A Tremor in the Force

As I continue hammering out my 2009 resolutions, one thing I cannot decide is what to do with my Star Wars collection.

I grew up loving Star Wars. In 1982, my bedroom looked like this:

The vast majority of my Star Wars action figures and spaceships survived my childhood and ended up boxed up and packed away. I’ve lugged them from house to house, occasionally unpacking and displaying them but, for the most part, just storing them. In 1995 when the original films were re-released, Star Wars toys flooded stores and I bought everything I could get my hands on. By the time Susan and I had moved back to Yukon from Spokane, my computer room looked like this:

My walls were covered with action figures and my closet was full of toys. And to be honest, I would say these pictures represent somewhere around 20% of my collection. The collection didn’t stop with the toys — it spread out to include everything from pencils, dishes, and drinking glasses to replica lightsabers and other goofy items. At one point I even had half a dozen or so of these guys:

So, what happened? The collection outgrew its room and, more or less, our house. There’s no single room in our house that I can display my collection in. When Mason was born, the vast majority of the collection was boxed up and put out in the garage as storage.

And yet, it grows. Just this year for Christmas I got over a dozen Star Wars-related items. I’m not complaining — I love the items, but I’m simply out of space to put it all.

So if you were me, what would you do? I’ve considered selling it but at this point I would get pennies on the dollar (if that). Conservatively speaking I probably have somewhere between five and seven thousand dollars worth of Star Wars toys sitting around and I would do good to get a thousand for it all — there’s simply no market for big collections right now. Without turning the house into some ghetto-looking toy-nut shop I don’t know how to display it all at this point, and yet, no one is getting any enjoyment out of it sitting out in the garage at this point.

If you’ve got any suggestions, I’m all ears. Like Yoda.

8 thoughts on “A Tremor in the Force”

  5. I know, you could do a drawing and give the whole kit and caboodle away. Tickets are $50 each with a minimum of 1000 tickets sold. Winner take all.

    Or, we could just build that bigger house with a really cool display room. You should start taking pics of friends’ rooms that have really cool display cases in them. I know this sounds dumb, but the burger king by our house has cool display cases up in the ceiling. Take a pic of that for the ideas book. Don’t get rid of it – it’s a part of you. If you die first, I’ll bury you with that little bendy darth vader that you took on all of those work trips. If I die first, you might want to have that added to your last will and testament so someone else will do it for you.

  7. The Church of Star Wars. “The Force is with you” Have faith healing meetings to cast out the Darth Vader in peoples souls.

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