The Great 2005 Collector's Challenge

[Morgbug]

5 McFarlane NBA legends figs $68
ARC-170 $36

Vader FX saber locally $120

modifying to include ebay stuff I may have missed:

May 06 - brown snake yoda $27
May 21 - Thall Joben/King Gorneesh $22.49
May 23 - Jord Dusat $$15
June 10 - Kubrick Droids Fett $53
June 20 - GG Boba bust $201
June 24 - MR special ops helmet $550

dumbass

[DSJ™]

Hmmm, I have not been keeping tabs on what I have bought thus far. Guess I'll have to look around for all my paper work and such. 

Update for May ($ in CDN, then updated to US $ at end)

Year Total = $7100.74 CDN = $5641.75 US

Whoa, I don't think I'll even come close to that total! 

[JesseVader08]

My budget for this year has already gone absolutely out the window. 

Truer words were never spoken Josh. 

[CorranHorn]

Must stop army building, it's killing my wallet as I've gone over the 1 grand mark. I coulda walked off with a dozen SA Clones today and had to restrain myself, oy!

Transformers:
1/2/05: 6x Takara SCF figures: $18
1/23/05: HOC Perceptor (via eBay): $4.24
               Takara SCF Act-5 Case (via eBay): $11.00
                * Total For Day: $15.24 *
2/10/05: HOC Full Wave 5 (via eBay): $29.99
2/19/05: Alternators Grimlock: $21.70

Year End Total: $84.93

Star Wars:
1/2/05: POTF Warok Coin: $3
2/2/05: VOTC Han Solo (thanks JJ!): $5.90
2/18/05: ROTS Sneak Preview Wave: $25.40
               OTC Gamorrean Guard: $1.08
               * Total For Day: $26.48 *
2/19/05: ROTS Sneak Preview Anakin Starfighter: $21.70
3/13/05: ROTS SP Wookiee Warrior: $5.27
3/19/05: ROTS Figures x2: $8.16 (thanks to a Wal-Mart employee who didn't care that she wasn't supposed to sell these and didn't care about the price.  )
               ROTS Droid Tri-Fighter: $21.74
               * Total For Day: $29.90 *
4/2/05:   ROTS ARC-170 Fighter: $31.45 (after $1 off coupon at Target register)
               ROTS Figures x6: $32.48 (after each got $1 off at Target register)
               ROTS Figures x8: $45.48 (at Walmart)
               * Total For Day: $109.41 *
4/6/05:   ROTS Figures x4: $5.69
4/12/05: ROTS Figures x6: $32.55
4/21/05-4/24/05: Celebration 3
              Got FFURG t-shirt x2 - $30
              Vintage ESB Millenium Falcon MIB - $200
              John Kellerman's Vintage Action Figure book (autographed) - $25
              Dark Horse Comics ROTJ Infinities book - $13
              8 Modern Figures for Custom Fodder - $20
              4 Vintage Figures for Custom Fodder - $4
              Vintage RL C-3PO in baggie - $5
              Repro Vintage R2 decal - $2
              C3 Darth Vader figure w/ case - $18
              C3 Royal Guard magnet - $5
              C3 Program - $5
              Reprint ROTJ Style A poster - $15
              MOC Grand Admiral Thrawn & star case (to be autographed by Timothy Zahn) - $16.60
              Chicago Force t-shirt - $15
              * Total For Celebration 3 Weekend: $373.60 *
4/26/05: ROTS Figures x7: $39.80
5/2/05: 20+ Vintage Vehicles/Playset Instructions & Catalogs, ROTJ INT-4 box, POTF Barada Coin: $28
5/7/05: ROTS Figures x5 + Deluxe Vader w/ Table: $33.58
5/9/05: Vintage Amanaman (via eBay): $44.59
5/15/05: ROTS Figures x4: $21.71
5/17/05: ROTS Figures x5: $28.43
5/18/05: ROTS Figures x6 + AT-RT: $48.28
5/21/05: ROTS Figures x6: $32.48
5/29/05: ROTS Figures x7: $39.80
               R2-D2 Beneath The Dome DVD: $2.70
               * Total For Day: $42.50 *
6/6/05: Vintage Light Brown Hair Luke Skywalker (via eBay): $40.48
6/10/05: ROTS Figures x6: $32.48
               ROTS Deluxe Figures (Crab Droid & Stass Allie) x2: $21.68
               * Total For Day: $54.16 *
6/14/05: Vintage Complete Han Carbonite w/ coin (via eBay): $64.01
6/17/05: ROTS Figures x4: $22.74
6/24/05: Vintage POTF General Lando w/ cape (via eBay): $18.76

Year End Total: $1,133.02

Another June update...

[Rob]

Well, I've given up completely on tracking my spending.

I've got the reciepts and all, but I've bought a lot of stuff at conventions and have no way of knowing what it all is.

Suffice it to say that I've probably spent about $2000 to $2500 so far - which is absurd.

Hell, I've got over $500 just wrapped up in Army Builders.

Maybe I'll go through the reciepts and try to fill in the blanks and come up with a number this weekend...

[Diddly]

Just passed over $600 with around $615 spent...

[Hemish]

Ok mine will be in Aussie dollars
January
$696.50!!!!!!

February
Total....$189

March $0 -Woohoo

April
Obiwan Rots MR saber - $590

May
Stormtrooper minibust - $110


June
Luke Xwing minibust - $55
Gam Gaurd minibust - $55
C3po mini bust - $55
Darth Vader and Boba Fett Theatre Wides - $70
Total for year so far.

$1820.5

[Mikey D]

Extremely slow month.  I'm waiting for those clearance sales.

6/2/2005   Wookiee Warrior (brown)/Clonetrooper (super articulated)    $11.00
6/3/2005   Clonetrooper (SA)/Operating Table Vader, Stass Allie, Crab Droid    $37.76

June SW Total: $48.76

SW Total to date: $1,285.32

[Brian]

June was pretty slow here as well, but it was ok to save a little bit of money this month.

June Star Wars

Target Cup with Figure - Han Solo - $12.99
Target Cup with Figure - Yoda - $12.99
R2-D2 #48 (with sounds) - $5.99

Total:  $31.97

June Non-SW

Fantastic Four Movie - Invisible Woman - $6.88

Total for June: $38.85

[Hemish]

Ok mine will be in Aussie dollars
January
$696.50!!!!!!

February
Total....$189

March $0 -Woohoo

April
Obiwan Rots MR saber - $590

May
Stormtrooper minibust - $110


June
Luke Xwing minibust - $55
Gam Gaurd minibust - $55
C3po mini bust - $55
Darth Vader and Boba Fett Theatre Wides - $70

July
Series 3 bust ups - $80
2 x Sacul - $70

Total for year

$1970.5

[JoshEEE]

I had hoped only to spend about 3500 this year. That averages out to 290 a month.

I've already spent more than 2500 and it's only July 1st, which means I'm averaging about 60 bucks too much each month.

New Unleashed, a ton of mini-busts I haven't paid for yet, and so much product coming out this year pretty much guarantee I'll top the total.  It's making me want to quit again, but I know I probably won't. 

[Morgbug]

No kidding:
Unleased - two figures
Bust Ups - 1 SW, 1 Simpsons series
Busts - Yoda, Vader, Han
Statues - Sideshow Vader, Obi
MR - SWS.com helmet, shock trooper helmet, FX anakin & Luke
Kubrick's - 2 series plus chase plus missing chase plus Rebo band
Gee, that's only about $2000 right there. 

VC Jawa
set of 12 backs ...................

[Jeff]

June Update:

Star Wars:
3x RotS Figure with Cup Sets (1x Han, Yoda, Fett)
7x RotS Basic Figures (1x #46, #47, #50; 2x #48, #49)
1x RotS Battle Vehicles (Wookiee Flyer)
1x RotS Deluxe Figures (1x RotS Clone Pack)

Other:
1x B:TAS Harley Quinn Kubrick Figure


January 2005 Total:   $191.51 with tax/shipping
February 2005 Total:   $30.28 with tax/shipping
March 2005 Total:   $96.29 with tax/shipping
April 2005 Total:   $1041.60 with tax/shipping
May 2005 Total:   $138.01 with tax/shipping
June 2005 Total:   $107.56 with tax/shipping

Star Wars: $1498.18
Other:  $107.07

Total = $1605.25

Well, I've now passed my budget of $1500 for the year, and the year is only half over.  I'd like to thank Hasbro for cramming 50 basic figures into a 4 month span causing me to seriously blow my budget.

I was looking at 56 RotS figures for 2005 and now we basically got them by July.     On the bright side, if you remove the April blip (C3 and Midnight Madnesss expenses), I'm actually stickig to my budget pretty well, so it's not a total loss I guess!


Jeff

[jadesfire]

Just passed the $4,000 mark with the Medicom Vader and Luke arriving this week. 
 Oh...it's a damn good thing Jay doesn't visit these forums.

[Diddly]

Just passed the $1000 mark. Good thing new figures haven't been found, otherwise I would have passed that months ago...