Friday, 13 November 2026ARCHIVE
KOLLECTORIUM
FROM THE KEEP · FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER
“It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.”
The Archive has been forced to consider this rather more literally than intended.
What, exactly, is a figure?
This became unexpectedly important when Wonder Woman’s file announced that the Archive held nineteen figures of her.
It did not.
Two of them were heads.
The Batmobile was having an even stranger time.
So, after considerably more discussion than should have been necessary, the Archive has written down the rule.
A figure is a figure. A hybrid still counts. Two-packs and three-packs count as the figures they contain.
A head sculpt is a head sculpt.
A vehicle is a vehicle.
Accessory sets, busts, statues, dioramas, outfits, mounts and props may all remain very welcome members of the Archive without being promoted to FIGURE for administrative convenience.
That distinction now carries through character pages, franchises, films, shows, games, makers, scales and the great lists that tie them together. If a page contains seventeen figures and two head sculpts, it now says exactly that.
And because the Archive itself contains all of these things, its grand total has acquired the only name broad enough to survive whatever collectors bring through the gates next:
records.
The Batmobile has now been informed that it is a vehicle.
It appears to be taking the news well. 📚