{"id":984,"date":"2017-04-19T15:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/?p=984"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:16:22","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T22:16:22","slug":"star-wars-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/star-wars-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch today I dropped by GameStop, where I saw the 40th Anniversary Star Wars Black Series 6&#8243; figures for the first time. \u00a0They look great, in vintage packaging, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be picking them up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-985\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-985\" src=\"http:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/40thswbs6inch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/40thswbs6inch.jpg 500w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/40thswbs6inch-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/40thswbs6inch-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/40thswbs6inch-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I didn&#8217;t see R2-D2 at GameStop&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Han Solo figure was basically the same one I bought a couple of years back, complete with Stormtrooper utility belt and E-11 blaster rifle.<\/p>\n<p>Luke, Leia and Obi-Wan all look great too, with cloth robes\/tunics, but I find myself running out of display space, and putting more and more stuff in storage containers.<\/p>\n<p>That has to stop. \u00a0I can&#8217;t collect for the sake of collecting. \u00a0Even my friends who collected a particular thing of a thing over the years stopped doing that, and I need to be more selective, too.<\/p>\n<p>All Things Jyn may be the last theme that I do, collecting wise. \u00a0Not sure how much stuff from <em>The Last Jedi<\/em> I&#8217;ll pick up, beyond a Rose figure. \u00a0Most of what I see picking up from this franchise will be Han Solo or Boba Fett related, going forward, with the occasional trooper variant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At lunch today I dropped by GameStop, where I saw the 40th Anniversary Star Wars Black Series 6&#8243; figures for the first time. \u00a0They look great, in vintage packaging, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll be picking them up. The Han Solo figure was basically the same one I bought a couple of years back, complete &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/star-wars-figures\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Star Wars Figures&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-toys","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saguisag.com\/blogv4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}