Stuart Skinner
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I'm doing an interview this evening for May's Vintage Rebellion Podcast show and one of the items on the agenda for the interview is this collectors impressive focus collection.
And it got me wondering this morning why people focus collect. When I say focus collect I don't mean putting together a run of trilogos or 12 backs, I mean a character focus.
I started a Greedo focus around 16 months ago and when friends and family come round my house they often ask "why have you got several of the same figure", they especially can't understand why I've got three ESB ones all alongside each other which all look the same from the front.
I know many members on here have character focuses so would like to know what makes you decide to focus on just one character?
I know ScruffyLookingNH (Simon) was telling me at the last Farthest From that he is considering doing a Teebo focus as his colourings remind him of his butchers apron, so it kinds of intertwines with his life. Are all focuses formed on such basic ideas?
I did also wonder whether character focus collections were relatively new ideas, since the explosion of eBay and forums where it became easier to acquire goods, and looking back early 90s it is hard to find many collectors going down a character based route, although there was John Wooten's extensive and very impressive Stormtrooper focus back in the day.
So why? Be really interested to know.
And it got me wondering this morning why people focus collect. When I say focus collect I don't mean putting together a run of trilogos or 12 backs, I mean a character focus.
I started a Greedo focus around 16 months ago and when friends and family come round my house they often ask "why have you got several of the same figure", they especially can't understand why I've got three ESB ones all alongside each other which all look the same from the front.
I know many members on here have character focuses so would like to know what makes you decide to focus on just one character?
I know ScruffyLookingNH (Simon) was telling me at the last Farthest From that he is considering doing a Teebo focus as his colourings remind him of his butchers apron, so it kinds of intertwines with his life. Are all focuses formed on such basic ideas?
I did also wonder whether character focus collections were relatively new ideas, since the explosion of eBay and forums where it became easier to acquire goods, and looking back early 90s it is hard to find many collectors going down a character based route, although there was John Wooten's extensive and very impressive Stormtrooper focus back in the day.
So why? Be really interested to know.