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Re: Considering quitting collecting ....
I was out of the game for a while
When I was a kid, only got as many G1s as parents would buy (Sureshot, Joyride, Getaway, UltraMagnus, Micromasters, Action Masters, etc) - a few friends had some of the older G1s, but I only fell into them when they grew out of them ("here, you'd love these more than me, I've grown out of them")
Then big draught to Beast Wars, which I wasn't into at first (got the Optibat/Megagator 2-pack), but the Mainframe show really kicked it in, bought a ton of that, big fan
When did the G2 revival happen again? Didn't buy much of that, still poor (must have been before BW, I remember being too poor to afford anything beyond the chrome gold Bumblebee)
Anyways post-BW was all the CHUG stuff? I didn't get much of this either, even though was starting to have my own money by then
Got the odd thing, like Armada Overload (cool), Armada Sideswipe (car looked cool, I was tricked!) two versions of HotRod (the nice car w/ blue flame gun, and the truck) but for most part ignored
Animated was a huge slam dunk for me, loved the show and bought all figs (skipped all the repaints and seeker variants though)
Bit of a draught again afterwards
Wasn't until I had a kid and was frequenting TRUs again, saw CW HotSpot in-store and thought wow, now this guy is what I'm talking about - had to get all Protectobots, then got into CW, then TR was great (bought a FortMax, my pipe dream from childhood), POTP was a bit meh but continued Combiners so I was onboard
The point is, I never collected everything, but the stuff I was into, I really liked, and got the odd item that piqued my curiosity otherwise
I don't know if I will ever sell the stuff in my collection, probably just burden my family with my estate, heh
Should really invest in more Detolfs
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