Im a Completist and i hate it!

[Dynamo of Eternia]

Yes but it's the same company so it begs to differ why make limited figures when only a chosen few can get them and the secondary market makes the money on these figures not Mattel..I don't know why people can't see this who cares about it was done for Reason 1,1A,1B etc. it seems like they spent alot of time and money on one figure (for whatever reasons)but when it comes to MOTUC and a figure like Ram-Man that needs new tooling he gets pushed back you think these "Promo" figures would be the last thing they would make...

The point is that Mattel from time to time is going to do stuff like this to promote the line.... like it or not. And if it is going to happen, then it's better for it to be something like a Silver She-Ra or the Spirit of Grayskull than something essential like Hal Jordan.

I can't imagine that the Spirit of Grayskull or the Silver She-Ra cost them that much to make anyway. In the case of Grayskull, all they had to do was put a transparent blue version of whatever material these figures are made of in the machine that was already cranking out the standard and bronze versions of him. No real major cost there. In She-Ras case, I'm not sure if they used a different upfront material and/or coated her in something after the fact, but either way it was probably a minimal cost involved. The major exepense of creating a figure is in the tooling.... meaning making the mold that they will be produced from. Simply putting a different material in an already existing mold (as would be the case with Grayskull and She-Ra) isn't going to result in a major cost. You argue that they could make more money by selling these to the public, and that might be true, but they also could have not made them at all (despite what would be the fairly low cost to make them), and not had a promotional item at all, and perhaps not having that promotional item would have resulted in less attention being given to their event. Either way, whether these very limited figures are produced or not, we, the general audience, don't end up with these figures. And they really aren't essential other than (with all due respect) in the minds of the really, really OCD completests. The problem isn't even how "cool" the figure is for some people... it's just the fact that some version exists that they don't have. It could be a poop-brown-colored She-Ra, or a Grayskull that is yellow and purple with green polka-dots, and many of the same people are still going to complain. Why shouldn't Mattel have these occasional promotional item like this? It's a nice way to promote the line, and the winners end up with nice, unique items. There's no real harm there.
Yeah, they "could" produce more of them and sell them to the handful of people who would want them, but they could also start cranking out tons of pointless recolored variants of many of the MOTUC figures and try to sell them to us... I'm sure if they did that, more complaints from fans would start coming in rather than compliments.

Now, by contrast, from what I understand, not only was Hal Jordan extremely limited, but new tooling in creating the mold for his head was done, and that mold was destroyed after those figures were made. Now that's a waste, quite frankly, because that means that A LOT of money was spent to make that figure happen, only for the public to have essentially no access to him. To do that for a rather essential character (and not just some limited, odd-colored variant of an existing figure) was ridiculous on many levels.

I take a slightly more relaxed attitude to MOTUC. I'm still an opener, but I don't feel that I have to have everything for the collection to feel "complete". I look at my collection at the moment and I don't have the original King Grayskull, the bronze one, the spirit one (obviously), the colour-change Orko, the silver She-Ra, the flock-eared Moss Man, the SDCC He-Ro or his red and purple staffs. I can't imagine that I'd enjoy my collection more if I had these items.

Probably the only thing that I'm really "missing" that I would like to have, but isn't essential enough for me to pay anything more than the standard price of a figure is the flocked ears Moss-Man. That's the only general sale item that I missed out on despite being online ahead of time to be ready to buy it. It just went WAY too fast. And I didn't even care about getting the modern head with flocked ears, but I wanted the vintage head with flocked ears since that is how the original figure was. So I ended up just getting an extra unflocked ears one to display both heads (I already had one coming from my sub at the time).

With He-Ro, I have all 3 versions of the stone color because I actually wanted all 3 of them. They are all the Matty version. I had no desire to get the SDCC figure because I actually didn't want the SDCC logo stamped on the figure, itself. So I purposely avoided that variant. I actually got lucky in that I took the risk of ordering a bunch of extra He-Ros from Matty to take a gamble at the stone colors, and ended up with a bunch of reds and purples. Since I'm part of a local fan club and a lot of the other members ended up with batches of green, I was able to trade for the green one that then sell most of the other ones at cost to other members of the group. So, it was a gamble that worked out nicely.

I do have both the standard SDCC Grayskull (2 actually, 1 fully removed from the box, and 1 still tied down to the box), and the bronze version. I've been VERY lucky, however, as to date the only figure that I've paid high secondary market prices for is the Bronze Grayskull. The other 2 SDCC versions a friend of mine who went to the con hooked me up with (I had him grab me 2 just to gamble a bit at getting the bronze version, but no luck), and luckily a member of the group that I was talking about earlier was able to help me with the SDCC version of Orko. As I previously said, SDCC He-Ro was of no concern, and since I have given up keeping an extra of each figure MOC (I was doing that for a while), I didn't care about getting SDCC Marlena since once removed from the package Captain Glenn was the exact same figure.

Of course my luck may change this year depending on how they handle the new SDCC exclusives, and that white version of the Sorceress.

[synthalus]

I'm not a completist anymore and I love it
It was a huge liberation to reject the compulsive behavior and only buy what I like.
Funny thing is with the MOTUC line, most figures are all likes for me.

This is my MOTUC Don't want list:

• 2008 SDCC King Grayskull
• 2008 SDCC (Chase) Bronze King Grayskull
• 2008 SDCC (Auction) Spirit of Grayskull
• 2009 NYCC Faker (1st release (wide crotch) I have the reissue with small crotch)
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Green gem
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Red gem
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Purple gem
• 2009 SDCC MattyCollector version He-Ro Red gem
• 2009 SDCC MattyCollector version He-Ro Purple gem
• 2010 Castle Grayskull Stands 5-pack
• 2010 Moss Man (Flocked Ears)
• 2010 SDCC Orko (Color Change) & Prince Adam
• 2010 SDCC (Auction) Silver She-Ra
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack Mer-Man
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack Stratos
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack Zodac (I made my own custom 'Filmation' Zodac)
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack She-Ra
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack Battle Armor Faker
• 2011 SDCC Queen Marlena (I have Captain Glenn 2x to make the Queen)
• 2012 Snake Mountain Stands 5-pack

Have but Don't want as is (only used for customs/parts/swaps)

• 2009 Stratos (I used Zodac feet for him and made the wings rotate)
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack He-Man (I repainted/swapped his boots & loincloth)
• 2010 She-Ra 1.0 (made 2.0 and the leftovers Bubble Power She-Ra)
• 2011 Bubble Power She-Ra (made 2.0 and the leftovers Bubble Power She-Ra, painted the pink silver)
• 2010 Faker (Reissue) (using TRU Skeletor Armor + blue weapon pack/purple skeletor weapons)
• 2010 Trap Jaw (using both mechanical arms)
• 2010 Kronis (repainted)
• 2010 Mo-Larr (I removed the tooth and made him a doctor)
• 2010 Skeletor (Missing Tooth, from the Mo-Larr 2-pack)(I used Alcala Skeletor's head for the body)
• 2011 SDCC MattyCollector version Captain Glenn (I made her as Queen Marlena with golden boots from She-Ra 1.0)
• 2011 King Hsss (I used 2 snake bodies to add more snakes to one)
• 2011 Battleground Teela (I made her bra 'normal' size)
• 2012 Fisto (I plan to paint his upper torso silver and maybe make a plug in the sheath exclusively for the vintage sword)
• 2012 Mighty Spector (I plan to paint over the Spade and make it a black or red dot)
• 2012 Snake Man-At-Arms (I'm going to use the Mustache Head instead)

Have but Not sure yet if I want to keep as is:

• 2011 Faceless One -> still on the fence if I want to repaint his loincloth, or get rid of him...
• 2011 Hurricane Hordak -> still on the fence if I want to keep him as is next to a custom 'modern' Hordak made with HH parts...
• 2011 Battleground Evil-Lyn -> I might repaint the magenta parts...
• 2012 Sir Laser Lot (I might repaint parts of him...)

On the other hand, I have extra custom made/planned figure variants like a Blond Teela, various He-Man and Skeletor figures, He-Bro, custom head Palace Guards, King Grayskull Statue, Doc Mo-Larr's Nurse...

[dark knight]

here are a list of 10 figures that probably u will never get and almost all are from mattel lol

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/02/...r_o.php?page=2
i would add
Tytus Vintage ( so expensive)
Megator Vintage ( so Expensive)
Laser light skeletor ( hard and expensive but possible i had it new but i sold it when i sold all my vintage collection)
Laser power He man ( hard and expensive but possible)
Eternia (Is huge and rare and hard to get it complete, i had it but i sold it)
Indian Faker ( so weird)
Kobra Khan Camu ( hard and expensive)
Green Modulok ( hard and expensive)
tongue saurus ( rare and expensive )
stilt runners ( Rare and expensive, i sold it) Thundercats
Lion oh thunder wings (rare) Thundercats
Mummra Luna Lasher ( Rare) Thundercats
Cats lair ( i have it, is big and expensive) Thundercats

[MasterCollector]

My Brother From Another Mother!

We gotta call it like we see it, right?

[Berserker79]

I join in:

Items I don`t have/want for 2012:

SDCC King Grayskull
Green Goddess
Adora
She-Ra
BP She-Ra
Star Sisters
Shadow Beast
Gygor
Tytus
Megator
Chief Carnivus
Swift Wind
Icarius
Mo-Larr
Fearless Photog
Sir Laser Lot
Mighty Spector
Horde Prime
Catra
Shadow Weaver
Griffin
Frosta
Queen Marlena
Cringer

I'm not a completist anymore and I love it
It was a huge liberation to reject the compulsive behavior and only buy what I like.
Funny thing is with the MOTUC line, most figures are all likes for me.

This is my MOTUC Don't want list:

• 2008 SDCC King Grayskull
• 2008 SDCC (Chase) Bronze King Grayskull
• 2008 SDCC (Auction) Spirit of Grayskull
• 2009 NYCC Faker (1st release (wide crotch) I have the reissue with small crotch)
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Green gem
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Red gem
• 2009 SDCC He-Ro (SDCC Logo chest stamp) Purple gem
• 2009 SDCC MattyCollector version He-Ro Red gem
• 2009 SDCC MattyCollector version He-Ro Purple gem
• 2010 Castle Grayskull Stands 5-pack
• 2010 Moss Man (Flocked Ears)
• 2010 SDCC Orko (Color Change) & Prince Adam
• 2010 SDCC (Auction) Silver She-Ra
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack Mer-Man
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack Stratos
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack Zodac (I made my own custom 'Filmation' Zodac)
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack She-Ra
• 2011 TRU 2-Pack Battle Armor Faker
• 2011 SDCC Queen Marlena (I have Captain Glenn 2x to make the Queen)
• 2012 Snake Mountain Stands 5-pack

Have but Don't want as is (only used for customs/parts/swaps)

• 2009 Stratos (I used Zodac feet for him and made the wings rotate)
• 2010 TRU 2-Pack He-Man (I repainted/swapped his boots & loincloth)
• 2010 She-Ra 1.0 (made 2.0 and the leftovers Bubble Power She-Ra)
• 2011 Bubble Power She-Ra (made 2.0 and the leftovers Bubble Power She-Ra, painted the pink silver)
• 2010 Faker (Reissue) (using TRU Skeletor Armor + blue weapon pack/purple skeletor weapons)
• 2010 Trap Jaw (using both mechanical arms)
• 2010 Kronis (repainted)
• 2010 Mo-Larr (I removed the tooth and made him a doctor)
• 2010 Skeletor (Missing Tooth, from the Mo-Larr 2-pack)(I used Alcala Skeletor's head for the body)
• 2011 SDCC MattyCollector version Captain Glenn (I made her as Queen Marlena with golden boots from She-Ra 1.0)
• 2011 King Hsss (I used 2 snake bodies to add more snakes to one)
• 2011 Battleground Teela (I made her bra 'normal' size)
• 2012 Fisto (I plan to paint his upper torso silver and maybe make a plug in the sheath exclusively for the vintage sword)
• 2012 Mighty Spector (I plan to paint over the Spade and make it a black or red dot)
• 2012 Snake Man-At-Arms (I'm going to use the Mustache Head instead)

Have but Not sure yet if I want to keep as is:

• 2011 Faceless One -> still on the fence if I want to repaint his loincloth, or get rid of him...
• 2011 Hurricane Hordak -> still on the fence if I want to keep him as is next to a custom 'modern' Hordak made with HH parts...
• 2011 Battleground Evil-Lyn -> I might repaint the magenta parts...
• 2012 Sir Laser Lot (I might repaint parts of him...)

On the other hand, I have extra custom made/planned figure variants like a Blond Teela, various He-Man and Skeletor figures, He-Bro, custom head Palace Guards, King Grayskull Statue, Doc Mo-Larr's Nurse...

[RyanSD]

I never really was a completist, but there are a few of those 'rare' promo-only figures that I would've liked to have gotten. Specifically the 2010 Holiday Gray Ghost figure. As a huge BTAS fan, that figure in the packaging would've been sweet to add to my Bat-collection. At least Mattel made the figure available, even if it wasn't on the cool packaging. Why couldn't Mattel actually make a Hal Jordan in JLU? I never collected JLU, but a friend of mine did, and pretty much quit back when he knew he wouldn't get the Hal Jordan figure.

[dark knight]

i will try to get customs of all the ones i cannot get like king grayskull spirit and she-ra silver, i bought already 2 she-ras to try to make crhome it

[Night Stalker]

here are a list of 10 figures that probably u will never get and almost all are from mattel lol

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2011/02/...r_o.php?page=2
i would add
Tytus Vintage ( so expensive)
Megator Vintage ( so Expensive)
Laser light skeletor ( hard and expensive but possible i had it new but i sold it when i sold all my vintage collection)
Laser power He man ( hard and expensive but possible)
Eternia (Is huge and rare and hard to get it complete, i had it but i sold it)
Indian Faker ( so weird)
Kobra Khan Camu ( hard and expensive)
Green Modulok ( hard and expensive)

I have all of them on your list except for green Modulok. Never even heard of that one.

Believe it or not, none of those were exceptionally *hard* to find. Expensive? Sure, in some cases. I think the most I paid was $300 for one of the giants. But all of them are readily available in the market if you just know where to look. It helps that I'm not a MOC collector either.

I understand the completist mentality, but there's a line that must be drawn somewhere. Heck, I'll even teach you the easiest way to get your very own Silver She-Ra:

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The beautiful thing about this formula is that it works just as well for most variants, like Bronze/King/Spirit of Grayskull or any other tacky repaint that fetches thousands of dollars.

[Sky Breaker]

With the joints exposed, that silver She-Ra really does look like a piece of crap. If the joints were filled in, it would at least look like a statue, rather than an action figure with no personality.

[Science Friction]

I'm a near completist I suppose, because I can live without Spirit King Grayskull and Silver She-Ra. Everything else I want eventually. As it stands I have four Skeletor figures, and one is a double. I still need a few more to be set. I consider the reissue Skeletor with the improvement face paint a seperate version, so I have to get the original, etc. Things like that.

[bamf1980]

Wow. This thread makes me feel better about myself. I thought of myself as a completist, yet I have no desire for Bronze KG, Spirit KG, or Silver She-Ra. Let alone a Moss Man with different ear flock, or a Jewelstar with different colored rocks, come to think of it.

I guess I'm cured!

[EldestSon]

so that pic of silver she-ra says they are customs. unless you are expanding your selection to include all customs (even those made by mattel employees), i don't know why she would be on your list.

[Science Friction]

Wow. This thread makes me feel better about myself. I thought of myself as a completist, yet I have no desire for Bronze KG, Spirit KG, or Silver She-Ra. Let alone a Moss Man with different ear flock, or a Jewelstar with different colored rocks, come to think of it.

I guess I'm cured!

Wait... there is a Jewelstar with different color rocks? I know, I know, I'll use the search function and stay on topic.. lol.

[lemure77]

I was one for a while, but the POP just killed it for me. Not a fan and only really dug the Horde. so now I get who I like certainly saves a ton on space. So big creatures and so on..I can live without. love the line and look forward to MY classics. the rest I say gongrats to they who want them star sisters? no thanks

[Larry Waters]

I was a completist, right up until the Star Sisters came around.

THAT mess cured me!

[Berserker79]

After looking at my collection, where since 1 year only figures stand, which I really like, I don't regret turning from a completist to a cherry picker.

I can now relax, spare a lot of money and the 2012 line up has so many items I don't want, that it proves me right.

[motu77]

I guess it's how you define completist. I'm a MOC collector so I like to have one of everything.

I no longer have the money to buy the super rare items like Spirit Grayskull or Gold She-Ra so it doesnt bother me that i won't have them. Even if I could still afford them they would not be a priority on my list, I really dont consider them part of the line as they are variants that were very limited for special events.

Also I don't have any interest in things like flocked ears Moss Man, Clear Orko, Tampo/Stones He-Ro and any running changes to the figures. Other than that I try to get everything.

[dark knight]

well for me the silver she-ra will be like a spell of shadow weaver on her!!!
but well i will do my custom to see how its going to look
i will see if i try something in a custom grayskull spirit, but even the custom is soo expensive.....

[MasterCollector]

I was a completist, right up until the Star Sisters came around.

THAT mess cured me!

Say it ain't so Big C!

If the line was cancelled tomorrow, we might not have Ram Man or Modulok, but we'd at least have the highly demanded Star Sisters.

[Swanmarsh]

It was my intention to be a completist ... that is until DR so far failed to deliver my Wind Raiders ...

Wow. This thread makes me feel better about myself. I thought of myself as a completist, yet I have no desire for Bronze KG, Spirit KG, or Silver She-Ra. Let alone a Moss Man with different ear flock, or a Jewelstar with different colored rocks, come to think of it.

I guess I'm cured!

Wait... there is a Jewelstar with different color rocks? I know, I know, I'll use the search function and stay on topic.. lol.

Um ... shoot, I'll ask if you won't. What different rocks for Jewelstar?????

[dark knight]

what????? diferent colors on the star sisters?? that its going to be a pain in the arsh hehehe

[bamf1980]

Yeah, some Jewelstars have more of a purple stone color, while others are more pinkish.

[Micro-Man]

Starting my collection so late in the game, it doesn't make sense for me to be a completist with the Classics line. I do like the majority of the figures but there are a couple that are either non-essential (Wun-Dar or Mo-Larr) or just plain too expensive for me to hunt down (King Grayskull or He-Ro variants). I'm not familiar with NA or 200X figures, so I tend to ignore them unless they look cool to me. For example, I got Chief Carnivus today, from the March Madness sale, even though I have no idea who he is. Also, I prefer to keep my figures loose so packaging variants are meaningless to me. I recently bought a Captain Glenn so that I can make Queen Marlena and if I decide to get King Grayskull, I'll try to pick up the cheapest one I can find. The only exclusive figure that's on my wish list is the TRU Battle Armor Faker...He looks cool but, ultimately, I can live without him!

[EldestSon]

Yeah, some Jewelstars have more of a purple stone color, while others are more pinkish.

people who have both are reporting this or is this based on comparing pictures? if the latter, then could it just be a lighting issue?

[Swanmarsh]

Yeah, some Jewelstars have more of a purple stone color, while others are more pinkish.

Are we talking the colour of her staff or the jewels that come part of her body/costume?
Is there a picture of two figures different colours side by side?