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New toys from the mid nineties on up will never be worth shit. There are thousands and thousands of every toy made since then that people have saved, mint in mint package.
It's the same with comic books, baseball cards, and a lot of other collectible hobbies. People used to throw this shit away, which is why it's valuable. Even in the 80s, people were still throwing toys away...Star Wars, Transformers...this stuff is rare to find in the package. But the NEW Star Wars figures from the 90s to the present and the new Transformers? There are MILLIONS of these that collectors have stockpiled still in the package. They will never command the high prices that the older toys do.
The only way to make money from new toys is to buy the hot figures cheap at chain stores and sell them for twice what you paid before they cool off.
I was collecting the X-Men toys from Toy Biz in the nineties, I had all the first wave in their original packaging and they were going for crazy prices, $40-50 a pop for figures that I bought at Kaybee for a few bucks. I traded them off for Silver Age comic books because I knew those were an investment that would keep their value. Now those X-Men toys sell for jack shit on Ebay but my Silver Age comes I bought have gone up in value 1000%.
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