Hello friends! After a decade and losing my entire collection, I am attempting to return to the game that brought me so much joy as a young man. Does anyone have any suggestions on a good place to purchase some old school minis? I’ll never return my collection to what it once was, but I would like to acquire some characters to play some competitive games again. Any advice would be much appreciated!

Welcome back!

There's not a lot of in-person play happening anymore. GenCon this summer will have a few competitive events (already sold out), and there are a few in-person Regional tournaments happening in some places, but beyond that I'm not aware of many opportunities to play SWM in person. Therefore, I'm not sure if it's worth all the $$$ it will cost to build a collection...at least, not if your goal is in-person play. However, if the other benefits of a collection are appealing to you, then it might very well be worth it for you: the fun of collecting, using the minis in an RPG game or other such role, displaying and bragging to your friends about how strong the Force is with you, etc...reasons like those might be worthwhile enough for you.

Also, btw, all of the competitive SWM play that is happening now includes the V-Sets. You can find all of those characters here on this site.

As far as I'm aware, much of the SWM play that happens these days happens on Vassal--remember that from all those years ago?

I’ve been buying up lots on eBay recently and those are fun if you want to just get a lot of minis, often of one faction! I’ll have to check out Facebook though now that I know it’s there.

True, true. I guess I was operating under the assumption that it's easier to find opponents at a tournament (where opponents tend to gather). But you're right: it is possible to find lone opponents roaming around in the wild, outside the bounds of tournaments.