Are YOU an army builder ? :-O

[BlackKnight]

Just a couple of thousand? sigh.....Once again you have let me down. I was expecting much higher numbers than that by now.

& I get Crap for my like 20 or so of the same figure.

[darklord1967]

Just a couple of thousand? sigh.....Once again you have let me down. I was expecting much higher numbers than that by now. Now go back to your vintage Star Wars room and recount them. I think you will find that you may have over looked a thousand or two.

Pretty impressive collection as always my friend. Glad to see that you take your collecting serious.

You guys are crazy! And no, I don't have a "vintage" STAR WARS room... just the main STAR WARS room. I sold off many of my vintage characters long ago. There are virtually NO vintage Stormies in my collection, that's for sure. In fact. the ONLY vintage Kenner troops I have left in my Imperial army collection are the Emperor's Royal Guards, and that's only because a superior version of them (with modern detail and articulation) has yet to be produced by Hasbro.

I am the kind of collector which you might call a "best-versionist". I keep retiring and selling off previous action figure versions of a character when newer and better versions are produced.

& I get Crap for my like 20 or so of the same figure.

Somebody gives you crap for army building??? Who? Is it a girlfriend or wife?? Well let me tell ya how you deal with that:

Simply go over to her closet and count up her pairs of shoes. Trust me, if she's a woman there are a lot more than 20 pairs, especially if you add up the ones under the bed, and in other closets around the house.

Then, multiply the number of pairs of shoes times an average dollar amount you figure she has paid for each pair.

Now... do the same thing with your army of 20 figures.

Finally, present her with the question: "Which one of us is taking up more room around the house, and which one of us spent more money?"

That ought to end the crap you have to take!!

[HardyGirl]

I have 30 12" GIJoes, 5 AJs. No they're not all in the same uniform, but they're still a unit.

[TrueDave]

I saw a picture once of a Star Wars fans Christmas tree. he had used 100 vintage stormtroopers to decorate it.
Sometimes I wonder how many Stormtroopers were made if people want so many of them ???
Darklord1967: You mean Kenner/Hasbro never improved the "Salt Shaker" POTF 2 Royal Guard?
Best versionist , I like that. Me too.

[huedell]

I'm usually satisfied with 4 or 6 of something like STs,
or MOTU HORDE TROOPERS, Parademons, or something like that.

Small amts. usually do the job... I really can't rationalize
a "bottomless" pit of buying... moneywise or spacewise.

oh... and I love my INDY JONES Nazis.

[darklord1967]

Darklord1967: You mean Kenner/Hasbro never improved the "Salt Shaker" POTF 2 Royal Guard?
Best versionist , I like that. Me too.

Well, truthfully they [i]did[/i[] improve upon the POTF2 Royal "Salt Shaker". However, I never considered the upgrades to be better (or more appropriate for my collection than the vintage Kenner Royal Guard.

The first "improvement" came in 2002 during Hasbro's "Saga" collection with this guy...



Yes he had improved articulation over the vintage Kenner version, and certainly over the POTF2 salt shaker. But the plastic molded robes were a major deal breaker for me. I wanted real cloth, like the vintage Kenner version. Also, the orange color of this figure was a little off-putting.



Then 3 years later, for the Revenge of the Sith collection, we got this guy:




Now although he had improved articulation AND cloth robes, I did not consider him appropriate for my collection. I am strictly an Original Trilogy Collector.

The style of the robe (open on both sides) and the armor underneath the cloak is based on the Expanded Universe characters Kir Kanos and Carnor Jax in the Star Wars: Crimson Empire comic book series published Dark Horse. So I do not consider them accurate examples of the guards seen in Return Of The Jedi. Eventually, Hasbro will produce Episode VI Royal Guards. And I'm sure they'll be awesome.

But for now, the guards in my Imperial army remain Vintage Kenner.

[starsky]

i used to have about 50 vintage stormtroopers and 40 of the new ones. eventually didnt know what to do with so many. ended up selling them.