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Your collection's evolution?
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07-28-2012, 08:11 PM
fireflyguy
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Wow. Seems like it's a work in progress.
As a kid, I was a "completist". I'd get my hands on anything Joe my relatives would give me.
I was able to resist the urges to buy toys when I got into jr. high and high school as well as college, so that means I missed the neon years and the VvV and spy troops stuff, as well as the DTC stuff. I was tempted, but time and finances didn't permit as I was going through college and med school/residency.
The 25th hit just right for me as I started working and had a little more disposable income. At first, I was only gonna get Firefly, because he was my favorite character. But this prompted me to buy the vintage figure because I couldn't find mine. Then I discovered that there were more versions of FF out there, so I bought those too.
My brother had my Tomahawk and vamp, and I was able to get them from him before we had a falling out. I bought a TTBP off of eBay as I have no idea where my original one is, and I bought a WHALE that I restored because I always wanted one as a kid but never got it.
I bought a 25th Beachhead, which I noticed looked like FF, and this got me into customizing. That was a whole new sickness.
I worked in getting vintage things I either had as a kid and really liked or didn't have as a kid but really wanted. I was still keeping my collection really small, collecting only FF, BH and SE. At that point, we didn't have ME Ripcord, Lowlight or Crazylegs, so I customized them.
I kept buying figures that I could customize with, and RoC really bolstered that. The when PoC was released, I couldn't resist all the cool figures. I started lightly troop building --- 3-5 of certain troops. This has continued up to now. If the figure is cool, or if I can use it for parts or accessories, I buy it. I still buy a few vintage pieces here and there. I still customize somewhat. I buy just about every FF I can get my hands on. I have three separate "collections" ---- 1) loose/displaed --- which encompasses about 70% of my collection, 2) MOC, which is 5-10% of my collection, 3) and the remaining 20-25% is what you might refer to as the "Barbie collection" --- they are some of my favorite figures from the 25th on that I have, loose, in a large Plano tackle box, each in there own little compartments, that I get out from time to time and mix and match accessories to make even more awesome-looking figures. I'll probably show pics of it all sometime here on the tank.
So I guess bottom line is that I have opened the boundaries of my collection somewhat over the last 5 years.
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