A while ago I posted about various cute tchotchkies that I will not be collecting, thank you very much. In that post I also talked about things I am allowing myself to collect. Amongst the things mentioned: little figurines of Litten! I was gifted three of the small figurines I currently have. Circa Christmas I found myself motivated to expand my collection and bought three more! One of them, of course, turned out to be way bigger than the other little 1"-2" figurines. But the other two are the size I wish to collect. And really, I have room in my heart for just about any Litten.
These figurines have been living on a floating shelf in my room, but as I attained more of them, I began to run out of room on my tchotchkies shelf and found myself drawn to a certain display case I saw on Pinterest and my brain was quickly eaten by Cute Storage Display Case worms.
Ahhh! I seriously got an absurd amount of pleasure from the idea of attaining one of these cases and filling it over time with Litten figurines. I would say this concept intrigued and thrilled me for nearly the whole of January. Distracted me, too, as I looked around everywhere at reviews and slightly different listings for what is probably the exact same plastic product with different brand names slapped on the listing title. I ended up finally going with a pink case... in reality the pink is very muted browny-rosy. But I thought the Littens would look cutest in it!
(Here's the whole gang!!! The biggest plush has been wearing one of my Blythe berets for months now. Clearly a Flamiaou.)
My review of this display case is: It feels very breakable, to the point where I'm not sure I want to try mounting it to my wall with the provided sticker. I can just see it falling down in the middle of the night and giving me the scare of my freakin' life when it shatters. The enclosure of the clear door is magnetized, and it's really such a strong magnet that whenever I shut the door, it rattles the case and my figurines fall over inside. They did come with little sticky things to put on the bottom of figurines so they won't move around, but as my collection is in flux, I don't want to use them yet. I want things to be easy to rearrange.
However, I will say, the act of placing of the figurines inside and imagining it full of Littens gives me so much serotonin, it's ridiculous. And my room is dusty, so I'm happy to protect my little Littens from that dust.
Five-ish (perhaps six) figurines of this size would fit comfortably per shelf, so I have room to expand! But right now I'm also keeping my modest Stitch figurine collection in it.
The Stitch figurine collection started just three years ago, when my little sister put one of the figurines (the pink innertube one) in my stocking for Christmas. She knows I love Lilo & Stitch, and I felt so loved and so seen! Later on I saw one of the figurines in the same particular series at Five Below, for $1, and I bought it right away. I asked her for another figurine that Christmas! Since then, every Christmas she's given me Stitch figurines in my stocking. I wanted to complete the collection in terms of this set. For a while I couldn't find any from this series at Five Below any longer. But miraculously I found one just after Christmas, and I dug through the whole box of random discount figures until I found the one I was still missing!! I was so stoked to be able to complete collecting the set I wanted. It's just five cheap figurines -- they each cost $1 -- but it took me three years to get them all!
Completing my in-progress Stitch figurine collection was really what motivated me to actually begin to seek out more Litten figurines on eBay. This is more scattered a task. There's no "set" or "series" to collect in terms of Litten -- the figurines are all from random places, produced at random times. From gachapon machines to bigger playsets to Re-Ment to figures that came inside chocolate eggs. There are some I can likely never attain and they don't all match up perfectly in terms of scale. That takes the "gotta catch 'em ALL" factor out of the idea of collecting them, which is a welcome thing for me. Completion isn't really the point with this collection. It's just my sheer Litten love. My excitement at seeing all these disparate figurines attained one by one all lined up together.
This is sort of inspring me to make a page for each of my collections that could be available via the dropdown menu on my blog, the way the "Blythe family" page is. Sounds satisfying but also like a lot of work. We'll see!!!