[Crazy Jetty]

My collecting is cutting back, partially due to lack of funds, and partially due to lack of interest.
Transformers for a few years has been on uninteresting grounds. I haven't had much excitement for the franchise for a long time, outside of niche interests. Killing animated killed my excitement. RotF put out almost nothing that I wanted. DotM has a total of four figures I want. Universe was about half and half. Generations and RtS survives my disinterest by putting out amazing characters like Skullgrin, Straxus, Kup, and Jazz. The amount of unexpected from those gets my dollar.

My purchasing of DCUC consists almost exclusively on character appeal. Blue Beetle? I'm there! Tir? Big pass.

When MU was announced, I had every intentions of getting every single character. But ended up buying nothing. My disinterest in the Marvel Universe had become perminant, I guess. I couldn't drum up any excitement for it, like I could DCIH.

DCIH I had every intention of being a completionist. Shoddy distribution saw an end to that. I never saw more than a quarter of them.

On the otherhand, my collecting is increasing in other ways.
I'm now hooked on Green Lantern, and have to be a completionist with every single DCUC and GLC lantern that gets released.
And in an unexpected way, thanks to how wonderfully good MLP:FiM is, I've ended up collecting all the main cast.
I fought and fought myself against it. But at $5 a pop, I can walk out with a character I really, really love without aching in the bank account, so long as I can tolorate a little embarrisment at the checkout.