@docsilence, I dunno. I may flag a few things as auction items, but I want my legacy to be more "provided a good deal to some lucky local collector who was at the right place at the right time."

"I got this Classics Shadow Weaver for $15 at a garage sale" will keep my story going longer than a full-value eBay sale. 

So before Thanksgiving? My address is correct Hasbro. You can go ahead and ship my copter.

Thats a Giant Man and Dragonfly before Christmas. Probably. (My Hulkbuster has been hanging out in Arkansas for four days stating it’s in transit, most likely lost or damaged) Anyway, Yay! 

Good thing I’ve been clearing space for these. Eventually the Dragonfly will have a home on the shelf. I’ll have to fly it around the house and backyard a bit first.

Thwipp!

@fletch Eh, I'm just looking out for my partner who has massive health issues and if I drop dead young I want her to use the fluff of my life to pay off some bills. I've actually got it in my will that a couple of my collector friends will help her offload my collections and can take whatever they feel is fair and will bring them joy (I trust them to look out for her and to know what will help them remember me fondly, too). I got a friend who always shorts himself on action figures he really wants because he's worried about finances... if he wants my entire Snake Eyes collection and helps S. sell off my Lego and Star Wars, that'll be a nice legacy to leave behind. The guy who will take over my D&D group gets any minis he needs if he helps sell some dragons that are ridiculously overvalued on eBay, y'know? (We've got a running joke that my mom LOVES a yard sale to get rid of clutter so mostly my will is DO NOT LET DOCSILENCE'S MOM YARD SALE HIS STUFF IF HE DIES!) 

I do plan to update my will when my nephews are older so they can come raid the collection, too. My godson LOVES Black Panther, I'd want him to have all of mine. 

My entire legacy's gonna be nerd stuff. I have three SFF book series I had to figure out how to put royalty money in my will for. It's not much, but this is a hard world and I won't need it wherever I end up. 

@docsilence That's pretty detailed for your will, great job.   

I didn't think to put something like instructions for my collection in my will.   Though I don't really have a close friend, who lives less than 4 hours away, that I would trust to handle something like selling off my collection.   

I really should go back and include some instructions, or at least suggestions about what to do if I am dead.   Of course sudden death can't be really accounted for, but in 10 years my oldest should be old enough to be responsible enough to handle it for my wife.  

However I think, like others, I'll probably shrink my collection over time as I get closer to the official retirement age (I am already technically retired just don't tell my wife HAHA).  However is 15 years away so who knows what I'll be doing by 65 and where my collection will be by then.

As for Classified I finally picked up Doc and Torch off of Amazon.ca and thanks to a couple of gift cards I had accumulated over the last couple months I only had to pay $5.61 out of pocket.   Now the wait for delivery.

Oh and the Dragonfly email was great to see.   If the deadline is October 24th, then it is possible some of the earliest deliveries should arrive before Halloween.   Then most of us should get it before December (hopefully).   So slightly ahead of their targeted December delivery window.

As someone who didn't back the Rattler, my first thought after reading the Dragonfly email was, "Damn, I'm not going to get this same email next year".  I was already having a twinge of non-buyer's remorse.

I didn't back either the Dragonfly nor the Rattler, but I'm just now realizing how well those two pair up for a practical display. Should you display them hung from the ceiling, or somehow in combat with each other, they both can actually hover in place. Having the Rattler floating in one spot wouldn't be too outrageous since it's a VTOL craft. Something like a Conquest or a Skystriker would be speeding through the air if in flight, but displaying that will always be limited to something static.

I backed the Rattler on the last day because I was fretting about space, but I was also thinking: I've got the two jeeps displayed together and if I do it right, I could hang an aerial battle display in my office and it'd look cool to have one of each faction. If I'm being honest, I'd rather buy three smaller, easier to hang/display aircraft than two chonkers like these but I'm committed now. I just hope it's a little while before the next oversized one. After seeing how big the Ghost was for Vintage Star Wars I now live in fear we'll see like, the Killer WHALE next. That was my favorite vehicle as a kid but would that be in Classified, three feet long and two feet wide? Probably with an exclusive Cutter figure? Did I just invoke the action figure collector devils? 

I wouldn't mind if they scaled some vehicles down and made them mass market. The HISS didn't need to be as big as it is, as wired as it is. They could have pulled that off at slightly smaller, with no gimmicks, for maybe $50 more than the VAMP or Stinger. Other vehicles could fall into that class, like Snow Cat or Thunder Machine or Moccasin. But honestly, I'm tapped for vehicles at this point. I have the Stinger and Ferret and neither fit into my shelves. They just rollin around on my office floor.

Hasbro needs to light a fire under their asses and give us the Sky Hawk at retail. 

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I've actually got it in my will that a couple of my collector friends will help her offload my collections and can take whatever they feel is fair and will bring them joy (I trust them to look out for her and to know what will help them remember me fondly, too). 

So, I have a similar agreement with my family and my two best buds that I attend SDCC with every year -  though it hasn't been codified in an actual will -  that if I were to go they would come curate my collection to figure out what if anything my son would keep and what they would take for their own and then help figure out how to liquidate the rest.   

The action figure stuff is relatively small potatoes -  there's a few things in there that are valuable -  but the collection of 120+ bowen mini busts,  the dozen statues,  the dozens and dozens of pages of original published comic art,  the 10,000 comic books including some extremely high value key issues, the full collection of 1977 Marvel slurpee cups, a bunch of other unique niche collectibles  -  that's not the job for someone with no familiarity.   But it's ALOT

@panthercult Yeah, it's more volume than individual value for my stuff, but in total, offloading it could help out. There's some old, complete Lego sets that are worth surprisingly decent amounts of money and I recently found that I have a few boxes of miniatures that regularly go for 50 or 75 bucks a pop. All in all it's not enough to retire on but I'm hoping she could pay off some bills or go on a trip to Europe with it. 

Back on Classifieds - my weird obsession right now while waiting for the next wave of Classifieds is setting up a photo set with the Joes dealing with NECA xenomorphs. I did a photo set of stormtroopers versus symbiotes a few years back and now I want to do the same thing. Got one of the older Extreme Sets bunker/space stations and just need to find the right lighting setup. Kinda thinking it'd be fun to have Cover Girl as the final survivor. 

I backed the Dragonfly mostly because I love helicopters and wanted one in this scale.  And the thought of having one "centerpiece" vehicle for each faction was fun.  Although in the meantime the VAMP came out and I realized it was everything I wanted from a Classified vehicle so now I'm just kind of stuck with two Joe centerpiece vehicles.

A bald Lady Jaye took one for the team.  This really put my weak old ass throwing arm in perspective. I remember getting my old Adventure People parachute way higher in the air.

I know Lenny or Emily said not to do this.

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I've actually got it in my will that a couple of my collector friends will help her offload my collections and can take whatever they feel is fair and will bring them joy (I trust them to look out for her and to know what will help them remember me fondly, too). 

 

So, I have a similar agreement with my family and my two best buds that I attend SDCC with every year -  though it hasn't been codified in an actual will -  that if I were to go they would come curate my collection to figure out what if anything my son would keep and what they would take for their own and then help figure out how to liquidate the rest.   

The action figure stuff is relatively small potatoes -  there's a few things in there that are valuable -  but the collection of 120+ bowen mini busts,  the dozen statues,  the dozens and dozens of pages of original published comic art,  the 10,000 comic books including some extremely high value key issues, the full collection of 1977 Marvel slurpee cups, a bunch of other unique niche collectibles  -  that's not the job for someone with no familiarity.   But it's ALOT

 

I'm going to haunt all my figures and stuff and just have fun everywhere they end up

@docsilence I didn't know there was a comic book for City of Heroes! What the hell. I played the ever-living shit out of that game. I had three different heroes and one villain. So much fun.
Feel free to share where to find the story you re-tooled from it (I really dug The Indestructibles).