While I certainly have a great number of Conan-related piece of paraphernalia interned in my household, I'm not what you'd call a Conan collector: I just buy what I like, rather than feel compelled to get the whole set, as it were. I have many of the reprints of the Marvel comics that adapt the stories, but I didn't see much point in going beyond the Roy Thomas run: likewise, I have thus felt no need to liberate the
Conan the Adventurer action figures from whatever warehouse they're currently collecting dust in.
I was going to make an exception for the McFarlane Conans. You can't exactly call these action figures on account of the preposterous lack of articulation: "action" figures would be something of a misnomer. Even
the Battlechargers had more freedom of movement. However, one doesn't buy these to enact fun little battles: one buys them to display, like you would a sculpture. It just happens to have some variety in accessories and trinkets available. It's a nice idea, all the same.
However, the more I looked at the McFarlanes, the louder Bad Scot started to grumble.
