Collection End Game?

[hokietwo]

I've finally finished up my permanent space for the long haul. This is a custom built area of 38 DF120s from Moduspace I made this myself. Still keeping 12 detolfs as well to display my favorite singles and customs cleanly.

As for the collection status I have more figures than I could ever get to display so it is pretty much a swap out policy now, when one comes in something goes out. I'm going to pivot into photography and figure release reviews now that I got the setup where I want now. My time is finally freed up to get into it so finishing up my cinema rig and stands, formulating the review space and podcast areas now.

 

[MGS_OldBoy57]

Now that’s a sweet display

 

[goatchumby]

I've finally finished up my permanent space for the long haul. This is a custom built area of 38 DF120s from Moduspace I made ithis myself. Still keeping 12 detolfs as well to display my favorite singles and customs cleanly.

As for the collection status I have more figures than I could ever get to display so it is pretty much a swap out policy now, when one comes in something goes out. I'm going to pivot into photography and figure release reviews now that I got the setup where I want now. My time is finally freed up to get into it so finishing up my cinema rig and stands, formulating the review space and podcast areas now.

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[Nick D]

Nice display, though a collection that big scares me. What will you do with it all bro.

 

[hokietwo]

Nice display, though a collection that big scares me. What will you do with it all bro.

Oh. eventually sell most of it off. I have ticks about how I store and keep my figures together and I've been watchful about what I buy that retains value. HT and their 2.0s impacted my collection mentality, in a way I am glad cause it pushed me to organize what I really want to keep around and now start to jettison the rest.

I have a huge vice for stormtroopers and troopers in general, probably close to 200 pieces and they are going nowhere. But lets be real do they ever go out of style? LoL

 

[Nick D]

I find myself actively running from collecting.

I recently received the DF1801 and found myself quickly disassembling the three smaller cases and storing them for spare parts, leaving me to only three DF120’s.

My brain won’t let me collect for some reason, I either have to get each figure as perfect as I can, or not buy it at all. I hate storing boxes and the thought of not being able to up and leave with a girl if I’d like isn’t appealing to me. I’ve collected expensive clothing and shoes since I was in high school so I suppose that’s why I’m a bit burnt out on collecting anything.

 

[hokietwo]

Yeah we all come at this from different life stages and get into vices, If I picked up and ran off with a girl my wife would chop my balz and take half my worth (and my figures) so that's unfortunately out. I'm lucky to have a place to store everything in a area of my home. So no storage costs and its like a encyclopedia room of figures by genre and scales.

 

[Nick D]

Ha!

No wife for me yet (20’s), too many girls,
I’m lucky to remember their names unfortunately, or fortunately.

Part of me would like to settle and build a family, but the other part likes college girls too much.

 

[hokietwo]

Ha!

No wife for me yet (20’s), too many girls,
I’m lucky to remember their names unfortunately, or fortunately.

Part of me would like to settle and build a family, but the other part likes college girls too much.

Matthew definitely got it right on this one…..haha. (Purely those of age disclaimer! Lololol)

 

[Nick D]

Haha no way! 19-23 is the age bracket.

No college freshmen, no college grads of years past.

If I’m being honest I’ve come across some real knockout keepers but they’re college girls so you have to keep your distance emotionally.

They really are the best though, they don’t bombard you with requests or make you gut the kitchen and prep for a remodel, they just want to endlessly makeout, get obnoxiously drunk and have fun.

 

[Felinx]

Nice display, though a collection that big scares me. What will you do with it all bro.

Hmm, I think I'm above even that - I'm probs at 250 figs by now. And only one fig not on display, though they are all behind solid doors that have to be opened to view.

I don't buy a huge amount these days, but only because (fortunately) the focus is more on newer stuff than classics like OT SW.

 

[a-dev]

I find myself actively running from collecting.............. the thought of not being able to up and leave with a girl if I’d like isn’t appealing to me.......

No wonder you didn't end up getting the Jazzinc Batmobile. Try running around with that thing. I cancelled mine too by the way. It's just too damn big and heavy and I have enough of a problem to deal with as it is.

 

[Nick D]

No wonder you didn't end up getting the Jazzinc Batmobile. Try running around with that thing.

Haha seriously! My love for accuracy
got the better of me and I wasn’t correctly thinking,
I don’t need a giant ‘89 Batmobile, I need college girls!

I cancelled mine too by the way. It's just too damn big and heavy and I have enough of a problem to deal with as it is.

It is so massive and to get stuck with a badly painted orange peel version like one of the collectors who recently posted here, for what’s $2k USD isn’t flying for me. I feel like you made the right decision, apologies for talking you into a FOMO purchase, though the NRD refund was clutch.

 

[a-dev]

Haha seriously! My love for accuracy
got the better of me and I wasn’t correctly thinking,
I don’t need a giant ‘89 Batmobile, I need college girls!

It is so massive and to get stuck with a badly painted orange peel version like one of the collectors who recently posted here, for what’s $2k USD isn’t flying for me. I feel like you made the right decision, apologies for talking you into a FOMO purchase, though the NRD refund was clutch.

The flaws are unfortunate but I might have accepted them myself so I didn't ask for a return of the NRD - for me it really was the size and weight in conjunction with the fact I have a mountain to climb already with a massive excess of toys built up over the years that I need to sell or otherwise get rid of. I still hadn't done anything about all that so, in the end - just as FOMO made me place the order - in a way it was FOMO that made me cancel it. Fear of missing the opportunity to cancel before I brought a massive new headache down on myself. It would have been lunacy for me to proceed with the order in my particular circumstance.

 

[Nick D]

That was a nice gesture to not ask for the NRD back, did they return it to you anyways? I believe all cancellations on it get m it back though I may be mistaken. I just couldn’t let $300 go like that for no reason, that money could be used on alcohol.

But yeah don’t want to tote that thing around with me, in fact, I just listed the HT Tumbler 2.0 up for sale still brand new.

I’m content watching others collections instead of building my own to such a degree. I think I’ll do just fine with only 16 figures, an armory and a Bat-Pod. I’m about to shell out $710 for a custom Ledger sculpt and to me that takes priority over everything else in the collection.

 

[a-dev]

That was a nice gesture to not ask for the NRD back, did they return it to you anyways? I believe all cancellations on it get m it back though I may be mistaken. I just couldn’t let $300 go like that for no reason, that money could be used on alcohol.

They didn't refund it but it wasn't my understanding that they were literally going to refund it for every cancellation - it was an offer to everyone who was not happy with the final product. That offer could certainly have been open to abuse but I didn't want to do that. And I may wish to buy from Jazzinc in the future. For me it's gotta be a lesson, just don't order anything of that magnitude again, least not as long as my collection is in the state it's in.

But yeah don’t want to tote that thing around with me, in fact, I just listed the HT Tumbler 2.0 up for sale still brand new.

I’m content watching others collections instead of building my own to such a degree. I think I’ll do just fine with only 16 figures, an armory and a Bat-Pod. I’m about to shell out $710 for a custom Ledger sculpt and to me that takes priority over everything else in the collection.

I respect that. Child me would never have believed that one day I'd be jealous not of the warehouse-sized collections but of the small ones. Trouble is, after-the-fact, when you've already amassed so much stuff it's hard to let enough of it go that I could call what's left a small collection.

 

[Rotfish]

Great thread! These meta conversations are always a treat.

I'm in my late 20s and have collected high-end since high school. Back then it was Hot Toys figures, now I've got some statues and busts as well.

My ultimate goal is to have 10-20 pieces total, half of which are my core and half of which can be cycled for whatever catches my fancy. I'd only sell a core piece if a better version of it comes along (this means same character and similar scale), which is pretty rare when we're talking about classics like the SWS Queen Alien bust.

My cycling section will probably dwindle with time and, when I finally call it quits, I'll likely be left with just my core pieces: a handful of definitive representations of my all-time favorite characters: Alien, Predator, Conan, and Terminator.

Two years later and we're right on schedule. Done with the flights of fancy; they just don't resonate like they should for how expensive these things have gotten.

10 pieces currently (including scaled busts), all core properties. Darkness has been added to that list, the cheeky red devil. Nothing from Terminator; companies aren't interested in producing a T1 Arnold in 1/3 or 1/4 at the moment and the Endos out there don't check all of my idiosyncratic boxes. Picky? Perhaps. Pockets better off? Kind of. This economy, am I right?

The end is very much in sight, save for two or three releases which will likely replace pieces I already own.

Trouble is, after-the-fact, when you've already amassed so much stuff it's hard to let enough of it go that I could call what's left a small collection.

Trouble selling or too attached?

 

[Warthog81]

I sometimes get bored with my collection and think about selling, have around 50 figures, but no idea what other hobby I would do and I might well miss this big time if I did get out. Did think about selling my 1/6 and going for less 1/4 items but sadly the kind of classics I want are not made in 1/4 scale.

 

[ZE_501]

Spider-Man, R2, Premium Scale Bumblebee, Keaton Bats, S-Hero TNBA-ish Bats. That's all I have. The way it sits for me now, I'll probably never have more than 7 to 9 items. They're just accent pieces that I really enjoy mixed into my bookshelves. There are figures I really admire from movies I enjoyed a lot, but for one reason or another I don't feel the need to own 'em. I guess I'm still a 'collector' but only barely.

 

[a-dev]

Trouble selling or too attached?

Attached. While on the one hand I'm jealous of other people's streamlined and more adult high-end 1/6-only collections, I can't seem to let go of my Hasbro Star Wars collection and my NECA collection. I can reduce those and I did, but they're still there competing for space. One way to reduce further would be to only display toys from the recognized classic movies and movies that I in particular love - but dammit those NECA Aliens VS Predator figures are so nice, the Kenner tribute figures are so well done, the Turtles II SOTO figures like Tokka and Rahzar are beautiful. The few horror figures I have are beautiful and of iconic characters and creatures, even if it's not my favorite genre. And so on.....