2016 in Review

January already! Even allowing that I was away from home for three months at the end of the year, I still can't believe how quickly 2016 seems to have flown by!

Since we're now into the first week of 2017, it seemed like a good time to look back on the dolls and figures that entered and exited the posse.

The biggest group of arrivals came over the summer, when I went on a bit of a playline-size buying frenzy:

Ellowyne Wilde Cinnamon, Capratina Diya, Wellie Wishers Aslyn,
H4H Surjan (the lone older purchase), Corelle Cecile, and Las Amigas Carol

And then there were the mini figures, like these Titan Mass Effect figures:

Wrex, Kaidan, Liara

Followed by some Heroclix microfigures:

Apollo, Jenny Quantum, Midnighter

And of course there was my one BJD of the year, Volks SD16 Amethyst:

And my fun retro mini Cabbage Patch, Rudy:

And of course I was pleased to be able to snag Monster High's SDCC exclusive Hexiciah:

I added one figure to my comic statues collection this year in the form of Hellblazer's John Constantine:

And then near the end of the year my mother gave me the HBC Barbie:

Since one of my goals for 2016 was to thin the herd a bit, I also cleared a few dolls and figures out.

I sold off all but two of my Game of Thrones Funko minis:

Also sold was my Bobobie Ariel, who had been blank after a few disapointing face-up attempts in 2011:

As well as my Loong Soul XuanBing head, which had been blank for the whole six years that I owned it;

And I sold a few smaller items, like Monster High Draculara and Funko Hulkbuster:

Draculaura

Hulkbuster

And finally I passed my American Girl mini Melody along to my mother:

As for 2017, I'm hoping to thin the herd a little more and spend more time photographing what I already have. Blog-wise have a few older posts in the pipeline that I meant to post in the fall and forgot about, and hopefully that "more photography" resolution will lead to some related posts as well.

And that's it! Happy New Year!