>>11244296>>11243504OP here. this is completely fucking based. what i like is you directly confront your changing tastes within your own macro collection, by forming little civil conflicts.
the way i've added "plot armor" to my lifelong toy lore is that the physical toys have "imagination souls" and when i'm done with a certain group of toys, their "imagination souls" are extracted and go into other new toys. Similar to Transformers/Beast Wars "sparks" finding new vehicles/animals (and i was a big Beast Wars 90s kid). other toys can go into "cryo" states where they kinda zone out for years -- i arrived at this because honestly it's a natural ability a toy would need if they were truly sentient.
these mechanisms have allowed me to be more fluid in my collection throughout the years without fear of internal conflict. I had also considered this internal conflict and jealousy, and guilt of toys being discarded/thrown away, and basically built up this rationale as a coping mechanism
