Fritz
My muse is a fickle b**ch
For me it's going to be simple, whoever makes 1/4 scale figures, either mixed media or fully sculpted statues and whoever makes Legendary Scale or 1:1 Busts will get my business.
Wasn't it Gino Acevedo's connection with SS folks that got SS the LOTR license? Now that Weta has struck out on their own, I'm not sure if the quality and packaging of the statues were the same quality as the SS/W joint venture. I've seen the quality of Kong, Narnia, and other Weta only merchandise, and I'm not sure if they have the same feel and heft as the SS/W stuff.
I won't get too many PF's from it if they are made. My focus will be on any Dio's and 1:6th figures with a few busts from say GG mixed in. I'll of course get some statues but I will be as picky with them as I am with my SSW collection.
I had a bunch of the Weta Narnia and Kong stuff and it was just as good as any of the LOTR Sideshow Weta poly.
I have always wanted a Smaug polystone statue. I believe I am on record as saying (at the LOTR Guide forums) a few years ago, I'd spend $500 on Smaug, if thats what it took.
$500 back then, but now it just might be...).
It's too bad we're not neighbours, you could collect the dio's and 12" and I could collect the LS Busts and 1/4 Scale. It would be perfect. Well perfect if the neighbour on the other side had the whole Weta collection.
... and the guy across the street the entire UC Collection, and his neighbour the entire Toybiz collection, and the other neighbour the entire AOME collection, and the the guy down the street the entire Games Workshop collection...
A collectors' collective?
...otherwise it'll be like that one episode of X-Files where that creature is summoned in the planned community to eliminate unruly homeowners.
Exactly! I vote we all move into a Sideshow Freaks gated community. I volunteer to be community president for the first term. Make sure you all keep your grass cut, your yards nice and tidy and don't leave any mess on your driveways otherwise it'll be like that one episode of X-Files where that creature is summoned in the planned community to eliminate unruly homeowners.
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