The Star Wars Action Figure Market is Declining | What Are the Causes & How to Fix It??

Good. I'm glad it's down. Most people can't afford to build a collection for $25+ (new) - $100+ (rare) for one 6" figure. Investors are the minority here. I just ordered my first Hot Toys figure because the prices are coming down and I'm glad. You shouldn't have to be well off to collect plastic action figures.

When covid hit the world. The 2010 to 2012 vintage collection basically doubled in price and more on certain figures. Now their dropping again. Inflation and those Hasbro re releases are doing a good job at a drop in the market. And Disney's crappy sw series and movies are also contributing i believe.😮

Glad you brought this topic up, Hasbro's pricing (especially on deluxe TVC) is out of control, and it's resulted in me not buying them until they're put on sale. It seems like most of their products, even exclusives, go to clearance, so it's safe to wait on just about anything. I collect for the fun of it, not for the value of my collection, so higher prices certainly reduce that joy from a new purchase. I enjoy the current content, but I preferred when action figures were toys, and priced accordingly, now that they're collectibles for adults, they'll keep trying to squeeze us, but it's already starting to fail.

Not only are the so-called "deluxe" TVC figures grossly overpriced for what little more they have to offer, but their box packaging completely deviates in size and design from the standard packaging of a bubbled figure on a cardback which offers an aesthetic appeal that has always been one of the biggest draws for in-package collectors of this particular action figure line.

Great insight and many figs are so over priced. People lose their jobs while the CEO gets 9mill bonus 🤷.

Thank god its down, im not in it for the resell value anyway, im doing this for the enjoyment

Disney alienated they're core Star Wars audience and the people who buy the merch. They economy and inflation are factors too. Last time we had a spike in the value of Star Wars figures was when The Mandalorian season 2 finale with Luke Skywalker came out. Apathy for the brand is the main reason.

I'm glad the figures I never would of gotten years ago are affordable, I'm getting a Darth Malak from ebay still in the box for $30 free shipping. I wish I could see a drop in price for Luke Skywalker (Crait)

You better be collecting for your enjoyment and not for reselling because them days are over ,people will be buying more important things than plastic

Good, I despise people overvaluation and speculation markets, toys and graphic novels are to read and build a great collection, not because you sit on it and sell it. I love my graphic novel collection, I read it, I shelf it, and it's not going anywhere, while I agree at times you may want to make a small profit margin but too many assholes taking the piss. This is not passion, this is pure greed that it's done on

I'm thinking I need to quit collecting, I have too much. Lol, I still have all my 1990s POTF2 figures that are worthless

I live in Canada...Hasbro is asking $35 plus tax for these figures. I don't collect Star Wars or Marvel but see these prices when I get my Neca or McFarlane figures and shake my head. Hasbro is going down...and going down hard.

Jangos Helmet is off. The helmet comes with 2 black lines not 1. It is missing one line and the triangles. The previous carded versions had them.

12:11. Big Win 🏆 First place 🥇 award goes to you Sir. It’s a buyers market right now. 😊so get all the stuff you want or can

I will say that for Hot Toys we saw production numbers that were very high on alot of those figures around the pandemic so that market has been on this drop for a while. The lesser produced Hot Toys stuff seem to be holding above retail though.

Declining prices is not bad news to me. I love it! The lower the price, the more I can collect!

This goes with statues too. I collect some of the Kotobukiya and Gentle Giant Star Wars statues and they are going pretty down in price. I’ve scored several statues this year online that were either half or less than half their original asking price. The only market of Star Wars collectable that I love that I see isn’t declining too much is Lego. Lego kind of just stays the same depending on the supply and demand of certain sets and minifigures. Overall I have noticed it with Hasbro’s products and Hot Toys. Even Star Wars funko pops have taken a huge nose dive in online prices compared to what some were worth a couple of years ago.

I love the Godzilla reference. I stopped collecting Hasbro months ago and I’m so glad I did . They just don’t care about OT fans. Awesome video man. You’re on Fire 🔥🔥

I bought, for my first toy purchase for myself, (I'm 70 & didnt get ANY toys as a kid) Futurama in the early years of 2000's.. They were about $12, & sell for as much as $265 while current reboot is on. Better than money in the bank...

Been watching the channel for a while now, love the videos man! I’m definitely taking a hiatus from collecting and focus on getting characters that I like from the OT and Prequels. Dooku and the upcoming Princess Leia are ones that I’m preordering for sure.