I grew up in the potf2 era, when figures were mass produced at a crazy level, and you could get them virtually at any store. That said I found it really difficult to find stormtroopers. I had the kellogs mail away han stormtrooper and later the stormtrooper luke, and that was about it. Somebody was army building. I don't care how old you are, you need more than two stormtroopers. So my collection was centered around Jabbas palace and Cantina, since I had a kenner jabba from the thrift store. I had other things, but that was my focus because I couldn't find stormtroopers, and it took quite a while to find a vader too. Yeah distribution sucks now, but at least there's the internet. I army build now, because I can. I think under different circumstances I would have built a small army as a kid.