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<blockquote data-quote="sith-smith" data-source="post: 505921" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>The way I look at it is not as the future of collecting, but as the future of my collecting.</p><p></p><p>I try as possible not to let that be affected too much by what anyone else is doing. Not easy admittedly.</p><p></p><p>ultimately I have only collected for one reason and for one person. Myself and my own enjoyment.</p><p></p><p>I've never once bought a piece thinking that in a few years it will be worth more. If I decide to sell up in 30 years time and no one wants to buy them then so be it. I never bought them for that reason, so am not going to lose sleep over it.</p><p></p><p>If they all drop drastically in price tomorrow and something I paid 5k for is now only worth a few hundred, then so what? I never collected as any kind of investment opportunity or as a future retirement fund etc. It will not stop me from enjoying that piece.</p><p></p><p>That said, in terms of collecting in general, it will no doubt continue. Star Wars is a massive part of our cultural understanding so I can't see how it will not still be a much loved franchise many years into the future. As people have already said, the movies help maintain its presence unlike with thing like dinky toys</p><p></p><p>Yes a lot of us collect out of nostalgia because we were there at the beginning, but there are lots of other nostalgic feelings people can have towards something even if they weren't there at its conception. </p><p></p><p>People will still want to collect things that are rare/expensive for that reason alone.</p><p></p><p>In there future will there be as many collectors as today? Hard to be certain but I do think that once the original Star Wars generation has died out it will be a very different type of collector and I would have thought there would be far fewer. </p><p></p><p>Today you have the SW generation plus those who have come into it post era. In time only the post era people will be left, so the SW collecting world will have lost a major demographic. I would have though that is its largest group.</p><p></p><p>It is an interesting question for sure. </p><p></p><p>Does anyone know much about SW collecting in the past? I didn't begin until 92, just before it went crazy. Anyone have much info on it prior to that?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sith-smith, post: 505921, member: 43"] The way I look at it is not as the future of collecting, but as the future of my collecting. I try as possible not to let that be affected too much by what anyone else is doing. Not easy admittedly. ultimately I have only collected for one reason and for one person. Myself and my own enjoyment. I've never once bought a piece thinking that in a few years it will be worth more. If I decide to sell up in 30 years time and no one wants to buy them then so be it. I never bought them for that reason, so am not going to lose sleep over it. If they all drop drastically in price tomorrow and something I paid 5k for is now only worth a few hundred, then so what? I never collected as any kind of investment opportunity or as a future retirement fund etc. It will not stop me from enjoying that piece. That said, in terms of collecting in general, it will no doubt continue. Star Wars is a massive part of our cultural understanding so I can't see how it will not still be a much loved franchise many years into the future. As people have already said, the movies help maintain its presence unlike with thing like dinky toys Yes a lot of us collect out of nostalgia because we were there at the beginning, but there are lots of other nostalgic feelings people can have towards something even if they weren't there at its conception. People will still want to collect things that are rare/expensive for that reason alone. In there future will there be as many collectors as today? Hard to be certain but I do think that once the original Star Wars generation has died out it will be a very different type of collector and I would have thought there would be far fewer. Today you have the SW generation plus those who have come into it post era. In time only the post era people will be left, so the SW collecting world will have lost a major demographic. I would have though that is its largest group. It is an interesting question for sure. Does anyone know much about SW collecting in the past? I didn't begin until 92, just before it went crazy. Anyone have much info on it prior to that? [/QUOTE]
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