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Post by xiombarg on Dec 22, 2010 15:06:16 GMT -5
So my collection is once again reaching beyond the threshold of fitting comfortably into a single room and I'm trying to trim it. I'm realizing that I have an action figure infestation. It's like they hide between the big robots and mate to produce offspring when I'm not looking. And I'm not even talking about super heroes (you need a professional exterminator for those guys), I'm talking about robots and monsters, including some vinyl. So I'm thinking I better keep what I've got and quite the habit of action type figures generally in order to keep room for future gokin. If I don't make this decree, action figures are just too cheap and thoughtlessly purchased, and suddenly I have a colony of them before I even realized what happened. Anyone else had this kind of problem?
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Post by colt40five on Dec 22, 2010 15:20:57 GMT -5
I once got to a bad spot with gundam models. I passed most of them off to a nephew and now I only get what I call "signature pieces". IE I don't need every mold of every zaku ever released, just one really nice example. I don't need 50 Mazingers of all shapes and sizes, just one really awesome one.
On top of that I limit my display to about a dozen or so pieces and rotate them in and out of storage to keep clutter to a minimum while getting to enjoy my entire collection over the year. When I look at collection photos of guys with entire rooms filled floor to ceiling with stuff It just boggles my mind. I almost feel like my individual pieces are more valuable to me because I have so few in comparison. Each one was a specific decision that fills a singular spot in my collection.
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Post by magengar on Dec 22, 2010 17:03:54 GMT -5
I wish I could just say "Enuff Already!" I wish I could just find the Coolest Mazinger-Z figure and keep IT. But I run into so many awesome looking Mazinger toys I think I Gotta have them All. It's called Hoarding, and for some folks there is NO CURE for it.
When it comes to Sexual Reproductivity, Sexual Beings, etceteRAH, Japanese Robot action figure toys are Asexually the Most PROMISCUOUS species on the planet... even if you start with just ONE, it manages to screw itself into oblivion and multiply by the dozens. How can I tell my toys are reproducing? Jeez, I NEVER hear them Jizzz! Never mind Wedlock, I need a PADLOCK! ;D
Even the male action figures are surrogates! Gays have a hard time getting Married; but our toys are multiplying so fast they need their own Zip Codes! tsk tsk!
Broken toy parts are no less evil than their whole counterparts... ...these little boogers creep through the house like Bed-bugs!
The Earth is covered in two-thirds Water. Guess what the other third is. BINGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
By the year 2025 the population of die-cast toys will replace the Then-Depleted ozone layer.
By 2030 Robot-Japan will beat out Texas as the largest state in the union. I do mean the TOY population, folks.
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and according to the Jehova's Witnesses religion, only 144,000 will go to Heaven...... ...Well, in That case, Heaven will need to build an Annex, because there's no room in Heaven for ALL of our collections! <snap! snap!>
What a lonesome life to live surrounded by a hoard of toys. I hope I can do this all over again in my next life. ;D
zozo-Magengar
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Post by xiombarg on Dec 22, 2010 17:42:10 GMT -5
LOL! It's so true. Mazinger has no time to fight evil because he's so busy reproducing. And I don't even want to think about RX-78-2. There must be a huge Gundam hive in the center of the earth where Gundams asexually multiply 24/7. The only entrance/exit happens to be underneath the Bandai headquarters.
One of these days I've got to seriously take up that Gundam Mountain project.
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Post by xiombarg on Dec 22, 2010 18:00:10 GMT -5
I once got to a bad spot with gundam models. I passed most of them off to a nephew and now I only get what I call "signature pieces". IE I don't need every mold of every zaku ever released, just one really nice example. I don't need 50 Mazingers of all shapes and sizes, just one really awesome one. On top of that I limit my display to about a dozen or so pieces and rotate them in and out of storage to keep clutter to a minimum while getting to enjoy my entire collection over the year. When I look at collection photos of guys with entire rooms filled floor to ceiling with stuff It just boggles my mind. I almost feel like my individual pieces are more valuable to me because I have so few in comparison. Each one was a specific decision that fills a singular spot in my collection. This is similar to what I do. I have very, very few multiples of any figure. And if a better version comes out, I either sell or give away the older one. For Christmas each year we rotate families of who we give gifts to and my nephews love it when it's their turn to get gifts from us because they know they will get a robot, and I have a great time figuring out what to give them. I'm giving one of my nephews the three pieces that make up the Gunphoenix striker this year. He's the only boy in the family so I don't have to worry about spreading the wealth. But I bought the three separate vehicles for the Gunphoenix Striker when they were dirt cheap but now I have the much rarer anniversary edition, so I figure why not give him a super cool surprise. I remember lusting after big gokin toys as a kid that were too expensive, so why not spread my extras around a bit. And i'ts not like I need two of them. Anyway, I can't wait for him to open it, he'll love it.
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Dec 22, 2010 19:59:14 GMT -5
It happened to my office this past year. Late last fall I happened on a great deal (I think it was a wrong sticker-price or something) on a set of Star Wars The Clone Wars on BD. Once I got into it, I fell in love with the action and with the characters of the individual clones... so one evening walking past Toys R Us, I decided to stop in and pick up the main clone heroes Rex and Cody...
I left them in my office to fiddle with that winter. Well... one thing led to another and now an entire corner of my desk is crowded with rows of troopers - I've been collecting maybe one every couple of weeks but still, after a year, that's around 25 guys... and some of them were exclusively packed in vehicles so I have those in my office too.
Thankfully, to date, I had to pass on several of the clones troopers because either I missed them (saw them in a store one time, but when I came back they were gone) or they were in a multi-pack with ones I already had...
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Post by magengar on Dec 22, 2010 23:07:33 GMT -5
I think I will shawpen mah scissors and castrate Santa befo' he come down mah chimney. I appeeciate all them toys he be given me in the past to this day... but he need to stop fo' a sec and undahshtand shomethin:
Aint NO WAY that man gone leave me raisin all these toys bah mahself! Every time I turn mah back these toys done had mo' toys and mo' toys and mo' toys! I can't even siddown watch Oprah coz they done sto' mah remote!
NnnnnnnASTYazz toys be breedin like buuugz. I luv mah toyz! Them's mah Bebes! ;D
zozo-Magengar
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