So there’s a toy that you are on the fence about- let’s say that you really like the subject matter, but it’s not a piece that would easily fit in with your collection’s overall focus or aesthetic. You’re thinking it over for a couple days, when suddenly an idea hatches: “Sure, figure X may not quite fit in now...but if I got figure Y and figure Z to go with it, they’d display very nicely together…”

And before you know it, you’re on a mad hunt for Y and Z- which you had noticed and liked the look of some time in the past, but had never given serious thought to actually owning- pretty much just so you can make X fit.

This is going on for me right now, as it does once in a while; but it is the first time in a while that it’s happening over a non-kaiju piece.

I’m a big Madvillain/MF DOOM fan, and was interested in the release of the figure, but didn’t think I’d end up buying him, as I’ve really steered my focus back to just kaiju stuff over the last couple of years.

Then I came up with this idea of a little freestanding trio, that would give him a context and justification: a color-version Hunchy, a Tokyo Tribe Garileo, and the Madvillain figure….and so the hunt began….

Does anyone else here ever do this sort of thing?

I do this all the time, most of my current want list is stuff I passed on last year and have now decide I "need" because have rearranged my collection. I guess I like to drive myself crazy.

i keep separate shelves for separate themes. eastern on one, western on another. makes it easier to keep things grouped.

That's like me and Biskup's Tankizaados. I wasn't planning to get any before I saw the clear one. Now that I have the clear one on preorder, I want the blue/purple one, so I can have a night-and-day thing going on.

Such is the hobby.

I do this all the time. It's a curse.

when i buy something, it needs to be in like multiples of 2 or 3

i prefer to only have the individual figures that im really crazy about, and dont worry about getting complete sets of anything.

at least, thats what i keep telling myself to feel better about not being able to complete anything.

I don't know about this X, Y, Z stuff.....

I just know I need those 2 colorways of that MF DOOM piece, even if it is.... dare I say a _I_ ROBOT collabo....I mean it is Sones Throw too.....

Depends. It bugs me if I get 1 figure I love w/no theme BUT if there's no accompanying figure I like, I don't get any more. Than that figure gets put with the shelf/desk of other loner figures that have no friends and they start their own little tribe of "not related" figures.

just buy what you like. that's my only rule.

I'm will Missy on this. I just need to like less.

haha ditto! I guess that's why it works. There is always something in the house that a new thing can "go with. "



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