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Collectors appear in all stripes, people that  genuinely have a very love for what they are  collecting, people who just love the chase of having the ability to complete a collection, and people that hope their investment will 1 day repay.  One doesn’t need to be  one of the  millions of players of World of Warcraft to collect its wow character figures.  The younger players though, or the young at heart, often have a difficult time resisting the urge to take  the warcraft action figures with their box.  The slightly older players will  find the  warcraft action figures reminiscent of He-Man figures sold in the 80’s.

You can find four main companies that started manufacturing warcraft figures since Warcraft 2.  They are Blizzard Entertainment, Toycom, State of the Art (SOTA), and DC Direct (of DC Comics).  Away from they then, DC Direct has produced the most important line of figures, twenty five figures including state of the art action figures, through 2009.

Blizzard, the corporation behind World of Warcraft, or WoW has only produced five miniatures.  They’re Human Footman, Orc Grunt, Malfurion Stormrage, Muradin Bronzebeard, and Thrall.

Toycom has released 6 figures all from Warcraft III.  SOTA produced only 3 figures which can be: Tauren Shaman, Undead Warlock, and Jungle Troll Voodoo Priest.

DC Direct released its first series of warcraft action figures in 2007.  This first series was comprised of Meryl Felstorm: Undead Warrior, Rehgar Earthfury: Orc Shaman, Valeera Sanguinar: Blood Elf Rogue, and a deluxe figure, Illidan Stormrage: Night Elf Demon Hunter. DC has released five series with the end of 2009.

As Steve Carell’s character, Andy, proved in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, possessing a mint toy collection can be quite a nice investment.  Those unaware of WoW, but trying to find the next “hot” collectible, could explore these wow action figures because WoW is really a Guinness World Record holding massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), holding the record for many subscribers, over 11 million.  With many followers worldwide it’s likely a market will exist in the foreseeable future for those collectors who could actually purchase the warcraft action figures now and store them.  And unlike the He-Man figures these WoW action figures are not currently being mass produced and sold in retail outlets.