I have also been trying to widdle down my collection recently. I have a lot of toys I like that are trapped in boxes, and I can't display them because my shelves are consumed by Legos atm. I have been buying stuff I probably shouldn't *gestures at the 6 boxes of tf tcg they bought* but I'm getting more organized at least.

Edit: Also I do understand that this isn't exactly the same thing... I just wanted to contribute.

I was thinking this morning that perhaps my drive to collect megazords is due to not owning the 1993 dino megazord when I was a child. One of the few toys I asked for as a kid and never got it. And the moment I picked up the Legacy one I noticed it wasn't the same toy as the 1993, and I just continued buying megazord after megazord with a sense of collecting them all. Even the Soul of Chogokin never could satisfy my wants. I ended up obtaining the original Titanus and Dragonzord but never the dino megazord. I wonder if I do obtain it if it will quench that thirst and I could finally stop for good.

Yeah, that happened to me and SO-DO a while back. For Build, I was basically all in, but the trick is learning to cut back, to go "Am I doing this for for the sake of doing it, or because I actually want it?" As Kurona says, fill-a-gap mentality is often pretty gripping, and while there's nothing inherently wrong with it, i it's not for you it's not for you.

Also I got sick of customs fees.

The COVID shipping delays have really made me look at recent purchases. Stuff I ordered 2 months ago, I feel like I don't even want anymore and they are just sitting in a warehouse. That's real bad. Because I remember in the moment of pressing "Buy Now" thinking I could not want this thing more! I've cancelled some of those orders at a loss. Paid in lesson learned.

The other reality check for me was this: About 2 years ago I started making more money than I've ever made in my life. Significant increase in income all around and I did the thing many of us dream of: Bought everything.

I completed all sorts of sets, paid above MSRP for out of print goods (hello CSM belts!), impulse bought rare items, and in the end was I satisfied?

No. Not at all.

There was always something new to chase. A collection I thought was complete would expand to more (for example, all the lead Heisei riders of Kamen Rider Converge, now became Lead + Secondary, and then Tertiary why not? (and now I have Converge Kamen Rider Lazer in bike form and I don't even like it, in fact I hate it).

I don't say all this to spite the toys I love and collect. These things have brought me all kinds of joy even if its just to put on a DX belt and do the henshin for 1 minute before sneakily storing it away for another month. But those toys aren't gonna be there for you when you're heartbroken, need someone to talk to, or had a bad day at work. They aren't going to change your childhood past.

Focus on your life, goals, and dreams. When you can say you've met those, then reward yourself!

I feel like we should archive the last handful of posts as a sort of warning to people who want to get into collecting.

I consider myself kinda lucky in that regard, because there's two major factors that stopped me from ever falling into buying more that what I could handle. The first one being the much more important one: Space.

I live in a really tiny house, so even if I did wanna buy everything under the sun, there's literally no way I could even store it, let alone display it. Before buying anything I was interested in, I asked myself. "Do I actually have a proper place to put this, especially given my current pre-orders?"

The other factor has to do with how I got into toy collecting rather late, and combine that with the fact that alot of my all time favorite characters tend to be on the more obscure side, this leads to the second limiting factor: Cost. Most of my faves are older and more obscure, action figure/merch-wise, so I've had to sit on and save up money in order to get them without, you know, going hungry.

Heck, this year might actually be the last year I can expand my collection for a long time, all things considered.

That said, I HAVE seen this sort of thing happen in person(although it's a bit of an extreme example). And as an outsider looking in, it was pretty sad.

A friend of a friend decided he wanted to start collecting Star Wars The Black Series. That in itself isn't a problem, but as time went on one of each wasn't enough. He had to have every edition of every character. And also multiples. And also other Star Wars merch being released recently because why not. And so on and so on.

It got the point he barely had any room in his house due to all the boxes that were coming in. He ended up needing an intervention to sell off a bunch of the stuff he'd been hoarding.

So yeah, cautionary tale: There's nothing wrong with collecting, and it can be rather fun, but be careful about it.

I kind of have a similar problem; but personally I'm usually someone who switches out her displays. So I'll keep some figures in storage, keep some out; and then rotate those selections. Some days I'll have SODO Zi-O Kuuga out, some days I'll put up SHF Build RabbitRabbit, sometimes I want to have FRS Ex-Aid out. I don't necessarily want to have everything of mine displayed 100% of the time, and a bit of variety can do wonders!


Rest of this, couldn't have said better myself. Everything in moderation and all that!

Man I wish I had that option. Almost all of my storage space is full of essentials. Like clothes, blankets, fans for the summer, etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy I'm able have said essentials, but if I ever manage to afford an extension on my(or a bigger) house? Hoo boy.

(also you should totes take pics whenever you update/switch around your display jus' sayin')

Just like liquids take on the shape of their container, I think collections fill the space allotted. When I lived in a small place, I had a few things. As I got more and more room, I got more and more stuff.

This is a trap! Don't do this!

As I look at my many, many robot toys, I sort-of long for the time when it was a more manageable collection. I'm in a pruning stage right now, since I'd used up all of my display space (6 massive IKEA Besta cabinets I added glass doors and lights to) as well as all of my storage space. It was all stressing me out too much, you know? Getting something was becoming Dead Man's Boots, where I'd need to move an on-display figure into storage, and then try and wring one more cubic inch of storage space out of over-filled bins.

Now, I'm being as brutal as I can with my shit. Do I need four colorways of the same figure, if they're all out of sight? Do I need an entire wave of toys if only one or two was fun to transform? Wouldn't it be nice to enjoy these things without stressing about where they're all going to go?

There are points when I think about what I'd do if I had less space. Fantasize, really. I'd keep my full collection of Thrilling 30 Springer, let everything else go. I collected every variation. I love that mold. It takes up one little cube of my displays. And, y'know, it's done. I can't imagine Takara or Hasbro are going to do some new deco for an old figure, especially with them having a G1 Springer recently released. How nice it would be to have a neat, reasonable collection.

I'm not quite at the point of doing that, though. I'm being a little smarter about my purchases, turning stuff over faster. (A friend runs a second-hand toy shop, so selling stuff to him hopefully helps his business while cleaning up my messes.) I'm still buying new stuff, but I'm okay letting it go at a certain point. I'm learning to be honest with what are All-Time figures and what's, like, a casual fling.

There was a period where Selling A Toy struck me as, like, heresy. How could someone do that?! It's like admitting you made a mistake! Now, I get it. It's okay to flip a figure after a few years, because you got to enjoy it for a few years. That experience, it doesn't get sold when you sell the figure.

Anyway, long story short, all of this talk is pretty universal. We're all trying to balance our enjoyment for our collections with things like space, money, reality. I think we've all got good days and bad days when it comes to it. Perspective is good. Talking about it like this is good. I think everyone needs to do what they feel is best for their situation. If collecting is ever stressing you out, take a break. It's all just stuff. There'll always be more stuff.

I'm going to go ahead and say that part of the reason I went into collecting overdrive the last couple of years was because I suddenly, without warning or even knowledge, lost EVERYTHING at the start of 2018. So I just started grabbing left and right without really stopping to consider how and where it fit. Hence I've got a bloated collection of Fate figma and a bunch of Build stuff and... I really don't have that much attachment to Build, honestly. I'm fairly happy with how I've been regarding Toku and Figuarts, but things are cluttered now and I'll likely be trimming fat in the near future.

Honestly as long as I have the closure of letting things go on my own terms, I'll be fine. And at least I got my freaking couch.

Sleeping on beds are overrated. Couches forever! :lolol

Seriously though. I spent five (Or was it six?) years trying to get my hands on this freaking thing.

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The actual couch or the one for figuarts Kamen Rider Bravo?

Had a hard time sleeping last night. A friendship was lost last night when he decided to let the state of things get in between friendships. I won't get into it for obvious reason. The state of the world today has left me quite depressed and worried about who I can trust.

Sometime a couch is the comfiest thing you can sleep on because my grandma got me a mattress over a decade ago it was hard as a damn rock. So when I slept upstairs at my dad's it was either the upstairs couch or floor. Not sure how the hell I could sleep on that mattress before.

S'pose I could do something like that!

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I take it Cyclone and Joker are now just placeholders until the FRS versions release? :p

Mostly until I can get FRS Cyclone/Joker... but I gotta admit, I've been wanting a FRS or Seihou Cyclone to happen for a while now. Still, if it never happens, I at least have these!

Figuarts Iron Man Mk 42, actually.

Are the pillows moveable?

They're one solid chunk but yes, they're moveable.

Can relate. You know, I have a lot of friends. Yet I always feel lonely. And worse, I'd consider myself to 'have no friends' largely due to my subconscious refuse to consider people friends in fear of being betrayed thanks to lost of friendship in high school.

I'll be watching JP IV Jurassic World and JP V Fallen Kingdom. Dominion will finish the 2nd Trilogy next year but I'll hold for disk to see it. Also Karate Kid Part III and KK IV The Next Karate Kid. Finishing Jumanji 3 shortly as #4 is coming out.

Bill And Ted 3 is also coming out but waiting to see if it might be stream exclusive.

I'm spooked the protests might have triggered a 2nd wave of COVID early. Idiots. The cops started it but still that was stupid due to social distancing

Fallen Kingdom broke me from the series. I hated it for how bad and stupid it was. Jurassic World (JP4) was not that great in my opinion, but at least it didn't kill my brain cells as FK did.

I enjoyed Fallen Kingdom, especially the horror-esque final sequence, but it kind of felt uneven, like Iron Man 2. They tried to do too much in one film and set up for sequels, that it wasn't as enjoyable in its own right as it could have been.

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Anyways, it was okay I guess? Nothing besides Demon's Souls interests me so I think I'm good with waiting for the second version. Maybe it won't look like Sauron's router too.

Its colors scream 'Ixa' to me than 'Zero-One'.
Maybe have the Wonderful Blue Sky Organisation logo instead?

Not really about the Rider, more so what the company produces.

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While I am excited for Spider-Man PS5, I'm still gonna just wait until the PS5 Slim comes out in 2-3 years. It's what I've done for every PlayStation since the PS2 and I've never once regretted it.

Yeah I can relate with that. I had quite a bit of friends in high school too. But only keep in touch with a small fraction of them in recent years. Hell most just kinda disappeared from my radar soon after graduation. I figured as much but it still was a lonely and depressing thought.

Rant time. What really made me feel extremely lonely is the amount of guys that lead me on but never wanted to enter into a serious relationship. Something that persists to this day. Nothing is worse than bisexual/bi-curious men that are afraid of the public viewing them as gay. I have gotten some of the weirdest responses I have received are as followed: "I hook up with guys but I don't date guys, only women." "I would date you if I were a woman." "Why don't you get a sex change so we can be together." I am an empath so I require emotional support from a romantic partner, but I have about had it with the dating world.

Most of those started with friends that I became close, semi-romantic with. But aside from that it's been hard to keep friends in this high tension climate. Plus I have had trust issues with "friends" since middle school due to rumors about me started by a jealous girl that thought I was involved with another girl (which pretty much turned me off from actively seeking relationships with women). So sometimes I can consider myself to be friendless too, which I know is not true. But it does definitely feel as such since no one reaches out to me to see how I am doing or if I want to spend time together except one person who I consider somewhat of a best friend.

And I believe I am about to lose another friend too. Someone I have talked about on here before. He is somewhat of a close friend. We have a lot in common and we can be affectionate at times. But when things start getting borderline romantic he will take to social media a few days later to tell me off about it and tell me about how he so badly wants to be with an attractive woman (as a wife), and an attractive man (as a lover), and lately wants to reduce our time together from hanging out two or three times a month down to once in a blue moon, and only if it's with a group of friends. He clearly has feelings for me, but he suppresses them because it doesn't fit his ideology. He views himself as highly attractive, and wants to surround himself with lovers that he deems to be at his level of attractiveness.

I am sick of this as people like him and the other men I tend to attract make me feel insecure by telling me I need to change myself physically to be with them, or be so shallow to but me down over my looks, and I am not unattractive either. But looks shouldn't be that important if you have a bond with someone.

FIY, the Spider-Man game is apparently a "remaster" of the previous game and all the Miles Morales stuff is just elaborate DLC...

Then hopefully the Miles stuff will be DLC for Spidey PS4.

Wouldn’t that be consumer friendly? Which is why it won’t happen :lol

Personally I hope it's just misinformation or confusion going around. On the other hand it would leave room for a "real" sequel with Peter which I would prefer because his story still has some loose ends. After those are handled, Miles Morals all the way please.

That really sucks man. That betrayal, it can make us lose the ability to trust people, to open up to them.

Sadly what we need the most is to open up to ease that pain, but we're too afraid of hurting again.

Hell you know I think the world of my friends, but they don't. Back in 2013 a girl in our group is in hospital for just a mild case of fever, but when I was in ICU in 2015, nobody bothered. I fept so alone.

And this year one of them got married and none of them bothered to tell me. If you ever see me beat myself up, it's because of the damage done. And sasly I can't blame them because 'shit happens'.

That’s great! So a small yet satisfying palette cleanser before the sequel, I like that.

Hello folks, I'm here and doing alright.

Yay!

How are you doin Die?

Also

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I decided to hang up my belts... which tbh makes me want more DX toku stuff.

On a related note, I really need to branch out from Kamen Rider *stares at sentai and ultraman DVDs they keep putting off buying*

Oh, also does anyone have any non- Ultraman/Kamen Rider/Sentai/Garo toku they recommend? I'm looking to start digging deep into both Toei's and other companies' toku.

Edit: huge image is huge, sorry about that.

Ryujin Mabuyer is legit good and I will not hear otherwise.

I'm doing better now that I saw those awesome belts. I'm sorry that it's making you want to get more belts, though. One of the drawbacks of having a nice display is wanting to display more stuff. It's a real problem!

Plus, a Transformers Prime Predaking?! Hell yes!