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>>11799341
You eat them?
>>11799342
Try rubbing your two brain cells together more vigorously.
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>>11799346
>Try rubbing your two brain cells together more vigorously.
Exactly as I thought, you're expecting some drawn out answer to be the real truth or the "non-cope, non-pr" answer, but the answer to your question was really simple and under your nose the whole time. And it was YOUR limited brain power that was trying too hard here to insist that there's something more to it.
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>>11799332
I like to be surrounded by the things that made me happy. People don't make me happy. I feel like the older generation give people a hard time because it's not "grown up" yet they spend money on fast cars that they only use to go the speed limits, overpriced rocks to wear, overpriced clothes, the newest hottest gizmo device that does essentially the same thing as your last device just slightly better. Hell, as I'm typing this I'm using am outdated refurbished kindle that was on sale. The women with their ridiculous amount of shoes, beauty products...I could go on.
I would also argue that my childhood (born in 85) was peak franchises humanity wasn't ready for. I'm the generation that was raised on TV and computer screen. I don't have pictures of family or old classmates or friends, I have artwork of fictional characters because they mean more to me. I guess in a way I worship false idols. I don't like figure that look like real people. I rather have RGB Peter Venkman than a figure that looks like Bill Murray.
I loved my childhood, adulting is just paying bills and working until you can't anymore. No.different than we went to school now we go to work. That's the older high school.
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Because arranging displays, posing and taking pictures of toys is one of the most relaxing leisure activities I engage in. I think it's the autistic nerd equivalent of knitting or fishing, where the main appeal is that you're not really thinking about anything what you're doing in that particular moment.
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>>11799332
Started a few years back when I got my first job after uni. Told myself I finally wanted to have my favourite teams (Justice League, X-Men) and other figures to just have a small nerd area. Before that, I only had a shelf with movies and TV shows.
So nothing really special but it's just to show my appreciation for comicbook characters basically
It's not my main hobby though so most of the time, I do sports and go outside. Still nice to look at the shelf while working in my office
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>>11799332
It beings me joy to be able to look at physical representations of characters I like and I'm not into statues because they're too static. Hence, the action figure is the natural conclusion.
Sometimes it feels like having my own little buddy of that character I really like and I can take with me or just pose around and make cute scenarios with them. It's one of the few things left in my life that makes me feel warm inside.
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>>11799332
Because I like them. Simple as. There's nothing more to it than that. Some people th8mk it's dumb, and some people think it's cool. I've had more people find a particular IP in my collection and gish about that than I've had anyone shit on it. Even complete strangers. I had some yoked black guys deliver a mattress tommy house and they lost their shit when they saw my DBZ SHFs and went on to talk about which 9nes were the favorites. I feel like there's less of a stigma nowadays around toy collecting.
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>>11799544
what do you collect and what do you do with it?
>>11799549
>monkeys chimping out over DBZ
were those "yoked" black guys delivering your mattress the first time you were around blacks?
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>>11799332
I was poor as a kid and always yearned for toys when I saw kids I played with just drowning in them. I'd maybe get one or two figures a year, forget about playsets. Meanwhile I go next door and the kid has a complete set of kenner Aliens and Jurassic park toys. Drawers full of random figures. An SNES with a shit tons of games. He wasn't even a single child. Collecting to me is just my personal confirmation that I am no poor anymore. Also hunting for rare things gives me a high. It's why i played Diablo II for years and now play the remastered. Im no logner poor just in debt.
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I don't collect figures, I mostly buy more kinetic stuff like nerf guns, beyblades, legos, etc. even the few figures I do own are stuff like transformers or gunpla that I had to build myself
that said the reason is pretty simple, I have disposable income and they're more fun than drinking
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>>11799432
>I guess in a way I worship false idols.
I enjoyed and understood all of your post except this. What's with this random and irrelevant piece of self-deprecation?
Wouldn't it be better to say that these action figures are your best friends? They're there for you when you're down, you do have to sacrifice things at least to some extent in having them in the form of spending the initial price and maintaining their appearance, you find new ways to understand their depth in what drew you to them in the first place the older you get, their presence makes your life better, and on some level, they must represent certain bonds/periods in your life such as them being an example of how much your parents loved you in gifting them to you or the old school buddies that encouraged you to get them.
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>>11800050
>struck a nerve with you
Insidious, crabs-in-a-bucket demoralization does in fact strike a nerve with me because the older I get, the more I see that it only comes from either snake oil salesmen trying to sucker you into their product or assembly line of choice or someone who's so deeply miserable that their instinctive reaction to seeing someone happy is to convince them that they are actually unhappy.
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Customization. I sometimes get bored with what's on the market so I just pop JP figures apart, deindividuate them from being licensed characters, then try making my own.
Also, I know that's (>>11799332) AI, but goddamn you're making me wish there was a Sigmund Freud figure... so I could have him wring his hands at hawt milf action figures like Revoltech Cattleya.
>>11799540
I getcha. I have a long-standing distaste for statues since they're not interactive, just beautiful space-wasters.
Artistic, sure. Useful merch for keeping anime afloat, undoubtedly.
But still, space-wasters with no playability.
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>>11799332
When a video game or tv show ends, i can continue the adventures with toys
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>>11799549
>I had some yoked black guys deliver a mattress tommy house and they lost their shit when they saw my DBZ SHFs and went on to talk about which 9nes were the favorites
Same thing happened to me with a Latino utility worker who came in to check my apartment for water damage. Saw my Power Rangers collection and immediately started geeking out over it. Also went out of his way to refer to them as 'collectibles', because I think he was worried about offending me by calling them toys, which I found highly amusing. There's definitely not as much of a stigma around this stuff as there used to be, especially when looked at by people who grew up with the same toyetic properties as you.
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>>11800270
Or jam him into a pile of Gundam shavings to simulate his infamous cocaine addiction.
I was also gonna suggest having Tony the Tiger strangle him in reference to a certain tumblr post about how John Kellogg could strangle the living daylights out of ol' Freud, but I decided to stick to the Revoltech first.
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>>11800456
You want to know what would really make those guys "lose their shit"?
You just save all the receipts for those collections then show it to them. They would be laughing so hard while pointing at you that you wouldn't even be able to remember the definition of "stigma".
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My brain needs constant noise around me to inhibit my psychic abilities. If I were to take away all the cool figures standing on the shelves of every room, my subconscious mind would be floating out, being a rascal to other people or engaging unfriendly entities. Not having some toy on some surface to occupy my thoughts, objects would randomly fly off tables and counters. I'd be able to feel the emotions of others at least 1 mile around me. Things that have no business seeing me would suddenly take notice of me and what I can do. I'd accidentally harm or irritate people in life who I know to be harmful and irritating, as a sort of subconscious revenge.
Without toys littering my life, I'd not be able to consistently contain the outwards expressions of what I am from / towards the rest of the world.
I started writing this just to shitpost, but I now realize I probably have some of this right. I've seen / done some shit in the paranormal, man.
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>>11799332
I appreciate the quality
the same way I appreciate a really well made movie or t-shirt or a well written song or book or a well constructed car or motorcycle I love a finely crafted action figure like mafex DKR Superman for example. sometimes I like the things people make for each other more than people so I’m a typical introvert too
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>>11799332
>your cope answer
Translation: The answer you give me that answers my question but doesn't reinforce the conclusion I've already settled on before I hit the post button so I cope with it by accusing you of being the one who's coping.
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>>11801303
You can't even be honest with yourselves. I don't expect you to be honest with me.
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>>11799332
I literally just love art. I love music, I love music and drawings and stop motion and comics. I love making art too. Toys are sculptures, but you can also create scenes with them. They make me laugh, they make me marvel at them
I'm kind of a late comer to toys as well.
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I wanted to make stop motion, but then I realized I just liked having toys hang out and entertain what was left of my adolescent imagination. Feel like its mostly gone these days but maybe im just being gay and need to go out and buy a toy. Its been about 5 months.
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>>11801576
Being honest, AI is really killing my drive to ever do stop motion like I'd dreamed of. I've seen people do quick little videos of a toy they just bought breaking out of their packaging, stomping past their other toys. ...And the tech just keeps folding in on itself better and better.
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>>11799332
Toy collecting brought to an end my horrible drug addiction. I am infinitely more happy with toys as I ever was stoned out of my mind.
Of course the addiction part just got transferred over to the toys so.....
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>>11799342
It's these short, defensive answers that justify why the rest of this site trolls us every month. If you can't justify the money you're wasting, then you're just wasting money. If you don't even have an answer, then there's really no point in answering the question.
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>>11802666
We owe you nothing, demon scum.
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>>11799332
What’s your reason, anon?
I’ll be honest with you, your post reads like someone who themselves has had no reason for collecting toys beyond “They’re cool.” and has recently realized how much money they’re “wasting” on their hobby. So now you’re desperately searching for an answer from others, in the hopes that one might apply to you to and allow you to justify your own collecting, and satisfy your need for self-validation.
Your negative responses to every answer given suggests that hasn’t happened, and unfortunately anon, it ever will. Every answer given is personal to that person and you’re never going to be able to apply their reasoning and their experience to yourself.
“Because they’re cool.” is a perfectly acceptable reason. I hope someday you’ll be able to see that and accept yourself for who you are.
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>>11799332
It brings me pleasure. Having a shelf full of robot toys brings me pleasure the same way normies like having a piece of art on their wall. I find my action figures aesthetically pleasing. Being able to play and pose them (and transform them, with transformers) adds a tactile dimension.
It also brings a sense of creative control, like a canvass that I can control in real time. If I want Grimlock to fight king kong, I can do it. If I want Jabba the Hutt to hire Death's Head, easy. All is possible on my shelf of toys.
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>>11802883
>Your negative responses to every answer given
Your post is just lies, cope, and projection.
People like you are really sad and pathetic. Everyone can see that you're lying and the people that actually at least have some level of self reflection and self awareness have not received a negative response from me. I initially skipped your post because I could just immediately tell what kind of person you were and knew it wouldn't be worth reading. Glad I did though because you've expanded my horizons on how truly pathetic people like you are.
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>>11802924
Interesting that you’d focus on that bit of hyperbole but okay, you haven’t replied to every single post. Those who I assume have given a satisfactory answer you haven’t replied to at all. You have however chosen to only reply to posts negatively.
>>11800025 is the sole exception but even though you said you enjoyed the post, the bulk of your reply was criticizing that person for apparently not having the correct mentality towards their own collection.
You didn’t answer my question by the way.
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>>11802515
Coke, meth. Never got into shooting up.
Rediscovered toys and redirected my money. Addiction is still there just focused on toys, which is better than waking up in some park miles from your home with little to no memory of how you got there and nothing to show for it.
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>>11802975
That wasn't even my post. You have no idea what posts I have and haven't made. You seem upset and confused. I guess I should have included a trigger warning in the OP for the dull minded and emotionally frustrated.
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>>11803028
>which is better than waking up in some park miles from your home with little to no memory of how you got there and nothing to show for it.
if this isn't happening to you after a binge at the ollie's clearance rack you are collecting toys wrong
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>>11803037
LOL so nothing but negative replies then? My apologies I guess, for wrongly attributing something even remotely positive to you. Can't say I'm surprised to have underestimated how miserable you really are.
And your reason for collecting? You still haven't said.
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>>11803081
Forget the psychology behind your collecting of action figures, which you clearly don't have the mental fortitude to explore (childhood trauma, perhaps?) but instead let's examine why you are so obsessed with me and this thread.
Do you think you can handle that without having a meltie?
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>>11799332
>the real reason
I like them. When I see a toy I like I start obsessing over it untill I buy it, place it on a table for careful observation for a few days, then to the shelf with it, where I'll remove one from time to time to dust it, look at it for a few more days, then back to the shelf. I've bought 3 Death Guard marines in the last month because I just can't get them out of my head
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>>11803028
Ah, my bad. I've almost always heard getting stoned in the context of marijuana, so as someone who takes edibles occasionally, I was like, "Horribly addicted? How?" But, yeah, toys are definitely a much healthier addiction to have than the hard stuff.
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>>11803127
Your attempts at intellectualism amuse me, as does being able to get you to reply so easily.
Anyway, I collect toys because I like owning physical representations of the media I enjoy and chose toys instead of posters/painting/props etc because of their interactivity and the level to which you can alter a display. I like the tactile sensation of handling a toy. Transformers in particular are a form of stress release for me. I find the act of converting a Transformer back a forth quite soothing.
Once again. What is your reason for collecting toys?
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>>11802793
If it is, then why don't you have an answer?
>>11802861
A fat ass is great because it's more skin to squeeze than a smaller one. Also a fat ass has most attention even with clothes on because it animates so much. That is what else. See how simple that explanation was?
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>>11799332
I don't collect action figures but I've been thinking of getting into model cars because I need more hobbies and it looks satisfying so I lurk this board occasionally.
>>11799432
>yet they spend money on fast cars that they only use to go the speed limits
I am not going the fucking speed limit lol
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>>11802441
It's funny, there's a thread elsewhere about two people talking about getting sober (drink) and collecting more (and about being happier about it).
A bunch of other people have chimed in, no one getting into specifics (drugs, booze, which drugs, etc.) but essentially supporting the sentiment and idea.
I think collecting is a form of OCD addiction. I did magazines, the TV guide that arrived at home, and comic books, when I was a kid, then vinyl records while at school, then movies for a bit, then porn, then back to comics when everything was readily on line and there was no need to collect DVDs or BluRays.
And now it's all plastic crack.
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>>11799332
Let's see. I had toys growing up but I also had a lot of bootlegs compared to other kids when it comes to popular stuff. At some point my mom threw my toys away which might have something to do with it. I also have a good memory compared to others my age and I am very nostalgic towards my childhood and my interests at the time. Now that I have money I can "own" a piece of that childhood, whether it is literally something I wanted as a child or adjacent to it. There is an aesthetic and completionist part to it like having a shelf in a certain theme but there's also the "starting a new collection" which feels compulsive at times and results in me regretting buying something that hasn't arrived yet.
The hardest part is to get rid of stuff to make room for new things since I am too sentimental though.
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Playing with toys as a kid is what kept my imagination sharp and would influence other parts of my life like creating stories and drawing which would later become my vocation. Even as I got older I still gravitated towards collecting toys because of this connection and I also appreciated the artistry behind them and having a representation of characters and designs I really liked.
Now I'm a nearly 40 year old creative professional and more importantly, a father to a young child. Toys have a completely new aspect in my life by being a staple way I connect and spend time with my kid playing. I still collect on my own and they've remained my main hobby now since I like to customize and do photography. This is pretty important because as drawing and creating artwork became my day job for 8-10 hours a day, I needed another form of a creative outlet that let me tell stories without leaving me feeling burnt out.
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I started because I also draw, so having an articulated figure helped me visualize poses better. They have helped me improve a lot.
But I keep collecting mostly because I always loved playing with toys as a kid, even when my friends stopped caring about them, and I still do. So as soon as I got more than one, I got invested. My playtime with them is mostly posing them into new compositions every few months, to admire them in my room like a painting.
Also, I enjoy having merch of my favorite things, and having a miniature version of my favorite characters makes me happy.
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>>11799332
Why do American toys look so shitty? The knees and pins in these are just so far behind what Japan is doing. They can literally just copy it but dont for some reason. Is it an ego thing? I doubt it cost all that much more to make. Perhaps the old guard are just keeping this shit around out of pure stubbornness.
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>>11808510
Bandai (a Japanese toy company) sells those "Anime Heroes" figures for the same price as McFarlane and Hasbro retail figures and they look like this.
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>>11808510
Well, it's mainly because your definition of "shitty" is simply "doesn't look like a Japanese toy." Even if they were direct copies of Japanese methods, you would find them inferior, because your standards are different for non-Asian products. The obvious advantages of the methods used by Western toymakers are discounted because, if they were good, obviously the Japanese would be using them.
Weeaboos are very performative and must always demonstrate fealty to Japan even in entirely nonsensical scenarios, like pretending Nozawa is a good voice actress for Goku.
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>>11804126
Why isn't my answer of "I like them" satisfactory enough for you? There really isn't anything deeper than that. I like action figures of properties I enjoy. Simple as. What's your answer for why you're such a faggot?
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I've lived a life of extreme isolation. I became homeschooled in 6th grade. I never really had friends. Multimedia franchises are what I spent my time with. Having physical representations of those characters are basically just like having pictures of my friends.
I know that's pathetic, but it is what it is.
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