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Collections / Re: Finally took pictures of my collection...
« on: July 24, 2006, 10:39 AM »
You boast the greatest collection I have ever seen online or otherwise. That setup looks great. I've seen so many loose collections look like hell, but this one is just amazing.

Now tell me....how frustrated do you get when one figure just randomly lands on your keyboard? ;)

Thanks!   It doesn't frustrate me at all, that's my girlfriend's desk - bless her heart.

A sneak preview clone trooper fell into a coffee mug once - I found the gun but didn't find the trooper until 3 days later, his arms and legs were completely brown.




Fair enough.  Same reason I'm selling off some of my stuff - too much space taken up and too much money going elsewhere.  I can't compete with the army building prowess you have, so I'm opting for small squads and that'll have to do. 

Again, just impressive.

Thanks Brent.   I've told myself that I'm participating in the great collector's challenge this year (without inhibiting my purchasing) to see what exactly I spend in a year.  My goal is going to be to reduce that number next year - and given the EU focus and some of the crap they showed at comic-con, it might not be too difficult to do.


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Collections / Re: Finally took pictures of my collection...
« on: July 24, 2006, 12:58 AM »
Proof to my wife that I'm not nearly so nutty as others.  Impressive Rob, most impressive.  A little narrow on the focus but we can't all be perfect.

There's tons of other stuff I want to collect - namely Kotobukiya and Gentle Giant - but don't for money reasons, and space reasons.  Someday though.

I've also stopped doing 12" since Sideshow aquired it.  Their product is amazing and makes the line a billion times better, but I can't justify $50.00 on a 12" figure that I'm going to open anyway.  Most of the ones I have I bought at shows for less than $10.00 a piece...



I'd also like to collect horror movie toys like I used to - but there just isn't a place for them...  :'(

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Collections / Re: Finally took pictures of my collection...
« on: July 24, 2006, 12:56 AM »
Thanks guys!


Wow!  Good stuff Rob. 

How do you keep it so clean?

It's nearly impossible.  It looks pretty clean in the pictures because I just recently spent a large number of hours taking everything down, dusting it all, and re-assembling it.

3 weeks from now it will all be dusty again, and will probably collect dust until next year when I gather up the energy to do it all again.

I'm also going to shop around for some type of air purifier later this year to hopefully reduce the amount of dust in the room - but it's generally an uphill battle.

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Collections / Photos of the collection... February 2020 Update
« on: July 23, 2006, 07:09 PM »
New Photos for February of 2020... theoretically this is the last set before we buy a place and I get a little more space...





































































































































































































































Thanks for looking!

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: U-shaped bar from Cantina
« on: July 23, 2006, 12:57 PM »
Bom Vimdin and the Tonnika Sisters are the best of what's left as far as I'm concerned...

But it will probably be a repainted Hammerhead.

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Found #3 yesterday... but everything I've found has been crushed - so I'm still looking for one for the wall before I open too many more hopefully.

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JD Sports Forum! / Re: JD Fantasy Football 2006
« on: July 23, 2006, 12:50 PM »
That makes 3 forum draft, 1 live draft.



Anyone else want to vote before the season starts?   :P

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30th Anniversary Collection / Re: Comic-Con 06
« on: July 23, 2006, 01:32 AM »
Rob Vader's Starfighter wasn't made up, I think it was from that Dark Lord book.

EU, made-up... same thing to me. :)





My latest thinking on all of this is that I'm not going to buy hardly any of this EU stuff.

If I stumble across some of it in cheap bins at collecting shows, I'll fill in the gaps in the collection - but this has just about killed the completist in me.

And I'm glad about that at least.

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It shouldn't be a big deal if you order early.

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The Vintage Collection / Re: Willrow Hood Confirmed For '07!
« on: July 22, 2006, 01:34 AM »
ICMG has gone from in-joke between 6-7 guys at the old BHC to getting joked about by Hasbro.  We've come a long way, baby, but...we've only just begun

I think this is part of the problem... maybe they think the whole thing is a big joke.

And while it may have started that way, but it isn't. 



The most telling part of that slide was the part that said 'we really listen' or whatever it said...

It only shows that they listen, and then they essentially don't give a ****.

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I'm sure they thought they were being funny, but they didn't realize that they were pissing off pretty much every long-time collector who would LOVE to see those figures (yes, all of them) made.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Imperial Officer 5 Pack
« on: July 21, 2006, 08:01 PM »
Where's the conference table!?

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Imperial Officer 5 Pack
« on: July 21, 2006, 06:13 PM »
Tarkin's face isn't very good (almost looks like the e3 version, is it?) but this is one of the few things Hasbro's shown so far that interests me.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Super Battle Droid (Island Camo)
« on: July 21, 2006, 05:48 PM »
Yeah, there are a handful of items that I like.  But the number of items that I don't outweighs it by about 4 to 1.

I just have to get over the completist thing, which kind of started happening with OTC with the repaints.  I started buying just repaints that made things into new figures - like troops and such.

But this EU stuff and the made up stuff, and the use of older outdated sculpts and kitbashing has me at a breaking point of sorts.

Hasbro is doing their part to break my mental block towards the idea of not buying at least two of everything.

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Saga Collection '06 / Re: Super Battle Droid (Island Camo)
« on: July 21, 2006, 05:32 PM »
I think I'm going to spend 2007 starting a carded vintage collection.

Seriously.

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