It was me
I got tired of waiting around to find one in the wild, so I went ahead and pulled the trigger on this one, from the most recent auction over on the Bay. I won this guy within .46 cents of my max bid, so I feel pretty lucky. What are the chances I'm ever going to find a Purple Claw in the wild??? Slim to none. So I went for it. And I'm glad I did. It has a little scuff, but if you know me at all, you know that I like my toys to have some wear to them
Additionally, I went ahead and picked up a Red Claw in a four pack, also over at the Bay, because that is actually an even a bigger deal to me than owning a Purple Claw, but again, something I'm not likely to ever find in the wild.
So now what??? I've kind of completed what I set out to do when I started collecting MUSCLE so many years ago. First I wanted a Satan Cross, and I got one of those in an auction with a complete flesh set way back in the day. Then I wanted to find something, ANYTHING in the wild, and I found a blue claw at a flea market, AND a super rare at a vintage toy store. I had always wanted to find something rare and cool in the wild, so done and done. So I guess this is kind of it for me. I'll still collect MUSCLE when I find them locally, and probably try to pick up the belt and the board game, maybe the NES game, and hell, maybe even the other Claw colors, but I think I've pretty much completed the goals I had set out to complete when I first started this. It feels pretty good
Thanks for all of the love and support over the years, guys! It's been a hell of a run