League of America” line which had several waves starting in 2007 (as opposed to the older “JLA” line). I think they were based on Ed Benes art. That Batman is a variant from a box set, I think the original had the black bat symbol.
I’m just not a big fan of Lego, tbh. I was somewhat intrigued by the “Brickheadz” figures, but the set that caught my eye (with classic Superman and Wonder Woman) goes for north of $500 ebay, which… no thanks.
I read new mutants v1, from say issue 30, a secret wars 2 tie in to the end of the x-tinction event crossover, say issue 84,85? Yep, right before cable and that one guy…
I was an adult and definitely a DC fan when these were released, so I regret that I didn’t look into it, even as I was actually visiting LCSs ever so often, in the New 52 and Rebirth era. I was a bit more into reading the actual comics, versus collecting anything in those days. Although space was a premium, which is no longer the situation.
I can appreciate this, even though I find what people spend on these (and thus charge for them) to be outrageous and am glad that my OCD doesn’t go to this.
My regrets would be some of the DC Direct porcelain cold cast statues - the ones that would be my holy grail(s) definitely pre-date my renewed interest in collecting, and again would not have happened as a consequence of a lack of space - but thinks like the departure from Krypton and arrival in Smallville 1950s Silver Age style space rockets statues or the Fleischer Studios maquette of both Lois and Superman would be at the top of my list.
I just won an auction a few weeks back, on the secondary market, the Millennium Superman Action Comics maquette collectible box set, incomplete but with an intact figure - the one on the far left of this photo - for a deeply discounted song, but I doubt those Fleischer style figures will ever fall in my lap at those kinds of discounts. And I doubt I’ll ever pay for them otherwise.
For me its not something I passed on BUT in 2001, right before 9-11, I moved in with my sister and brought all my collection with me. Long story short she ended up kicking me out and keeping my collection (vintage motu, vintage thunder cats, early DC Direct like Swamp Thing and WW, Kenner stuff like the cartoons, Total Justice, JLA, and more). I still haven’t replaced even a fraction of all I lost.
