True enough, and I sort of expect that that's what we will see in the future at some point.
There will probably only be a small handful of figures that'll be worth more then retail (figures packed one per case or figures from the last few years that didn't have a high production run) a majority of the Hasbro modern toy line is mass produced and you'll probably find most people leave them carded anyways so there will always be some to buy. For best investment Vintage would be the way to go as that's what most people are after.
Or, ironically, The Vintage Collection. It had a lot of figures with low production numbers, it's also easily the best line Hasbro ever produced. Years ago when I first started collecting, I thought about going the vintage route. But the initial $ commitment combined with the fact that the figures themselves(IMO) aren't very attractive at all turned me away from that route. You're right about it being the best 'investment' choice though.
I imagine only things already lower in production numbers will be more valuable, but I don't know that value will be affected otherwise. Would I hold on to them? Yes, yes I would, because I'm hearing Disney is basically saying to not make things based on the old EU anymore, so if that is true, than things like Mara Jade, Mosep, and Malgus are the final figures of the old EU we'll see. Maybe Revan and Malak will still fetch some cash, but otherwise they'll just remain another reminder of the pre-Disney era.
Kind of how I am.
Xizor and his pheromones? Sure, maybe as a teenager reading this story I would have wished to have some of that magic to work on Leia, but its embarrasing to even think about reading it almost twenty years later and its frankly surprising Lucasfilm even allowed its inclusion at the time. His character going toe-to-toe with Vader to win the Emperor's was never believable in my opinion. Luke displayed practically no development aside from building his lightsaber and he pratically reverts to his whiny ANH character instead of the more mature on-the-brink-of-becoming-a-Jedi we see in ROTJ. Dash Rendar was a poor replacement for Han... they should have just let Lando act as the Han transplant instead of introducing a new character. You think Dash really needed to "save" Luke? I think not. About the only part of the story that was worthwhile was Vader's characterization and his feelings towards Luke and how he tries to heal his wounds through the Force.
This seems to be the case. While we may see some familiar locales and/or technology from the Legends sources, I think we can pretty much say goodbye to any of the characters that didn't make it into the movies or Clone Wars cartoon. I was holding on to hope that some characters might get saved from this (Thrawn, Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn to name a few), but I think they're all gone. Bringing back any character now brings too many questions about how much of his/her history is canon and how much isn't. The slate has been wiped clean and a new era begun.
