collecting timeline - 1980 - 1984 - not yet cognitavely able 1985 - 1992 - transformers, masters of the universe, thundercats, hot wheels, books about outer space or dinosaurs 1993 - 1994 - break for the embarrassment of middle school 1995 - 1998 - old star wars toys, new star wars toys, comic books, spawn toys, the tick toys 1999 - 2001 - old star wars toys, new star wars toys, old transformers, new transformers, comic books, tron toys, random/obscure action figures, weird old pc computer stuff, nes games 2002 - 2003 - old transformers, japanese-only old transformers, random godzilla-godzilla related toys, western vinyl, japanese vinyl boredoms albums 2004 - 2006 - japanese vinyl, boredoms albums 2007 - japanese vinyl , vintage japanese vinyl, boredoms albums 2008 - japanese vinyl, vintage japanese vinyl if my collecting continues to follow this pattern, the only certainty is that i will never have extra money.
i got them all. well, enough of them, anyway. i dont have all the super crazy impossible ones, or different pressings, etc. but i got at least a copy of nearly all the recordings.
I was a huge tick geek. Ben Edlund was from two towns over. I still have the Tick omnibus that was released and signed by all of the people involved. A treasure from my childhood.
thats rad! i was pretty serious about the tick as well. somewhere i have this weird error/variant tick figure where the torso is made of green plastic, but everything else is blue. i really loved that first run of tick comics.
^^^^^^^^^^^^ What he said, skylar, you summed it up for me completely and so well, i'll just let you talk for me, too. been collecting something since i was six years old and ima=gine i will till the day i die. the only thing that gives me thought is, "what will happen to all of it?" i thought maybe in my will i could specify that everyone who has ever done a trade with me on here could pick thru or thought of leaving my underground and handmade book collection to the comic art museum or donate the whole lot to salvation army and let it all scatter to the wind, which, come to think of it, might not be a bad way to go, since that is the way i'll be going myself! when i'm feeling all artsy-fartsy i think, man, it would be cool to have all my vinyl toys boiled down and then have my body encased in it in a solid rectangle, sort of a plastic coffin or a modern day mummy with one word carved on each side of the box: "He" 'Lived" "In" and "Plastic" and then donate it to some museum and let them deal with it.
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 So I found this old post and thought it would be interesting to see where you folks are at today, as it's approximately halfway to 10 years already! Of those of you who are still around and voted/posted here in 2008, how has your prediction held up so far?
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 Still collecting more than ever . . . just way more focussed. Probably spending a shit ton more than 5 years ago but only on the good stuff!
Re: Well it definitely was wishful thinking! Where there is a will there is a way and yeah that break never truly happened. Now I'm just focused on vintage.
Re: Re: This is how I see the whole process. I love the whole idea of collecting these toys. It's not just The toys its the thrill of the hunt the changing of displays the fun pictures all of it. I enjoy collecting so I don't think I can ever quit only taper down.
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 I dont know how I missed this thread five years ago but here I still am, but my collecting was probably at its peak when this thread was first posted. Some really bad stuff has happened and some really good stuff too and that has changed the way I buy tremendously, having a daughter now really changed it the most. My buying is down to almost nothing, I only buy things I really want now or have been looking for for a long time. I still have stuff in boxes that I never opened and really need to let it go, but I am so busy with work these last three years I dont have time to put it up for sale!
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 I think the level that I am collecting right now will only go up in the next ten years.
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 Who knows... With age -might- come more money, which I could see going towards art instead of toys. Unless we get a much larger place, there's also a finite space I can use, which has pretty much reached its peak now. So purchases? Sure. But they'll come with equal sales (a pattern I am already trying to respect...). And Shirahama, I am sure many of us are really curious about what's in those boxes...
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 I've been collecting Pushead stuff since the 1980s. As long as there are things I don't have (and thankfully, there are ever so many) I'll still be trying for them.
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 I went from having to donate plasma and doing drug studies to buy one toy to having a steady job that has afforded me one full room plus another half room dedicated to collecting. All within 10 years. As a look to advance at my job I'm sure to continue to growing my collection at a stupid rate. Good thread revive
Re: Do you see yourself collecting toys at this level in 10 $#!+, i'm still doing it 17 years after my parents asked me that question, i ain't stoppin now.
