my Disney Store has a "limited one per customer" sign. However, I will never forget the day when I walked in and there was a guy buying the last 4 Elite Series Boba Fetts and I wanted one so he gave one to me. I realise that doesn't happen often, but nice guy for doing it.
there is army building and there is hording, and those photos were pure hoarding to be fair I can kinda see why he would have so many Gallimimus because there was a big heard of them in the movie that's army building, but still it is a bit extreme to have so many duplicates.
I watched a man walk out a toy store with 14 or so Marvel Legends Sentry's, so I was like 3 inches away from the Sentry's and I was going to get one but then he just budged in front of me and took all of them and I went and said "hey just leave like three at least for me and maybe some kids who want him" and he gave me a death glare as he walked away to the counter...I was scared
In my opinion, that dinosaur collection doesn't even look impressive anymore! With that many, you can't appreciate the individual pieces. It's too much to take in & just starts to look like a huge amount of crap 😕
I will confess I hoard toys....but I don't go out of my way to own 10 demon Carnos ...or 15 Jungle Explorers. 1 or 2 of a figure is like my max if I come into procession of more I'll sell some off.
Well for you it's different, you do reviews others just take them all for no reason besides having a room full of toys. They're taking away from others who just want one.
Haha and i thought i was obsessed with collecting Jurassic Park, recently i sold my second carno demon. And i want to sell more i still have heards...I had an obsession i guess. So how is you're jp hunt going?
I agree with you. I just started a vintage G.I.Joe collection, and some loose figures can go for as much as $50 each on Ebay, and there'd only be a couple of listings. Buying even one of each figure would be very expensive. Then I saw a youtube video of a guy's collection with about twenty of each figure, and I thought; "That's why they're so rare and expensive!" There'd be plenty for everyone if it wasn't for the hoarders.
I get aggravated so much when I see something I struggle to find yet someone has hundreds of, like, come on! Also the "God, family, friends, then toys" line. Same here on that one.
Seriously I agree with you, this man.. collector/hoarder was in smyths. I was going to get a JWFK toy and this guy was there. I'm a kid, so I went beside him and looked at the toys, not necessarily the one I wanted to look at, but I did. So I waited for him to move, and once he did he walked away with like half of the shelf. He had left a few of the small dinosaurs, matchbox cars and an allosaurus I think? I kinda just looked at my parents, and then walked out of that store with nothing because this dude took all of the KIDS TOYS away from KIDS Let me tell you he took all of the legacy collection that was there. He must of been some hoarder .. but I'm going again on Friday to pick something up XD
I know I was going to get the spino I was so excited I stayed up ALL NIGHT thinking ooh I'll do this with the toy going in this guy walks out with like three and my day was ruined but at least I got it anyways so can't be that sad
Bro if I was your parent I legit would have asked the dude why he needed to clear the shelves in one go and state that you were patiently waiting to get one of the Legacy Collection toys. I would have been soooo angry if I was a kid and that happened. XD Good thing Target is getting their act together cause apparently they are restocking the Spinosaurus which was once discontinued.
I don't really have a problem with wanting multiple figures, my problem comes in when the scalpers buy 5-10 of one rare figure and sell it on Ebay for double what they bought it for.
If I ever had a duplicate of a toy, it would be one to keep in the package and the other to open and play/display at a different angle. I'm a die-hard Jurassic Park fan, but I'd never buy that many Raptors. I don't need that many. Even people who make JP dioramas and JP toy films don't use that many. Seriously, 4 Carnotaurs?!?! It's hard enough to find just one, even loose! That's why the prices on toys go up; because there aren't many left because of the occasional hoarder/scalper. I know it's their money and they can spend it however they want, but still... It's not fair to those who couldn't find a toy.
Finally we have a voice, I see people post pictures of them owning thousands of the same toy. I know that they can buy what ever they want, but do they really need 50 of the same toys, what is the point of buying the same things over, and over, and over again?
army building. Which makes sense in a certain regard, when it comes to things like Clone/Stormtroopers, Cobra troopers, grunts. Especially collectors like me who likes to have dioramic/scene based displays. However there is a level were it gets absurd. I would like to have a small squad of 501st troopers....but when prices become ridiculous one is fine, but then the display feels gimped since I like creating scene rather than stock posing collecting dust. Then the issue comes with is that some collector's has insane armies built up that makes even a small squad hard to afford due to second hand prices.
I don't really collect figures since there isn't one that is a must have, but why buy millions of the same figure, when you don't have real use for them? The Jurassic Park collection is like grands of money down the drain, that is an expensive price just to look at the toys poseing.... very worth it.
I experience this problem as a fan of the current TMNT figure line. Anytime I go to the Turtles section there is like two figures from a couple years ago and the new stuff is all taken. I once saw a 50 year old guy with 7 new Bebob figures. I was pissed.
This happens in the plush collecting community. There is a plush husky that is very popular and has been discontinued. There are people who have like 12 of them and every time they come up on eBay for very overinflated prices, these guys grab them up. It is very irritating.
Its so saddening to see this as someone who just got into collecting. I saw that one guy had like 50 of the JPDinosaurs Dimetrodon repaint, my FAVORITE repaint. That thing is IMPOSSIBLE to find on eBay and when I do, its well over $50. What the hell man. I expect retro toys to be more expensive than their retail prices but the real reason they are so expensive is because of people like these.
With the WeyYu commandos it makes sense for people who want to set up dioramas and scenes from the movies. That’s why people army build with xenomorphs. But to have four demon carnos is just ridiculous. That’s like having 18 Rexys and 62 Blues.
I'm officially subscribing to this channel because your one of the few and I mean FEW fans that truly understand the struggle of having to look at these other collector people literally hoarding a whole basement or garage of literally 14 or more of the same figure, it sucks people buy these things in lots wether it's jurassic or starwars or old school kenner whatever it may be it's insane and I've seen other RUclips's not going to say who because I'm nice like that but they show these massive toy collections in their back grounds for their videos and sure goodie for them but what they don't realize is that's a solid middle finger to the people who care about that sorta thing like "oh you don't have this one? Gee sorry about it" and yet they show theirs off, now don't get me wrong I totally get being proud of something but like you explained in the video it's unfair to other collectors around the world depending on which country you live in and what you have access to ETC. This goes to something even more important it's like the people who rub it in other fans faces when they met actors or played co -op with well known RUclips's in video games same narrative that "I'm a bigger fan than you" attitude if we avoid being jocks and go the nerd route competition is still a thing but not necessarily because TO EACH IS OWN thank God people of all ages understand that phrase...i apologize to whoever made it to the end of this comment I'm sorry it was long but it was an issue all fans needed to be addressed and thank you Matthew Brandi for making this video that covers this activation us collectors go through
this is very true. I see nothing jurassic world related anywhere, not that I wanted any. those scalpers and hoarders are dicks. also I really enjoy the sympathy u have that maybe a kid would want that one figure on the shelf.
The closest thing to hoarding I've ever done is army building, but I only do it when the character is an army (ex. Stormtrooper) and only an army. I don't collect more of a single character unless it's from a different line (ex. Hasbro and Bandai). Even when I build an army, I tend to max it at 4 figures only to save money and space.
I already have a hard time collecting (little money available, high school, music lessons) but now there people like those in the pictures buying up everything and scalloping others that I have to deal with!
I hate scalpers because I was just about to buy my first Jurassic park toy and there was 5 left in a hour when I was going to buy it they where all gone it sucked
This also happens with Lego enthusiasts and Funko Pop collectors as well. The Lego Star Wars set The Phantom || from 2017 had two exclusive minifigures and after it got discontinued in December that same year. The prices have skyrocketed because the exclusive figs are Blind Kanan Jarrus and Admiral Thrawn. This one RUclipsr even has at least 20 copies of those sets. Like come on you don't need that much of one set. Resellers are selling the set for $ 300 at least just new. It's completely ridiculous. Even the 2017 set Darth Vader's transformation is being resold online for at least $ 80 dollars and none of the figures are exclusive anymore. The same goes with multiple Lego sets. I went to this Funko store and they didn't have any Eddie Munson Pops scalpers we're taking them all to resell for outrageous prices. They even tried to sell a T Rex deluxe Pop from JW FK for 100 when it was repackaged for JW Dominion by Funko for at least $30.
I cringed so hard when there was like 10 carnatasourus, but u got to understand. These toys are rare and they stop making them. And it’s going to be hard to find them on eBay of good deals.
I was just in Walmart the other day and they had 5 of the new MOTU Origins Skeletor, one of which I bought. I went in the next day to see if they got any of He-Man himself out on the shelves... only to find that not only was He-Man nowhere to be found, but the other 4 Skeletors (as well as 4 Battle Cats) were gone.
Thank you dude for making this video. I just recently started collecting figures again and I can't tell you how many times I can't get the stuff I want because of those types of assholes.
the sad truth, in my theory, Hoarders might also sell the copies of these toys in a expensive/excessive price to be able to pay expensive and rares figures....
This hurts to say, but... The only thing worse than a person who scalps (buys up and then sells) are those who hoard and keep. At LEAST those copies are going to other people in the end.
I do crack myself up when I realise I have have shit loads of toys in boxes that I've bought that I've not got on display. I considered that hoarding. Which is nuts. I have a friend who loved Hot Toys and stuff like that and he hadn't got the room to display them. I did say 'why not sell some?' He decided to sell all the stuff and he actually did. He then decided to sell all his NECA stuff pretty much and now has his remaining NECA stuff is on display and has his Hot Toys stuff which is on really good display and everyone is like WOW when they see them. PS loving the Flynn's Arcade :)
Honestly,this is a massive problem I had when it came to buying things online,I would say to my parents and ask them if I could get something for my birthday for example,and the next day there all gone so it really annoyed me when a present was ruined due to hoarders
This is the reason why there are no more Hammond Collection Baryonx, Parasaurolophus , Gallimimus, T rexes, Raptors, and even the Alan Grant & Ian Malcolm figures at my local target store. When they had the first wave of HC figures on sale all the velociraptors were gone , only two Ian Malcolm figures two Paras & one Baryonx. The dinos were also on sale so someone must have bought multiple of them.
Matthew Brando I agree with you people stop hoarding I really want a keener Jurassic park toy just one or a couple different ones I not hoard though and I want some keener Jurassic park toys because that was way before my time SO PEOPLE STOP HOARDING SO SOMEONE ELSE CAN HAVE IT LIKE A LITTLE KID WHO HAS BEEN WANTING IT FOR MONTHS LIKE MY LITTLE COUSIN AND ITS JUST NOT COOL YOU DONT NEED LIKE 12 OF SOMETHING YOU JUST NEED 1 OR 2 OF THE TOY ANYONE WHO HOARDS MARK MY WORDS LISTEN TO ME BE A GOOD PERSON
Hoarding is REAL. Some collector buys up stocks and re-sells on increased price due to high demand - low meet. Yes. They only buy up to make you unable to buy elswhere but from them. Seriously greedy. :|
What the people who do this crap don't realize is that the toy company's have to put out a lot more figures so they make worse stuff in order to mass produce it cheaper and faster.That's part of the reason the Jurassic World Hasbro line was so bad,you had these jerks buying 20 mosasaurs and then Hasbro felt no need to fix the quality on the next set of figures. So for like 3 years the Jurassic line was just horrible and the ones that where half descent you couldn't get in the stores.I have no problem with if you get maybe 2 and sit on one for a couple of years to see if it picks up value but when someone go buy 7 Han Solo's and sell them on for triple then the next line of Star Wars toys suck I just fell like some guy I don't even know is profiting of everyone else getting screwed over.
I got my carno at the Warwick Rhode Island toysrus when it came out years ago. It wasn't hard to find when it was released (the series 2 saber toothed cat thing, the green snake like dinosaur, the big red/yellow/grey flying dinosaur, and the evil hunters were much harder to come across during that time). But as time passed, yes, it has become rarer and sought after.
It really pisses me off tbh. As a JP fan, it’s kind of hard to get the Kenner JP figures because it’s hard to find a decent priced one. Especially since they’re some figures that are hard to find, and when I see those photos you put on screen, I was just like, “Wow… what can I do for you to give me at least one of them.” Like seriously? There was someone I followed on Instagram and he bought 6 of the JP legacy Ford Explorer’s and I spoke my mind about it. Again like Matthew Brando said. Although it’s fine to buy as much of the same figure you want. Your still being a dick to the other collectors. It really sickens me, and it makes collecting these figures hard and really frustrating. Like I have to be careful because if anything happens to my Kenner figures, it’s going to be one pain in the ass to find a decent one online. Moral of the story is, to not buy the same figure over and over and over again. And to think whether you want to get the figure or not. I’m thinking about selling some of my Mattel JP figures because I just regret getting them tbh. I’ll only keep the ones I really like, like the original Herrarasaurus.
I went to target to buy the giganotosarus for clearance for 30 bucks, some guy was taking 40 gigas just to re sell, he asked for mine and I told him no wtf, he got mad that I didn’t give him my toy, if the item wasn’t on clearance I would have never been able to get it
2:21 you were upset this guy has 3, but you just gonna ignore the most likely reason why he owns 3 is to have this little diorama shot. Kinda seems petty shit to be upset about at the time.
I dunno, I feel like theres a distinction to be made between valid troop building and hoarding or scalping. Like, the guy with 3 Weyland-Yutani Mercs seems more like valid troop building, they even had set up a posed photo like they captured a Predator. That's different from like, a guy who has 5 of the same figure all perfectly sealed in box or the guy who clears out a store's inventory of a hot figure to resell them. I have no problem with multi-dipping on the same figure if you're troop building or showing off a Transformer or something in multiple modes.
Is it wrong if I buy 5 Titans return gnaws (sharkticons) because no one has bought them in a month? Hoarding can be vary annoying, but if no one buys them, is it really bad in that scenario?
If someone buys 20 storm troopers or 15 aim solider figures to make an army display than I don't mind but if they buy 15 Spider-Man figures than I'll be pissed
it must really suck for you guys, where I live no one collects toys so pretty much stuff you would consider rare I guess, would be in large stock going for clearance.
Seeing these photos just makes me to want to go Rob those people's houses. I don't own any original Jurassic Park toys and there are people with scores of them. I wonder, if I took a Red Rex or a Dilophosaurus, would they even notice?
Would army building count as hoarding? I haven't started army building any figures yet, but if I do, it'll only be 2 or 3 per variant(3 if it's the only version of that soldier or something, 2 if there are other variants to collect). I wouldn't go overboard, but I see no problem in doing a little bit of army building.
There’s a difference between army building which consists of 5 to 10 at least most and then hoarding which is 20+ I realize this is a big deal especially in the G.I. Joe category where everybody’s building old figures and eventually becomes hoarding when they got 500 of them raising the price of one to almost $100
Yes! The only time I ever buy more than one of the same figure is if it makes sense because there was more than one in the movie/ game etc..like alien warriors, raptors, zombies, etc...or if I want one as-is, and another one for a custom paint project. But there is a difference between having a few for variants & army building, and buying out an unreasonable amount of them just for the sake of it. Hoarders and scalpers are not true collectors imo....they are toxic to the collecting market by creating artificial rarity and forcing people to buy out toys for outlandish prices
Do you know that guy that's in your thumbnail, he actually bought those from release. His dad in '93, '97, 2001, sneaks out for his future collection. The guy that has the toys is selling them. Already.
The one that pisses me off the most is the people hording and/or scalping Transformers figures. I went to my local WallyWorld a few weeks ago and to my surprise found they had put out a single box of the wave one Titans Return figures. Now I just want a set, just the 4 original Autobot Headmasters, and the 3 Decepticon beast headmasters. I found Hardhead and since I had been pretty good money wise I snagged him, figuring when I came back if they had a Skullcrusher I would snag him. I'm on the next isle looking to see if there's any Batmobiles hidden in the Hot Wheels (Still missing the BvS version) I hear a massive crash from the TF section, when I come around the corner there's a dude there with a cart and he just puts his hand at the back of the peg and sweeps everything off into his cart. Clears the entire section in one or two hand movements. He sees me, and the figure in my hand, starts to ask if I really want to buy it and when I pull it behind me and say yeah (Like at this point I feel like im protecting a child from this guy) he just give me a dirty look and storms off. Not before calling me an asshole a little louder then I think he intended. Don't even get me started about how I got banned from a TRU for getting into an argument with a shit head when he took a He-Man/DC set out of a kids hands and tried to run off with it.
I hate hording as well. I agree with army building, infact I would if I could afford it. BUT KNOWONE NEEDS 8 ALIEN 3 CASES! THAT IS INSANE! It had gotten to the point when black panther was 47 dollars.
Funko is terrible for this type of thing, pop figures in particular, people always snag up these figures because they just think they'll be worth something or to re-sell the item second hand for double the price and think of others who may want that exact figure that you bought just to take advantage of it who want it to complete a set they like or just like the figure in general
I honestly don't understand toy hoarding in this scale either. I'm an un-carded NECA and vintage Kenner collector. I only collect toys from my favourite childhood movies and a few random sci-fi/horror figures. I require one example of each iconic character, creature and/or vehicle as seen in the movie. For instance my un-carded Kenner JP collection consists of all five humans, series 2 Ian Malcolm, screaming Velociraptor, T-rex & Jungle explorer (ICONIC.... see). I don't buy Kenner repaints and only buy NECA costume change figures if they feature (once again) "iconically" in the movie. For example my Neca Alien (1979) collection consists of Ripley, Space suit Ripley and Big chap. I'm not interested in Dallas or Kane, for me Ripley and the Alien are the movie's visual cue/representation in my display. To collect more than one of each figure (bar maybe carded and un-carded versions) is extremely costly and takes up a large amount of space. I narrow down my collection to those items I consider to be major scene specific and important. :)
The one reason why that the Commandos are selling out is because people like to army build them, you don't see people buying the Ripley's and Dog Aliens in droves. Plus you have the water marks/ stickers to customize up to 4 of them.
WhyInfinityWardWhy not just that, their QC is ass. Figure looks great in package. Once you take it out, it's like Arnold in the bootleg factory in "Jingle All The Way". I've spent over a grand on Neca and the figures are not worth it. Stay tuned...
+Matthew Brando lol....don't spend a grand on them and buy more man. It gives them more a reason to give shoddy products. yeah they look nice...but no matter how much I love the license a shitty figure is a shitty figure. Sure they look better than what Mattel/Hasbro puts out....then comes time to actually getting them in a pose and it's all down hill there. AT LEAST Arnie figured out the jet pack thing though lol
Those photos make me cringe so hard. I can see why someone would maybe want four or something Velociraptors to make a pack, but THAT many is excessive. I only buy two of a figure tops, there really is no reason to have more than two.
I agree about the hoarding. I can see having 2,3 maybe 5 if you are someone into ACBA and enjoy making scenes with your figures but to have as many dinos as some of those pics show is ridiculous. Having 10-20+ lined up in a row on your shelf? Looks pretty boring to me. Sometimes if I get multiples its a while later after they more or less pegwarm.
I like to buy multiple Stormtroopers but I don't ever buy more than one at time. If there's two on a shelf, I leave one and take one. I think it's the fairest way to do it, but I have seen people ordering like 5 or 6 in one hit which is just kind of dickish.
I get where you're coming with this, but they're plenty of other websites. I'm personally not a fan of army building but there's other places that have the whole wave
I usually buy 2 of something I really really love, like I have 2 red rexes and 2 thrashers. Mostly I do it for comparison sake, but having more than like 5 of something seems pointless. I think the most I've ever owned of one toy is 4, and that's because I was purchasing for others. I'm really glad I'm bying rebor at the moment, no shortage of those dino gems :) only thing is they are pretty pricey.
Yeah I hate hoarding I only ever usually get one toy per species unless it’s a pack animal but that guy had a bunch of rexes at most you should have two as a mated pair but over that is plain dumb
Here's my opinion, I think Scalpers is pretty hurtful to our collecting Hobby, but then the flip-side is so many figures can be peg warmers too, so perhaps buying two or three of a figure will help push more figures out because of profits and sales, but yeah I think buying 20 or 30 of a figure is silly.
"God, family, friends, and then toys." Me too, fam.
God creates man
Man creates toys
Toys destroy man
Heck yeah man lol God comes first right when i wake up then my lovely family and then toys and everything else.
Same order for me! God bless you always ✝️
my Disney Store has a "limited one per customer" sign. However, I will never forget the day when I walked in and there was a guy buying the last 4 Elite Series Boba Fetts and I wanted one so he gave one to me. I realise that doesn't happen often, but nice guy for doing it.
lucky
I love boba fett
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I'll be honest this pisses me off too. Especially when I see Jurassic Park Hoarding.
Chief Brody, I got the Bloody Quint/Shark combo! Hope to get a review done in the future! Don't know what I'll do for a skit, tho...
there is army building and there is hording, and those photos were pure hoarding to be fair I can kinda see why he would have so many Gallimimus because there was a big heard of them in the movie that's army building, but still it is a bit extreme to have so many duplicates.
I watched a man walk out a toy store with 14 or so Marvel Legends Sentry's, so I was like 3 inches away from the Sentry's and I was going to get one but then he just budged in front of me and took all of them and I went and said "hey just leave like three at least for me and maybe some kids who want him" and he gave me a death glare as he walked away to the counter...I was scared
Oisin O'Hanlon yup
Tranquility Danktrility Woah, that sucks. :(
Tranquility Danktrility i would have beat his ass
Tranquility Danktrility U should have punched him
Tranquility Danktrility hmmmmmmmm I would take one right out of his hand and buy it ASAP and run
In my opinion, that dinosaur collection doesn't even look impressive anymore! With that many, you can't appreciate the individual pieces. It's too much to take in & just starts to look like a huge amount of crap 😕
who is the guy tht hoarded all of these kenner jp toys?
Those people are the reason target no longer sells legacy spino
I will confess I hoard toys....but I don't go out of my way to own 10 demon Carnos ...or 15 Jungle Explorers. 1 or 2 of a figure is like my max if I come into procession of more I'll sell some off.
Well for you it's different, you do reviews others just take them all for no reason besides having a room full of toys. They're taking away from others who just want one.
I agree. I'd want 2 jungle explorers cause theyre in the film. more than 3 of anything and it's getting out of hand.
Matthew Brando EXACTLY!!
Haha and i thought i was obsessed with collecting Jurassic Park, recently i sold my second carno demon. And i want to sell more i still have heards...I had an obsession i guess. So how is you're jp hunt going?
Agreed i sometimes sold jp items for less just because to make someone happy. Some toy's are hard to find.
So this is why Jurassic Park toys are rare…
hoarding and scalping BOTH are irritating
I just like collecting one of each because why in the world would you want 20 of each
I agree with you.
I just started a vintage G.I.Joe collection, and some loose figures can go for as much as $50 each on Ebay, and there'd only be a couple of listings. Buying even one of each figure would be very expensive.
Then I saw a youtube video of a guy's collection with about twenty of each figure, and I thought; "That's why they're so rare and expensive!"
There'd be plenty for everyone if it wasn't for the hoarders.
I get aggravated so much when I see something I struggle to find yet someone has hundreds of, like, come on!
Also the "God, family, friends, then toys" line. Same here on that one.
Seriously I agree with you, this man.. collector/hoarder was in smyths.
I was going to get a JWFK toy and this guy was there. I'm a kid, so I went beside him and looked at the toys, not necessarily the one I wanted to look at, but I did. So I waited for him to move, and once he did he walked away with like half of the shelf. He had left a few of the small dinosaurs, matchbox cars and an allosaurus I think?
I kinda just looked at my parents, and then walked out of that store with nothing because this dude took all of the KIDS TOYS away from KIDS
Let me tell you he took all of the legacy collection that was there. He must of been some hoarder .. but I'm going again on Friday to pick something up XD
Wow, what a dick... I'm so glad I bought that Legacy Collection T-Rex when I had the chance. I really hope you found something too.
I know I was going to get the spino I was so excited I stayed up ALL NIGHT thinking ooh I'll do this with the toy going in this guy walks out with like three and my day was ruined but at least I got it anyways so can't be that sad
Bro if I was your parent I legit would have asked the dude why he needed to clear the shelves in one go and state that you were patiently waiting to get one of the Legacy Collection toys. I would have been soooo angry if I was a kid and that happened. XD Good thing Target is getting their act together cause apparently they are restocking the Spinosaurus which was once discontinued.
I don't really have a problem with wanting multiple figures, my problem comes in when the scalpers buy 5-10 of one rare figure and sell it on Ebay for double what they bought it for.
omg what's the point of having sooo many figures!? It's ridiculous
If I ever had a duplicate of a toy, it would be one to keep in the package and the other to open and play/display at a different angle. I'm a die-hard Jurassic Park fan, but I'd never buy that many Raptors. I don't need that many. Even people who make JP dioramas and JP toy films don't use that many. Seriously, 4 Carnotaurs?!?! It's hard enough to find just one, even loose! That's why the prices on toys go up; because there aren't many left because of the occasional hoarder/scalper. I know it's their money and they can spend it however they want, but still... It's not fair to those who couldn't find a toy.
Jeremy James Prutchick same here. 2 tops. One to display in package and one to pose out of package.
Finally we have a voice, I see people post pictures of them owning thousands of the same toy. I know that they can buy what ever they want, but do they really need 50 of the same toys, what is the point of buying the same things over, and over, and over again?
army building. Which makes sense in a certain regard, when it comes to things like Clone/Stormtroopers, Cobra troopers, grunts. Especially collectors like me who likes to have dioramic/scene based displays. However there is a level were it gets absurd. I would like to have a small squad of 501st troopers....but when prices become ridiculous one is fine, but then the display feels gimped since I like creating scene rather than stock posing collecting dust. Then the issue comes with is that some collector's has insane armies built up that makes even a small squad hard to afford due to second hand prices.
I don't really collect figures since there isn't one that is a must have, but why buy millions of the same figure, when you don't have real use for them? The Jurassic Park collection is like grands of money down the drain, that is an expensive price just to look at the toys poseing.... very worth it.
I experience this problem as a fan of the current TMNT figure line. Anytime I go to the Turtles section there is like two figures from a couple years ago and the new stuff is all taken. I once saw a 50 year old guy with 7 new Bebob figures. I was pissed.
I don't even have a red Rex but he has like 10!
This happens in the plush collecting community. There is a plush husky that is very popular and has been discontinued. There are people who have like 12 of them and every time they come up on eBay for very overinflated prices, these guys grab them up. It is very irritating.
Its so saddening to see this as someone who just got into collecting. I saw that one guy had like 50 of the JPDinosaurs Dimetrodon repaint, my FAVORITE repaint. That thing is IMPOSSIBLE to find on eBay and when I do, its well over $50. What the hell man. I expect retro toys to be more expensive than their retail prices but the real reason they are so expensive is because of people like these.
There's this guy who has like, 5 or 6 Red-Rex's. Great video Matt!
With the WeyYu commandos it makes sense for people who want to set up dioramas and scenes from the movies. That’s why people army build with xenomorphs. But to have four demon carnos is just ridiculous. That’s like having 18 Rexys and 62 Blues.
I'm officially subscribing to this channel because your one of the few and I mean FEW fans that truly understand the struggle of having to look at these other collector people literally hoarding a whole basement or garage of literally 14 or more of the same figure, it sucks people buy these things in lots wether it's jurassic or starwars or old school kenner whatever it may be it's insane and I've seen other RUclips's not going to say who because I'm nice like that but they show these massive toy collections in their back grounds for their videos and sure goodie for them but what they don't realize is that's a solid middle finger to the people who care about that sorta thing like "oh you don't have this one? Gee sorry about it" and yet they show theirs off, now don't get me wrong I totally get being proud of something but like you explained in the video it's unfair to other collectors around the world depending on which country you live in and what you have access to ETC. This goes to something even more important it's like the people who rub it in other fans faces when they met actors or played co -op with well known RUclips's in video games same narrative that "I'm a bigger fan than you" attitude if we avoid being jocks and go the nerd route competition is still a thing but not necessarily because TO EACH IS OWN thank God people of all ages understand that phrase...i apologize to whoever made it to the end of this comment I'm sorry it was long but it was an issue all fans needed to be addressed and thank you Matthew Brandi for making this video that covers this activation us collectors go through
this is very true. I see nothing jurassic world related anywhere, not that I wanted any. those scalpers and hoarders are dicks. also I really enjoy the sympathy u have that maybe a kid would want that one figure on the shelf.
The closest thing to hoarding I've ever done is army building, but I only do it when the character is an army (ex. Stormtrooper) and only an army. I don't collect more of a single character unless it's from a different line (ex. Hasbro and Bandai). Even when I build an army, I tend to max it at 4 figures only to save money and space.
I already have a hard time collecting (little money available, high school, music lessons) but now there people like those in the pictures buying up everything and scalloping others that I have to deal with!
Only hoarding people disliked this video
I hate scalpers because I was just about to buy my first Jurassic park toy and there was 5 left in a hour when I was going to buy it they where all gone it sucked
This also happens with Lego enthusiasts and Funko Pop collectors as well. The Lego Star Wars set The Phantom || from 2017 had two exclusive minifigures and after it got discontinued in December that same year. The prices have skyrocketed because the exclusive figs are Blind Kanan Jarrus and Admiral Thrawn. This one RUclipsr even has at least 20 copies of those sets. Like come on you don't need that much of one set. Resellers are selling the set for $ 300 at least just new. It's completely ridiculous. Even the 2017 set Darth Vader's transformation is being resold online for at least $ 80 dollars and none of the figures are exclusive anymore. The same goes with multiple Lego sets.
I went to this Funko store and they didn't have any Eddie Munson Pops scalpers we're taking them all to resell for outrageous prices. They even tried to sell a T Rex deluxe Pop from JW FK for 100 when it was repackaged for JW Dominion by Funko for at least $30.
I cringed so hard when there was like 10 carnatasourus, but u got to understand. These toys are rare and they stop making them. And it’s going to be hard to find them on eBay of good deals.
Amen to this. I'm convinced I'll never see the Marvel Legends Black Panther in person.
I was just in Walmart the other day and they had 5 of the new MOTU Origins Skeletor, one of which I bought. I went in the next day to see if they got any of He-Man himself out on the shelves... only to find that not only was He-Man nowhere to be found, but the other 4 Skeletors (as well as 4 Battle Cats) were gone.
Thank you dude for making this video. I just recently started collecting figures again and I can't tell you how many times I can't get the stuff I want because of those types of assholes.
When I saw the intro I was like
Ooooh boy
It's bout to go down
He's bout to lay INTO these fools
I love rant videos
And this is a good one Matt
the sad truth, in my theory, Hoarders might also sell the copies of these toys in a expensive/excessive price to be able to pay expensive and rares figures....
See that’s when you can tell they’re truly smoking some shit when they do that.
Man this is honestly how i felt how people were treating the Godzilla vs Kong toys even when they had battle damage.
This hurts to say, but... The only thing worse than a person who scalps (buys up and then sells) are those who hoard and keep. At LEAST those copies are going to other people in the end.
That guy with the Jurassic Park toys could be so rich!
I do crack myself up when I realise I have have shit loads of toys in boxes that I've bought that I've not got on display.
I considered that hoarding. Which is nuts. I have a friend who loved Hot Toys and stuff like that and he hadn't got the room to display them. I did say 'why not sell some?' He decided to sell all the stuff and he actually did.
He then decided to sell all his NECA stuff pretty much and now has his remaining NECA stuff is on display and has his Hot Toys stuff which is on really good display and everyone is like WOW when they see them.
PS loving the Flynn's Arcade :)
This is exactly how I feel about funko pop collecting
i only have 1 of each favorite characters, no more than that. 😎👍
This is why we have sales limits where stores limit how many of 1 item a person can buy.
Honestly,this is a massive problem I had when it came to buying things online,I would say to my parents and ask them if I could get something for my birthday for example,and the next day there all gone so it really annoyed me when a present was ruined due to hoarders
This is the reason why there are no more Hammond Collection Baryonx, Parasaurolophus , Gallimimus, T rexes, Raptors, and even the Alan Grant & Ian Malcolm figures at my local target store. When they had the first wave of HC figures on sale all the velociraptors were gone , only two Ian Malcolm figures two Paras & one Baryonx. The dinos were also on sale so someone must have bought multiple of them.
Matthew Brando I agree with you people stop hoarding I really want a keener Jurassic park toy just one or a couple different ones I not hoard though and I want some keener Jurassic park toys because that was way before my time SO PEOPLE STOP HOARDING SO SOMEONE ELSE CAN HAVE IT LIKE A LITTLE KID WHO HAS BEEN WANTING IT FOR MONTHS LIKE MY LITTLE COUSIN AND ITS JUST NOT COOL YOU DONT NEED LIKE 12 OF SOMETHING YOU JUST NEED 1 OR 2 OF THE TOY ANYONE WHO HOARDS MARK MY WORDS LISTEN TO ME BE A GOOD PERSON
Hoarding is REAL. Some collector buys up stocks and re-sells on increased price due to high demand - low meet. Yes. They only buy up to make you unable to buy elswhere but from them. Seriously greedy. :|
Because of that, I gave up on the Star Wars Black Series figures...
I thought I had no life but after seeing all those JP figures... WOW
What the people who do this crap don't realize is that the toy company's have to put out a lot more figures so they make worse stuff in order to mass produce it cheaper and faster.That's part of the reason the Jurassic World Hasbro line was so bad,you had these jerks buying 20 mosasaurs and then Hasbro felt no need to fix the quality on the next set of figures. So for like 3 years the Jurassic line was just horrible and the ones that where half descent you couldn't get in the stores.I have no problem with if you get maybe 2 and sit on one for a couple of years to see if it picks up value but when someone go buy 7 Han Solo's and sell them on for triple then the next line of Star Wars toys suck I just fell like some guy I don't even know is profiting of everyone else getting screwed over.
i wonder how that guy got 4 Carnos when it's like the most rarest and expensive Jurassic park toy in the line
I got my carno at the Warwick Rhode Island toysrus when it came out years ago. It wasn't hard to find when it was released (the series 2 saber toothed cat thing, the green snake like dinosaur, the big red/yellow/grey flying dinosaur, and the evil hunters were much harder to come across during that time). But as time passed, yes, it has become rarer and sought after.
just buy the fallenkingdom one its more better
It really pisses me off tbh. As a JP fan, it’s kind of hard to get the Kenner JP figures because it’s hard to find a decent priced one. Especially since they’re some figures that are hard to find, and when I see those photos you put on screen, I was just like, “Wow… what can I do for you to give me at least one of them.” Like seriously? There was someone I followed on Instagram and he bought 6 of the JP legacy Ford Explorer’s and I spoke my mind about it. Again like Matthew Brando said. Although it’s fine to buy as much of the same figure you want. Your still being a dick to the other collectors. It really sickens me, and it makes collecting these figures hard and really frustrating. Like I have to be careful because if anything happens to my Kenner figures, it’s going to be one pain in the ass to find a decent one online.
Moral of the story is, to not buy the same figure over and over and over again. And to think whether you want to get the figure or not. I’m thinking about selling some of my Mattel JP figures because I just regret getting them tbh. I’ll only keep the ones I really like, like the original Herrarasaurus.
Scauplers have a better life than hoarders. 😂
I went to target to buy the giganotosarus for clearance for 30 bucks, some guy was taking 40 gigas just to re sell, he asked for mine and I told him no wtf, he got mad that I didn’t give him my toy, if the item wasn’t on clearance I would have never been able to get it
that's ridic. the SC Giga?
2:21 you were upset this guy has 3, but you just gonna ignore the most likely reason why he owns 3 is to have this little diorama shot. Kinda seems petty shit to be upset about at the time.
I reckon that if the person bought so much of the Jurassic Park toys but the person who owned them would just want the money so he wouldn’t care
I dunno, I feel like theres a distinction to be made between valid troop building and hoarding or scalping. Like, the guy with 3 Weyland-Yutani Mercs seems more like valid troop building, they even had set up a posed photo like they captured a Predator. That's different from like, a guy who has 5 of the same figure all perfectly sealed in box or the guy who clears out a store's inventory of a hot figure to resell them. I have no problem with multi-dipping on the same figure if you're troop building or showing off a Transformer or something in multiple modes.
and i thought i had a collecting problem.
+Matthew Brando WE NEED MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU DAMMIT.
Is it wrong if I buy 5 Titans return gnaws (sharkticons) because no one has bought them in a month?
Hoarding can be vary annoying, but if no one buys them, is it really bad in that scenario?
Hmmm… I think it’s best to buy 1-2. One in the box and one out of the box. Or just get one.
If someone buys 20 storm troopers or 15 aim solider figures to make an army display than I don't mind but if they buy 15 Spider-Man figures than I'll be pissed
it must really suck for you guys, where I live no one collects toys so pretty much stuff you would consider rare I guess, would be in large stock going for clearance.
JPOG7 TV Me too, I live in MX
JPOG7 TV
I bet if someone bought a crap tone of toys no one would give a damn
I can understand the love for Alien 3, While I am kinda meh about it I can see the appeal.
Good thing hoarding is pointless to me,because you lose space so much you can’t put other stuff on it
I usually just have one in box and one for play. Every other one I see gets left behind for someone else.
Seeing these photos just makes me to want to go Rob those people's houses. I don't own any original Jurassic Park toys and there are people with scores of them. I wonder, if I took a Red Rex or a Dilophosaurus, would they even notice?
Christopher Grant Me Too but I'll just leave one of the each toy he has and put a sign on his door saying
"Open The Door for a Surprise ;)"
Totally agree, i can't find the dino hybrid velociraptor anywhere!! It's ridiculous.
Would army building count as hoarding? I haven't started army building any figures yet, but if I do, it'll only be 2 or 3 per variant(3 if it's the only version of that soldier or something, 2 if there are other variants to collect). I wouldn't go overboard, but I see no problem in doing a little bit of army building.
My thoughts exactly. More power to you, man!!! =)
There’s a difference between army building which consists of 5 to 10 at least most and then hoarding which is 20+ I realize this is a big deal especially in the G.I. Joe category where everybody’s building old figures and eventually becomes hoarding when they got 500 of them raising the price of one to almost $100
Yeah sure these people can buy 12+ of one figure but that doesn't mean they should.
Yes! The only time I ever buy more than one of the same figure is if it makes sense because there was more than one in the movie/ game etc..like alien warriors, raptors, zombies, etc...or if I want one as-is, and another one for a custom paint project. But there is a difference between having a few for variants & army building, and buying out an unreasonable amount of them just for the sake of it. Hoarders and scalpers are not true collectors imo....they are toxic to the collecting market by creating artificial rarity and forcing people to buy out toys for outlandish prices
Do you know that guy that's in your thumbnail, he actually bought those from release. His dad in '93, '97, 2001, sneaks out for his future collection. The guy that has the toys is selling them. Already.
I think i still have that raptor from 2:40 and an ian malcom figurine with hangglider stashed away in the attic. Seeing this brings back memories.
Funny thing in New Zealand, we have tons of Jango Fett toys. Like i saw 10 of them last week.
The one that pisses me off the most is the people hording and/or scalping Transformers figures. I went to my local WallyWorld a few weeks ago and to my surprise found they had put out a single box of the wave one Titans Return figures. Now I just want a set, just the 4 original Autobot Headmasters, and the 3 Decepticon beast headmasters. I found Hardhead and since I had been pretty good money wise I snagged him, figuring when I came back if they had a Skullcrusher I would snag him. I'm on the next isle looking to see if there's any Batmobiles hidden in the Hot Wheels (Still missing the BvS version) I hear a massive crash from the TF section, when I come around the corner there's a dude there with a cart and he just puts his hand at the back of the peg and sweeps everything off into his cart. Clears the entire section in one or two hand movements. He sees me, and the figure in my hand, starts to ask if I really want to buy it and when I pull it behind me and say yeah (Like at this point I feel like im protecting a child from this guy) he just give me a dirty look and storms off. Not before calling me an asshole a little louder then I think he intended.
Don't even get me started about how I got banned from a TRU for getting into an argument with a shit head when he took a He-Man/DC set out of a kids hands and tried to run off with it.
Aahz321 Man People Like That are The WORST
I totally agree collect 1 or 2 but going beyond is disgust
I hate hording as well. I agree with army building, infact I would if I could afford it. BUT KNOWONE NEEDS 8 ALIEN 3 CASES! THAT IS INSANE! It had gotten to the point when black panther was 47 dollars.
Funko is terrible for this type of thing, pop figures in particular, people always snag up these figures because they just think they'll be worth something or to re-sell the item second hand for double the price and think of others who may want that exact figure that you bought just to take advantage of it who want it to complete a set they like or just like the figure in general
I only need about 4 raptors but that raptor collection was insane
I honestly don't understand toy hoarding in this scale either. I'm an un-carded NECA and vintage Kenner collector. I only collect toys from my favourite childhood movies and a few random sci-fi/horror figures. I require one example of each iconic character, creature and/or vehicle as seen in the movie. For instance my un-carded Kenner JP collection consists of all five humans, series 2 Ian Malcolm, screaming Velociraptor, T-rex & Jungle explorer (ICONIC.... see). I don't buy Kenner repaints and only buy NECA costume change figures if they feature (once again) "iconically" in the movie. For example my Neca Alien (1979) collection consists of Ripley, Space suit Ripley and Big chap. I'm not interested in Dallas or Kane, for me Ripley and the Alien are the movie's visual cue/representation in my display. To collect more than one of each figure (bar maybe carded and un-carded versions) is extremely costly and takes up a large amount of space. I narrow down my collection to those items I consider to be major scene specific and important. :)
The one reason why that the Commandos are selling out is because people like to army build them, you don't see people buying the Ripley's and Dog Aliens in droves. Plus you have the water marks/ stickers to customize up to 4 of them.
Neca rant video coming soon..
+Matthew Brando Over Randy saying the movie was unforgivable?
WhyInfinityWardWhy not just that, their QC is ass. Figure looks great in package. Once you take it out, it's like Arnold in the bootleg factory in "Jingle All The Way". I've spent over a grand on Neca and the figures are not worth it. Stay tuned...
+Matthew Brando lol....don't spend a grand on them and buy more man. It gives them more a reason to give shoddy products. yeah they look nice...but no matter how much I love the license a shitty figure is a shitty figure. Sure they look better than what Mattel/Hasbro puts out....then comes time to actually getting them in a pose and it's all down hill there. AT LEAST Arnie figured out the jet pack thing though lol
I used to be a bit of a Hoarder but now i'm not since i am going to sell some of my stuff in my bedroom by taking them to the SPCA OP Shop
FAVORITED!!!!
Is hoarding having 1 of each thing by one company like plushies
AidTL Hoarding is having 10 of the same figures
Those photos make me cringe so hard. I can see why someone would maybe want four or something Velociraptors to make a pack, but THAT many is excessive. I only buy two of a figure tops, there really is no reason to have more than two.
I bearly got a series one raptor for 5$. I can't even imagine how much people have to do to get one. let alone 20!
I agree about the hoarding. I can see having 2,3 maybe 5 if you are someone into ACBA and enjoy making scenes with your figures but to have as many dinos as some of those pics show is ridiculous. Having 10-20+ lined up in a row on your shelf? Looks pretty boring to me. Sometimes if I get multiples its a while later after they more or less pegwarm.
The maximum amount of Jurassic park dinosaurs is about 6 (Except for all the big dinosaurs the maximum amount of those is 2-3)
That Jurassic Park collection though.............
the people who hord duplicates is the reason why there rare and nobody can find them
I like to buy multiple Stormtroopers but I don't ever buy more than one at time. If there's two on a shelf, I leave one and take one. I think it's the fairest way to do it, but I have seen people ordering like 5 or 6 in one hit which is just kind of dickish.
I get where you're coming with this, but they're plenty of other websites. I'm personally not a fan of army building but there's other places that have the whole wave
I usually buy 2 of something I really really love, like I have 2 red rexes and 2 thrashers. Mostly I do it for comparison sake, but having more than like 5 of something seems pointless. I think the most I've ever owned of one toy is 4, and that's because I was purchasing for others. I'm really glad I'm bying rebor at the moment, no shortage of those dino gems :) only thing is they are pretty pricey.
Yeah I hate hoarding I only ever usually get one toy per species unless it’s a pack animal but that guy had a bunch of rexes at most you should have two as a mated pair but over that is plain dumb
Here's my opinion, I think Scalpers is pretty hurtful to our collecting Hobby, but then the flip-side is so many figures can be peg warmers too, so perhaps buying two or three of a figure will help push more figures out because of profits and sales, but yeah I think buying 20 or 30 of a figure is silly.
Ive never bought duplicates before, never seen a figure that was worth buying twice XD.