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Originally Posted by Prowl 2009

What would you guys recommend is a good collection of Super Mario figures to collect? Especially Mario, Luigi, Bowser and such.

It seems to me that the PopCo/Goldie/Global Holdings 5" or 2" are your main choices, I would be happy for anyone else to tell me otherwise.

I initially opted for the 5" option, then convinced myself that 2" was much better due to space, went to the shop to buy them, looked at the 5" figures again and decided that the sculpts were that much better that they were definitely the way to go.

I reckon it's inevitable that at some point we will get a line of posable Nintendo characters, (probably not long after PopCo finish their current line!), so from that point of view perhaps the 2" is better as it's cheaper. I see the current lines as fillers until that happens.

Mario and Luigi are available in both size points, Bowser is planned (see Nintendo 2-4" Figure Collector Case with Bowser Figure - Nintendo Figures and Nintendo 5" Classic Figure Series 03 - Set of 5 - Nintendo Figures), but the later figures have been a long long time coming.

These figures (or similar ones) have been available in Japan for a while now and you can probably get most of the figures together if you ebay them. I'm not sure what the deal with Bowser is though, as he seems a bit small, which hopefully won't be the case with the PopCo ones if they ever see the light of day.

Hope that helps!