>>7812322I stopped collecting toys around when I was 16, because I wanted to get into fucking high school girls, but didn't fuck any girls until I was 19. Around that time I bought a few Star Wars figures at a convention I was working with my Uncle who deals in old comics and collectibles, and just unpackaged the figures at home, played with them for like an hour and put them in my night stand drawer for several years.
When my mom died like 6 years ago, I decided to star collecting again, because I was getting really excited about GI Joes, since they were my favorite toys as a kid, having collected them from when I was a toddler up until Sigma Six when they changed the scale and I gave up toys. And by the the time I was getting in they had just done Retaliation and were just starting 50th, and the sculpts looked really good. I walked down the street to my local Toys R Us and bought the Battle Below Zero set, which had the Cobra Ice Wolf and Arctic Ghoststriker, as well as had two figures with the vehicles; an interesting bargain. I had kinda lusted after modern Joes in the past but had never taken the dip into buying any, so after that I sold off a bunch of my old NES games that I had from when I was a kid, having accumulated some very valuable games. With each game sale I was frantically trying to buy up major characters: Ultimate Cobra Commander, 50th Destro, Zaranna, SDCC Baroness, Metalhead, Pursuit of Cobra Duke, and on and on, trying to remake the 80's cartoon in toy form.
From Joe I began collecting Star Wars again, but thought Black Series was shit, and still think that way, because 3.75" has the larger library and scratched the same world building itch that GI Joe did. Then I was on to Masters of the Universe Classics, again because of how large the library of figures was, and because of how world buildy the toy line was. Then I was picking up Transformers, being really impressed with some of the new figures I was seeing.
