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Author:  Punkin Donuts [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:22 am ]
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Wasn't sure if this belonged here or in Whatever, but this guy's collection of SW toys, statues and furniture (!) is pretty amazing.

Wow
Author:  BloodDrinker6969 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:38 am ]
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Really, he needed that life sized Wato? Wato?!?! I love Star Wars, but hate these clean, museum-esque collections. It's so boring, it's like "DON'T TOUCH NO!" I don't get it. I appreciate it, I guess, but deep down I'm 6 and would NEED to pick up and play with all of it!
Author:  deadboy [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:48 am ]
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Amazing! Classy, clean and stylish.
I am none of those, but still a dream set up. excluding Wato of course
Author:  fletchthis [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:14 am ]
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Cool set up. I don't mind the closed off displays since most of the stuff isn't really menat to be played with anyway. it's all new stuff though, I would be more impressed if he had some vintage stuff.
Author:  toybotstudios [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:42 am ]
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impressive
Author:  Joe [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:50 am ]
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Classy.

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Author:  Strict Nine [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:53 am ]
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The table with the Falcon in it is dope as fuck!
Author:  ---NT--- [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:56 am ]
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No matter how much I like SW I couldn't live with something like this. For some reason I think "eunuch" when I see this.
But that MF coffee table on its own is awesome!
Author:  666doll [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:11 am ]
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Too much for my taste, but I'll bet Lucas' collection doesn't even look that clean.
Author:  marswillrule [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:22 am ]
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There's way too much going on there. This seems cooler to me.

Y-Wing bedroom

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Author:  Strict Nine [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:25 am ]
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Ahh STAR WARS fanboys! One of a kind.
Author:  pennjones [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:34 am ]
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That is incredible. I can get that life sized wato for $250 from the collectibles store back home. I've thought about it for a long time now, up close, it's really detailed!
Author:  hillsy11 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:41 am ]
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An R2D2 mini fridge would be pimp. It would need to hold more than one Asahi, though.
Author:  c77 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:18 pm ]
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well i am going to watch star wars all day tomorrow now, fuck that is one crazy house
Author:  gorilla [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:25 pm ]
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damn...that's a lot of stuff. I'd hate to be the one dusting all of it.
Author:  BloodDrinker6969 [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:16 pm ]
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See, I just don't see "classy" I see "TACKY AS FUCK TRYING TO BE CLASSY" there's no hiding it. When I was DEEP into Star Wars collecting people had set ups like this all the time, I just thought they were boring, cold, unoriginal, tacky and repetitive. It's not like someone who ISN'T into Star Wars is going to go over and adjust their monocle and brush their mustache saying "I say good sir, good show, a class act!" They'll just say "psht, nerd...OH HEY TROY I mean...er.. wow.... you really are into those movies huh?" I always prefer the cluttered up, packed in, Star Wars sheets covering the boxes type collections. BUT different strokes, eh?
Author:  Biff [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:42 pm ]
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Bet this guy makes his girlfriend dressup like Princess Leia while he screams out, "Whose your Obi Won Konobi!!"
Author:  Punkin Donuts [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:00 pm ]
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Biff wrote:
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Bet this guy makes his girlfriend dressup like Princess Leia while he screams out, "Whose your Obi Won Konobi!!"


You make that sound like a bad thing. :twisted:
Author:  ---NT--- [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:26 pm ]
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BloodDrinker6969 wrote:
"TACKY AS FUCK TRYING TO BE CLASSY"

Exactly. However, I do enjoy the clean aesthetic of the displays - but when you have cases and cases of EVERYTHING it just looks tacky. All those busts just makes me think that the guy has never been laid, and might not even care. Actually, I think that's it - the busts. I think movie/comic busts are super tacky. Toys are one thing - they have character, and in a lot of cases history. But busts? While I enjoy the level of talent it takes to sculpt them, the thought of buying and displaying them makes me want to shoot myself.
Author:  MicromanZone [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:32 pm ]
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---NT--- wrote:
Actually, I think that's it - the busts. I think movie/comic busts are super tacky. Toys are one thing - they have character, and in a lot of cases history. But busts? While I enjoy the level of talent it takes to sculpt them, the thought of buying and displaying them makes me want to shoot myself.

You said it. I really have no idea who/why anyone would collect busts of figures. Let alone Star Wars stuff. That’s just like buying statues off of the Home Shopping Network.

And the guy’s stuff is sooooo new, it almost seems like he’s a dealer trying to show off his wares and not a collector.

You know what that whole display conveys to me? Desperation and no joy. It’s like a nerd version of the guy’s apartment in American Psycho.
Author:  Winu [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:33 pm ]
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I actually really enjoy this guy's set up. The minimalism goes with it.

This would not look as awesome in my opinion if it was really cluttered.
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I am the total opposite when it comes to what we collect though; kaiju toys and fight figures all cluttered in a small book shelf rocks my world.
Author:  Hedoro [ Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:37 pm ]
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I'm not feeling that collection. I am impressed
with the amount of money he must have spent
but I'd take a case of old stinky vinyl over that stuff.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses of
Vinyl yearning to breathe free.
Author:  il_muffino [ Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:09 am ]
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It looks like a Sideshow Collectibles showroom. I could go for the life-size Vader or maybe that Biker Scout display, but all those busts and statues are a bit much. Interesting to look at for the craftsmanship, but otherwise a bit sterile. Star Wars LEGO would be cool, especially life-sized repros in LEGO like they have at LEGOLAND. Vintage toys would be cooler. Coolest would be actual movie props or early production art and maquettes, but I don't think that stuff ever leaves the Lucasfilm archives. To each his own, though.
Author:  m3kcomp [ Fri Aug 14, 2009 7:31 am ]
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il_muffino wrote:
Coolest would be actual movie props or early production art and maquettes, but I don't think that stuff ever leaves the Lucasfilm archives.


you'd be surprised what has made it out of the archives. there's collectors I know of who have amazing shit...and don't brag about it.

this guy's collection is cool, sort of, but if I had the money he clearly has I'd have a whole different setup going on...
Author:  VELOCITRON [ Sat Aug 15, 2009 9:11 am ]
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Haha, if you guys hate clean displays you'd love my house.

Some of his stuff is cool, I really really really like the Rancor statue and I don't even mind the busts so much (well, at least not the 1/1 busts. For some reason I really, really like giant-sized stuff) but it seems too new, too expensive and too homogenous. Like, we get it that you like Star Wars, but don't you like anything else? Battlestar Galactica? Buck Rogers? Starship Troopers? I guess some people have their thing and do it well, but it just doesn't seem natural to me to only like one set of movies out of everything else ever made (well, except for the two Nightmare Before Christmas dudes and the Terminator arm, I guess). The nail in the coffin is the CD cases up on the wall. The least you could do is go with the LPs or the old movie posters.
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