That's How It Happened

Designer Josh Budich has created an amazing portfolio of his Star Wars action figures. Each figure is rendered as a tiny pixelated icon, linked to a photo and details of the figure. All figures are carded natch. He was born in 1977, like me, the year A New Hope came out. Exactly like me, his parents indulged him as a child, buying the original series of figures:

"This early period of unihibited consumerism would build the indestructable foundation that became a lifelong obsession with collecting little plastic-men."

Oddly though his collection starts in 1999, at almost exactly the time I stopped collecting. There's hope for him, and his no-doubt beleaguered spouse yet.