[Crazy Jetty]

Like the title says, what preferences influences your collecting habbits?

Franchise? (Example: "Star Wars man! Gotta have every last alien!")
Character? (Example: "ooo, I simply *must* have this Harley Quinn doll!"
Gimmick/Action feature? (Example: "Eww, I don't like how they have this guy's head spinning. Do not want.")
Articulation? (Example: "I refuse to buy a toy that has less than 15 points of articulation.")
How easy/Hard it is to complete a line?
Deco choices made for a figure?

And more involved, if you *are* a completionist, what sort are you? The kind who must have every single figure released in a line? Or are you a character completionist, where you have to have every version of a given character?

Myself, I tend to pick and choose, and often tend to be a character collector.
Such as Star Wars, I couldn't give two shakes about anything in that franchise, but I *have* to have every unique Asohka figure. MU as well, I'll only pick up characters that appeal to me.
Transformers, used to be anal about getting every one I could, but now I'm pick and choose over what appeals to me.
And DCUC, I'm not a completionist for the line as a whole, but I have to have every single lantern they release.

Gimmicks/action features have rarely positively influenced me (I did find Armada Scavenger's walking gimmick to be unbelievably fun though!) and more than a few times I've found it to kill what could have been a great figure, with a silly punching gimmick.

Articulation: I prefer about DCUC level articulation. Much more than that and it gets into rediculousness. It also depends on the size of the figure. Get down to smaller toys, the less they really need. I personally found DCIH to be about what was needed for that size. The excess articulation they got with the final molds of that line made them ackward and extremely fragile. But Articulation is not always a dealbreaker, either way.

Deco: Sometimes this influences me. I bought DotM Cyberfire Bumblebee based on his deco alone, where I haven't bought a movie Bumblebee since the first Concept Camero mold from the first movie.