[Skoob]

I'm with Tomax 100%. jwyss234 makes good points, but I favor appearance where he values articulation, and too often, one gets sacrificed for the other.

Some people are completists, gung-ho for a particular line or theme or genre, but I'm much more of a guerrilla collector, picking and choosing individual pieces that stand out for me in some way. I was a completist years ago, but the disappointments spoiled the whole experience of collecting, so I study the living daylights out of product reviews and only pull the trigger on things that I'm darned sure I want, which is very hard in its own way, because a lot of other people are doing the same thing, which means that pre-orders for the best stuff tend to sell out before I can get near them. But that's okay: there will always be another fish in the collector ocean as long as there is money to be made...