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miteethor
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Hello everyone,
I just found this forum, and I am pleased to say it's really the first collectors forum who knows or appreciates anything about the new Sideshow statues. I've tried a few times on other forums to open a discussion about them, but most people seem to either ignore the threads completely or don't know/care about the new Sideshow stuff. Instead they would rather go on endlessly about their horde of plastic figures they are using to wallpaper their rooms.
I'm not really anti-Hasbro, but I was rather disheartened recently when I took a trip to Walmart for the Midnight release of the new Episode III toys. I was just there to pick up the General Grievous unleashed and a few other odds and ends, but while we all waited in line I couldn't find anyone else who knew about Sideshow, Attakus, Gentle Giant - in fact only one other guy had heard of Master Replicas!! These were all very obsessive collectors (they had to be if they were waiting around at midnight to buy toys!!) and yet they knew nothing of the finer offerings to be had.
I don't really buy the whole "they are too expensive" thing either. I saw a number of people dropping $300 or more on a shopping cart full of every toy imaginable. Maybe it's just me, but the toys are cheapo, ugly, they don't look anything like the characters they potray, and they certainly don't display well. I'd much rather have a SS Vader than "1 of each" of the new Hasbro line. Am I alone in this thinking?
With all of that said, how popular do you think the Sideshow statues are going to be? I don't think I've ever talked to another collector who had heard of them before. I watch what goes on on Ebay and the Luke and Han Solo statues that are up for pre-order rarely if ever sell. I know everything sells out quickly on the SS web site, but I would think if something is sold out that quickly people would be trying to pick up their pre-orders now while the prices are still reasonable.
Do you think the first series will be in high demand, or is it going to linger unsold for months or years?
MiteeThoR
I just found this forum, and I am pleased to say it's really the first collectors forum who knows or appreciates anything about the new Sideshow statues. I've tried a few times on other forums to open a discussion about them, but most people seem to either ignore the threads completely or don't know/care about the new Sideshow stuff. Instead they would rather go on endlessly about their horde of plastic figures they are using to wallpaper their rooms.
I'm not really anti-Hasbro, but I was rather disheartened recently when I took a trip to Walmart for the Midnight release of the new Episode III toys. I was just there to pick up the General Grievous unleashed and a few other odds and ends, but while we all waited in line I couldn't find anyone else who knew about Sideshow, Attakus, Gentle Giant - in fact only one other guy had heard of Master Replicas!! These were all very obsessive collectors (they had to be if they were waiting around at midnight to buy toys!!) and yet they knew nothing of the finer offerings to be had.
I don't really buy the whole "they are too expensive" thing either. I saw a number of people dropping $300 or more on a shopping cart full of every toy imaginable. Maybe it's just me, but the toys are cheapo, ugly, they don't look anything like the characters they potray, and they certainly don't display well. I'd much rather have a SS Vader than "1 of each" of the new Hasbro line. Am I alone in this thinking?
With all of that said, how popular do you think the Sideshow statues are going to be? I don't think I've ever talked to another collector who had heard of them before. I watch what goes on on Ebay and the Luke and Han Solo statues that are up for pre-order rarely if ever sell. I know everything sells out quickly on the SS web site, but I would think if something is sold out that quickly people would be trying to pick up their pre-orders now while the prices are still reasonable.
Do you think the first series will be in high demand, or is it going to linger unsold for months or years?
MiteeThoR