So I've been pretty opposed to buying many army builders for this line, to the point where I avoided any Prequel troops all together. Until the Destroyer Droid was solicited, which I had to preorder. Of course, my restraint was quickly eroded as the single Super Battle Droid was put up for PO. And that naturally led me to searching for a standard Battle Droid. One comes in a troop building set with the Phase II Clone, so now I've gotta get clones. I only picked up a Phase I clone, but I think those two are enough for me as plain, standard soldiers. And finally, I spotted a Magna Guard at Macy's TRU on 20% off sale. I finally opened ALL of them today, and am not disappointed. But I will be keeping it to just ONE of each. The highlights so far are the Battle Droid and Destroyer, which do things I always wished the original 4" figures from TPM could. The clones are also no slouches, with great range in the elbows despite the armor wrapping around the joints. These all feel like very up-to-date figures in terms of engineering, so I'm glad I didn't cave on earlier versions.
Is Hyperdrive Collector Zone reliable?
One comes in a troop building set with the Phase II Clone, so now I've gotta get clones.
I completely sympathize with the army building, but this sentence I quoted is something I totally feel. It's amazing how many slippery slopes a collector must maneuver.
Every star wars collection I've started in the last 30 years always began with "I'll just get Boba Fett."
Well, if BBTS got Crosshair back, he's gone already. Missed the boat I suppose. Maybe they'll put more up later.
@docsilence thank you, that means a lot. And damnit, now I do too! I'll just assume he does.
@ru1977 I lived in Galway long enough that I'm 99% sure I knew a Kelly McNacca somewhere. I think she worked at the library.
Gonna be chuckling about this every time I see him for the rest of the series.
(I'm curious which buck they'll use for the figure - what little we saw of him made me think Krrsantan more than Chewie in width. He was a chonker of a Wookiee. )
@docsilence oh damn! Galway is one of the few places I visited when I spent two weeks in Ireland. I want to go back and see more, especially Northern Ireland.
And that would be amazing about an actual Kelly McNacca. I'm absolutely naming a character that in something.
@ru1977 Yeah, I was living in Oranmore and Galway proper around 2009-2010. Almost married an Irish gal. Would've been a very different life. (I actually didn't start collecting stuff like this until a few years after I moved back and I reckon I probably wouldn't be much of a collector if I'd stayed! Too much of a vagabond to have hundreds of Star Wars figures in a room somewhere.)
@docsilence Well that's.... crazy. In an awesome way. I dunno, there's something appealing to NOT having hundreds of figures, heh.
but man that is awesome. My wife and I have talked about moving there pretty much since that trip, which was in 2007. I proposed to her in Dublin, but she is Mexican heh. What got you to come back?
@ru1977 Oh, sometimes I look at my collection and think: I love this stuff but boy does it hold me down in a funny way. But I also lived that minimalist traveling life for long enough I went allllll the way in the other direction and now I've got all the toys I lost as a kid but better. 🙂
I came back to direct a feature film, and then it when I was home for six months we realized out my family was very young (siblings all having kids left and right) and her family was very old (parents needed constant care) so we split up to take care of our respective families. Plus she was a doctor and didn't want to go through the hassle to practice in the US. I won't lie though, at least once a week I think "why did I move back to this madhouse?" And then I think about how much shipping would be on all my forgotten Star Wars and Marvel preorders and have an existential crisis.
@ru1977 Oh, sometimes I look at my collection and think: I love this stuff but boy does it hold me down in a funny way. But I also lived that minimalist traveling life for long enough I went allllll the way in the other direction and now I've got all the toys I lost as a kid but better. 🙂
I look at mine and think the same thing. I think I mentioned it in the Marvel threads this week too. But yeah, I have the kids I lost as a kid but better.... and MORE heh.
But there's a bunch of 80s toys I hope never resurge. I'll be in a lot of trouble if they bring back MASK, Sky Commanders, Visionaries, or Dino-riders.
I came back to direct a feature film, and then it when I was home for six months we realized out my family was very young (siblings all having kids left and right) and her family was very old (parents needed constant care) so we split up to take care of our respective families. Plus she was a doctor and didn't want to go through the hassle to practice in the US. I won't lie though, at least once a week I think "why did I move back to this madhouse?" And then I think about how much shipping would be on all my forgotten Star Wars and Marvel preorders and have an existential crisis.
Damn... I mean, those are good reasons. I'm sure it wasn't easy, and clearly still isn't. Do you still keep in touch? I'd really love to move there, and kinda wish we had before the children came.
@ru1977 Oh yeah, giving myself permission to go all in on Star Wars Black Series is tough enough. If they started cranking out modern-level quality MASK, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, gods help me Dino Riders, I'd be doomed. I already went past my rational limit when I expanded outside of my self-imposed Hasbro limit of Black Series and Legends to include MOTU.
We kept in touch for years, actually, but we both got busy and distracted. I had the books hit a bit, and she's a pretty influential public health scientist so it got harder to stay in touch. I got lucky during the last housing bust to buy a house here in the States but I did see a dirt-cheap two-bedroom cabin on Galway Bay that year and I'll go to my grave kicking myself for not trying to buy it. (Of course a two-bedroom stone house in Ireland would not play will with twelve cubic feet of Star Wars action figures, right?)
@ru1977 Oh yeah, giving myself permission to go all in on Star Wars Black Series is tough enough. If they started cranking out modern-level quality MASK, Visionaries, Inhumanoids, gods help me Dino Riders, I'd be doomed. I already went past my rational limit when I expanded outside of my self-imposed Hasbro limit of Black Series and Legends to include MOTU.
Yeah, like I said, always slippery slopes. I have two Joes and three Transformers, but I quit collecting Neca figures when I went all in on Legends and Black Series. I even cleared out all but two of my Toy Biz Lord of the Rings collection. Eh. But it's cool looking at pictures of this stuff on the internet at least, heh.
We kept in touch for years, actually, but we both got busy and distracted. I had the books hit a bit, and she's a pretty influential public health scientist so it got harder to stay in touch. I got lucky during the last housing bust to buy a house here in the States but I did see a dirt-cheap two-bedroom cabin on Galway Bay that year and I'll go to my grave kicking myself for not trying to buy it. (Of course a two-bedroom stone house in Ireland would not play will with twelve cubic feet of Star Wars action figures, right?)
Ah man, yeah... I'm passively kicking you for that too! It could have been an amazing Star Wars cabin!!!
My wife actually looks at houses around there now and then as well. She saw a farmhouse that was available last year and I kinda wish she'd never mentioned it as I got real hung up on the idea. We already have an australian shepherd, so now we just need the farm and sheep! She'd love it even more than her humans.
@ru1977 I know we're waaaaay off topic for this thread but since you mentioned your dog, just a fair warning if you do look to move there - look into the laws and requirements around pets. Moving my cat (who was the love of my life, TBH, Mary always joked I'd choose the cat over a human in a fire) was a LOT. In the words of my sort of father-in-law, "Ireland's never had rabies and we're not about to start now" so they've got lengthy, if rational, quarantine times and such. It can be rough on energetic/affectionate pets.
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