The Citadel Giant- We can rebuild him...

Yep, I don't get it either. There's silly money to spend on a toy soldier and then there's life-impactingly silly money. But I guess if you have plenty of disposable income and genuinely can't think of anything better to do with it... It's like the billionaire "first cock into space" bullshit. Why don't you do something worthwhile with that money? Oh, right, cos you're a prick.
 
That's always the argument people put forward, but I don't agree. That's capitalist individualism talking, which rarely poduces the most just/beneficial outcome for society as a whole... but this may begin to breach forum policies on politics and religion. My apologies.
 
I think the trouble is that the rarer models aren't really just toy soldiers anymore. People look at them as history, or art, or both. And that's when the money gets silly. None of it is as silly yet as the market for musical instruments, say, which has really been blown out of all proportion by the art market. A decent professional string instrument; not a historic one, but a new one; costs more than a car. I might quiz a couple of friends in the business a bit, I but I suspect a lot of that is art market inflation catching the edges of things. Could be the same is beginning to happen with toy soldiers. (I hope not. But it could be.)
 
or just 'investments'. see comic crash of the mid 90s where companies like Marvel went bankrupt (chapter 11) have haven't recovered
 
^A bigger part of the reason they haven't recovered might be that the market for new comics, the sorts of things people like to read, shifted. And they didn't. The investment craze didn't help. Probably made them complacent. But they're stuck on superhero comics, and there may simply not be as much market for that now. Revenue from Hollywood probably helped to paper over the difficulties. But the biggest publisher of comics in the US, by far, is Scholastic. Not Marvel. Not DC. They're not even close, and haven't been for years.
 
Fencig said:
ok, someone please explain this one to me? I mean they released a few, but it looks like a dozen other models from different manufacturers.
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The Nuln spearman was a “lost mini” hiding in plain sight for decades. Someone put two and two together realizing no one had ever seen one in the wild.

Fencig said:
I can understand the giant, or Citadel MD4 Elven attack chariot, but?
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The elven attack chariot is not that rare it just goes for stupid inflated money.
Fencig said:
In general, the high priced citadel models in general reminds me a lot of UK made turntables, I've owned a couple (a Linn LP12 and now a Rega P5) and they are excellent kit but the Linn especially seems to exceed rational justification for the prices. That said, I am sorely tempted to drop the $250. for the ttack chariot. If i didn't already have 10 years of work here i would do it.

this $1K Nuln spearman reminds me of weird doll collecting
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No argument on any of that.
 
Willmark said:
The elven attack chariot is not that rare it just goes for stupid inflated money.
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I saw a "new in opened box" condition but complete/un-painted go for $120. + shipping. At that price i would be sorely tempted. The trouble is, if i finish every model in my collection now, and only put half of them in Dioramas, it will take up an entire bedroom, all 4 walls and more.
This one though would be hard to skip as i think it was the pinnacle of Elven chariots, I mean 4 unique horses and 4 crew, doesn't get much over-the-top than that.
 
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