I can't do it

First off, let me say this in a public sphere (just in case Zack Snyder is sadly rummaging through random blogs on the Internet): Watchmen (the movie) was great. Fantastic even. Given the complexity and depth of the book, managing to make a movie under 3 hours in duration that captured most of the themes of the book is an incredible accomplishment.

Now, as I've mentioned previously, I'm having a hard time not getting these figures (specifically the translucent Dr. Manhattan variant, but if I were to get him I'd have to get them all, obviously). I said once that I would see the movie and let that decide for me. Problem is, I loved the movie, loved the characters in it, and now am seriously having a difficult time not getting all of them.

Plus, the Toys R Us here doesn't carry any of them. I looked. (Which bothers me, since the unmasked Rorschach variant is a Toys R us exclusive, so how can my TRU not sell them?) Why did I look?

Because I probably would have bought them if they were there. See what I mean?

Where would I put them? With my Ghostbusters figures? My Batman figures? Should they get their own shelf? And if I start getting figures from other comics, what's to stop me from just losing my mind and buying every action figure out there? And then it's DC Direct; the articulation is bad and they're more like statues than action figures. Is that what I want?

You can see this is an existential crisis, fitting for Watchmen to elicit in me.

Perhaps I'm overstating. I don't want to spend $17 per figure to collect all of them, at least not at this point. Maybe in a few months, when TRU starts clearing them out (since apparently, the movie is far too complicated and confusing for laypeople to appreciate), I'll buy them.

Sigh. As long as Jon is still up there watching, it'll all be fine.