I haven’t got many preorders at the moment, this caused me to look my buying history. A few years ago I was mostly just continuously refining my collections. But, I noticed was that in late 2020 to mid 2021 I started quite a lot of new collections. It started with the 90’s cartoon Sinister 6, then onto the A:EMH Masters of Evil (to be fair, both of those were sub-collections of Marvel Legends). Then in keeping with the 6” theme, I started on cartoon Clone Wars (not that one) Star Wars Black.
Without a pause it rolled into collecting Diaclone inspired repaints of WFC. Then came the big collecting change, doubles of the main (and more) characters to recreate the catalogue pictures.
Then I got into a bit of Mega Construx MOTU, but then this turned into putting together a Lego Iron Man armoury, which rolled into prequel and sequel Lego Star Wars, Marvel (teams and buildings), and New York City inspired Lego.
And to finish I discovered Cyberverse. Looking back I can see what started me off on these paths. A photo of Diaclone toys in robot and vehicle modes. Photos of Mega Construx Battle Cat. Photos of the retro version of Legends Mysterio. Photos and cartoons that sparked something within me, they set off my imagination. Maybe I’m content with my collections now and it’s just a matter of keeping going again, but I have to admit, starting a new collection is where the excitement is. What’s going to tempt me next?
I’ve had most of my collection packed up for almost a couple of years. There’s quite a lot….. but I don’t think there’s suddenly going to be a big chunk that I decide I don’t want.
I really like my Platinum Dinobots but…. Snarl should have gold chrome rather than silver and…. well, this accident with the SDCC version happened. Yay!
I bought the new Diaclone Ironhide figure, I’m calling him ‘Armorhide’. I put him together with the nonnef bits. Oh and I built the Lego Batmobile. Definitely better than the old version I had, this looks like the 90’s cartoon/Tim Burton version. Back in black…..
Held off a little while with ordering some other stuff but have bought Titans Return Seaspray and a Studio Series ‘86 Sweep (on very dodgy grounds - I wanted to see if I liked the colour better!). I bought the No Way Home/Doctor Strange Lego set, and another Legends Wolverine (slippery slope, I’ve been trying to avoid doubling up on characters). And put in a large Reprolabels order, that ought to do it! Oh and a couple more Sweeps…….
