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regardless if it's our wife, husbund, boyfriend or girlfriend even our parents, how do they react on your collection do they get angry at some point and tell you your wasting so much money or they support in one way at least?

one thing i found out is that people around you tend to disagree into toy hobbies due to financial reasons and those who have extra cash to spend tend to get praised and here a lot of good things from their partners and relatives...

as for me my mom always get's nagger whenever she see new toys on my shelf and hell, she even knows how many toys i have and i don't like that i work to spend my money on something i consider my treasures and that's better than getting wasted my girlfriend somehow is supportive and praised my new toys but i have a difficulty of convincing her to buy me toys...

i'll be more than happy for those who could share their opinions and insights in this kind of matter.

my wife encourages my toy spending as she sees it as a very enduring hobby

featofstrength wrote:my wife encourages my toy spending as she sees it as a very enduring hobby

i bought my gf a slumblebee and and 08 camaro and for the first time, she got very happy and surprised because that's her very first figure my mom though still reacts neutrally...

my girl's cool, she let's me call her MariaTron

she knows i collect em and i guess she thinks it's weird/cute and just the other day she asked me to make a list of which toys i didn't have already, i thought that was really nice of her

My girlfriend loves TF's too! She didn't really at first but after I got her into the cartoons she started to turn around. Every now and then I pick her up some TF's too! She has a nice little collection of Starscreams, Cheetors and Hotrods... She even started reading comics when the movie prequels came out. Sometimes she tries to nag me but it never really goes anywhere because I always just bring up all the clothes and stupid shoes she buys... TRUMPED!

To some degree your level of obsession plays a part in how others react. If almost all you ever think about and talk about are your toys, well then you may experience some concern from others. Especially if you are an adult. If you are causal about it and have broad interests, then maybe not so much.

I find it helps not to have all of them out at once unless you have a pretty well-establishd place to put them all. If you have toys everywhere, then it looks out of control.

ghostofstarscream wrote:My girlfriend loves TF's too! She didn't really at first but after I got her into the cartoons she started to turn around. Every now and then I pick her up some TF's too! She has a nice little collection of Starscreams, Cheetors and Hotrods... She even started reading comics when the movie prequels came out. Sometimes she tries to nag me but it never really goes anywhere because I always just bring up all the clothes and stupid shoes she buys... TRUMPED!

yeah girls really are in to those clothes, shoes, sandals thing it's a common thing to buy for them... they'll even drag you to the entire mall just to look for clothes while you in the other hand giggles when you are given the chance to visit a toy store...

When I bought my first one my gf laughed, cuz I got Jazz for his Solstice form.

After seeing the movie, I HAD to have a Leader Prime, but felt bad spending the money, and she said to indulge myself sometimes. And then... I did. I quickly got Barricade, and she laughed a bit less that time. Then I got Ironhide and she didn't seem to say much. After that came the 08 Bumblebee search and I think that taxed her nerves finally. Then last night I got Ratchet, and she gave me a look of "disapproval". Now she's getting pissed I think.

Very interesting topic!

I didn't start buying toys till this year after the movie came out. All my old toys are back home with my brother, who's the toy collector of the house. So all a sudden we have these red boxes which I refuse to throw away filling up the house.

My wife's real keen on tidiness, but bless her, she's tolerant of the toys, although concerned with the sudden influx of stuff lying about the house. My bro's advised me it's best to slowly 'manifest' one toy at a time rather than have an obvious increase. I advise any guy starting out the same too!

I envy you guys who have hundreds: it's really easy to bury the new loot amongst the old, and if your wife married you knowing you had toys chances are she'll have let you set up your own display area or even room. Right now I'm trying to find a way to segue into that topic

I tried to bullshit that the toys are for 'investment' purposes. Citing how I bought MP Prime for my bro and now it's tripled in value. She laughs with tolerance, because we both know that no matter how much the toys increase in value I won't sell them

She enjoyed the movie very much. We watched it last night and now she's finally understanding what I'm talking about when I mention scalpers, Bumbleebee and Bonecrusher. She's not surprised that Bumblebee is sold out, by the way

Pontimax 01 wrote:When I bought my first one my gf laughed, cuz I got Jazz for his Solstice form.

After seeing the movie, I HAD to have a Leader Prime, but felt bad spending the money, and she said to indulge myself sometimes. And then... I did. I quickly got Barricade, and she laughed a bit less that time. Then I got Ironhide and she didn't seem to say much. After that came the 08 Bumblebee search and I think that taxed her nerves finally. Then last night I got Ratchet, and she gave me a look of "disapproval". Now she's getting pissed I think.

haha what happened next?

softimus_prime wrote:

Pontimax 01 wrote:When I bought my first one my gf laughed, cuz I got Jazz for his Solstice form.

After seeing the movie, I HAD to have a Leader Prime, but felt bad spending the money, and she said to indulge myself sometimes. And then... I did. I quickly got Barricade, and she laughed a bit less that time. Then I got Ironhide and she didn't seem to say much. After that came the 08 Bumblebee search and I think that taxed her nerves finally. Then last night I got Ratchet, and she gave me a look of "disapproval". Now she's getting pissed I think.

haha what happened next?

I dunno, she had to leave when we got back from Walmart last night because she had to be at work at 7 this morning, and she's there right now. First two or three toys she wanted to play with when I opened them. She didn't even stick around for the opening last night.

And I made the mistake of saying something about wanting that Target exclusive battle damage Bumblebee Evo pack yesterday.

Pontimax 01 wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

Pontimax 01 wrote:When I bought my first one my gf laughed, cuz I got Jazz for his Solstice form.

After seeing the movie, I HAD to have a Leader Prime, but felt bad spending the money, and she said to indulge myself sometimes. And then... I did. I quickly got Barricade, and she laughed a bit less that time. Then I got Ironhide and she didn't seem to say much. After that came the 08 Bumblebee search and I think that taxed her nerves finally. Then last night I got Ratchet, and she gave me a look of "disapproval". Now she's getting pissed I think.

haha what happened next?

I dunno, she had to leave when we got back from Walmart last night because she had to be at work at 7 this morning, and she's there right now. First two or three toys she wanted to play with when I opened them. She didn't even stick around for the opening last night.

And I made the mistake of saying something about wanting that Target exclusive battle damage Bumblebee Evo pack yesterday.

haha! interesting story... makes me wonder what will happen next...

haha! interesting story... makes me wonder what will happen next...

Eh, we've been together 4 years. But I'd probably pick my toys over female nagging anymore.

Lets see guys.....my girlfriend thinks it is CUTE!!! Hate that word. Oh well. I bought her the Robot Hero special set Sneak Attack. I think thats the name. She laughed and now has it in her room. I am already saying that if/when we get married, then I will have an entire ROOM devoted to them. Amazingly she was okay with it. As long as we have a room for something else....

I just love my wife cause she loves my hobby and supports it as well...hell, she even buys me some if I ask her to...I have a huge collection of different toys, from gundams, Zoids, Star Wars, Star Trek, Tomb Raider, Simsons and Transformers(which I have more of than anything else). She know I could be spending my money on anything other than toys and most of my toys are MISB, MIP,MOC...so we can go to the basement and see where my money is! I rather spend it on toys than drinking!!!


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Gee for me... my dad... who doesn't live with me is cool with it, and will occanionally help me find a fig, my cousin is the one who got me into it so he is proud... my mother... umm she hates it.. I think. I used to be able to use the waddya want me to do with the money... buy drugs, but that has worn off.. also i think she recognizes that i have a full time job, and go to school, and am fairly responsable... I just need more room!!!

My wife accepts my collection. Yesterday she surprised me watching me transform 2 '08 Bumblebees for my twin daughters. Then she asked how hard it was to transform one like Megatron or Optimus Prime. So I went and got Leader OP off the shelf and transformed him. She even asked how many TFs I had and told me to count them. She even wanted to know how many were mine from childhood. She saw the movie and she enjoyed it.

My sister and family think my TFs are cool. My nieces even saw the movie before I did and couldn't describe the experience.

Now my mom, mother-in-law, one aunt, and some family members question why a 34 year old collects toys but who cares.

I like my latest collection. Tfs have come along way from G1 to the movie figures now.

My dad doesn't support my hobby. He's worked hard all his life and I guess he just doesn't like seeing hard-earned money be used in such a pointless way. Well he doesn't have a hobby, so what would he know?

My mom doesn't really oppose my collecting, she'd just wish I'd stop since I'm running out of room!

My brothers are generally cool with it. My older brother especially, but my younger brother is still sceptical at times. It seems he's only happy when I get characters he likes, like Grimlock (we played checkers the other day, and when a piece got King'd, we'd replace it with Titanium or Robot Heroes Grimlock, it was fun).

it's very rar that parents somehow supports your hobby when it comes to toys they are more inclined in other things maybe activities or electronic stuff my dad love creating speakers and buy new entertainment system (that was when the vhs trend became popular) my mom enjoys cleaning the house and budgeting stuff and buy home appliances...

My dad is a kid at heart and he collects Star Wars figures, so he doesnt mind at all. My mom thinks im a geek who needs to grow up but she doesnt overly criticize or anything. My Fiancee is really cool about it though, she is letting me have book shelves to display them and all of that. She will go through line with me and go into the toy isle. I think she's even called it "cute" before. I think thats a good thing right?

EDIT: She also didnt freak when I braught $280+ on opening day for the Movie Toys.

Air Commander Starscream wrote:My Fiancee is really cool about it though, she is letting me have book shelves to display them and all of that. She will go through line with me and go into the toy isle. I think she's even called it "cute" before. I think thats a good thing right?

EDIT: She also didnt freak when I braught $280+ on opening day for the Movie Toys.

Now THERE'S a keeper!

Air Commander Starscream wrote:My dad is a kid at heart and he collects Star Wars figures, so he doesnt mind at all. My mom thinks im a geek who needs to grow up but she doesnt overly criticize or anything. My Fiancee is really cool about it though, she is letting me have book shelves to display them and all of that. She will go through line with me and go into the toy isle. I think she's even called it "cute" before. I think thats a good thing right?

EDIT: She also didnt freak when I braught $280+ on opening day for the Movie Toys.

yeah that's sweet mg girlfriend is somehow accepting my hobby due to the fact that i wasn't able to buy toys when i was a kid but the mom part thing is very common my mom use to say that to me too... but i couldn't care less

1337W422102 wrote:

Air Commander Starscream wrote:My Fiancee is really cool about it though, she is letting me have book shelves to display them and all of that. She will go through line with me and go into the toy isle. I think she's even called it "cute" before. I think thats a good thing right?

EDIT: She also didnt freak when I braught $280+ on opening day for the Movie Toys.

Now THERE'S a keeper!

Did I metnion she is letting me have them displayed in the bed room and not some obscure dark room in the corner. Ahhhh

That's good Softimus, it's nice you can have a bit of your childhood back. Or rather make up for a part.

Air Commander Starscream wrote:

1337W422102 wrote:

Air Commander Starscream wrote:My Fiancee is really cool about it though, she is letting me have book shelves to display them and all of that. She will go through line with me and go into the toy isle. I think she's even called it "cute" before. I think thats a good thing right?

EDIT: She also didnt freak when I braught $280+ on opening day for the Movie Toys.

Now THERE'S a keeper!

Did I metnion she is letting me have them displayed in the bed room and not some obscure dark room in the corner. Ahhhh

You lucky punk...

darkassailant888 wrote:Lets see guys.....my girlfriend thinks it is CUTE!!! Hate that word. Oh well. I bought her the Robot Hero special set Sneak Attack. I think thats the name. She laughed and now has it in her room. I am already saying that if/when we get married, then I will have an entire ROOM devoted to them. Amazingly she was okay with it. As long as we have a room for something else....

hehe! i know what you exactly mean...