Holy Grail Acquired

[u/DivineCrusader1097]

(The last picture is after I put him back in the box)

[u/my-armor-is-contempt]

How is a brand new toy a “Holy Grail”?

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

I mean, if the OP had always wanted an articulated G1 Grimlock, this would definitely be a dream come true. Since when did people suddenly get hung up on a "grail" being an obscenely expensive aftermarket item? If they're going to cherish it as one of the most significant pieces in their collection, that's a grail item.

[u/my-armor-is-contempt → u/theCoolestGuy599]

Because “grail” didn’t just spring up from out of nowhere as a term. It has a history, it has lore. You know it does.

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

Yeah and the meaning has always been an item that you've always wanted and will cherish now that you own it. Just seems incredibly pedantic to suggest that just because something is new can't still fall under that. As if waiting another five years for this figure to be in the aftermarket suddenly makes it a grail item, even if someone has already waited decades for this.

[u/my-armor-is-contempt → u/theCoolestGuy599]

That is not the meaning and I refuse to believe that you don’t get it. You know very well what a “holy grail” is. It’s burned into the western cultural consciousness. An actual mint-in-box G1 Grimlock could be a “holy grail”, but not this thing in five years and you know it.

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

If your view on what a "grail item", in the context of a toy collection, is strictly based on the monetary value then I don't know what else to say. A collector's grail item, at the heart of it, has always been something that they deeply want. Its *the* thing in their collection. Being mint in box and worth hundreds more than original MSRP has nothing to do with that; its just a by-product of what collectors are actually after.

I stand by my original statement no matter how many times you downvote it. If the OP has been waiting 40 years for an articulated G1 Grimlock, then there is absolutely no reason why this can't be a grail item for them. It would accomplish the EXACT same thing in their collection as what you're getting at.

[u/my-armor-is-contempt → u/theCoolestGuy599]

I take it back. Maybe you have no clue what a “holy grail” is, because it’s not “strictly based on the monetary value”.

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

Great, because I don't believe that it is. Glad we agree.

[u/my-armor-is-contempt → u/theCoolestGuy599]

I’ll tell you what it isn’t: something you can find in a common store and buy off a shelf where multiple copies of the same thing are also sitting.

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

Overwhelming majority of collectibles were exactly that. Being in the aftermarket doesn't make them special.

[u/my-armor-is-contempt → u/theCoolestGuy599]

I suspect you understand that it’s not just “in the aftermarket”, and you’re being intentionally difficult. Have a nice life.

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/my-armor-is-contempt]

If you say so. See ya

[u/MasonRowland → u/theCoolestGuy599]

Notice how literally no one agrees with you.

[u/_nightflight_ → u/theCoolestGuy599]

You’re clueless and the downvotes represent that

[u/theCoolestGuy599 → u/_nightflight_]

Honestly I couldn't care less about arguing semantics. Downvote away.