[Kirathis]

Wow, the thread has been busy today.

Like most I have been rather underwhelmed by the announcements so far this year. I expect I will be heavily cherry-picking most of the waves. Like TBM and Nash I will be cutting back.

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

Out of curiosity, am I the only one who buys everyone anymore? I like having not just every character, but any different representation of their costumes too. And then there's the customs I work on. I swear that this year, I won't take on any new projects until I finish the 30+ I have planned.

I did it for awhile but stopped mid last year when I realized most of it was just to obtain a BAF or a result of my completionist mentality.

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Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy

I think the start of it was setting up my Legends display in my new collection room... the more I stare at the shelf, the more I'm realizing that 1) I'm starting to get a little tired of the repaints making me feel like I'm looking at the same figure over and over again, and 2) I really only care about having a good classic 616 version of my favorite characters on the shelf, as opposed to the more modern costumes. Also, about 80-90% of my display is mods or customs, and unique head sculpts not withstanding, I feel like punching myself each time I get a figure as part of a case that would only take me half an hour to just paint up myself using fodder I already have.
Ultimately, I've started up collecting Transformer stuff primarily, and put Legends on "highly selective cherry picking" status as the line has gotten kinda boring for me.

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Originally Posted by ultraman zoffy

I think the turning point for myself and most collectors is when you're forced to pack up your entire collection and move it. That situation alone tends to be a very eye-opening experience in letting a collector know when things might just be out of hand... lol.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

That is actually something I will be doing this year - getting a new house built, will probably be done around October. My figures have been in plastic bins for years now as I do not have room to display them, which is sad, because that means i buy them and throw them in the box and that's it. I just "have" them. This new house though is going to have nearly twice the space and I will have room to display them.

That has become my issue. Like Nash I have nearly no room. I have a small 1 bedroom apartment so display space is limited. I buy figures, they get unboxed and then generally end up in the plastic bins just like Nash described. Kind of takes some of the fun out of it.

I realized a few weeks back that nearly my entire bedroom closet and part of the floor is taken up with boxes of toys of some kind or another that I have not looked at in years. There were boxes upon boxes of toys from my childhood. I started going through my Transformers collection and all the old Toybiz Marvel figures getting most of them ready to sell off just so I can clear space.