Just sold them all, help me not regret the decision!
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The LEGO enthusiast, /u/Beneficial_Offer2888, has made the difficult decision to sell their extensive collection of Star Wars minifigures after 27 years of collecting. The collection, which included over 900 unique figures and numerous multiples, became more about maintenance than enjoyment, leading to the sale.
The collector's Star Wars journey spanned many years, including sets up to the $1000 Death Star set. The collector realized that maintaining the collection was consuming a significant portion of their LEGO budget. Despite selling the Star Wars figures, the collector remains active in the LEGO hobby, focusing on Modulars, Ideas, and Icons sets.
The collector plans to continue building and has shifted their focus to other themes. They mentioned the need to purchase some Friends sets to balance out the collection of grey bricks accumulated from other sets.
It's bittersweet but over the last few years I've realized how much of my lego budget went into maintaining this collection. This is not every single SW fig ever, but it's a good 900+ unique figs and then all the ones I had multiples of. 2024 and 2025 were the years I think I came to terms with this part of the collection becoming more about maintaining it than enjoying it, so after 27 years of collecting Star Wars figs I sold the whole dang lot of them. Pic is from a few years ago, but...
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