I have a confession to make. Last week, I took most of my carded figures out of their packaging and you know what? It was liberating. It’s a decision that’s been building in the back of my mind for a while now. I started collecting all things Star […]
Parting with all possessions that don’t spark a sense of joy is the quintessence of Marie Kondo’s career, a Japanese author and consultant who has taken the western world by storm with her self-styled ‘KonMari’ method. Drawing from the tenants of mindfulness and eastern […]
The Star Wars franchise boasts one of the best looking and most enduring fleets in all of science fiction. While I love Slave 1, Star Destroyers and the Millennium Falcon as much as the next fan, there’s another little ship that has soared its way into my top […]
There’s no two ways about it – toy collectors enjoy a precarious relationship with the environment. What amounts to little more than hunks of coloured plastic widens one’s carbon footprint exponentially. It’s something I’ve been grappling with these last few years, as my own collection of Star Wars […]
It would be easy to cynically dismiss The Freemaker Adventures as nothing but fluff for the kids, or worse, a toy advert. My own reaction was sceptical, thinking there was nothing that the series could offer me as a Star Wars fan. This despite crying every time I […]
