[Captain Nash]

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Originally Posted by Vex

In a rather unexpected move, I decided to sell much more of my collection than previously anticipated yesterday, including almost all of my Jim Lee X-Men. This led me to wonder the collecting habits of everyone else on this board. How do you collect your Legends?

Wow that's a pretty big step, but it's sometimes refreshing to let things go.

Now, how do I collect Legends? all of my legends are currently in boxes and have been for years. We are working on building a a new house, that was the plan when our old house was sold in April 2017. Unfortunately many things have delayed even the start of building the new house, most recently the Covid situation will likely delay it until late 2021. Until then space is limited. All that is to say I don't have a display of any kind...but I will one day at some point!!

Now once I do have room to display these, I don't know exactly how I will. I do know as far as figures go I'm getting really close to not needing too many redos of characters in certain costumes, and I'm also not for the most part not needing alternate costumes of characters we already have; though there are a few exceptions. Of course over the years I've got a lot of updated and duplicates of characters and may weed them out of the collection at some point.

It's mostly new, never done before characters now for me. The majority of my wants are X-Men related, then Avengers, then Spider-Man/F4/Daredevil and finally movie characters and other assorted characters - this includes both heroes and villains.

I'll likely have several displays of each "family" of characters. for X-Men ,Jim Lee era, classic Claremont (70's to mid 80's) and then probably a mix of modern-ish that won't be around a particular theme - House Of X might be mixed with All New Marvel etc. Also the Outback era X-Men if we were to get them, I think the main missing one for me there is Psylocke.

Avengers I'll probably go mostly classic on. Since I'm more inclined to just have one version of each character aside from Wasp and Iron Man, that shouldn't be too difficult, though I'm not opposed to having several different displays of team lineups. Kurt Busiek's Avengers run is my favorite run, which is why I'm so keen on getting Firestar and Justice, I'd really like to complete his initial team (after the first three issues which all Avengers took part in). Also not opposed to the early 90's team with Black Knight, Sersi, Crystal, etc.

Spider-Man has so many versions I don't even know how i'm going to display him. Probably at least two areas of display. General Marvel might get a couple of sections as well, one for more street level heroes and one for those whose power levels are a bit above that.

Finally likely some sort of cosmic display with GOTG and possibly some sort of display of Masters of Evil or assorted X-Villains and Spider-Man villains. I honestly have enough legends to go around on that.