Collector Awards Sweden nominated author and collector Mattias Rendahl as “Collector of the year”. The gala took place in February in Stockholm, unfortunately he didn’t win, “but just to be nominated among more traditional and more respected collector areas was amazing”, Mattias says. “When I started to collect Star Wars toys back in the mid 90’s, I couldn’t in my wildest dreams think our beloved toys would be auctioned off at Sotheby’s in NYC and Hong Kong, that it would be cool to be a nerd, or even less that SW should be nominated together with “real” collectibles haha Man, time sure has changed…”