KirbyCollector

I agree with you, but when you are giving thousands of dollars to someone, and someone takes a highly public stance, you are funding that POV. I'd just rather deal with someone whose politics are unknown.

I stopped buying from a certain dealer after he took a hard political stance a few years ago. I'd rather support dealers who don't tell me what I should think -- or who to hate.

If you search "Help rich guy pay for his Star Wars toys" you get the same results

Ah, the CLink "we don't send no stinking tracking emails" business model

D'OH! You're right! But there is no doubt that is Dunst as Spider-Gwen... maybe Brooks had her mixed up too 😆

This is very nice... Brooks must have liked Dunst in the role

I am trading this for a new SPX ATH a little over 5000, poss 8-10% pullback through March then off to the races for a blowoff top finishing in early summer... so we haven't seen anything yet... what troubles me is what comes after that 1929 style high

People don't know Lego almost went bankrupt in 2003; they were cutting corners on plastics quality for years before that and kept on cutting corners to become financially viable again in the late 00s.

Thr New Mutants page Mary Wilshire/Bill Sienkiewicz page is a lot of fun, especially the panel with Bill's heavy inks emphasizing Magma's powers

I suppose it depends on the manufacturer. I collect vintage Playmobil and their plastics must have been some of the highest quality in the world in the 80s-90s; they look as fresh and bright as the day of manufacture (even after sitting in their original box for decades), with no loss of pliability.

He's a very nice guy! People change minds.

Speculating, should have put "probably" in the 1st sentence instead of the 2nd. However, it makes sense. If you can't pay someone for a commission b/c you are skimming off the top, you delay the order until you can pay the artist. Do that enough times and someone getting art a year later starts to make sense.

He was running a Ponzi scheme... this is why it was taking months to send out orders, he probably had to wait for new money to come in to replace the money he stole

He wants to sell it -- just not to you, apparently. Or he thinks he wants to sell it, but if someone accepted he knows deep down he really couldn't sell it. I had someone offer me a piece for 15K last year and I replied YES immediately. Two hours later I got an email saying Hey, I'm sorry, didn't really want to sell it. It happens.

Ohio? You want to be in Ohio when the apocalypse happens?!?

It makes me think minimalists have to be the most psychologically secure people on the planet

I'm speaking more of childhood favorites like the Bugs Bunny cartoons (sexist, offensive due to humor mocking physical traits, accents etc)... the original Star Trek (sexist)... Disney movies like The Swiss Family Robinson (offensive Asian stereotypes)... one of my favorite Westerns no longer airs with a scene b/c it is deemed stereotypical, they just deleted it and provide no notice... and on and on.

The increased digital censoring/deletion of older media now deemed offensive due to changing tastes has led me to retain and even add to my Blu Ray collection. It is one way of saying, No, the things which helped form me aren't horrible -- and by default, neither am I.

Please don't take my opinion as criticism, Gene. Absent the CGC side of things, I'm mentally in the same boat -- aside from OA, I collect vintage 90s/00s toys AND run a web site devoted to mid-century items. I just felt there had to be a better explanation for the why of it (aside from the amorphous "nostalgia"), and future shock does fit the bill nicely.

That is it, exactly -- thank you for putting something concrete behind my abstract observations. A long time ago I used to contemplate the changes my one grandfather (born in 1907) saw during his first 40 years, and how shocking these must have been: phones, cars, planes, television, penicillin, not to mention running water, in-home bathrooms, washing machines, refrigerators etc etc. If you fell asleep in 1907 and then awoke in 1947, you wouldn't recognize your world. Considering what we have seen over the past 30 years alone, it has been a lot to take and definitely explains the need to literally encapsulate the past.

Yes, I know, the internet is not the place for serious discussion of any kind. What can I say, it's a hard habit to break.

Agree, but we never looked at that club and said dang, I should encase it in amber, put it at the back of the cave and then demand full value for it from a stranger down the line 😆

I wonder if the ever-increasing need to assign monetary values to one's personal cultural memories speaks of an unspoken insecurity in our society. Culture should be vibrant and alive and forward thinking, yet we seem determined to cling to the past. Commodifying our memories is one way of permanently saying, Things will never be better than before and I can prove it ($$$). The gazillion "classic cars" being sold by Mecum Auctions speaks to the same feeling; after all, the vast majority of these cars will never be used for their original purpose (daily driving) but stored, shown or sold -- just like slabs. Whether we are doing this as a reaction to 9/11 or the financial crisis or covid (or all combined) is up for debate. Whatever the cause, I feel it conveys a deep uneasiness about our future and the realization coming times may not be as good.

This is the modern equivalent to a Picasso napkin sketch. Yes, it is Perez. It is also terrible.