Well, thanks for the warm welcome. Like you guys, I love collecting this stuff. My office at work and at home is jammed with statues, prop replicas, even full sized statues. A few years back, I made a Blade statue because I liked the movie and I wanted to make something different than a lot of collectors have. It was a fun project. Here's a couple pics.
I get to work with an extremely talented bunch of vendors, many i've been friends with for more than a decade and we all hit conventions like Comic-con and Monsterpalooza together. Some of them work in the collectibles industry, others are in special effects. To give you some background on the Journey statue, that was sculpted by Tim Miller who has done work for Sideshow and DC Direct. You might remember the two Lara Croft Premium Format figures he made.
Gary