Let me start by saying its nice to see my namein the 1st post. So here is some homemade M.U.S.C.L.E. S.P.A.M.
http://www.youtube.com/JamesullivanFree videos that I don't get paid for, but unfortanately collecting is not free. I have lived in NYC my whole life and I am well aware of the buy and beware unwritten law. Example 1-I still buy hot dogs from vendors in the city when I know the ingredients are that of pig's intestines and the vendors are usually not the cleanest of people, but the hot dogs are good.
Example 2-I buy hot dogs at NY Mets baseball games when I know they cost $4.50 and they are just regular ballpark brand, though the slightly enhanced taste is worth it to me.
My only friend on this board is gone, well I would be lying if I said I didn't get banned from the Christy Hemme(Red Head's Society Forum), and to this day I still do not why, but I never pressed the issue and just let it be. However I will tell you my buying tactics with my collection.
Before I got the internet ('06) I did want to reattain the complete set. Pink figures only. To be honest I probably would of paid $5,000.00 for a complete set, until I discovered how cheap these toys still were. This did not change my mindset though, and I was willing to still spend this amount on a complete set, and I had no intentions of buying numerous lots to make it. My plan was to get the poster, find a set for sale, and then spend whatever was left over from the $5,000.00 on M.U.S.C.L.E. related items. Before I ever got a Ebay account I use to search for the items I seeked on Ebay. I noticed a Dr. Bombay for a high price. Since I still had some figures from my original collection, I never forgot which figures were in the set. I also told myself that anyone can duplicate a different sculpture in the 1980's made to look like a M.U.S.C.L.E. and sell them as "super rares". Am I the kind of person who will live on tea and cheap breakfast, lunch, and dinner so I can budget these things into my life, YES I AM.
Example 3- I have a gold and white gold cross I had casted, platinum bail, NESW engraved on the back, a stone set in the center in the front, and some other nice attachment in rose, white, and yellow gold attached, with silver rings and a UN symbol. It cost alot to put it together, but I am a crafty artist for my myself like that.
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22 downloadsThen I found out I was going to Arizona for work for over a month stay. I looked at the Bombay auction, contacted seller and met him there. As soon as he started to try to explain the authenticity of the figure, I immediately cut him off, told him I was committed to buying the figure all myself, asked him if he wanted tea, as I drank my tea I gathered all I could on my list and a few others for a couple of thousand. I was more happy with the complete set, and was always optimistic about the others. The point I am trying to make is that if you consider how much it would of cost to obtain the complete set in the 80's-lets say over a $100.00, then factor in the fact they are no longer sold, well you all should really be expecting to pay more than some pricing list in a ToyFare magazine(IMO).
So do I care if I was lied to, to be honest I could care not. Do I even know if Alex is his name, or perhaps that picture of him was just a worker for someone else in the "Forbes" family business, I do not really care. I got what I wanted from him and if I didn't want to make the deal, there was nothing he was going to do to make me change my mind. So before I get on him, lets note that some people regret after the fact, and that is really a bad trait. Yes its possible I could of got everything for free in a little unknown store in Japan(probably with some Samurai Ninja guy working there, LOL), but buying should not be the problem. Now knowing that he intently tried to make a market of his own, is the same as M.U.S.C.L.E. making colored figures(again IMO).
I have no plans to collect more figures, though I think there is a Ultimate Muscle figure that looks pink(no offers please, I will get him on my own) to go with my figure or 2 from each similiar toyline. Its alot of fun and if someone is interested I have even more fun sharing my hobby, but I keep my figures, unless I feel generous, and its not from my only complete set.
Since AF is still shown as a friend of mine here on LRG, then he still is, if his picture disappears then he is not. Just a message to Arforbes, and I quote"there is nothing worse than a sales pitch, not even a uneducated buyer" but also remember, and I quote"You are a good salesman, so remember in another 25 years you can continue all this insanity;)
How do I feel about 2 Bombays, well I am fine with it, if I ever wanted a figure there was no ther of(like my cross) I would give "GodBeast" an offer and a design he could not refuse, and also a contract stating any other finding of this mold will be very costly, LOL, and let me add I think those creations by GodBeast are very educational and awesome peices.
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So in truth I only got to the top of the second page before I decided to skip the rest of the reading and post. Maybe someother time as its getting late.
To finish let me invite everyone here in a challenge. That challenge is do something you like with your M.U.S.C.L.E.s in your spare time(like make wrestling videos, you can all be a part of the U.M.W.(Universal M.U.S.C.L.E. Wrestling- which noone owns)), and if you have no spare time then just look at them once in awhile to make sure they are safe. Also as a reminder, it is nice to save 1 set, and let the other figures(on Ebay, ETC.) go to people who are hoping to have their own.
P.S.P.A.M. Check out who sent me a signed picture I bought on EBAY, I am a sucker for pretty wrestling chicks like Stunt
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30 downloadsor Christy!