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ABOUT KOLLECTORIUM

A note from the Head Archivist. Do sit down; mind the boxes.

WHAT IT IS (AND WHY IT EXISTS)

Hello, dear resident. I'm Moose, Head Archivist. I keep the records here, and I supervise.

Kollectorium is what happens when collectors refuse to let the chaos win. It is a living archive of sixth-scale figures, those lovely, faintly ridiculous thirty-centimetre people who quietly take over your shelves and your savings. Every one of them is catalogued, cross-referenced and kept in good order. I check.

Under one roof you'll find the Archive, where the hobby is documented; the Vault, where your own collection lives; the Observatory, where announcements and releases are followed; the Bazaar, where collectors trade directly; and the Courtyard, where everyone talks about all of it. It is all free, and it is built by collectors, for collectors.

One honest thing before we go on: we don't manufacture figures, and Kollectorium isn't a retailer. Collectors can sell to one another in the Bazaar, but the Archive itself exists to document the hobby, carefully, the way a slightly obsessive keeper records a collection nobody else thought to write down properly. Think less faceless database, more the cat on the counter who knows exactly which version you mean.

THE BAZAAR: SELL IT, SWAP IT

The Bazaar is where collectors buy, sell and trade figures directly with each other. Kollectorium takes no commission and no percentage of your sale; we only keep the stalls tidy. Make an offer, arrange a trade, or find a retailer by maker and region and read what other collectors say about them.

It still wears a beta ribbon, so do be patient with it. Your grail may be one stall over.

THE COURTYARD: FIND YOUR PEOPLE

The Courtyard is where the Keep talks. Post your arrivals and shelf photos, start a discussion, ask for help, run a poll, follow other collectors, or simply lurk. Lurking is allowed. I do it professionally.

The conversation carries on in the live Courtyard chat, which runs across the whole Keep. Be kind about other people's shelves; you'd want the same.

BY THE NUMBERS · AS OF OCTOBER 2026

5,501FIGURES CATALOGUED
1,679HOT TOYS RELEASES
202MANUFACTURERS
377FRANCHISES
2,227CHARACTERS
1995–2028YEARS COVERED

Every one of these was earned the slow way, one figure at a time. I counted. The Hot Toys census is deliberately broad: releases, variants and older records that disappear from current catalogues are kept rather than quietly dropped. That is why our count of 1,679 may differ from older references you have seen.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

Anyone can pile figures into a spreadsheet. I've seen the spreadsheets. The real work is making the records agree with each other. Makers ship the same figure under three names. One character turns up across a dozen brands with a dozen spellings. “Edition” and “variant” get used as if they meant the same thing, and then nothing sorts. The work here is untangling all of that into a record that means one thing consistently: the right figure, the right version, the right relationships. One honest record per figure, and knowing when two things should never be folded into one.

The whole method is written down in The Kollectorium Standard: how names, editions and variants are reconciled, and how third-party and coded figures are handled. Do read it. There won't be a quiz. Probably.

The Archive isn't only for reading, either. It powers the free sixth-scale figure collection tracker, so your own Vault inherits every reconciled name and real release date. Less typing for you; more order for everyone.

HOW TO CITE KOLLECTORIUM

Please do. It would genuinely make my week. The form I like best: “Kollectorium (kollectorium.com), the normalized sixth-scale figure archive.”

Our counts are living numbers, so cite them with the date shown here, for example “1,679 Hot Toys releases as of October 2026(Kollectorium)”. Every figure, character, maker and franchise page is the proper home for that thing, and you may link to it directly. I'd prefer it, actually.

MooseHead Archivist

Kollectorium · 65, Rue de la Vallée, L-2661 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg