Why Do I Collect? Getting Inside A Mind Of A Collector

[phuonghuynh916]

cool review!! im a collector aswell... im open to any kinds of collectibles but mostly into transformers

[gojirafan345]

i am a big collect of bleach because i love bleach

[SilverRaichu]

you collect for the same reasons I do :D

[xSteelix]

this was very interesting to watch. I admire your reason for collecting and i strongly agree with a lot of your answers. I also think your wife and children are incredible for supporting your hobby like that. I wish more people were open minded about collecting and how nice it can be.

i'm a collector of pokemon and a few animal anime series called 'ginga nagareboshi gin' and 'wolf's rain'. i collect because hands down, it makes me happy, and that's what it's all about.

[BrewsterMcCloud1974]

You mentioned a couple of times the word: roleplay. Can you tell me more. Sounds interesting.

[onesogreat77]

u lucky your wife understands i collect wwf hasbro and heman and she will not let me have them all over the room thas about to change

[DavidPrime83]

Its great that your family is with you in your collecting.

[CrappyTFhater]

Thank you. We enjoy it. Without the summer RPG I'm pretty much the only one earnestly collecting, while my first born, Maria, nabs characters she knows she wants. Dulce's, my second daughter's, latest is Silverbolt. My 3rd daughter enjoys small ones.

[CrappyTFhater]

I think I understand, because the stories I've developed since I was 6 years old (plenty of retroactive continuity changes to make them adult fare) are like that, and Transformers are too.

Optimus Prime, Prowl, Jazz, Mirage... even Kickback in the opening of the movie, all meant something to me. I've already had my rant about the movie up above, but I will say: I agree.

[CrappyTFhater]

I have a decent collection and I care about every single one. My wife spent 2 days looking for Megatron's missile without telling me, not realizing I had removed it because it keeps firing at every chance and put it in a plastic baggie. Why didn't she tell me? She didn't want to worry me, and she knew it would turn up, so she just looked each day as she cleaned the bedroom. What a sweet heart.

[CrappyTFhater]

Oh and she loves the look of Classics Ironhide. For some reason she loves him, and hates the bully incarnation of him in the Animated cartoon.

When she first saw that she came to me and said "Ironhide never picked on smaller Transformers, did he?" I said "No. Oh! You've seen the Animated cartoon. Yeah, he was never like that." She's seen the 80's rendition of him.

WOW do I digress.

[WeirdGirlCyndi]

It's funny. I was vaguely aware of TF's as a kid. Had a little Bumblebee, but he disappeared ages ago. I started hearing about the movie and a friend of mine showed me pictures of toys. I recognized the Bee I'd had as a kid. So naturally I adored him in the new film(got a figure of him^^). But the animated movie just...aside from Unicron, it SUCKED. So many people are killed in the first seven minutes. Prowl doesn't even have any dialog! WTF?!

Anyway, I think the toys have souls of their own.

[cgrecordings]

That 1986 disaster you refer to happens to be my personal favorite movie ever. I've probably watched it close to 100 times since it was released on VHS. Great video though hehe. : )

[CrappyTFhater]

There are two guys at my work who have seen it about half as many times, each. I'm glad I've managed to block most of the movie out visually, so when they talk my mind doesn't pull much up. I'd rather watch the guys from Saving Private Ryan die over and over again - like the knife scene with the Jewish guy (Pvt. Stanley Mellish). I'd rather watch that scene over and over again. Orson Welles said it best when he told his biographer "I'm in a movie about toys doing very bad things to other toys."

[cgrecordings]

lol :P

[CrappyTFhater]

He he he that is not to say that the movie isn't totally awesome for most people - I mean if you've seen it 100 times and wore out a VHS tape and two guys at my work have each seen it over 50 there must be something good for most folks. I am ... just different.

[Actionfigurexpert]

Intresting

[2Old4Toys]

Yay! So glad I'm not the only one who hated the 1986 movie! What a downer that was...

[CrappyTFhater]

I'm continually amazed by how many people watch it religiously. I was in a continual state of shock when Kickback died in the opening. I recall thinking "That was his head... and my hero killed him". I accidentally saw some scenes redone in stop-motion, from when the Decepticons got in the Ark and kill Braun, Ironhide, Ratchet and Prowl and I can't get the images out of my head. Strange how I've tried to block out the movie. I have no respect for Hasbro for killing off these characters...

[CrappyTFhater]

...simply because they wanted to make room for more toys. They didn't even tell Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime's voice actor) he was being fired - he read it in the script. And there was a "charge of the light brigade" scene that never made it into the movie where all the Autobots from the early show die right before Prime has his famous last battle.

[CrappyTFhater]

I've had plenty of people tell me the movie was awesome because "they" were "brave" enough to actually kill people. But it had nothing to do with bravery as opposed to wanting to sell new toys, and was so violent - I mean this is the kind of stuff one has an easier time taking in War movies (you only know the characters during the movie, not during the formative years of your childhood).

[CrappyTFhater]

When I saw it I remember thinking "If it was this easy to kill each other why haven't they been doing it all along?" BLEH! Fortunately I've always been artistic and imaginative and already had my own fiction, which is actually the 2nd longest fiction I have running in my head, after my own story that I started at age 6 (plenty of retroactive continuity changes there, but it's the same core idea). Now I Role-Play Transformers with my 3 daughters, and 1989 is the year both sides were betrayed...

[CrappyTFhater]

...by the human armies of the world and either wiped out or barely escaped (I lost my entire G1 collection when my folks lost the horse ranch - along with horses, acreage, etcetera). Grimlock, Camshaft, Overdrive, Downshift & Topspin were the only real survivors, though a reissue of Soundwave and a refurbished with Reprolabels G1 Skyfire / Jetfire also survived. In our fiction, I play (Classics) Optimus Prime and my 11yo daughter plays (alternate dimension) Cybertron Optimus Prime.

[CrappyTFhater]

If I have a point, it's that I've had more fun creating a better fiction without continuity errors than paying much attention to Hasbro's offerings other than using them for visual aids and inspiration. I dare to say that I am nearly alone in this regard - but most people' minds don't constantly daydream every moment they aren't busy thinking about something else... but mine does, even when driving (hence I use the radio or have a passenger talk to me). So it comes easy for me.

[2Old4Toys]

WELL SAID! I was just a kid when I saw it the theater and even then, my immediate reaction was they're telling us "we ain't making anymore of these old character you love, buy these new toys instead!". Shows no respect for the emotional bond created and nurtured over the dozens of TV episodes beforehand. All flushed right down the lavatory in a single movie sitting.