>>10748034>just don’t buy stuff you don’t collect.I think there's an interesting dilemma when you get to this point though. Like the situation you don't want to end up in is "committing" to something you lose the passion for. Sometimes the "cooler" thing, the impulse buy, that has nothing to do with the rest of your collection is actually what you need instead, but you are denying that fresh new experience from yourself due to practical and intellectual concerns. Like even if you are extremely ambitious about a certain line or whatever, or have some grand design in mind, you should still be able to take breaks so you don't burn out. You should take "vacations" so to speak.
Personally, I feel like some of my favourite figures are from franchises that I had no previous experience with, but the cool toy design got me into expanding my horizons and checking out new media, new art etc. If I had just stuck with collecting familiar stuff, nostalgic stuff, that would have been a lot less interesting in the long run. The last thing you want to do is make up intellectual excuses for not getting something cool. I think the gut instinct purchases are often more satisfying than the intellectual purchases. The bigger a collection becomes, the bigger danger it has of becoming an intellectual completionist thing, instead of a passion thing that says something about you. I'm not saying a huge collection of one line can't have its own appeal, but if you're into that kind of thing, I think you really only need to get that out of your system once. Otherwise you'll just be repeating that mentality with everything you collect.
