Ask any seasoned collector off the record, and they will point to at least two massive figures in their display case that they secretly wish they had never bought.

The psychology of collectible regret is uniquely potent because statues and figures demand physical volume. Unlike bad digital purchases or forgotten books on an e-reader, a forty-pound polyresin statue permanently occupies physical real estate. It stares back at you from the corner of the room, silently computing its depreciated resale value on the secondary market.