Do you have a 'collecting theme' you stick to?

[fosing]

1:6 Anti-Heroes...majority of mine is. horror and sci-fi.

and a few masked heroes.

 

[Darth Madden]

Right now my theme is sell, sell, sell. Selling everything off is a real good way to determine what you trully like and what you just think is neat. I have sold off so many things that I don't miss for one second (DX Joker) and decided to save some things that I really would miss (15" Sam, Chucky & Tiffany) so purging is a great way to determine a theme for me. My theme is going to be things I really like and think are great and not things that just look cool but don't really wow me.

 

[Dr.Mirakle32]

1/6th scale figures first and foremost. From there I collect Marvel and DC characters, as well as classic horror and any other iconic characters from films I love.

 

[Silas72]

I started way way back with picking up things I liked in the horror genre, Hellraiser 7", tortured souls 7 & 12" I really liked McFarlanes early stuff, but didn't have the room or money. Then I got older and a better job and discovered the SSC New Line Horror figures. But they started getting crazy with all the variations. I stuck with classic versions for me. Jason pt 3' Michael H1, Freddy pt 1. Got caught up in the variations and PO world and then boycotted for a while. Then I saw the PF Godfather and thought it would be nice, which it was for a while. Then I saw the HT Godfather and was blown away by the detail, accessories, diorama. Makes the PF look like crap...hence I'm selling. I decided that 1/6 is the way for me. I grew up with the original GI Joes, Bionic Man, SW, mego Batman & Robin, Superman 12 inch and then everything got smaller...7"...3". That's why I went nuts and bought the crap GI Joe HOF when they came out in 1990's and why my son has literally 25 GI Joe 12 inch now. Then as I saw them evolve with earlier Terminator & Pred versions, I held off due to space and stupidly the "pose able model kits" truly prevented me from ordering early Preds, no other reason. But as they evolved and the coolness factor does it for me. I am hooked. I don't desire alter ego figures but like the IM WM heads included. I now PO anything I remotely like. Spent enough in secondary buying what I wanted...still a few left I would pay a premium. I would say movies are the dominant theme, action horror and scifi. But if it has a cool factor for me, which probably touches some childhood GI Joe nerve, I will buy it. Good thread.

 

[EndoSickness]

Collecting Theme, interesting subject.
I guess my theme is to try (and so far I succeed) to get my interests represented by the best possible figure, but always have a watch on the price, for example T1 Arnold.
That´s absolutely the best figure and the cheapest also, same with T2 Arnold and the T-1000 on the Terminator side, that´s why I sold my McF and NECA Terminator.
On the more cheaper side I started with comics and figures again with Spawn and I have many different Spawn.
Those Spawn do represent my taste of looks pretty much, like Mandarin Spawn, or Samurai Spawn, but also so the sleak designs in form of the i.095 Spawn.
So I´m trying to say, if I say anything is that I don´t buy all stuf from all series, but wanna have ALL the stuff that´s important to me in the way that I´m happy, but don´t get broke and also don´t oversaturate my shelves.
All in style and quality, always rankin´ quantity quite far down on the line.

 

[Jill Sandwitch]

If I had to absolutely chose a theme it would be fantasy related medieval armored warriors*knights,vikings,samurai*,barbarians*sole reason why I want BG Teela* and ninjas with the occasional video game,comic*Black Widow,Power Girl and Batgirl* or anime figure.

that said I mostly collect action figures of characters I like*most of which just happen to be female...* from video games,comics and very rarely anime* I plan to eventualy get a 1/6 Cutey Honey and Rei Ayanami* and movies*Alice from RE*

 

[EndoSickness]

If I had to absolutely chose a theme it would be fantasy related medieval armored warriors*knights,vikings,samurai*,barbarians*sole reason why I want BG Teela* and ninjas with the occasional video game,comic*Black Widow,Power Girl and Batgirl* or anime figure.

that said I mostly collect action figures of characters I like*most of which just happen to be female...* from video games,comics and very rarely anime* I plan to eventualy get a 1/6 Cutey Honey and Rei Ayanami* and movies*Alice from RE*

Good call.
If I would´ve to choose to collect only one thing it would be Terminator.
No brainer for me...

 

[ChunkyZergling]

By far my main field is any Blizzard Entertainment computer game unit or character. I bought every Blizzard figure starting with the 1998 Protoss Zealot to the Troll Hunter I just bought today in 2012. Recently I've expanded my interests. I get stuff from movies (Indiana Jones), comic book characters (Batman, Spawn, Spiderman and Venom, and other video games (Resident Evil) I love. That's it. But my main interest is still in Blizzard computer game sculpts.

 

[RagingBull]

With the exception of my Avatar AMP Suit, two PF's & EB's 1/4 Bruce Lee, I'm pretty much dedicated to 1/6. I try to stick with just one or two characters from a film with the exception of Star Wars but I'll only collect figures from the OT where there is still way to many characters, so no good guys, just the main villians & Aliens I love from the film. Other than that, my collection is mainly HT but I'm open to other companies like Entetbay & Blitzway who have just grabbed my attention with what looks like to be an awesome Scareface figure. I've started getting in to 3A to, I just love there designs & colour ways they come out with, I just think they give my collection something more & there not overly expensive either but I only collect there Robots, even though there human figures look awesome but I can't have everything and I've learnt not to look back on figures I've missed out on to because that's when this hobby gets REALLY expensive

 

[rawkneehuang]

I've learnt not to look back on figures I've missed out on to because that's when this hobby gets REALLY expensive

I'm still learning.

 

[lerath666]

1/6th scale action figures/dolls for me. and it's primarily nostolgiabomb. I'm buying premium collectibles of toys i had and loved as a kid.... or a few years ago.

 

[cokebabies]

"What I Like"

 

[cplhicks]

I'm mostly a 1/6 guy but I do have a few statues (Wonder Woman #600 next week! )

I mainly collect figures from movies. I do collect a few comic book stuff but most of that is in Statue form (Cover girls of the DC unvirese and Batman B&W)

1/6 movie figures will always be number 1 for me.

Although if I could afford it I'd be in to pf's. I love mixed media statues so it's a no brainer. Unfortunely I only have one (ASH) as I got a sweet deal on it locally from a LCS durning a boxing week sale. So that will be my one and only for now.

 

[Kicksplode]

I don't have any particular format I stick to. I have a mixture of 1:6 figures, statues, mini-busts, and even a few normal action figures left over from my earlier collecting days. I just go for whatever speaks to me in terms of design.

At the moment I've been confining my purchases mostly to Star Wars and superheroes. I don't really have the money or space to include all the franchises I'd like to. Even the collectibles that fall outside those boundaries I've been selling or trading. I just offloaded the Hot Toys T-800 for a Medicom Dark Knight Batman, and I'm about to throw my Hot Toys Thriller MJ on eBay. Some day when I move to a larger place and have an office I can display my statues and figures in, I'll look into adding something for Terminator, Bruce Lee, G.I. Joe, etc. For now, I'm content to be more choosy about what I buy.

 

[Kibishii]

Marvel & Resident Evil with some Star Wars & Hot Toys movie characters mixed in.

The Star Wars has been rapidly shrinking over the years...

 

[godaiking]

I'm all over the place when it comes to my collection.

1/6 figures, lifesize statues, Maquettes, Vintage/newer toys.

Predator 1, Terminator, Star Wars, Aliens, Robocop, Bruce Lee, Michael Jackson, G1 Transformers, Random Hot Toys, Anime & Tokusatsu chogokins and figures, Macross...etc...

 

[Texlander]

If you mean types of stuff, I started out just collecting regular figures, especially fond of the NECA figures in the movie and Cult Classics lines. I only got into 1/6 for one simple reason: HIGHLANDER

I bought the Sideshow figures, and then a few years later discovered how large a community there was and what options there were, and decided to make my OWN Highlander figures. Now I have 25 custom Highlander figures of several major characters, and have even started commissioning head sculpts.

So while I'll collect just about anything in the 7" and 12" range, I don't branch out too far in 1/6 outside of Highlander unless I really, really love a property, and even then I usually just limit it to one character or so.

The only official 1/6 figure I've bought outside of Highlander has been the new Hot Toys Christopher Reeve Superman. And after paying that much, I don't know if I'll be branching out again soon.

 

[fuzzylojiks]

1:4 scale FS statues.

 

[batfan08]

Currently, I only collect Hot Toys. Anything that I already have that isn't 1/6th, I'm selling. As far as Hot Toys go, I try to limit it to DC licenses, but I do make exceptions for characters that really have made an impression.(Indy, Jack, The Godfather,etc.)

 

[willocrew]

I used to collect 1/6 but the last 1/6 I bought was the soldier story CIA SAD version 1. Almost caved in to buy the mkiv iron man a couple of months ago but alas it was not to be.

The only 1/6 I will be planning to buy in the future will be batman 1989 and The Matrix if it ever comes out. Dont think I'll be buying any 1/6 outside of that.

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