I can just remember the sky high Bandai Elint and Super O auctions, and Takatoku auctions etc. They always turned into bidding wars, and always went over $1000. When I first started trolling MW, I had visions of constructing the ULTIMATE Valkyrie toy.
It was going to consist of...
A chunky monkey
Rob Beers VF-1S head
Fulcy's hips
Fulcy or Rosario Love's feet
Custom paint job.
Recast strike armor
I think I priced out that it would have cost me about $600 to put it all together back then, MAN was I excited!!.
Looking back, I feel like Denis Leary during the bellbottom era. "Man, someday, when I have some money, I'm gonna have the biggest bellbottoms in history man!"