>>11074544>>11074544i think part of it is i'm extremely new to collecting. i've always wanted to and i've collected other random stuff: physical movies in weird formats like UMD movies, cassette tapes and boomboxes, trinkets and miniatures of my favorite animals, cheap casio watches, weird stuff like that to fill the void.
I was never interested in collecting toys because i always thought they were very ugly, i couldnt afford it, or i just wasnt interested enough in the IP. like, i like batman plenty, but i've never wanted to buy 500 figurines of him or even 1 really.
so i only started collecting toys within the last year because of the Classified line. they aren't ugly and they're cheap and consistent. i'm an army builder guy, i guess they're called. i want 500 different figures from the same line of toys, and not a mishmash of random stuff from random IP's. GI JOE has always had very good designs, but they were being wasted on ugly cheap toys and a cartoon for babies. and i feel like they fixed that with the Classified line, so they won me as a customer. and it's my first toy.
anyway, its been difficult for me to adjust to being around people who also like Classified who also like fisher-price running around the house in their pajamas and playing in the bathtub, watching the DiC cartoon for 4 year olds and unironically treating it with seriousness and discussing the DiC cartoon as if it's at all relevant to the Classified line that has more in common with Tarkov or milsim larpers than it does with the 80s joes. Apology for the run on sentence, I think it's funny.
anyway, basically, it's culture shock. and my opinion "most toys are ugly" still stands. if someone gifted me a complete collection of He-Man, i would immediately sell it and not even look at them. no judgment towards He-Man collectors I guess, they still look better than any fisher-price Imaginext crap. hell, I think He-Man is even cooler than Legos. it's just not for me and it's been an adjustment.
