>>7526120not true at all necessarily
I just don't have any use for them. If I ever decide it's time to build a full OT-centric display, then I'll do it seriously and get all the characters, costumes and vehicles that I feel make up the essence of the OT for me, but until then I have no use for that stuff. A couple of individual figures would just gather dust somewhere in a box.
I've noticed that I can't just have one single character or a trio of characters--I need to have them all. So, to counter this problem I've kind of developed a habit of collecting stuff in a preplanned way, to build up themes with strong visual patterns and logic; it brings more joy to me than collecting individual characters or pieces that might not have any strong relation to each other. I love seeing an elaborate art style or aesthetic come to life in front of your eyes when you have lots of figures and machines next to each other all from the same time period/source material/artists/designers. All the shapes and colors and silhouttes need to look just right. I spend a lot of time organizing everything so my collections end up becoming installations of sorts. Not every series allows you to do this, but Star Wars is definitely one of them. It also helps that I have massive knowledge of the subject and the lore. I know what goes together with what, which characters have connections to each other and so on. I incorporate meta references as well that take place outside of the fiction--anything I can think of just as long as it makes sense.
So, even though I like stuff like KOTOR I can't buy a black series Revan figure because I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do with it. I would need Bastila to go with it, or at least some EU sith characters like Bane or Darth Talon. And they need to be in the same scale too. And I need some vehicles. There needs to be enough stuff to make up several shelves, otherwise I end up becoming bored and frusturated with the project feeling incomplete.
