How many full figures have you bought now? I bought 4. The rest parts. 6 figures total and my crawling T-800 isn't even an actual DX13 for the most part - just the head, jacket, right hand, left arm and bandolier.
I have some bits for a 7th and 8th but might not actually go so far as the 8th.
i bought only 3 complete figures, the rest are spare parts. i'll have 6 full variants and a plan for arm/head sticking out of lava, though i don't know how to do that.
normally i put 1 figure for 1 change of looks or accessories. i don't go for every memorable scene, because i just don't have enough space for that.
but this BD figure became an exclusion, as its looks don't change in 3 figures: a rod through the body, a final grenade shot, a goodbye scene (which i will assemble today). so the only thing they will differ is positioning, and unlike T1, T2 gives more different poses: a beaten terminator, a final attack terminator and a terminator chatting with humans about his chip.
so, as you're planning for 8 figures, you'll remain ahead of me with my 6 and a head )
also, if you bought 4 complete figures, it means 8 heads to find their places, so you
will go for 8 variants eventually anyway ))) that's how it was for me - i have no spare parts now except for tons of grenades and palms. and M16s which aren't used on my figures at all, except for the SWAT variant which has it on its back inaccurately to the movie, just for a cool look.
what was your most absurd purchase of parts? for me it was a non-damaged grenade launcher to put it into a weapons bag (for the "arriving to cyberdyne" scene) where nobody even sees it )))
it sounds like a purchase for a DX10 figure, but it's not so, because it was already there but was taken out for the "scanning" scene of DX13.
purchasing several sets of MMS117 boots could be called absurd, too, but it's not, as figures made from parts needed some boots anyway, and of course they had to be MMS117, not DX13.