Wreck-It Ralph
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How do you become a focus collector and what made you choose your focus?
So for me, but with the not less mighty Chief Chirpa.Dr_Ball_MD said:I decided to go for the first figure I received as a kid, the mighty Zuckuss!
TheJabbaWookie said:My main area of interest has always been loose figures so any focus I started would be centred around those. While I have never had what I call a real focus I have accumulated a number of different variants of a figure in the past with the intentions of it being the start of a focus, and my choice for starting these was always around love for that figure.
I have attempted it 3 times in the past and they have been with 3 of my favourite figures, all from the first 12... Han Solo, Leia and R2. In the end I gave up all 3 of them for similar reasons, namely that the variations were not significant enough, the cost and availability of the foreign variants was prohibitive and in the end I fell out of love with the collection.
I'm currently toying with the idea of a Yoda focus. I have picked up a few variants, and find these more significant in their differences. I also find them easier to pick up on places like eBay if you know what you're looking for without having to pay a fortune (I'm on a limited budget), whilst still presenting a significant challenge (and this is what excites me). And I also find myself looking at beyond the toys items and thinking actually I quite like that, perhaps that could be in my collection. I've also joined a Yoda FB group so who knows maybe this will be the one.
Plastikheld said:So for me, but with the not less mighty Chief Chirpa.Dr_Ball_MD said:I decided to go for the first figure I received as a kid, the mighty Zuckuss!
Sad for me, this figure has in Mattias Rendahl a very prominent focus patron - which owns nearly everything.
But as I will likely never be able to work on amounts for prototypes and cromalins, it's OK for me.
As Gus Lopez said on his FF panel: "Do not worry about whether others have same focus".
Over the time, Ihad to find out, that Chief Chirpa is not the cheap focus figure it seems to be, as it is to be found on a wide range of cards (even its a ROTJ figure) and there are a couple of hard to get MOC variants.
I had never learned that much about Star Wars vintage collecting in general without that focus.