Taking these ideas one step further, an interesting concept (about which I’m 100% kidding) would be to offer special badges to members who make a legacy donation to A&A.org through their will after their demise. I think that fundraising people call this “planned giving”. The catch, unfortunately, is that the deceased person would never get to enjoy seeing the badge on their account since they’d first have to die to get the badge.
All kidding aside, though, I’ve occasionally looked at my collection of A&A sculpts, built up enthusiastically over many years and stored in rows upon rows of plastic tackle boxes, and I’ve wondered: Just what the heck is going to happen to all this stuff when I die? How can I make sure it ends up someplace where it’ll be appreciated? Will whoever gets it have any idea that such-and-such a unit (like the Battle of the Bulge truck sculpt category) is pretty rare? And are there any other piece junkies out there who’ve asked themselved these existential questions?