Bought anything cool recently?
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Picked the Alien and Parker up in a charity shop and the face hugger was a freebie from a journalist friend.
That damn facehugger! Such a creepy little thing. Fantastic pieces.Picked the Alien and Parker up in a charity shop and the face hugger was a freebie from a journalist friend.
Very nice. I love the devotion to detail of Steamboat Willie.
Picked the Alien and Parker up in a charity shop and the face hugger was a freebie from a journalist friend.
That's pretty awesome! That facehugger is creepy!
....very cool little bro......
Thanks! Not everyone appreciates the geekiness of the SwiftDog!
....dude, I have so many toys that my wife is going to banish me to the basement and weld the door closed.....
I am considering ordering the LEGO voltron set off amazon the only problem being it costs $180 USD and a I have probably spent my money dry recently. The individual lions are incredibly well designed and I love that it functions like the old Voltron toys of the ‘80’s
The recent Stranger Things set they released looks cool as hell, even though I’ve never watched the show the actual set is well designed and I would buy it alone purely for the fact that it comes with Dungeons and Dragons themed bricks, and I myself am quite into D&D.
The recent Stranger Things set they released looks cool as hell, even though I’ve never watched the show the actual set is well designed and I would buy it alone purely for the fact that it comes with Dungeons and Dragons themed bricks, and I myself am quite into D&D.
From the ages of 5-11 I was really into the idea of collecting old transformer toys, I did not actually have the funding and I wasn’t able to get any of the actual toys, but I researched them and knew a lot about their history regardless. My dad took me to a couple toy shows, and at the time I felt honored to just be able to look at some of the the toys I dreamed of owning, even though they were too expensive to actually buy for myself. Ah well, that phase is behind me although the idea of collecting toys still interests me.
I still own quite a few of what transformers sets I could afford from the time I was really into them, but sadly a lot of the sets my parents sold not thinking I would feel nostalgic over it. But out of the few transformers I was able to save, a lot of them are broken or have missing pieces. I know a lot of them were probably given to my brother and they might be sitting in his closet.
With me getting back into the idea of collecting Legos, I still own all the instruction booklets from all the sets Ive amassed over the years, problem is when the sets were knew I would take them apart to build other things, but I still kept my pieces organized in case I wanted to put the set back together, the problem is my mom didn’t see that and she took all my Legos and put them into one big bin, so now it’s impossible for me to rebuild any of my old sets because it’s just too hard for me to find the pieces, especially when very specific ones are needed, I asked her not to do that but she didn’t listen to me, not to mention the fact she sold a lot of my favorite childhood video games at a garage sale without even asking me first. I legit remember waking up one morning only to find half of my video games were missing because she sold them all.
It legit pisses me off that she did this multiple times to the toys that raised me and that I’m very emotionally attached too. Just because the phase is behind me doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to still want to keep the toys around. So many toys that I’m very emotionally attached to are gone because my mother can’t comprehend asking me permission first before she makes the desicion herself on what to do with my stuff. She sold my transformers and video games, dumped all my LEGO pieces into one bin so I can’t find them. I don’t know why she thinks she has the right to do this to my stuff. Oh well, I’m just ranting at this point, but I miss my old stuff.
With me getting back into the idea of collecting Legos, I still own all the instruction booklets from all the sets Ive amassed over the years, problem is when the sets were knew I would take them apart to build other things, but I still kept my pieces organized in case I wanted to put the set back together, the problem is my mom didn’t see that and she took all my Legos and put them into one big bin, so now it’s impossible for me to rebuild any of my old sets because it’s just too hard for me to find the pieces, especially when very specific ones are needed, I asked her not to do that but she didn’t listen to me, not to mention the fact she sold a lot of my favorite childhood video games at a garage sale without even asking me first. I legit remember waking up one morning only to find half of my video games were missing because she sold them all.
It legit pisses me off that she did this multiple times to the toys that raised me and that I’m very emotionally attached too. Just because the phase is behind me doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to still want to keep the toys around. So many toys that I’m very emotionally attached to are gone because my mother can’t comprehend asking me permission first before she makes the desicion herself on what to do with my stuff. She sold my transformers and video games, dumped all my LEGO pieces into one bin so I can’t find them. I don’t know why she thinks she has the right to do this to my stuff. Oh well, I’m just ranting at this point, but I miss my old stuff.
At least my dad can emphasize with me about my mom getting rid of large quantities of my old stuff, his office is really cool to look at because he has all his old LEGO sets and transformers from the 80’s and 90’s back when he was my age. The only difference is that when he was my age he sold a bunch of his stuff by himself without thinking twice about missing it later. He wish he didn’t sell his GI Joes and Atari Game Cartridges but at least he kept his Legos together and salvaged a few of his transformers. He works from home so his work office is decorated with LEGO sets from various decades along with the few transformers he didn’t sell. I’d like to go to a toy fair again just for nostalgia related purposes. I get very emotionally attached to material possessions easily, I think that can be said about a lot of us.
It’s not like my mother doesn’t collect stuff herself, she has been collection those Precious Moments porcelain figurine since the late 90’s and she’s amassed a sizeable amount of them that line our living room shelves. Besides that she also collects children’s picture books and Winnie the Pooh related merchandise, I think her children’s picture book collection is rather cool, she’s got some unique finds in there including some first edition Doctor Suess’s and other famous children’s authors.
Like I previously mentioned, she is a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh and recently collected all the plushies that were inspired by that recent Chrtostopher Robin film with the CG stuffed animals.
Like I previously mentioned, she is a huge fan of Winnie the Pooh and recently collected all the plushies that were inspired by that recent Chrtostopher Robin film with the CG stuffed animals.
Wayoftheredpanda I'm sorry your toys were tossed/sold. I had a few that disappeared from my Mom's house years ago. They probably went to my niece but since her Dad (my step-brother) throws things away instead of saving or even giving away, I know I'll never see them again.
Our daughter's old toys are in the basement. There's a bin full of Littlest Pet Shop stuff, Legos, a racetrack, lots of Beanie Babies..... haven't gone through it but I bet I could ebay a lot of it
Our daughter's old toys are in the basement. There's a bin full of Littlest Pet Shop stuff, Legos, a racetrack, lots of Beanie Babies..... haven't gone through it but I bet I could ebay a lot of it
Oh, bought two bottles of this at the Farmer's Market in Captain Cook. My Rush friends might recognize the name of the maker. 
There is a very specific few LEGO sets from the early 2010’s that I would like to have again but they stopped manufacturing nearly a decade ago, Ive seen boxes copies on EBay. The problem is the sellers want hundreds of dollars for a set that cost $15-$20 when they were first releasedWayoftheredpanda I'm sorry your toys were tossed/sold. I had a few that disappeared from my Mom's house years ago. They probably went to my niece but since her Dad (my step-brother) throws things away instead of saving or even giving away, I know I'll never see them again.
Our daughter's old toys are in the basement. There's a bin full of Littlest Pet Shop stuff, Legos, a racetrack, lots of Beanie Babies..... haven't gone through it but I bet I could ebay a lot of it
Here are the two sets I got the other day next to my Lego Yellow Submarine, I’ll review the Flinstones set once the board is fixed because I have a lot i want to say about it and I don’t want the large amounts of text to mutilate the thread