Have You Seen the Halo activity Figures?

Halo is a trilogy of video games for Microsoft's Xbox 360 created by Bungie Studios and has swiftly come to be one of the fastest selling games ever. The customary Halo game was launched on November 15, 2001.

The Halo action Figures have been ready since the release of Halo 2 was released in 2004 but it is only since March, 2008 that they indeed took off and fans have been clamouring out for them ever since.

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Many retailers have reported fabulous sales. Wal-Mart, Toys 'R' Us, Kb Toys and GameStop all description that the figures are disappearing off the shelves approximately as soon as they reach the stores in scenes reminiscent of the 70's and Star Wars, and they're demanding more, More, More!

So why are they so popular?
There are two major factors that have come into play recently that have influenced the shop and thus the question for these figures

First, on September 25th 2007 Halo 3, the third and last installment of the game was officially released and within the first 24 Hours it had grossed an estimated 0 million in sales in the Us alone, development it the biggest ever entertainment event in history, surpassing such events as the release of the new Harry Potter book and the release of the Spiderman 3 movie.

The second factor, and probably more important, was that Microsoft awarded McFarlane Toys the license to produce the Halo 3 action Figures.

McFarlane are one of the biggest and most respected of all the action figure manufacturers and as well as being well established they are also well respected by fans and collectors alike.

McFarlane Toys hav a very well established collector's base and reputation within collectors shop giving them the double whammy of being able to shop the Halo action figures to the mass shop and collectors market.

McFarlane also has well established relationships with the likes of Toys-R-Us, Wal-Mart, Gamestop, Eb enabling them to get the "toys" into the hands of the fans across the nation and internationally. This also meant that many fans, gamers and collectors, despite the fact that the game and figures had been out for some time, were able to get their hands on the Halo action figures for the first time.

McFarlane's experience, understanding and knowledge of the collectors shop has also given them a huge advantage over other clubs and has allowed them to create a hunger and need for these figures by limiting their production, retention a constant contribute of new figures ready and ensuring there are exclusive, variant, and chase figures ready to cater to the collectors market.

There have been three "main" series of Halo action Figures released, each with a base set of approx six figures. These "base" sets are the figures that are mass produced and effortlessly ready straight through mass retailers such as Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Eb, Gamestop etc.

But each series has also has a number of exclusive and variant figures available, e.g. In series 2 there are as many as 18 (Yes, Eighteen) different variant and exclusive Spartan figures available! These chase or variant action figures are very limited in numbers and are either exclusive to sure shops or retailers or special event figures.

As a corollary many of the series 1 Halo Figures action Figures are already becoming particularly sought after and rare, especially the grunts which are already selling for up to double their customary price on the secondary market

And there's more to come...

In 2009 McFarlane Toys will be releasing a number of new Halo 3 products together with a range of 12-inch Halo action Figures, statues, interchangeable armor and helmets, 3 inch tradable figures and a range of Halo Wars figures based on the extremely improbable new Halo strategy game.

Have You Seen the Halo activity Figures?

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What activity Figures Are Collectible?

What's Collectible? How do you know which performance figures are collectible or will be collectible? Much of it is guess work or gut feeling. Part of it is an educated guess. A big part is knowing your shop and target audience. So...

What added advice and help can I give you? In short this easy guide is to help You make the decision based on my 15 years in the business.The simplest, easiest and biggest piece of advice I can give you is to remember:

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"Today's toys are tomorrow's collectibles" Let me interpret that statement a little more. What are the kids into Now? What drives their imagination? What games, cartoons, and comic books do they want? Which toys, games etc. Will be the estimate one on this years Christmas lists?

These are the thing that are likely to be the collectibles of the future, the things that will be selling good money in other 10-20 years.

Why? Simply, because the collectors shop is basically driven by nostalgia. Look at today's most necessary and collectible items. They're commonly what were favorite when we were kids (or at least when I was a kid!).

Good examples of this are they huge shop for Friday the 13th, nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and Chucky collectibles. All of these are huge cult movies from the 80's.

Then there are the Star Wars toys and Pokemon collectibles. G.I. Joes, performance Man, He-Man, Masters of the Universe and Thunderbirds.

It's the memories attached to these toys and programs that makes them collectible now, as well as the desire to have what we couldn't have as kids.

So, what do I think will be tomorrow's hot collectibles?

Looking at today's markets I would think that the anime/manga series Naruto and Bleach will come to be more favorite and collectible over the coming years as well as other favorite anime series such as Ghost in the Shell.

Also favorite video games such as Gears of War, Warcraft, Halo and Guitar Hero have a necessary estimate of merchandise available, many of which are highly collectible and are likely to remain favorite for many years yet.

Oh... And I nearly forgot about Ben 10. Ben 10 is other Tv animation series that seems to have come to be favorite recently and captured kids' imaginations.

And don't forget about normal, everyday items. Many of these are likely to come to be highly sought after and collectible as well.

A prime example of this phenomenon is the old Robinson jam jar labels. These featured a golliwog and were on Every jar produced back in the 70's.Thousands upon thousands were produced every year.

Now they sell for about 0 simply because they were banned. But who saved or collected them? Virtually no-one, because they were so common, an everyday item. Again it's the nostalgia and memories connected with them that drives' the shop and demand.

Do you remember any of the toys you had? Do you still have any of them? Where are they now? By our very nature, as kids we want to play with our toys, we aren't interested in keeping them safe and undamaged or even collecting them.

They were there to be played with. They were banged and bashed about, thrown around and mostly destroyed, broken and thrown out over the ensuing years. It's only now that we look back to them with the fondness of memories and a longing for our lost childhood.

So again it's often these things that come to be collectible and valuable. Ok, so what about little editions, low production runs or chase and variant performance figures, cards, stamps, toys or whatever that are produced today?

Again these are commonly targeted at today's collectors so are often based on past or vintage subjects, e.g. Star Wars, Thunderbirds, Elvis Presley, Battlestar Galactica etc.

Some will target new toys, games, current trends or favorite items such as Gears of War, Halo or even movies such as Hellboy.

These items will often be highly collectible initially due to their current popularity and high quiz, but will general see a dip in value after a few years and as new trends take their place, but...

If they became a favorite part of our culture and, or childhood experiences they will commonly gain in value again in the long term.

A very good example of this is the Pokemon cards. In the mid 90's they were Huge, so big in fact that I would say that every child in the world ever knew or had heard about them. Even kids in the poorest parts of Brazil were trading the cards.

But eventually, something else came along. The kids grew up and its popularity dwindled.

But now after ten years it is normally back in the top 30 searches each month. Prices of the cards are selling at a brisk rate on the auction sites and the quiz, for the old stuff is increasing. So, if you have an old Pokemon variety tucked away, maybe its time to dust it down!

This is because the kids who collected and bought it then are now "grown up" and look back at the fun days of collecting them and maybe getting some of them back again.

I know I in effect do. At the time I was Big on Pokemon. I had them All! I even had an Illustrator Pikachu and a private Mewto, two of The rarest cards.

But alas, being a trader I sold them all of, but now...

I often wish I had saved a few.

Another piece of advice is to look for niche markets. A niche shop is a master market. If you can find a small "niche" that has a loyal following then again these are likely to come to be highly collectible easy because although there is a lot less quiz, the supply or estimate of stock available will also be a lot scarcer and therefore more likely to come to be collectible or valuable.

In the long term, if you "invest" in the right things, the return in 10-20 years can be huge. in effect better than the mean return on your bank savings.

So, in order to determine what will hold it's value or growth in value you should consider:

What's favorite now.Check the top comics, cartoons, Tv programmes, films etc and look for the common themes.What are favorite household items?What games or toys do your kids and friends want and trash?What are the favorite niche markets?What has come to be part of our everyday lives, a part of our culture, our language (an excellent example here would be Google, even the term "to Google" something has come to be common) ?Consider the answers to these questions, these are the things that are likely to hold their prices and growth in value over the years.

What activity Figures Are Collectible?

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activity Toys in Two Cultures

Coming from a non-American childhood, activity toys are a novelty for me. Back in the country where my childhood passed we had totally separate toys - along with activity toys. Most of the toys were based either on cartoons or on imagination of an artists in the doll factory. There were plush animals making squeaky noises, remote-controlled tanks and lunar vehicles (Lunohod-1 was the hit); there were dolls with actually strange facial expressions that could close and open their eyes and smaller dolls that couldn't do anything but were a good throwing material.

We did not actually have that much of activity toys selection. There were tons of other stuff, but specifically activity toys - like figures from Halo, Aliens or even hockey players - no one actually concept it would be a good idea to produce. Of course, there were no Halo, neither Gears of War, nor even a single activity frame of a hockey or soccer player. And forget about Elvis, that guy was outright banned while he was still alive.

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What kids did was made activity toys themselves. There was a scrapyard around my school with all kinds of telephone wire cuts and pieces scattered around. We collected the wires and weave activity figures from those wires as we saw fit. We had built armies of foot swordsmen, squadrons of horse raiders, platoons of riflemen, machine gunners and sub-machine gunners. Battles that raged on our floors were rival only to those of antique China and its terracotta armies. The best part of all of this (at least our parents appreciated this the most) the whole company was actually free. There was, however, an incentive, since all died soldiers (or rather materials they were made of) would be divided by the winner and the looser of the battle. Called that spoils of war.

These days, obviously, are not the days of toy soldier conscription. The activity toys, to paraphrase a well-known motto, are few, are proud and are very costly - at least to be bought in similar quantities. Oh, and the fun part of scouting a scrap yard for wires of primary colors and actually construction your activity frame are long gone. Instead, the activity figures - either produced by McFarlane or Neca - are almost photo realistic representations of the original, no matter be it a Nfl football player or a Halo 3 scholar Chief. Even more so, manufactured activity figures have more accessories, more movements, look better and overall, probably more fun to play with.

In all honesty, sometimes I miss the childhood with self-made activity toys, armies of wire soldiers and all the fun associated with it. On the other hand, when I see how toddlers, teenagers, and sometimes very much grown-ups are happy when they get their hands on one of the newest activity figures - or an old one they've been dreaming about for so long, I think it's a small price to pay.

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