Where’s This All Headed?

Like many of you, I check out most of the fan sites on a daily basis.  My morning cup of coffee is usually downed while surfing, Jedi Temple Archives, Yakface, Galactic Hunter, Sandtroopers, Imperial Shipyards, etc. etc. etc. (to any good folks I missed, the omission was not intentional, but the byproduct of a middle aged memory).  It’s easy to get a quick sense of the community mood which everyone knows has been getting increasingly pessimistic for over two years.  Recently, Paul from Jedi Temple Archives and Justin from Yakface posted entries that seem to indicate that the pessimism is continuing on an upward swing.  Here are those entries:

Jedi Temple Archives:  How Much Longer Will Star Wars Collecting Be This Abysmal?

Yakface:  Remember when collecting was a blast?

The increased negative commentary on the state of the hobby my has me feeling like a viewer of the Truman show wondering “How’s it going to end?”.  Given the fact that the early Black Series 3 3/4” assortments spell certain doom at retail in my opinion, I fear the answer is “not well”.