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I go to San Diego ComicCon every year (it's job-related, I swear I try not to be that big of a dork) and I can report that those toylines are indeed wanted. Might just be by the one guy in a red shirt costume but someone is collecting them.
I had the John Travolta doll from Battlefield Earth. I bought it for an Xmas joke gift exchange at church for a dollar at Toys R Us. It got good laughs.