Star Wars, I have honed down my collecting of many things down to just Star Wars. 3 3/4" Figures and Vehicles, Galactic Heroes, Lightsabers, Busts if reasonably priced, nothing extravagant. I will occasionally get a gundam or G.I.Joe but that's rare. I also have alot of the Mcfarlane Dragons line.
Well... Big Jim or Mark Strong, Power Rangers (early items only), Real Monsters, Chicken Run, Barbie stuff (I have 3 daughters), Mcdonalds toys, Grinch, Simpsons, Marvel Covers, Battlefield Earth, Last Dragon, Transformers, A team, Spiderman, TMNT, LOTR, Xena, POTA, JLA, Non-Sport Cards, Cookie Jars and much more.
But mostly it used to be anything and everything that had Star Wars on it. From the vintage toys to posters to store displays, food premium packages and displays like Lays and Doritos and Pepsi, to the original Movie trailers in 35mm, Pizza boxes from Pizza Hut and KFC containers from the USA and then the same items from the rest of the world. My house was busting at the seams. I have since sold most paper items (Except for original Foreign Movie Posters French), ceramic items (still have all Star Jar Cookie Jars though), Sold all Vintage 12', and what ever Vintage carded 3.75 I had, sold all store displays Pinball machines,and even my Giant Millenium Falcon I won from Rosie O'donnell and Toys R Us.
I have pared my collecting down to just the Vintage loose collections including prototypes, and to Sideshow 12" figures not RAH, 3.75 figures, the original trilogy ships only, any exclusive figure from anywhere in the world, Mighty Muggs, Some statues and busts, autographed pictures, and Master replica SE items, and perhaps anything with Darth Vader .
I still have all the other items in boxes stored throughout. But my pride and Joy is swapping out items in my 5 foot rolling Corgi display cabinet I bought from FAO when they were clearing out everything. I get new items and put it in the cabinet and take items out and store them until I feel the need to see them again. I really need a large free standing building and realistic ideas on how to display 1000s of carded figures, boxed ships, Master Replica sabers, 1000s of loose figures, along with all the other silly items I still have.
If I can get this site to work easily I would like to start setting up a "real" checklist of all my collectible items. I need a good tutorial on how to get the catagories setup and how to get an empty CSV file to start making my lists.
In an attempt to keep my action figure budget low, I mainly collect Jedi/Sith/folks with lightsabers. Every now and again I'll pick up someone in armor that looks cool, the Shock Trooper for example or a cool looking Boba Fett. I also pick up the Titanium vehicles that feature Obi-Wan Kenobi's choice of starfighter/interceptor.
I used to pick up just about every figure that came out back in the PotF days and found it got too expensive when they started to slowly raise the prices of the figures. The only big ticket item I have is the Queen's Starship from Episode I which I got because I liked the design, liked the red R2 until that came with, and it was on sale for a steal.
I'm thinking about getting a select Mighty Mugg or two. *sigh* *waves bye bye to money*