re: Grown men collecting action figures

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Is it anyway acceptable to have action figures.

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It's a good thing that you checked here, because it's important that all men have the same interests and dress and act the same.

Seriously, do whatever the frick you want. Every dude-bro that is in here snickering has the full catalog of Spice Girl CDs or a lug nut off of every truck that they've owned or some other obscure bullshite interest.

Life's too short to live your life to appease others. Find yourself a Luke Skywalker with double-telescoping lightsaber and have a blast.

Are you working with a seller? Are they carded or loose? Do they have weapons? Do you know how to spot reproduction packaging and weapons?

I have somewhere in the neighborhood of 20k worth of Care Bears and sponge bob merchandise

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What is north of $10,000 loose going to get you? Variants? Graded? Last 17? Droids and Ewoks animated figures? Double telescoping?

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I'm including the vehicles/ships also. But yeah some of that stuff. A graded DT can cost $5,000 alone. A Vinyl cape Jawa about the same maybe less.

I had a friend who did it until he got married. He had all of the small original Star Wars stuff. and bought all of it that came out before and right after the 1st prequel. He also collected football, baseball and basketball Starting Lineups. I went to a show with him one time and bought a Leonard Marshall, a Carlos Carson and an Eric Martin SLU figures. I liked having the LSU guys, even if they were in Giants, Chiefs and Saints uniforms. I had a couple of Shaq pieces too. I had the one of him dunking in a purple LSU uniform.

He had a young friend that also collected that had an apartment full of Star Wars stuff. He had Millennium Falcon that was about three feet long. Had it and some other ships hanging from the ceiling in his living room. He had some other models of ships and figures in a glass display case in the living room too. He had unopened figures stacked from the floor to the ceiling in his dining room, He had four or five sets of opened figures, ships and backgrounds of scenes from the movies that he had constructed in his bedroom. If he ever gets married, he'll be able to add some cash to their lives when she makes him get rid of it. My friend told me some of the individual pieces in the glass case were worth thousands of dollars.

Only if you're a virgin and work at Gamestop.

Go for it Broke. I occasionally buy Star Wars LEGO sets and don’t feel even the slightest bit guilty doing so.

I caught my GI Joe fricking Ken up the arse. Barbie was giving the Six Million Dollar man a BJ.

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I'm thinking of rebuilding my childhood collection but it will cost north of $10,000 to do it.

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If you just want Star Wars, you might want to look into some of the newer stuff not Wal-Mart figures but higher end figures and statues. Some places cater to collectors like bigbadtoystore.com and companies like Hot Toys makes a lot of Star wars figures for collectors. The detail is amazing, almost life like.

Han Solo & Chewbacca

Something you might like being a Star Wars fan.