Zoids! I finally got my Konig Wolf in. I have a couple other sets I'd like to finish before I hit this one, but I'm glad I finally have it in hand.
I'd also like to get my hands on a few more Liger Zeros - preferably Marking Pluses - so I can put together the CAS armor packs I have and actually display them. MPs are out of stock and currently running about twice what I'd feel safe spending on 'em.
Legos! I bought myself the Atreides ornithopter, along with some pieces to make a display board for the set's minifigs. There's a mouse piece I want to add to that, pretending it's a kangaroo rat, but it's only in one minifig blind box and on the secondary it's a little too expensive for now. Oh, and I got a couple pieces to add to my Dinosaur Skeletons ideas set, display stands for a dinosaur statue and an egg.
Digimon! I finished out BT15, but for a single card that came slightly but noticably bent. Now I'm waiting on ST17 pieces - they're all shipped, should be here soonish. Only "concern" I have about these is that one of the cards will be replaced with a low-pull-rate gold version. I use air-quotes because that would be a good problem to have - on eBay they're floating around $350 - but it would be marginally more work for me.
The Diaboromon kit came in, and I'm really pleased with it. Luke is excited about it too, can't wait to get him his copy. Joc and I also found a second copy of the old Kuramon toy I've been using as a memory marker - Luke has been wanting one, but it's $30 on ebay, so I'm glad we found a spare.
Also need to make a token order; hopefully I can get to that tonight, around the boys.
Good news, for now anyways, is that there isn't another release until late May. Hopefully I can use the intervening time to save up for these upcoming sets. Late this year and early next are going to be tough in terms of collecting; BT18, 19, and 20 are going to be distributed between two English releases to bring them up-to-date with Japan. On the one hand that'll be nice, but on the other pull rates are going to suck unless they replace a C slot with a R/S/E slot. Unlikely.
Of even bigger concern to me right now though is the state of promo cards. Prices are ridiculous - particularly for Beginning ver 2.0 and anything that was a box-topper in EX5. Individual promos should not be $15, let alone the $50 Raremon is pushing. I hope they start doing store distributions to flood the market, but at this point I'm pretty much waiting on Bandai's magnanimity. And more promos keep being published.
Magi-Nation! Against all odds, there's a kickstarter for new stuff for this game for the first time in over two decades. I'm really happy to see it. I'm only backing for brand-new promos - considering I have a full proxy playset of everything we knew about through TR, I can't really justify more - but hopefully I can keep up with future releases.
As a result of this I'm looking into filling out my peripherals collection a little more too - fliers, posters, magazines, playmats, that sort of thing. I need to clean up my haves/wants and start pestering folks on the discord.
Another major-ish project of mine related to this is an Unlimited and MRP re-do. It's just so much work assembling that in MSE.
Guild Ball! I haven't managed to get around to painting, but I did at least prime some stuff. Currently waiting on next week's errata post. Once that hits I'll make a card order, along with probably a handful of MND cards that were off-center when I ordered them however long ago.
Miscellany! Speaking on cleaning up haves/wants, I need to list a bunch of stuff on ebay, too. Hellboy board game pieces, a spare Zoid model, that sort of thing.
I am waiting on two more Kickstarters to launch soon: one for an expansion to Starforged, and another for the Dinogenics reprint/expansion.
The idea to start getting up early never took off, and with DST starting soon that'll be even harder. I would still like to work on it though - time to spend on my projects is so rare, and at the very least I'd like to get some movement on my RPG work and model painting.
I got that fully-printed Magi-Nation collection I was pining for, so now I need to put it to some use. For decks, at least to start with, I have the Limited precon lists and the decks from the Prima guide to use, but that only covers through Awakening and misses my favorite regions.
As promised, ten of the twelve pins. Got the Paradwyn one incoming too, just need to find Bograth.
I used to collect a game called Magi-Nation; nearly had a full playset of the cards, plus a bunch of peripheral collectibles to boot. I sold it off around six or seven years ago, but I've regretted it since.
There's a pretty active community on Discord, so I've started looking into collecting again. I have to be a lot more conservative than I might otherwise typically be, what with the twins inbound, but it won't hurt to put my ear to the ground.
I've got a couple of leads on near-complete sets, but going that route would be prohibitively expensive right now. I might start setting aside a little money every month as a collector's fund. Hell, that might be a good idea anyways, to rein in my spending a bit in general.
Another option is to print the cards instead of collecting them. I'm going to have to do this for Traitor's Reach since it never went to print, but I'm not so sure for the official stuff. On the one hand, printed would probably be cheaper, and it'd be easier to get most promos this way. The downsides are that that's not really collecting, the prints may turn out poorly, and it might be hard to track down non-card items without going in for card lots too.
Speaking of non-card items, I did purchase 10 of the 12 enamel pins. I'll be glad to have those.
I think that for now, the tack that I'll take will be to focus on the non-card collectibles until I have enough saved that I could get the cards printed if I wanted, and then make a determination on how to proceed.