Who cares? I haven't even finished collecting the first waves of Animated or Universe yet, let alone Revenge of the Fallen... Not that I'm in a hurry to play catch up on my limited budget, especially with my recent interest in snaggin all of the 80's TMNT series on DVD which has been released so far.
Although I am a Transformers completist, I guess you could say I'm a creature/collector of habit. I go through phases, perhaps unhealthy phases in certain instances, but phases nevertheless.
There's the snatch up every TF while it's on Sale phase.
The mellower, purchase what you can afford phase when situations allow.
The desperate, rushing to every store possible to find that one elusive DVD/Figure phase.
The rotate TF/Toy display phase, in which I will rotate my shelf display and then buy one or two new items from whatever series/collection I happen to have put up.
The buy nothing at all phase, while spending days and nights trying to finish off several videogames that need to be beaten 100%.
And of course the collect what you really, really want to and don't just buy it because it says Transformers phase.
Occassionaly I'll also get into the purge phase, in which I sell off, trade off or donate to Value Village older toys or other items that no longer hold my interest... Or in some cases, just take up too much room for my limited storage space, and so I can always get them back or get the TPBs when I have the necessary funds in order to have a smaller, neater and easier to store collection.
On rare days, sometimes on leap years, sometimes not, I'll get into the WANT IT NOW PHASE, in which I will randomly start spewing out every figure I want, and kind of throw the adult equivalent of a tantrum. This helps purge unwanted and evil emotions, freeing my mind for the calmer notions of hobbyism, like re-watching every film or television series in a given collection.
So yeah, I haven't bought every figure I want from Universe, Animated, RotF or even The Movie line yet, I still would like to get a few figures to finish off older collections, and then there's the desire to nab all the 25th Turtles figures, because I'm in a Turtles kind of mood.
It really doesn't bother me that I can't get them all though, in the past it kind of did, and occasionaly like I said my Want It Now phase makes me a little frustrated/dissapointed. But in the long run, I'm happy with what I've got, what I can afford and whatever the future brings to me, I'll be happy with that too.
I'm sure I'll find something to do with my time, like volunteering to earn job experience so I can maybe get a job next year and actually have stable income of the larger scale variety, for saving and toy shoping and all that.
