Not to be confused with The Collector (level).
The Collector is the creator curator of The Wilderness. He is the main antagonist in LittleBigPlanet.
Story[]
LittleBigPlanet[]
He first appears early in the game, disguised as Dumpty in Skate to Victory and peeking in through a window in the haunted castle. He later appears in The Meerkat Kingdom disguised as a Meerkat in the VIP room at the nightclub. However, his first obvious appearance is when he comes to swipe Don Lu's Dog in The Darkness, in the pod he uses for his captures from that point onwards. He appears in Boom Town, where he abducts Frida and Don Lu during their honeymoon, then in Subway, carrying Ze Dude, and again at the start of Endurance Dojo, carrying away a lot of sushi and a doll. His final appearance before The Wilderness is in The Dancer's Court where he kidnaps one of the dancers.
He kidnaps many characters throughout the game, and eventually has all the other Creator Curators and the majority of the other characters captured and locked in The Collector's Lair. The player goes to rescue them before taking on The Collector in the last level of the game. The Collector tries to defeat the player with powerful robotic devices that he forced The Scientist to make for him.
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In the end he is cornered, his robotic armor damaged beyond repair. There, he openly confesses that he only stole things because he was jealous that he didn't have any friends to share his creations with. The King suggests that the rest of the LittleBigPlanet community can be his friends and he seems to agree, ultimately forgiven for his criminal ways.
LittleBigPlanet 2[]
The Collector appears once again in LittleBigPlanet 2 (along with many other characters from the first game), where he is shown to be holding a balloon in Eve's Asylum. He appears to be hard to identify as a black mask covers his face, but the laugh and shape are an obvious hint.
LittleBigPlanet 3[]
The Collector reappears twice in the LittleBigPlanet 3 story mode.
His first appearance is in the Introduction level, where he is shown in the audience behind a tutorial board, while smiling.
His second appearance is in The Great Escape where he is shown on top of a few boxes in OddSock's part. He appears to look similar to the Introduction level, but his face is a Magic Mouth, has a purple glowing eye in place of his left eye, and wears Newton's bowler hat.
The Journey Home[]
The Collector also makes an appearance in the DLC, as one of the characters you must send a letter to.
He later appears at the party where he tries to reach and hit the Oddsock-shaped piƱata while Larry Da Vinci asked him if he didn't bring any "instruments of destruction" with him. He also appears in one of the party photographs where OddSock watched a small Toggle lift him from his toes.
Seaside Surprise Level Kit[]
In the Seaside Surprise Level Kit, with The King
He also makes a cameo appearance in the Seaside Surprise Level Kit, as a puppet at the beginning of the level. He is frowning, as a puppet of The King is hitting him on the head.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
The Collector is a tiny character fully made out of cardboard material. He has four miniature limbs, and is himself smaller than Sackboy. His body lacks much detail, with the exception of his face, which consists of two eyes and a Magic Mouth. He has pitch black gear stickers behind his eyes which might serve as a cosmetic contour, and thick eyebrows. In The Journey Home, the black gears around the Collector's eyes are replaced by black circles.
Personality[]
The Collector is a small, menacing, envious character who was determined to steal the other Creator Curators and their friends and become the ruler of LittleBigPlanet. It can be assumed he used to be a peaceful Curator for such a thing not to have happened before, but his loneliness and envy for the other Curator's creations must have led him to seek dominance over the planet and create dangerous enemies and a stronghold.
Name[]
The Collector was named after what he did as the antagonist in LittleBigPlanet; collect (or in other words, steal) things.
Names in other languages[]
| Language | Name | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | El Coleccionista | Same as in English |
| Swedish | Samlaren | Same as in English |
| German | Der Sammler | Same as in English |
| Chinese | ę¶čč | Same as in English |
| Korean | ģģ§ź° | Same as in English |
| Hungarian | A gyűjtŠ| Same as in English |
| Russian | ŠŠ¾Š»Š»ŠµŠŗŃŠøŠ¾Š½ŠµŃ | Same as in English |
| French | Le collectionneur | Same as in English |
| Finnish | KerƤƤjƤ | Same as in English |
| Portuguese | O coletor | Same as in English |
| Polish | Kolekcjoner | Same as in English |
| Norwegian | Samleren | Same as in English |
| Danish | Samleren | Same as in English |
| Dutch | De verzamelaar | Same as in English |
| Italian | Il collezionista | Same as in English |
| Czech | SbÄratel | Same as in English |
| Indonesian | Pengumpul | Same as in English |
| Romanian | Colectorul | Same as in English |
| Japanese | ć³ć¬ćÆćæć¼ | Same as in English |
| Turkish | Toplayıcı | Same as in English |
| Arabic | Ų§ŁŁ Ų¬Ł Ų¹ | Same as in English |
| Greek | Ī ĻĻ Ī»Ī»ĪĪŗĻĪ·Ļ | Same as in English |
| Hawaiian | Ź»O ka Luna Dute | Same as in English |
| Hebrew | ×××”×¤× | Same as in English |
| Vietnamese | NgĘ°Ę”i sĘ°u tĆ¢m | Same as in English |
| Welsh | Y Casglwr | Same as in English |
Magic Mouth Voices[]
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Notes[]
- The Collector is the first main Antagonist in a LittleBigPlanet game to redeem himself, followed by the Puppeteer and Newton.
- Despite appearing only once in his own world, The Collector is the most frequently encountered character in LittleBigPlanet, appearing once in every world of the game.
- Little Toggle is strong enough to pick up The Collector as seen in The Journey Home, which probably means The Collector is quite light.
- The Collector, alongside Larry Da Vinci and Victoria von Bathysphere, appeared in LBP3's Introduction.
- The Collector is the only main antagonist that doesn't have animations, due to him being made of cardboard.
- The Collector could originally be a human character, as evidence the early June 2008 icon for the Wilderness depicts him as a bearded man wearing some sort of eye patch, but it could just be a placeholder.
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