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Same here, 2088. I got all of the USCM plus Ripley still in their original boxes collecting dust in a storage tuff box with my entire collection. In fact I have a lot of box figures from HT and SS that I haven't even opened yet. Because of money value I might get from reselling them years after they've been released to make a bigger profit??? Oh hell no, I just suffer the same effect that all collectors feel.....lack of space to display them all. So I just have to pick and choose which to display and not to display. Of course my huge Jabba's Throne Room diorama (before I rebox it up for my trip to the sandbox) cut deeply into that space but I like it. *Sigh* Barracks living space sucks, can't wait to get my own place when I get out next year and then I can construct the 'war room' of my dreams.I still have Hicks and Hudson boxed up. I keep telling myself to assemble them and break them out of the box. But if they are worth money I may keep holding off. You never know these days when you might need the money to buy gas or something.
As for the Hicks figure, what can I say, all the comments above are true. You had to be in the hobby to know about the first release which was just prior to me leaving for my 2nd tour in Iraq in late 2005. Then SS picked up the second release and new collectors suddenly went crazy looking for them. In fact I think HT and Medicom's business has increases so much is that SS and Cots are stocking their products now and more of the masses see them and want them. PPL missed out and trying to catch up are paying top dollar these days. I too hope HTs does a updated re-release of the figures and include newer characters into the line up such as Frost, Bishop, and Gorman.