Comments on: Poe’s Point > Toy collectors got no reason to live

By: DankOne

DankOne — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:16:07 +0000

Well seems to me this one is jealous. Maybe someone made fun of their body part collection. Seriously, I sound to me like somebody needs to look into the mirror and look at ones own issue before casting the hate towards toy collectors. I’m a pretty happy person and I’m ok with who I am! I still play with my friggin toys! Being almost 37 ain’t gonna stop me. I drink beer… I make my own Beer. I’m married and have my own home bar, pay my bills and go out with my friends the opposite of awkward. Unless you count my ability to drink to much tequila and punish the bushes with my Vomit Power! That can be awkward.

Sure it’s cool nowadays to be a “GEEK” but I’ll be willing to bet many of us were geeked out way before you emo band worshiping greesy hair women’s jean wearing types were were still in diapers.

May you fall into a pool of 1,000,000 legos!!

Ok I feel better now!

By: izdawiz

izdawiz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:49:45 +0000

Lemme guess, a breakup was involved…

Was the Shaman worth it?

By: Dark Angel

Dark Angel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:49:12 +0000

I gotta say…this really doesn’t upset me. The whole rant reads to me like someone who has far more issues with their own self image than I care to get into, and I just feel sorry for him.

“Lemme ask this, has collecting toys ever helped anyone get laid?”

I once had to trade sex in exchange for the return of my Tauron Shaman, does that count?

…yeah…it’s a long story…

By: ayak

ayak — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:48:43 +0000

What can I say, one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, to each his own… where the hell did this asshole get off telling people how it is? get a life asshole… collecting, wether they be toys, playboy mags, cars, whatever, they’re not just hobbies, they ARE passion.

By: izdawiz

izdawiz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:01:14 +0000

That has me thinking about the best things out of Boston.

1) Baked Beans
2) Comedians (Leary, Stephen Wright, etc.)
3) The Patriots
4) The Celtics
5) Haaahvaaard…
6) “Cheers” was set there.
7) Filene’s Basement (according to my wife)

By: izdawiz

izdawiz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:56:30 +0000

My bad. I stopped paying attention to Dennis Leary right around the first Ice Age.

By: Chief

Chief — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:44:14 +0000

@ Iz, the “Football…porno….books about war” line was a Dennis Leary joke. It wasn’t meant to be the ingredients to a Real Man. Poe is kind of right though, the stereotypical “Guys Guy” is a beer drinking, sex having, sports loving, handy around the house, guy. I do cover all of those as well as reading comics and collecting cool looking action figures.

By: izdawiz

izdawiz — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:12:47 +0000

Collecting can definitely be an outlet for obsessive tendencies.

When it ceases to become a source of joy and becomes one of consternation, then it needs to stop.

I know someone who had a huge Star Wars collection then sold it all when it ceased to make him happy. Then he assembled a HUGE complete Marvel legends and Marvel toy collection and then he sold those at a HUGE loss.

What’s the point?

But I think that if something brings you joy and doesn’t hurt anyone else, who cares whether anyone else thinks it’s cool or not, right?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:09:35 +0000

In all seriousness we do need to know when it gets a bit obsesive. I had 3 wardrobes almost full of stuff. I had a massive Transformers collection, near complete Thundercats collection, loads of MOTU, full Bravestarr figure collection, box of G.I. Joe toys, drawer of gobots, couple of boxes of Star Wars figures, several Japanese robots from Macross and Voltron etc. The problem was I had too much cool stuff and couldn’t display it, I had forgot about the cool stuff I had as it just got pilled in a wardrobe and forgot about gathering dust. I am pretty much in the mindset now that less is more. I only want toys that I actually like or am sentimentally attached to…not because they did this in episode such and such or this and that in the comics etc. When I started collecting a couple of years ago in college it was just purely for the purpose of getting a couple of the cool ones I did not have in my collection when I was younger. I admit I went over board (thanks to eBay) and bought all I wanted and then some. That is why I have been having a massive clearout. At least I have made over £1,000. Collecting didn’t affect my social life but it messed up my priorities. I didn’t have alot of money saved when I was in college and I remember having to make the decission if I should spend my £15 on Transformers Hotrod or go and see Sepultura…..lets just say I made the wrong choice. At least now I can can display my collection a bit better instead of it being boxed away. I can also boast that I have owned every Transformers toy I ever really wanted except Overlord, Sunstreaker and Trypticon….when I finish clearing out I might get them LOL not as to say I won’t have the room.

By: izdawiz

izdawiz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:33:09 +0000

Sorry about the typos. Some of the keys on my keyboard are kinda sticky…