How do you decide what figures to move on?

[suspsy]

On the one hand, I wish my wife and my relatives were willing to give me toys as gifts. On the other hand, I don't think I would trust them to know which ones I want. They would totally give me Schleich toys out of convenience.

[Halichoeres]

Oh yeah, and once in a while somebody gives me a dinosaur as a gift, and when that happens, regardless of what might come out subsequently, I'll keep it.

People giving me dinosaurs as gifts is something I don't want! That's how I ended up with a Schleich Velociraptor.    Thankfully, the few people that do gift me dinosaurs usually use my wish list.  I don't get rid of gifted dinosaurs either.

Yeah, I don't encourage it. Amd nobody has given me Schleich. More like this from my sister:

And somewhere I have a little soapstone stegosaur that an ex gave me for Christmas. These sorts of things I don't mind keeping around.

[Joliezac]

I mainly collect extant figures but I love collecting dinosaurs too. I have 2,000 figures in my collection, with about 100 being dinosaurs, and maybe 30 or so prehistoric others.

With prehistorics I try to be very picky so that I don't run out of room (I hate putting figures in storage so I try to fit everything on display). I try to focus on quality over quantity. I rather spend $50-$90 on a Rebor/Nanmu figure than get a ton of small cheap figures. I have Eofauna, Papo, now HLG and PNSO in my collection, along with a few from Schleich & Safari but they are mostly childhood figures that I keep for nostalgia or because they were gifts.

I recently got rid of some Schleich that I had no attachment to, but otherwise I am very happy with everything in my collection. I did sell the Nanmu Smart Series JP3 raptors because I don't like articulated figures, I just got them for the hype and regretted it. It is VERY hard to resist dinosaurs today with how many great ones come out. I'm sad Nanmu seems to be straying away from statues but maybe that will allow me to get more PNSO or HLG.

[Protopatch]

To my eyes, dinosaur figures are like books, I can't get rid of any of them, even if I don't live in a spacious place.
Therefore, I try to focus on targeted purchasings.
Every single piece is actually linked to a unique memory and has a sentimental value : the ones I decide not to display at a specific time are thus sorted in plastic boxes and then stored in the cellar, until the next time ?