Devourer of Worlds vs Devourer of Savings and Space?

    (Note: This post may simply be an exercise in imaginary indulgence, where I eventually mine most of the pleasure of potentially owning something simply by thinking about it. Think of it as a variation on how some manage to finally shed themselves of excess possessions by taking a picture of it, allowing them to keep it on some level while selling it off or giving it away. Certainly, there are much better uses for over $400. On the other hand, if I should make the decision to buy it, I'm not going to hand-wring over it. At once or, more often, in tiny outlays, I've bought far worse/less for far more money over the years, and all of that was when $400 was a considerably larger portion of my income.)
     I turned 60 this year.
     While I know there are exceptions to any such things, I think that as a general rule I'm part of the generation just before when an adult having and displaying action figures was as open an option. People just six or seven years younger than I were the ones who were still in proper, targeted, toy-playing ages when the Star Wars toys rolled out in the late seventies, and really carried over the idea of holding onto those and having them on display as they rolled into adulthood.
     Sure, my age group had the original run of G.I. Joes, and the comics-associated Captain Action, who was sort of the Barbie for boys, as the press was for the sale of costume and mask accessories to change the appearance of the basic dol-- er, action figure. Having them out on display as one rolled into the teen years wasn't really a cool thing to do, in general, at least where I grew up. The closest I think we came was genre Aurora model kits, which included not only old Universal Studios monsters, but superheroes from Batman to Spider-man, Superman, and the Hulk. They required glue, assembly, and paint, and so had the respectability of being "projects", while the locked poses and lack of articulation made them distinct from toys.

     It's goofy the things we're casually programmed with, but for many of us it stuck.
     Besides, most of the comics-associated action figures that were out earlier were for DC (e.g. Batman, Superman, etc.) and various comics strip properties (e.g. The Phantom, Green Hornet, Lone Ranger, Flash Gordon) which at the time I had little to no interest in. I simply didn't see some of it, as there were such Captain Action accessories to turn him into Spider-man or Captain America.

     Mego started putting out 8" Marvel figures with cloth costumes as early as '73, but the quality was low, and they had very few points of articulation, and I was 12 by then. They were mostly generic forms simply painted and then dressed up in costumes, most of which weren't terribly much above the quality of the cheap, boxed Halloween costumes that were for sale each October - albeit with boots. Not much appeal beyond the concept, and nothing that called out to me to own, much less display. Some of the packaging made the less-than-truthful statement that they were "fully poseable," which, if you ever handled one, you'd know was b.s.

     Anyway, jumping here to 2021, I became aware that Hasbro toys has a sort of kickstarter program for specialty pieces under the HasLab banner. They're currently aiming to produce a 32" tall Galactus figure an amazing degree of articulation (as seen here in a close-up of the hands), swappable faces, and LED effects to be powered by a few AAA batteries.
     Here's the link to this project.
     For those not in the know, Galactus is the Devourer of Worlds. A cosmic entity who largely lives to eat, and must absorb worlds rich with life or the potential thereof.  There's an elaborate matter-to-energy conversion apparatus involved, so he's not taking them in bite by bite. He's generally been cast as an essential part of the cosmic balance - part of the natural maintenance and potential improvement of the cosmos -- obviously not a popular view among those who've lost their homeworlds to his appetite.
     Introduced in Fantastic Four #48, in 1966, part of the peak quality output era from the Stan Lee/Jack Kirby Silver Age Marvel. (I still say '67 was their peak, but that's a whole other essay.) Another writer, some eighteen years later, retroactively established that Galactus appears to each race in a form that's a minor variation from their own, hence the human appearance when he comes around to Earth; a distinction I and many others appreciated, while others didn't.
     Back to the HasLab pitch:
     The simplest layout is that potential backers sign up to allow Hasbro to charge them $399.99 if, by midnight August 30th they've reached their baseline of 14,000 such pledges, so the figure will be produced. If they fail to meet the required threshold, no one is charged, and nothing is made.
     For reference, as of the time I'm getting back to finishing this post on Sunday July 18th they're at 7,198 backers - so, much better than halfway there with 43 days and change yet to go. (They were at 6,299 backers early Saturday afternoon, when I first started to pull the info for this post together. Details offered so you can get a better sense of how quickly it's coming together.)
     The hopes for many of the backers includes them passing the target goal and unlocking bonus content, with some hoping it might be one or more of his heralds, or perhaps an Uatu, and that they might sell those on the secondary market to recoup some of the cost of the Big G. himself. Those who might float a larger outlay may be considering ordering two, so as to resell the second at a substantially higher cost in the hopes of defraying or, letting one's greed soar, covering the complete outlay -- something that would become more likely if one or more bonus pieces end up being unlocked. I'm too completely out of my depth in this particular market -- and I haven't sold anything on ebay in years, and will have to reacquaint myself with the structure there to see how high the sale price would have to be to allow it to begin to work after that platform's taken its cuts -- to have a firm grasp of the realistic options just yet. What's a reasonable secondary market price for this? $500? More? How high would the secondary sale price have to be to do more than break even, again, after ebay's cut?
     Also, the potential impact of an eventual debut for the character in the MCU - vastly expanding the marketability - is fraught with potential pitfalls, ranging from how much they may change the overall design, and what more mainstream, market-level, affordable versions will roll out at the time. After all, at this price level we're talking about a display piece, not a toy -- unless one's in a wonderful income bracket.
     At the moment it's all speculative for me. This is the epitome of an extravagance, and I'm still trying to judge if this would be something I'd look at with appreciative eyes years after getting it, or already have buyer's remorse by the time I'm unpacking it. I know, ultimately, I'm the only one who can answer that last bit.
     Any thoughtful input from people who've gotten involved in one of these before will be welcome.