My Collection of Adult Toys. No, you grow up.

I've changed the focus of my collecting over the past few years, and this is what it looks like today. I've tried to build out a collection with "simplicity" in mind, where it's easy to admire and maintain.

To keep spending and space in check, I collect using three guidelines:

1. Only collect things I actually like or want.
2. One figure per character. (And take it easy on the repaints)
3. If it can't be displayed, it doesn't belong in the collection.

You might see a few occasions where I break rule 2 though. While it's not the biggest collection in the world, it brings me emotions of some sort. Keep on scrolling if you want to see a closeup of anything.

Power of the force 2 collection. This line holds a lot of nostalgia for me, it's what really got me collecting all those years ago. I've gotten rid of most of my 3.75" figures, but those red cards will always hold a special place in my heart.

Here's the display above my desk. A few years ago, I had a 3.75" collection of maybe 600-700 figures or so. I do miss the days of super-articulated 3.75" Star Wars Figures. The baseball bat display box is filled with my favorite 20 figures/characters from those days. I keep them around as a tribute to the greatness of the Star Wars action figure line. The lighting I put in the box makes it hard to snap a clear photo. With the naked eye though, the figures are well lit, and the light allows you to see just about every detail on each figure.

I didn't know what to do with the Legacy display that came with the 6" 40th Anniversary Darth Vader, so I put some of my favorite troopers on it. The piece is just too cool to keep boxed up.

Wannabe Han Solo. Hammerhead Jedi. Can bring down an entire Star Destroyer with just the force, really? Imperial Guard that actually does something. Boba Fett if he were cool.

Spoiler Alert. Wish he was canon. Jedi Barbie. Chuck Norris. Blue Da Ba Dee.

Expensive for no good reason. The lame commando. Darth Could Save Others From Death, But Not Himself. Is she alive or dead? Not Darth Maul.

Emo Luke. Loves Bad Boys. Surge. Boba Fett? Tried to date rape Princess Leia with pheromones then got blowed up.

The other side of my desk. No Star Wars collection is complete without a framed poster of toys that I don't own.

Here's the real meat and potatoes of my collection. You can sum my collection up like this "Everything that I loved growing up, plus "The Guardians of the Galaxy." These are all of the modern toys of the things I loved when I was but a wee lad. Star Wars is basically the lifeblood of my action figure collecting, so have it represented in each case. I've tried to give it a clean and simple look. Everything is behind glass, so I don't have to constantly knock my figures over in an attempt to dust them. The IKEA Detolf cases are notorious for letting dust in, so I put weatherstripping around all the gaps. It's not 100%, but I haven't had to dust off any figures yet.

Diamond Select Ghostbusters. I chose not to display these behind glass because of the diorama of Spook Central. It's not exactly appealing, but it should look pretty nice when all the pieces are released. #WheresRay

Star Wars baddies. You don't want to know what that R2 unit had to do to get a place on this shelf. While my Mace Windu figure's wallet says "BAMF," I decided to keep him with the other losers.

S.H. Figuarts Power Rangers with the Legacy Dragonzord. This is probably my favorite shelf in the collection. These figures are just the best. If you have the means, I highly recommend them. If you don't, I highly recommend you take them from someone that isn't me.

WWF Attitude Era Shelf Number 1. WHAT? This shelf represents my favorite time wrestling history. WHAT? There's no real rhyme or reason for which figures I have in the shelf compared to the other one. WHAT? I just had to divide them up somehow. WHAT?

Batman the Animated Series Shelf Number 1. What self-respecting '90s nerd kid didn't like this show?

Bright-colored spandex time.

The good guys. #WheresRey

This shelf is probably the most fun in the collection, to be honest. I could have eaten all of the shrooms in the Mushroom Kingdom, and I would have never come up with an idea as awesome as this.

Halo Pre 343. Remember how Elites and Grunts actually looked cool and menacing? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Transformers: Beast Wars, or as G1 fans call it "I've never heard of that."

It's WCW, baby! WOOOOOOO! That's why this collection costs $6,000, and I don't know what your collection costs. I'd be ashamed to have it. Cause when you collect NWO, you collect NWO 4 LIFE!

Scum and Villany. This shelf isn't exactly my best effort. I think I'm dead inside.

Batman shelf without Batman. Also, what does a man made out of clay eat? More importantly, what comes out the other side?

This is my "Everything Else" shelf. You didn't think there was a way to display Slippy Toad, Sub-Zero and Space Ghost in the same shelf, did you? This collector had the courage to do just that.

A bunch of bipedal, wise-cracking, adolescent turtles fight giant man with a brain in his belly and his idiot zoo animals. Cocaine is a helluva drug.

For the benefit of those with flash photography, here are my other WWF figures.

Cannon Fodder

This is what it looks like when we turn the lights down and get crazy. Man, if I had a nickel for every time someone took their shirt off after seeing this collection, I would have so many nickels, dude. Granted, I'm the only one who does that, but I've done like a ton of times.

Thanks for looking!