To each his/her own....but Scarlet Witch parts are available to you to kit bash one for around rm400 or less...

My 2 cents.... hot toy figures... with especially fabric/pleather degrades over-time, even if kept mint, the PVC and ABS plastics that makes up the base figure degrades too....

Even with the original retail price... these HT figures are too pricey (hence the extremely slow movement of this thread) .... and not many people will pay more than the retail price...so not much as an investment opportunity

Here's my example..just discovered, HT AOU's black widow's suit...patches came off...had to rub off (with relative ease) all the rest so it may look some-what ok/decent...

Same thing will likely happen to Endgame's Black Widow...

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My medicom ghost rider. Almost throw it away after the leather materials cracking and peeling off. Kept it in the cabinet for few years. Recently accidentally found it hidden in the cabinet and tried fixing it by rubbing off the cracking materials

Anybody who owns any of the Hot Toys T2 T-800 (MMS117, DX10, DX13) would have realized by now that their belts have crumbled to dust.

does misb collector facing similar problems?

My medicom ghost rider. Almost throw it away after the leather materials cracking and peeling off. Kept it in the cabinet for few years. Recently accidentally found it hidden in the cabinet and tried fixing it by rubbing off the cracking materials

Anybody who owns any of the Hot Toys T2 T-800 (MMS117, DX10, DX13) would have realized by now that their belts have crumbled to dust.

does misb collector facing similar problems?

Yeah it happens even faster if the figure is MISB. The thing about these pleather is that they all WILL break down someday. You can greatly slow down the deterioration with car care products or acrylic sealers but once the crack, there's not much you can do.

My advice is to apply some car leather conditioner or other similar products and not to worry too much about it, I have tons of figures that has pleather damage (including one bought from the Judge, heh!) and a lot of them breaks down even in box. It's just the nature of the game and you can only do your best to prevent it. Tropical climate only exacerbates the situation.

Sorry for the late reply guys, Raya! Happy holidays!
Not really, it would smell a bit at first, but not after it settles in the pleather.

What figure do you plan to take off? It's unlikely that the cracking pleather would damage the figure, if there are clothes underneath you can just dip dry wash them.
The Sidshow Lara Croft, the bagpack became dust so I had to build a new backpack. Still one of my favorite figures though.
Medicom is even worse! I would all Medicom pleather to be treated immediately. Although they suck at thin pleather, their vinyl quality is pretty good though.

actually a lot of ppl still buy hot toys, despite the pricing jack up beyond 1k now.... just that they are on FB and not on this forum la.... you can follow XL shop and Toypanic and see when their shipment comes in for the hot toys.... lol.....

me ? i can't afford 1k+ for 1/6 figure

I suppose you can post a re-direct to your sales thread (to a proper WTS) here... waning as the interest here maybe...