bcm77
03-13-2006, 07:04 AM
My name's Brendan. I'm 28 and live in the UK. I'm new to collecting Sideshow figures,having previously collected Hasbro Star Wars 3 3/4 figures for years. I finally got fed up with them and quit late last year which turned out to be good timing as I'd just sold off my Hasbro stuff when I saw the announcement that Sideshow were going to be doing 12 inch Star Wars figures. I'd never collected any of Hasbro's 12 inch figures as I thought they were mostly crap,but I had seen some of Sideshow's figures (mostly James Bond) in my local comic shop and thought they were all fantastic so I was intrested to see what they would do with the Star Wars license. When I saw the first pics of Luke Skywalker I was amazed at the difference in quality compared to Hasbro and knew what I'd be spending most of my collecting budget on. I've so far ordered Luke,Obi-Wan,Kit Fisto and Han Solo and got the exclusives of all but the Luke which I missed because I wasn't home for the start of the pre-order,but I'm not that concerned about getting every exclusive or indeed every figure as I'm not a completist and only get the characters I really like. I also pre-ordered the exclusive T-800 Terminator as well. Aside from Sideshow figures I also collect Star Wars Kubricks,the occasional Gentle Giant mini bust and Japanese wrestling figures.