Greetings Master Malstrom,

To begin with, your assessment of the matter is accurate and fair. There’s no rational reason to own a statue. It’s not like a model kit (in whose stores they’re usually sold alongside), which is the result of your own work and eye for detail. It’s not like a high-end action figure, that can be posed on a whim. Yet, there are tons of them, ranging drastically in quality and taste.

For my part, I own more than I could ever display, a product of the same impulse buy mentality that defines a “hardcore gamer.” Thinking about them, there are only three that I would keep and put on display. If I could go back to when I had bought all the rest, I would’ve stopped myself. The throughline of the three I would keep is one of personal significance.

The first is a highly-detailed bust of my favorite mecha. The second is a model a friend of mine built and painted as a present, a marker of that friendship. The third is a character from a dead horror series, a sort of grave marker or memorial to the last good game in that series.

Links to stock photos for the three, in order:

http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10435360/10/1
http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/image/10299147/10/1

If it weren’t for that significance, these models and statues would mean nothing.

My hope is that, in some small way, I can illustrate a consumer experience for these sorts of things that isn’t simply “getting stuff for the sake of stuff.” If it was helpful in any way, then I’ve done what I set out to do.

With Regards,

Some Reader

I understand the mecha. I don’t understand the sex amiibos.