another reason the collection is small. I can't look at my shelf and feel good about $1000 i spent on just a handful of toys. I'll splurge on something i think is really great (I couldn't possibly afford 2nd hand) or i've been after for a while (if it's affordable)
I get paid by the hour!
I've learned to enjoy what this hobby has to offer with flickr.

I think you said that right, too. I just still don't agree!

Sure, what you're describing is quite true for a select few brands, but for the majority of toy makers (both licensed folks like M1, Marmit, and Marusan *and* non-licensed patchi/"designer/whatever folks), sales have been deflating for a couple years now. As a result, a lot of sofubi makers have shrinking production runs (hence higher aftermarket prices)...and ultimately increasing retail prices.

EVERYBODY is hurting. :/

did an actual count and have 469 on display, with a handful in hold,trade or to be painted boxes I am at a little over 500

yowza...!

This is a really cool and interesting topic. Im still new here, been lurking since mid 2012. I counted last night and im at 96. Its interesting to me to see how I have started to get focused based on things that I like, and how realizing that a game plan is indeed necessary to avoid having a little of this and a little of that. Not that there's anything wrong with that ...

I have one at my office and one at home and that's it !

As G said it, looking at a shelf to realiza it is worth $1000 is not such a great feeling...

^^^ I'm glad I don't have that feeling!

All i see when i look at my shelves is cool shit that's awesome

and it is

I'm just trying to get rid of unnecessary stuff in my flat, and toys are one of them !

I hear ya . . . I'm just a borderline hoarder . . . i still have every book i ever bought and that's a whole shit-ton of books!

What happened? I didn't even post my number...
My sofubi count was 638. May be a few off. It's hard to count toys all packed onto shelves.

I am definitely at hoarder status. I can't imagine the number I'd reach if counting western stuff from years ago, MOTU, Star Wars, GI Joe, Sectaurs, Transformers, McFarlan, etc from when I was a kid. Should there be some part of me that feels embarrassed about this? Or feel bad and want to sell it all off?

Nah!

Moog, I'm with you. Shelves upon shelves but I love them all

i clocked in at 77...

- 49 bwana customs
- 11 dehara customs (including 8 clays)

and the rest are at the office around my monitor... mainly rxh finger puppets.

i stopped thinking about how much i paid for things, and focused more on the happy feeling i get from seeing them on
the shelf and playing with them. (i'm a compulsive fidgeter... always have to be doing something with my hands. and it's
plain exhausting to keep masturbating constantly.)

What will be bwana custom big 50?

full-size deathra

Just counted, im at 233. All vintage and out on display. I try to go by the if its in a box somewhere it probably needs to go philosophy. I probably have 75% licensed and 25% pachi/bootleg.

only about 10-15 so far, most from a friend who was clearing out space
trying to start collecting more this year.

i'm at about 7--possibly 9 if i decide i don't need to sell anymore.

reading along, i see some of us are self-proclaimed hoarders
i remember as a kid really liking to collect, and outside of vinyl, i used to really be into mecha toys from japan--but sold those off too for the most part.

it's weird. i have the collecting bug, but except for a few pieces, i don't feel terribly attached to things i own. the GID booska would be great to keep around. i love how it stands on it's own perfectly. the size, friendly presence, and GID and googly eyes just seems so perfect. i don't have children, but it would be great for when i do, that they would see the booska in their childhood in all his m1go glory. or maybe they'll think it's stupid and i'll just have to enjoy it


after some thought, i would've been 100% happy keeping my tokojis. dammit. life!

I have one toy

And you play with it WAY TOO MUCH, your mom told me.

what is it?

Would love to see a thread with your complete collection.

Currently packing everything away for some house renovations and it's officially TOO FUCKIN' MANY!

Easiest time to purge is after they've been out of sight and mind for a while

Yes and no... I packed mine a month ago when we started showing the house, and I have indeed sort of forgotten about them, but I KNOW that when I start opening boxes again, I'll fall in love all over again.

(so if you want to make an offer on 12 cases of toys, now's the time!)

Yeah, finding stuff you've stored and or forgotten about is like Christmas, over and over and over....