When it comes to collecting pop culture, comics, and figurines for the average joe, statues, maquettes, comiquettes, and premium format figures are the cream of the crop.
Is it worth it? No doubt leveling up in this game of collecting can be an expensive endeavor. As with any retail purchase, it’s all about what it means to you. Some say $7 a day for a cup of coffee is a ridiculous amount of money to pay for the juice of a bean. Yet millions of people do just that on a daily. Value vs dollars. That measurement is personal.
The more important question is whether or not it is a worthy investment. To that, I say, yes indeed. Heres what I know. Money is printed on a daily and yet we save it. Invest with it and in it. The value of a dollar is constantly debated and a very complicated issue. It’s rather boring actually. A piece of paper with green ink. A statue, maquette, comiquette, or premium format figure of your favorite comic character, superhero, or pop culture icon is anything but boring. It’s an amazing piece of art with a limit as to how many can be sculpted. You get joy in admiring and staring at it day after day. It doesn’t judge you, troll you, or stress you out. And if you simply take care of it by giving it a home in a nice display case and cleaning it once in a while, dust it off now and then, it never ceases to amaze you.
Now you can get this enjoyment from it for years till one day, you feel like you can finally let it go. You’ve reached a point where you’re ok with somebody else getting that same enjoyment from it. And if you simply kept the original box and took care of it you may have just 10 X’ed your investment! Even after all those years and sometimes decades of enjoyment! Wow…So are they worth it? Well, let’s take action figures for example. Just ask Don Levine a former Hasbro executive and Korean war veteran who had a prototype of GI Joe, “Toy Soldier” just laying around in a cardboard box for decades at his home in Rhode Island. He took part in the creation of the toy back in 1963. He also benefitted from that same “Toy Soldier” selling on eBay in 2003 for a whopping $200,000! Yeah, I’d say collecting any kind of collectible figure is well worth it.