[quote name='bilbobagins3']My Wham-Shell arrived today, so I am now officially in possession of all 38 mass produced figures. I was glad the Gamestop item turned out to be the real deal. Now it's time to sit back and see what the official word will be on the new game this fall. I really hope that the reposed figures have no other special properties to them. I can deal with 16 new figures, but another 24 in addition to that will mean more figures for the new game then there was for the old game, and this started to feel pretty ridiculous at times.[/QUOTE]
As of right now, I'm thinking of just getting the new ones and maybe just a few of the reposes (gogo Lightforce Prism Break) for our favorites. That, of course, might change once they come out, but even if the rumor that you cannot continue to upgrade the old ones, I think that simply being able to play them in the new game would be good enough. They may not own it up (though powered up at level 10 they are still pretty formidable), but unless there is a significant difficulty boost it should not be necessary. There are only a few places in the first game where it is so challenging (last boss) you really need a fully powered up figure. Most of the other places where you get killed can be chalked up to not doing it right, or standing in fire beams/charging in head first/etc. in which case level 1 or 10, they die pretty quick.