I'm not sure if a thread like this already exists but it doesn't seem like the kind of thing I could search for so....
This is a thread for communing with your collecting brothers and sisters about the great pain you feel in not being able, or not allowing yourself, to buy something you really wish you could.
- What is the item(s) and what is your reason(s) for trying to avoid it?
- Have you been successful in resisting the lure of a particular item in the past? Are you glad or regretful?
- Have you ever fallen off the wagon and why? How did you justify the purchase after-the-fact....or could you?
If it stays active (assuming it gets any replies at all!) it should be a thread for strengthening your resolve as you see that others are having similar struggles, though equally it could break your resolve. Peril may lie here.
Depending on my mood there seems to be new temptations every day. I'm trying to limit my 1/6th collection to Sci-fi/fantastical movie licences (as I have always bought into in some form) while also limiting myself within that category to certain favourites. "Trying" being the important word there. However I seem to keep wanting to extend my horizons to both non-sci-fi/fantasy and also licenses within sci-fi fantasy that I have never previously had much interest in - just because the figures look cool and because of a wish for diversity in my collection.
Current temptations:
-Hot Toys Inglorious Basterds Aldo Raine
-DID Captain Miller (Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan)
-DID Clauss Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise, Valkyrie)
If I buy these I know I would feel compelled to also buy DIDs Enemy at the Gates figures (Ed Harris and Jude Law), Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds, any further Saving Private Ryan characters from DID etc etc I'd be launching into a whole new theme in my collection. I know I couldn't just have one.
-Hot Toys Tony Stark Mech Test Suit
-Hot Toys Blade
-the yet to be shown Hot Toys Predators line
Ok I have the original Hot Toys Iron Man Mark III but that was kind of an impulse buy. I thought I wanted it because it looked cool but more likely it was just to buy something new for the sake of getting something new and filling in the time before something I really wanted came out. In any case, I have the figure, and the new Tony Stark looks incredible with a great likeness this time - I've been in the habit of buying the superheroes and their regular guy alter egos. Do I bother to continue doing that on a license I'm not hugely into?
Then theres Blade, now I think hes out of stock on my usual sites and I don't use ebay so I might consider this one successfully resisted - but it was tough going there for awhile. Again, a case of the figure looking really cool and having a good likeness...but when was I ever into Blade? Never. And I don't really consider him one of, or existing in the same universe as, the superheroes despite being under the banner of Marvel.
Finally theres the recently announced Hot Toys Predators line. Theres going to be a lot of hype as there was for AvP:R. I succumbed to this hype and I bought figures from that...but I definitely hold those figures less dear out of all my collection..because the film is crap. Predators could end up likewise. Do I risk falling into the same trap?
So whats your story?
This is a thread for communing with your collecting brothers and sisters about the great pain you feel in not being able, or not allowing yourself, to buy something you really wish you could.
- What is the item(s) and what is your reason(s) for trying to avoid it?
- Have you been successful in resisting the lure of a particular item in the past? Are you glad or regretful?
- Have you ever fallen off the wagon and why? How did you justify the purchase after-the-fact....or could you?
If it stays active (assuming it gets any replies at all!) it should be a thread for strengthening your resolve as you see that others are having similar struggles, though equally it could break your resolve. Peril may lie here.
Depending on my mood there seems to be new temptations every day. I'm trying to limit my 1/6th collection to Sci-fi/fantastical movie licences (as I have always bought into in some form) while also limiting myself within that category to certain favourites. "Trying" being the important word there. However I seem to keep wanting to extend my horizons to both non-sci-fi/fantasy and also licenses within sci-fi fantasy that I have never previously had much interest in - just because the figures look cool and because of a wish for diversity in my collection.
Current temptations:
-Hot Toys Inglorious Basterds Aldo Raine
-DID Captain Miller (Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan)
-DID Clauss Von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise, Valkyrie)
If I buy these I know I would feel compelled to also buy DIDs Enemy at the Gates figures (Ed Harris and Jude Law), Hans Landa from Inglorious Basterds, any further Saving Private Ryan characters from DID etc etc I'd be launching into a whole new theme in my collection. I know I couldn't just have one.
-Hot Toys Tony Stark Mech Test Suit
-Hot Toys Blade
-the yet to be shown Hot Toys Predators line
Ok I have the original Hot Toys Iron Man Mark III but that was kind of an impulse buy. I thought I wanted it because it looked cool but more likely it was just to buy something new for the sake of getting something new and filling in the time before something I really wanted came out. In any case, I have the figure, and the new Tony Stark looks incredible with a great likeness this time - I've been in the habit of buying the superheroes and their regular guy alter egos. Do I bother to continue doing that on a license I'm not hugely into?
Then theres Blade, now I think hes out of stock on my usual sites and I don't use ebay so I might consider this one successfully resisted - but it was tough going there for awhile. Again, a case of the figure looking really cool and having a good likeness...but when was I ever into Blade? Never. And I don't really consider him one of, or existing in the same universe as, the superheroes despite being under the banner of Marvel.
Finally theres the recently announced Hot Toys Predators line. Theres going to be a lot of hype as there was for AvP:R. I succumbed to this hype and I bought figures from that...but I definitely hold those figures less dear out of all my collection..because the film is crap. Predators could end up likewise. Do I risk falling into the same trap?
So whats your story?
