Posted by: @fac

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@buttmunch Yeah, I get the modular part - if I went for the full deluxe version, I'd need to fudge the "real" layout and have the two "walls" be more perpendicular than parallel I think. So maybe the non-deluxe would be enough. I'm not sure I'd like t across multiple shelves.

Its more that I need to have my collection to take up a lot less space, so I am trying to be ruthless about downsizing after being a completist for 3 3/4-inch SW from 1978 to 2015 or so. Meaning adding at this point feels like an addict relapsing. But items like this are so tempting though. as its one of those "I've always wished they made it" things.

This may be a bit of a personal question, but it's one I've been mowing about in my head about myself lately. If you're being a completionist, and have been for all those years, what do you do with all the older stuff that gets replaced with new versions? Do you ever think, "man why did I buy all this? It just sits in bins and yellows over time." And if you do have those thoughts, what kind of answers do you come up with?

I ask because, sometimes I look at my stuff and I'm like, "Do I need this? Why did I buy it? Alot of it just ends up in bins. What will happen to it if or when I die? Should I sell the stuff I really don't care about anymore? But that's so much work..." I've been alot more selective of what I've been buying because of it. Only getting things I really think look good, or figures of characters I really wanted for ages. I'm not buying it just to buy it like I did with Halo when McFarlane had the license. I went after all those. I hunted down like every exclusive back when it was big. Now I'm like, "Why did I do that?" But I didn't have those thoughts at the time. And sometimes I still kinda think to myself, "These are just collecting dust on shelves or in bins. Is it really worth it?" But then I see something really cool and I end up buying it anyway lol.

TVC Cantina:

5,641 / 8,000 (+57) 70.51% of funding goal with 15d 19h left.

Well back down to the double digit gains after that one day bump.

For those wanting flooring, the Catina’s floor was very simple. Just some grid pattern material with sand in all the crevices. Should be something readily available at a hardware store for just a few bucks. Just measure and cut to your needed size.

Posted by: @trunks3540

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This may be a bit of a personal question, but it's one I've been mowing about in my head about myself lately. If you're being a completionist, and have been for all those years, what do you do with all the older stuff that gets replaced with new versions? Do you ever think, "man why did I buy all this? It just sits in bins and yellows over time." And if you do have those thoughts, what kind of answers do you come up with?

What I've come up with was to first stop being a completionist most lines, because I do have just too many boxes and containers of stuff I cannot display. And I stopped buying "improved" versions for the most part. For Star Wars, I decided when Disney took over that I wasn't going to follow the expansion to the ST and shows. Not for quality reasons, just that it seemed like a good break point.  

Posted by: @trunks3540

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I ask because, sometimes I look at my stuff and I'm like, "Do I need this? Why did I buy it? Alot of it just ends up in bins. What will happen to it if or when I die? Should I sell the stuff I really don't care about anymore? But that's so much work..."

I get it. I've reached the point where I am thinking about retirement in 5 to 10 years and all that entails in terms of how much space do I need, where do I want to live when work isn't a factor. do I want to carry all this around with me, would I rather have the cash and use that for travel or charity or something. Truthfully, I am partly there as I now work from home, so I don't need to pay a premium to be near work, and I have run out of space for what I have. I have a whole basement just for toys, it now seems excessive and as you mentioned, some of the thrill for me was the collecting (getting the exclusives, searching eBay, etc.) as much as the display. And even with that much space set aside, I still have alot stored away. And I wonder why it got to this point and why do I have all of this.

For me, I am envisioning what one wall of toys would look like - maybe 10 - 12 feet of bookcases - as compared to a room - and have them be nicely done displays and not just shelves with figures piling up. Still alot but manageable. So to get there I want to get back to the basics - what do I really like, what do I want to focus on. Star Wars is the hardest as I love all the character designs and the playsets - so the Cantina and Sail Barge may have more long term appeal for displaying the figures that naturally were in those scenes, than something as iconic as the BMF, as great as it is, because at best you have like a half-dozen characters in it at a time. 

The current TVC that hooks me still are the army builders (Clone/Storm Troopers, Rebel Troops) and astromechs (I still want to get more of the Disney Build a Droid variants) and environments for displays. I doubt I will ever buy another Luke, Leia, Han, Anakin, Vader, etc. as there is nothing new there for me. 

@fac It's a good thing you are thinking ahead.

As someone who had to close down his business (thanks pandemic) and now has a lot of free time and less disposable income, I can tell you that it is easy to just keep on doing the same thing without thinking too far ahead.  Thankfully we are financially comfortable, otherwise I wouldn't be spending any money on toys.  So it is a bit like being retired.  My wife is going to be joining me soon as well (going part time because she is tired of working full time and her part time is still high paying and she doesn't want to stop working completely).

Like you I am looking at too much stuff not being displayed and some of it hasn't been displayed in at least a year.  So why am I keeping it?   I like your idea of one long wall in the basement and that is more than enough, or should be.  I realized that if I find it a bit daunting, I would hate to leave it to my wife and kids to sort out.   One of my high school buddies dies back in 2018 and he had a healthy Transformers and Lego collection.  His wife (no kids) was overwhelmed with what to do, and even with instructions and my help it was not an easy task to deal with the collection.   In the end after one big sale the rest was done through a local auction place just to save the hassle.

I guess one of the few good things about the current state of the action figure market, and TVC/1:18 scale is that the prices are getting too high to make it worthwhile to collect compared to 6" figures.   Here in Canada a standard TVC figure is going for about $23Cdn which means I don't collect TVC anymore except in rare cases, or on deep sale. 

@canprime The pandemic also impacted my career, as the firm I worked at for 30 years lost a ton of business and needed to downsize, so I took and early retirement package and have been working for a local non-profit the last few years - I don't need the money either per se but I don't need 1,000 SW figures. What I also learned during my extra free time at the height of the pandemic was that what I had been telling myself, that someday I would re-read all my comics, or spend hours making toy dioramas, just didn't happen, which ultimately is when I started to wonder - did I enjoy the hunt of collecting or the collection itself?

I think in the rush of the next wave being released and new stuff being added all the time that overtime I ended up with major collection drift. Do I need every pod-racer and pit droid variant? Nope. 3 or 4 or more different Y-Wings? Probably not. Multiple versions of Jedi from the prequels who only had 3 minutes of screen time? Meh. Do I have all that in boxes? Yep.

But 10-year-old me would have loved a Cantina...

Okay.  This campaign has officially hit the half way point.  15 1/2 days down; 15 1/2 days left.  I hope the TVC fans who want this get all of the tiers.  I've funded all the Marvel HASLABS and it's disappointing when you don't get something fully funded <cough.. Hellcharger> when you're willing to pay for it.

BTW.. The new login is indeed a suckfest.  Prove your humanity, but you can't add 3+2 because it won't let you put 5 in the required field.   I also went through SEVEN screens identifying a bus, a hydrant or a crosswalk. 

TeamRobo..... please fix this.

@fac Yep I think that is the case for most of us.  We have plans and life of course gets in the way.  Then when it doesn't we still don't do the things we think we will.

I think one of the other things that gets me, besides what you mentioned, is sales.   Gamestop Canada has $5 Fridays where stuff gets clearanced.  I can't tell you how many $5 figures I have bought over the last couple years that I never would have looked at twice, but because it was $5 I figured why not?   I'll do something with it, or it will fit in somewhere......NOPE!  The majority of them end up in the bins, or get sold or traded off.   So I'm there with you where it seems like sometimes I am buying just for the sake of buying a good deal.   And don't get me started on other places with clearances or sub-$5 deals.   I have a lot of "Retro" 5 POA SW and Marvel figures because of $5, or less, sales.   All of them are still sitting on cards because I have never bothered to open them.  I keep saying I'll display them on a wall because the card art is really cool (for Marvel) and I never do.  The SW Retro figs I keep saying will fit in the background of the Razorcrest, or some other display.....nope again.   Why? 

So yeah collecting for collecting's sake may be an issue for me.  😀 

Anyway.....

TVC Cantina:

5,693 / 8,000 (+52) 71.16% of funding goal with 14d 18h left.

We basically have 2 weeks left and still a bit of a way to go. It should be interesting to see how this goes now, but I would imagine it will still be slow for another week at least.

Umm I'm gonna guess you didn't hear, Robo no longer works for Fwoosh. They parted ways before the last blip. There was not a detailed reason given, which is probably a personal matter between the powers that be and him. But he's not the one to ask about fixing this place anymore.

@trunks3540 I didn’t know.  Ive follow/subscribed him on YouTube, but it’s nice to think he had multiple sources of income.  He’s the reason I came to the FWOOSH.  

TVC Cantina:

5,747 / 8,000 (+54) 71.84% of funding goal with 13d 19h left.

Hasbro really needs to do something to kindle the fire. This will probably just limp over the finish line on the last day or we could even start seeing some Rancor reactions if people start pulling out because the tiers won’t happen. I thought for sure this would do well. I think any chances of anything other than modular imperial hallways for a Death Star set are gone when this big ‘playset’ hasn’t done all that great.

It flabbergasts me they put so much pre-production work into these projects they never do a single ounce of buyer research on beforehand.   What's the difficulty in simply running a poll to ask what the people even want?

@adrienveidt they actually do have a focus group that does that kind of market research. All I was hearing before this was revealed that people wanted a Death Star, Cantina, or Marauder with the rest of the Bad Batch. I’m really surprised by the lukewarm response to this as it seemed like something fans have been wanting for decades. It’s as OT as it gets so no ‘Disney garbage’ excuses this time around. If this doesn’t fund I fear for what that means for the line as a whole.

This comment from a Yakface user helped clarify something for me: "and finally, without Toys R Us or other large retailers willing to shoulder the financial risk for Hasbro, the cost of manufacturing items like this falls on the consumer, because Hasbro isn't going to take that risk without a partner."

That's a nice way to view a HasLab - a partnership between the company and consumer to get dream items released. I know, it's probably always been sold like this, but this wording made sense to me in a way it never has before. The issue is the lack of a wholesale price in this particular "partnership." 😉