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by **z-span** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:33 pm

About a month ago I had to sell off my small collection to pay some bills. In it were some pieces I had wanted for months and months. Actually, in the collection were some pieces my wife had just bought me for Christmas.

I thought I would miss them, but now looking at them online, I can't stand them. I look at them and think, "Where was the appeal and why did I want these so bad?"

Has this ever happened to anyone?

Have you ever just stepped back and looked at some of your toys and asked yourself why you wanted them so bad?

by **Va'al** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:42 pm

Yes.
At least once a month I have a fit of frenzy and shove most of them in a box.

It usually lasts a day, and is the result of unrelated stress.
I haven't sold anyhting that I hadn't bought just for the sake of buying something, and I feel quite good about the ones I do have on display.

But it does happen, to me at least.

by **z-span** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:49 pm

That's funny. I haven't had that.

Usually, if there's something I had and no longer wanted, I would give it to my son. In the past 3 years, his collection has grown ten-fold. I feel bad though. It's always movie toys and they are always a pain for him to transform. He doesn't mind because he's getting his dad's toys.

by **paul053** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:27 pm

Yes.

And if that happens, I usually just sell it or like you, give it to my son if I think it's proper for his age. I would prefer feeling don't like it and then sell it or give it away instead of regret not buying it and then have to fight for the after market price.

Classics Octane/Tankor is the best example. I've been hunting it for long and then finally found it cheap. But after I got it, I asked myself why do I fight for this piece of crap. Luckily I sold it at the cost.

by **Va'al** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:42 pm

I do give some stuff to my younger brother (he's 8 ), as I'm too young for offspring.

However, I realise that sometimes this hobby becomes more of an obsession/addiction, and try getting back the money I feel as though I wasted on a figure that I really didn't want in the first place.

by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:49 pm

Sometimes it happens. One classic example of my poor spending choices is buying MP-4. I have 20th Anniversary Prime, but the paint on his legs was chipping and I just really wanted that trailer, so I went out and got MP-4.

But ... I don't have anywhere to put him! Even the robot part - I have 20th Prime up; let him get more damaged.

And yet, I still want MP Roddy to replace the Toys R us version ...

by **saucerdo** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:52 am

Actually, it never has happened to me... if i do not like it, i don't buy it. No twins on my collection, and dotm laserbeak, well.... because of the time it spends in the offices, my brain made a connection between it and the bathroom scenes, and it still hurts

by **wilcosu35** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 1:03 am

yes, i have spent loads of money on the unicron trilogy toys. and just a few years later, i sold all of them.
while i liked some of them a lot, i just wasn't 'feeling' it, i was just being a completionist.
i rationalised that i didn't like them all that much and they only took up lots of shelf space. and that, with a house of my own on the way, they would use lots of boxes to pack them up.
so i sold them.

i then took a good thought about what i wanted with my transformers collection, and since then i've stuck with that.

by **alldarker** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:24 am

Yeah... And it's one of few bad aspects of the BBTS Pile of Loot: I put in stuff, that, once I have it shipped several months later I don't really feel I need anymore.
I received the FP Insecticons last week, and, although I'm sure they're pretty good, I probably wouldn't buy them now. To be honest, they are still in their boxes, so I haven't checked them out in person.
Very happy with the trio of Warpath, Wheeljack and Thundercracker I also finally received last week though!

by **freaky777** » Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:33 am

Only ones I regretted getting was the G1 Soundwave Maximus, I thought wow Cassettes and what's not totally cool; now he is in a box that I've kept in my closet. Same with Big Convoy and Magmatron..

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