Board Thread:Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time discussion/@comment-1845428-20130129160801/@comment-4619189-20130131195022

I honestly think that the Collector might just still be collecting the Cooper's canes. Clockwerk was able to be piloted by Neyla, because his parts were reconstructed by Arpeggio in a way that would allow him to pilot it. The original Clockwerk was actually an owl to begin with, and did have all of the machinery built on at some time, this time unclear. There are ideas of how Clockwerk got his parts way back then, but that's just something that was never really questioned in the original trilogy. The Collector on one hand, is described by Sly as an art mogul at the beginning of the game. What this could mean is that all of his artifacts and such in his museum could have been just stolen from different eras in time, making them look prestine. What could have happened, was that upon traveling in time and stealing, he could have noticed the Coopers beating him to the loot. And with all the different Coopers, he could have noticed the different canes. Therefore, his plot, and the backstory of Thieves in Time, could be him taking all of the canes (like we already know) and imprisoning the Coopers. This way, he gets a one of a kind art piece, while in the mean time giving himself the freedom of getting art from all times, completely Cooper-free.