Talk about a sad, sad day.  

Today was the first day (of many) that I have started taking down my collection.  I've been working on it for 3 hours, packing everything away neatly in boxes.  The reason for that is that my wife & I are going to start searching for a new home soon, and I need to pack all this up before we put our townhouse on the market.  It's so depressing see bare walls with nothing up on them, and my little dioramas (nothing compared to Sandtrooper Dan's, of course) are just gone.  I'll take a picture of the room when I get it emptied out.

But, the good thing about this is that when we find a house, the basement will be 100% devoted toward my Star Wars collection.  My wife, Carrie, has agreed that I can do whatever I want to do with decorating it.  Not sure what I have in mind, but it will depend if we get a house with a finished or unfinished basement.

Anyone know if there's any truth to the rumor that Lucas asked Natalie to get a boob job and she declined?

What's wrong with what she currently has?

When I first saw that cover shot with Grievous on it I was like, "Damn, does he look sweet or what!?"  Obviously this is a going to be another 100% CGI character, but that doesn't bother me much with how well Yoda was done in AOTC.  I'm really looking forward to seeing this character in the movie.  I read somewhere online that Grievous will face up against Boba Fett in EP3.  Is that true or just a rumor?

My question is, is the prices of these diecasts going up or does the bidders really want it that bad?  $101.00    

I think it's that people just don't do their homework and they don't try shopping for it at a cheaper price.  Dale, you getting that for only $15 is an incredible steal though.  I've seen these go for up to $50 if they're carded and the card is in somewhat decent condition.

Happy birthday David!  Hope you had a ton 'o fun on your day, and hopefully you got some cool stuff.

Simply amazing.  Very impressive.  Keep up the good work.  

Thanks for the nice compliments!

dustrho & DSJ would you guys have a problem with me posting my collection pics?  The only Star Wars related items are Unleashed and Kubrick's and a couple other pieces.  The majority is McFarlane and some other stuff.

I'd be happy to host your pictures on my site.  Send me an instant message on AOL and we'll chat about it.  My screen name is dustrho123.

Nice picture there Thomas!  This is a cool topic.  About a year or so ago I looked through all the photo albums at my parents' house looking for pictures like that, and out of say 15 huge albums I only found four pics with me and Star Wars toys.  Of course they're all from Christmas time.  Here they are...

http://www.chrisrhoads.com/starwars/childhood.htm