Have you ever heard of The Precious Moments chapel? it's here in my own state of MO (Carthage, to be precise...as if a bloody civil war battle there wasn't bad enough). It is filled with Biblical stories told with characters painted in the Precious Moments style.Here is a picture to give you an idea of what that looks like:
I can't find a jpeg of God as a Precious Moments character, or I would have posted it. Sorry! :-(
I had somehow missed the Precious Moments Chapel (why isn't it haunted by the outraged spirits of the casualties at Carthage?)
A partner of my dad's collected Lladros, but that's as close as I ever got to figurine collecting.