Friends or family who collect figures?

[10incher]

Out of all my friends and family, I only I have friend who collects action figures. He is into GI Joe but doesn't really go to hardcore with it. He doesn't even buy anything online and just has his childhood collection and a bunch of stuff I sold him.

Its kind of funny that way, all my friends all have similar interests (cars, snowmobiles, drinking, etc.) but i am the only one who collects toys. I guess I should be hitting them up for their childhood toys (actually I already did that years ago! ;D)

[jedidaniel]

Out of my family and everyone I know, I'm the only one who collects action figures though my friends collect other things like cards.

[Hammer 0f The Gods]

I'm the only one. In fact, my friends give me crap for it all the time.

[turnbolt]

That's sad to hear Jason.....those jerks.

Several of my friends collect....I keep trying to get them to come to the board.

But only 2 are as crazy as the rest of us.

My girlfriend however hates toys and wants me to stop collecting them.

Looks like I will have to get a new girlfriend.

[10incher]

jason43 said:

I'm the only one. In fact, my friends give me crap for it all the time.

Haha! I thought he meant his friends give him "crap" as in more toys they used to have as a kid because they don't collect them! ;D. Oops.

[Hammer 0f The Gods]

The friends aren't harsh about it or anything. They just don't understand how I could spend the money I do on toys.

My wife to be hates my collection as well. Says the house looks like an 80's toy museum. How can I love a girl who doesn't love my collection

[turnbolt]

I ask myself that same question everyday. ;D

[10incher]

My wife is cool with my collection as I keep it all in one room downstairs. Sometimes the office gets cluttered with new purchases as it takes me awhile sometimes to take the stuff to the toy room.

[soulcatcherx]

Maybe it's simply because my collection hasn't quite started nipping into her shelf space yet, but my wife is totally cool with my toys.

Just the other day a friend of mine came back after a vacation back home to New Mexico and he brought me a 1993 Duke and Longarm from his old toy collection. Whataguy!

[commander]

I don't have any friends or family who collects figures but I met timberwolf aka MasterSkidious (Mark) thru Internet Mego forums and yahoo instant messenger in almost 2 years.

He collects Megos, Star Wars and monsters.

I wish he could join here with us but he having head pains, taking strong medicines and busy in ebay search for vintage Star Wars variants and selling his stuff in ebay.

[henchman]

My dad and my two cousins collect figures so it's cool to go and do stuff with them. My friends have no idea why i spend my time and money looking for toys that were made 20 years ago. My girlfriend loves my toys and we often go out together looking for toys. She's a great girl .

[madmartigan37]

A few of my friends pick up the occasional figure that they like but no one is a die hard collector. My wife is pretty cool with it and even buys me some things, though she was kind of shocked when I took my star wars collection out of storage at my parents house and brought it home. She thought that all I had was my loose collection not the piles of boxes that I had hidden in the work room, crawl space, garage ect..

[10incher]

My cousin Bob in Edmonton is a big card collector (not really sports cards, but everything else). he also has a large CD collection. He also has a few old toys, game systems & models. Hmm.. never did get that vintage X-Wing he promised me years ago.

[THE KNOCK-OFF MESSIAH]

i kinda of infect those around me. ive in more than one case gotten a friend to collect something. but pretty much all my friends collect some 80's toy, girls and guys. from ponies to robots they all have some love for the 80's.