Ugh. Bad timing to release a set of all rehashes right now, what with a lot of folks up in arms over Hasbro doing much the same with the 4" line right now. The Luke's cool, and I'd be happy to take each of these repainted Kubricks at some point on down the line, sprinkled into various series or boxsets, but just not all at once, and not all right now. Gives me a bad feeling that the once amazing Medicom is starting to fall prey to the evil seductions of an inferior product that turns a quick and easy buck, like what Hasbro has been going for of late. Not what I would expect from the formidable Kubrick line. I'm sure they'll eventually bounce back from this set, but it's the first real blemish on an otherwise amazing line...
It was funny reading those first few posts back in 2002. I don't hear many "cute" and "gorgeous" references any more. Just sighs and groans about the current prices. $85 for and Earlybird Set!! I remember selling quite a few for a $95 but you'd be lucky to get one for $120 now. Matt, you are the original Kubrick King, for your foresight, rather than the size or your collection. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.
Heh!
I suppose I dug these cool little things before most folks caught on to them, but I think we're all in the same boat of Kubrickaholics now. Man, that seems like one hell of a long time ago that I started that first Kubrick thread here. ****'s sure blown up since then, eh?!
Hey Matt, what are you missing thus far in your Kuby collection besides the new series?
Missing the 3 obvious ones: Carded Fett, Sandtrooper & Vader
Missing openers of Droids Fett, Holo Leia, Rebo boxset (have carded/boxed sets though)
Missing Chase Logray and Vinyl Jawa
Missing Series 4
So I'm kinda lagging right now. Really need to get those Series 3 chases, so I can focus on finding on a nice deal on Series 4. Glad I waited on the new ones though, since they're really starting to drop a lot over the past week...