>>8500029Kek, I’ll definitely calm down. I guess that was a pretty scatterbrained take on my part. This probably will come off as blogposting, but I appreciate the advice anon, and the time you took to write it out. I don’t know if there is a collecting gene, or just mild ocd that gets passed on for this stuff. As a kid I was lucky, my dad loved to get a lot of LGB/marklin trains, playmobil, and then tintin figures later on through the years as a shared hobby for the both of us. Other than those though, for me personally, because of my age when they came out, that deep nostalgic fascination still hangs on with just a select few toy franchises besides those, which primarily include technic throwbots/slizers and obviously beast wars. I think since I have such an ocd/completion-ist tendency with every collection, I probably justified the large spree by figuring that once I finish this new collection, that would be it. But I’m guessing in the long run, it’s a lot less enjoyable for the reasons you said. I think seeing rapidly appreciating prices for some not very old figures, like lady devimon at 450, or the beast wars dinobot MP already over 400 because I wasn’t paying attention to this stuff a year ago and missed the preorder, triggered this mental justification to just buy all the shit I can now, and avoid regret later. Since the desire to have a screen accurate toy has been fermenting for two decades, that impulse was there, and swept me up in the moment to bite off more than I should have. From now on though, I’ll try to learn a lot more, and get what I truly want, to enjoy building the collection I want, not just collecting everything in sight because it’ll be gone or triple the price in a few months (like the price of op’s scale world Lapras Giovanni set).
