Star Wars collection
Had a conversation with someone at a convention last month who paid more for an unopened figure from 1978 than most people spend on a used car. At first it seemed completely disconnected from reality but the more he explained the reasoning behind it the more it started making sense. Is that level of the hobby something people get into gradually or does it happen fast?
That actually makes a lot of sense. The person at the convention said something similar — that the price stopped feeling strange once he understood the full story behind the piece. Going to read through that properly before the next event because honestly I felt like I was missing half the conversation standing there
Gradually for most people from what I have seen. You start caring about the item itself, then condition starts mattering, then originality, then provenance. Each step pulls you further in and by the time you are seriously evaluating a 1978 piece you already have years of context behind you. Went through https://www.starwarsnewsnet.com/2025/09/a-history-of-collecting-in-star-wars.html recently and it explains exactly how that value system developed from the earliest production runs to where the market stands today. The hobby almost teaches you its own logic as you go deeper into it