Attila the Professor said:
Three separate points in this great, albeit mixed discussion!
Twnsman and his sidekick
All I know about the guy is that right when I joined here, I almost left thinking that he and that other kid posting with him were representative of the Indy fanbase. In any event, I kept the generalizations at bay and found that this is actually a decent community minus the onesy, twosy extremist nerds, so I stuck it out here. However, it definitely doesn't help a community when a new person is introduced to it with initial interactions like I had with those two cats.
Better and more vintage things than that guy
In any event, I'm a big proponent of the vintage Indy stuff. I know we all don't have money to drop like 75 bucks for one complete figure, but complete figs are scarce, so they are unique to own, and it's very gratifying putting that small collection together. Look at like this, you build a vintage set slowly and it averages out over time to something like a 5 or 10 dollar a week hobby, and even then it's finite because once you?re done with it, you?re done.
Cool forum gets cooler
Can I suggest to the mods here, that it might be cool to create a "Collections" sub-forum here, and also a Buy/Sell/Trade sub forum as well that might help Indy collector's out? I helped develop similar themes on the Advanced Iron forums and we've been super successful with that (I mod there and also edit the zine). Just a suggestion for the already very nicely setup website which is The Raider.
All just points of conversation, of course.
