Are there certain figures or whole toylines that you are shocked are as rare as they are?

What made me start to think about this was looking into a line of Rodeo 3 3/4 figures I got in the mid 2000s. So I went on Ebay and found literally 3 of the figures....3. Not that the line was huge or all that prevalent...but I was just shocked that in all of ebay...only three were found (1 bought one).

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Any recent Star Wars Vintage Collection stuff.

I have seen two Hondo Ohnoko figures (Clone Wars) this year. Bought them both.

Spectre picked up a Gina Carano one for me.

Other than that, maybe I have seen three others all year long.

Nothing else.

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The Fearless Forces/Bravo Team figures that were at Target not that many years ago. My wife bought me a few one year for Christmas. I looked them over and the sculpts were pretty decent for a "discount" line but the paint applications were lacking. I decided to track them all down and give them proper paint jobs that would enhance the scultpts (a project I still haven't started on). I found there were more than just the single packs and few vehicles out there. There were some multi-packs as well that were pretty hard to find even when the line was still on pegs. I managed to get one each of the 2 multipacks and I think all but one of the vehicles. But I still have a few I haven't been able to find. Ebay has some but they are the most common figures from the line. The ones I need I haven't seen listed at all. But yeah that's one that has surprised me how rare it is given the price point and how it was packaged on different cards/lines.

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Hap-P-Kid (Happy Kid Toys) M.A.R.S. Alien sculpt.

Not only do they not come up often on Ebay but when they do they usually have been extremely over priced. They are almost mythological with regard to sightings in the wild. It's even more rare to come across a North American listing for the vehicles from this line (yes...it actually had vehicles). Considering they seem to have been released multiple times over the last decade (?), at easily accessible discount stores like Family Dollar no less, I'm surprised.

The robots / mechs / armored humans you can find in various packing but the Aliens , their variants and the vehicles from the line?

Good luck.

Star Wars stuff isn't so much truly rare as it's stuck in limbo with bits trickled out.
I've all but given up collecting TVC for that reason.

Sometimes I look for Power Team Elite stuff on ebay and there's not as much as I think there would be.

Some of that PTE stuff is showing up on Amazon under the Click 'N' Play name.

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Anyone remember the G-Force movie by Disney from 2009? The one with the Guinea Pigs? There was a training lab playset that was made for the film and that set seems impossible to find.

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not exactly this topic, but i was thinking the other night how crazy that there are no vin diesel 4" figures. i couldn't think of any i have seen and went to ebay. the movie i was watching "bloodshot" had a 7" figure, and there was some larger scale pitch black figures. besides those i only saw custom 6&12" heads.

i wanna say this guy was in everything for awhile. was he just never in a marvel movie? with so many fast bla bla movies you would think someone would make a 4" figure of him.

here is where someone lists a half dozen i didn't know about

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I run into this all the time in my never-ending quest for extremely specific custom fodder. Here are a few that jump to mind:

-Chap Mei stuff can be hard to find on eBay. I don't know if it's just that people aren't saving these toys in the way that they have licensed stuff, but finding specific Chap Mei items is a challenge.
-Some of the Tron: Legacy figures are weirdly hard to come by. And not just the ones from that second wave, either.
-For a while, I was having a hard time finding the Bridge Direct Gandalf figure. I can see why he would be a sought-after toy (Gandalf rules and the figure is pretty well done), but that line was on deeeeeeeeep clearance for a long time.
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine figures. They made several different Logan figures that are super-useful for customs, they clogged the pegs for a couple of years, and now they're crazy-expensive.

The Mandalorian is flying of the pegs.
Walmart just got a huge Mandalorian display with the TVC Carbonized repaints of Mando, Stormtrooper, Death trooper, Cara Dune along the Incinerator trooper and Beskar Mando with alternate unmasked head and Child. The display also has 6 Holiday themed 6" troopers. The 6" figures are untouched and only both versions of the Mandalorian are completely gone. Reports are the same all around my area, only the Mando figures are gone while the rest of the figures are barely picked through.

Since scalpers probably cleaned the display, I checked Ebay and some bozo is happily asking $130 for a single Mando while the others are asking double the original price for the figure.
Hasbro has to evaluate how popular the title character of this incredibly popular show really is. Nobody asked for carbonized Death Troopers...

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Wait, there are repaints of the figures with a gloss and they're selling it as 'Carbonized'?

And here I thought my hatred of Hasbro couldn't deepen. What a useless garbage company they've become.

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Yes I was thinking of getting some of those including WWII ones. Well Marauder is cheaper for WWII figures.
I do have one German soldier. It is amazing how crazy expensive those are including the vehicles!

Another similar line BBi (Blue Box inc toys) has also gotten expensive.

Since Boss Fight was making Flash Gordon I researched the old figures. Mattel's old line is rare & very expensive.
https://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigur ... rdonmattel

I see the figures a few times a year at Ross. But I have never seen a vehicle.

When was the last time you saw the Aliens set specifically ? I think as recently as the last 2 years 3 packs were available and yet they don't show up often at all in the usual places .

Vin was the voice of Groot, so technically there is a figure...

There is a 1:18 shrunk sculpt Vin head via Spartan 1:18 Industries. That plus a t-shirt Marauder figure would do the trick

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