Will the Retro figures be worth anything?

[callistofreak]

Will these NEW Retro DC figures be worth any thing??
The Matty Green Arrow sells for $40 +.

How many were made??
How many of each wave were made??

If wave 2 was dumped at the discount chains.
Then there must be far less of wave 2 then maybe even the
Matty on-line figures?

The fact that TRU has none, or peg warmers.
Must mean they sell like crazy.
I don't think so, I'm a truck driver.
And this weekend alone, I have been to 9 different TRU's in 5 states.
All I could find(if any) were Lex, Senestro & Captiain Cold (new peg warmer?) And when I ask, they don't know about those figures.
I'm tolded to go and order them on line.

I love the fact that we have new Megos(Mattys).
But if Mattel is putting out the $$ to make these,
and comitting to the line for 6 -10 waves?? (who knows?)
Then why can't we go to the store and buy them??
If a new DC figure is $15 and up at the chains.
How is $20 that much difference?
Finding these figures is like, pulling a tooth out of a rattlesnake.
And NO, collecting & finding them is NOT half the fun.
It's all the pain!!

The FUN value is far more important to me.
I have 3 Grand-babies now, and I'm buying all the wife will let me.
Plus what I can sneek in.

Anyway, if you can awnser any of this?
Please, do.

[alex]

I dont think these will be valuable one day, I just keep one of the figures from each wave on card. Todays toys just dont keep any value. Rip them open, and have fun.

[MIB41]

Actually their aftermarket value has started to grow over the past six months. Where initially the first wave were routinely being sold for half the shelf cost, they now average above retail price on Ebay's auction calculator. That's impressive and shows sustained interest in the line. It also demonstrates that Mattel has found a desirable production volume to satisfy market demand without leaving store pegs filled, as was the case with Wave one. So if your not seeing them on the shelves, that means you need to order them online before the price increases. As a rule, limited availability always drives up aftermarket demand. I think this line can continue for as long as they want it to go.

[Mikey]

I personally think they'll eventually drop in value and stay down.

The Mego collecting generation is already here keeping their prices relatively respectable for the time being.

Eventually they will peter out with no new future generation that will want them in great numbers.

They will be Famous Covers mark-2

[Toy Talk]

I personally think they'll eventually drop in value and stay down.

The Mego collecting generation is already here keeping their prices relatively respectable for the time being.

Eventually they will peter out with no new future generation that will want them in great numbers.

They will be Famous Covers mark-2

I agree completely. Any future value to these will be minimal. From my personal perspective though, who cares! My sons have a great time with theirs and that is all that matters to me.

[kingdom warrior]

Nope, Megos have value because of sentiment over them. a generation of kids grew up playing with these during the 70's. Megos were everywhere and many non mego collectors had them. We love Megos because of what they meant to us...

These versions will not have the same sentiment unless their parents bought them for their kids.......no attachment, no sentiment, which means in the long run will kill the market value for them.

[HardyGirl]

I agree completely. Any future value to these will be minimal. From my personal perspective though, who cares! My sons have a great time with theirs and that is all that matters to me.

Here here! And isn't that what it's all about?

[Mikey]

Also, for people that say they give these figures to their kids and they love them.

That's all well and good but there's other factors that makes an adult want to collect stuff from their past.

A few things are remembering nostalgic TV commercials toy tie-ins, remembering playing with the figures with your friends, etc --- and remember seeing them in the store and BEGGING your parents to buy you them - which sometimes they didn't.


WE adults are on a different level than kids today will be when they grow up.

[jimsmegos]

If your looking for an investment buy gold. The toy market has been over-saturated since the 90's. The odds of anything post 1983 having any real long term value I think are slim to none. Just like comics before them, the market is now flooded and with every release collectors / resellers stock pile them right off the bat so their will never be a real scarcity.

My two cents.

[Janson]

They have tons of play value, customizing value too.

[livnxxxl]

Only time will really tell the true value of the figures. I would not buy them for an investment though. By the time we would see any REAL would be value from them I would think that we would be long gone and our kids would have grey hair waiting.

I really want the line to continue to make more figures. The more the better. I hope this happens and continues to be possible in the future for a very long time.

[MIB41]

If you buy them, I think whatever you choose to do with them is pretty much your business. Some people display them. Some play with them. An still some flip them for a profit in a trade or sell arrangement. And their all on this forum daily. For myself, if they look good, I treat them like a piece of artwork. I will buy them to display. If they attract the kid in me, I'll go one step further and pull them out to pose them. And finally if they have fulfilled their usefulness and take up space I need for other figure lines, then I may sell them. Toys are a flexible commodity like anything of value.

[Cmonster]

Ask this question to all those grown men who would wait outside toy stores in the early 90's before they opened, to buy up every single re-issued, steroid victim, Star Wars figure they could pry from poor kid's hands. I actually remember people REALLY thinking that those stupid things would be worth a lot of money... So stupid.

Like others have said; The remegos have awesome play value and that's RAD.

SC

[Hector]

All irrelevant to me...I don't have kids...and if by any chance...they do become valuable...I'll be long dead...

[Wise4671]

If you want to know if they will be valuable in the future all you have to do is give them to your kids if they play with them alot and take them with them when they go to Grama's house or to a friends to play with them then it is a pretty safe bet they may be worth something down the line. My son does play with his (which I think is really cool it gets him away from the PS3 and Computer games for awhile) but I have done something for him that we all wish our parents would have done for us and that is to buy him one of each to play with (yes open up and play with) and one of each to put up for him for when he gets older (that way he wont have to pay out the ear like we do for our Megos).
So to ask here if we think they will be worth alot in the future I dont really think you will get a really accurate answer. If you would have asked our parents back in the day if they thought Megos would have been worth alot in the future they probably would have looked at you and said "That junk heck thats not a toy they dont make good toys anymore heck that piece of crap wont even last to see the future"