 hey guys it's been a minute it has been a while since i've sat down excuse me cookie i'm gonna have to throw you out if you keep making noises like that uh if you haven't met cookie she is about nine or ten months old she came as a christmas present didn't you and i feel like she's just gonna continue to make make noise but that's okay that's what cats do i suppose all right so the reason i'm here today is to put a cap on uh on a journey a really interesting really um fun cool journey that i've been on over the last two or three months and that is my journey down my childhood you know down a rabbit hole um that i have really really enjoyed uh recently and and basically what i've done over the last couple of months is treat myself you know i have a bit of retail therapy but it's certainly not on just shit every single item that i've added to my collection of of my greatest most treasured childhood memories means something to me and it means it's priceless every single item that i'm going to show you today is absolutely priceless and the fact that i've been able to find each item a boxed in unopened condition it just shows you know what what is available out there i mean half of these items i i couldn't even remember the name of them all i remembered was like a picture or a you know a moment maybe you know where i bought it uh maybe you know taking it to school for the first time something like that and each and every item i i did a bit of research on and i i came to the conclusion that it was out there um i might have to pay for it a little bit higher than what i'd expect but every single item that i wanted to find is out there on ebay i was able to find it on ebay uh from you know sellers in australia the uk and america so over the last two or three months um parcels have been coming in and i'm really really proud and happy to say that my collection is complete so it's time for me to show you it's time for me to bring to youtube my childhood i am 32 years of age i was born on the 27th of november 1990 i just snuck in um as a nineties kid and due to that fat um a lot of these things came out between the ages of six to i'm gonna say 15 so from six to 15 every single thing that i'm about to show you was involved in some sort of amazing memory or period of time um in my life and it got to the point where you know i am i going through a midlife crisis maybe um i don't have the money to go and buy a boat or a jet ski or a fucking gtr as much as i'd love to but what i did have the money for is you know to put aside two or three thousand dollars to collect and hopefully keep the remainder of my life just to you know whenever i want to look at it whenever i whenever i um whenever i want to reminisce i can because i've got everything here you know what i mean and i want to i want to somehow display it i'm not exactly sure how i'm going to do that but you know especially with my youtube channel with creating videos like this sit down videos i'd love nothing more than to have this stuff displayed like behind me or or i'm not sure all the first step was to acquire it and it took a while you know there's certain things that came from america that took five or six weeks to get here so you can imagine how excited i was each and every time i got a package but either way all right let's go in chronological order i'm sharing my second cup of coffee with you guys but yeah okay so let's go in chronological order right the first thing that i remember vividly is one of these and it's not just your average everyday hot wheels car and this is one of the items that i simply could not remember i couldn't remember for the life of me what it was called but it indeed was called a hot wheels motorized xv racer they've got a rechargeable motor inside it says charges racer in just 10 seconds so this in 1996 my second year of primary school this was the craze this was the craze if you had one of these and you could take it down to the bottom flat which was this massive concrete pad and you had one of these i mean you were the shit and i got one i got one you know i've got to give my parents credit they never had a huge amount of money but somehow some way i was able to you know get bought um most of my my favorite thing so this is number one this is 1996 completely boxed um and basically what it is is a little charging station and then you've got i think that takes three a a batteries then you've got the actual car you stick the car on top it's got you know some sort of metal connection there you stick it on top for 10 seconds take it off and and then it it it um it zooms away and uh look i wish that i could open this and use it but i can't can you imagine how awesome this would be on an actual hot wheels track you know you're not just putting it up here and letting it go down um through gravity you're actually charging this up and firing it off you know around around a hot wheels track i didn't have a hot wheels track but i did have a big concrete pad and this is this is you know i think this is sick but that's just the start that is just the start folks so that's 1996 following that uh we go to well we go to pokemon and pokemon had a huge part of my life huge piece of my heart still remains with pokemon and the first thing that i had as far as the pokemon franchise is concerned is the gameboy the gameboy and the gameboy game so i had a a gameboy pocket it was blue in color that is probably the only item that i actually haven't bought um i did find one at a relatively reasonable price but it was in the french at the box was in the french version it was absolutely immaculate um you know even under the like i've i've done a bit of research you know i've actually learned a few things and like things like uh opening the battery case at the back of the gameboy and seeing if it's corroded or not is is a huge thing this one was in absolutely mint condition but the box was in french and i thought you know what no i'm going to put that money into buying the game that i had my very first and only uh pokemon gameboy game and that is my friends and this is worth a small fortune uh pokemon blue pokemon blue boxed in probably one of the most immaculate looking boxes you'll ever see this my friends was i'm going to say 1998 and once again a huge huge huge part of my life i spent hours and hours and hours i remember vividly um you know i was up on a balcony up in up on the top floor of my house and dad was downstairs outside uh working in the garden and this is one of my most vivid memories is i think i i finally i think i finally um evolved war total into blastoise i think that's like level 32 or something and i spent hours and hours and hours trying to get that done and i finally got it and i remember opening up opening up the window just excited as hell and yelled down to my dad i got blastoise i got blastoise and uh you know that meant absolutely nothing to him but to him i was happy and uh and and i guess it was well worth buying it for me right now i didn't have a box i don't have anything i bought it second hand i bought the gameboy with the game and uh you know this this is next level this is this is easily worth four or five hundred bucks mint condition i've got to get a box for it but um but that would have to be in chronological order the second the second item for me and uh speaking of pokemon we're going to continue down that fashion just for a little bit the second thing i've got is a an original unopened sealed pokemon trading card game two player starter set the original in each pack has a first edition holographic mitchamp card um and i vividly remember opening my own starter deck taking out that mitchamp card and and thinking it was the fucking shit because it was and lo and behold 25 years later i've got the exact same box which is unbelievable to think right sealed perfect condition and uh that my friends is a really really integral part of my childhood not only the pokemon game but also the pokemon cards and then there was stuff like pokemon snap for nintendo 64 pokemon what was it pokemon stadium for nintendo 64 so those two items i was looking at but i didn't really have the the vivid memories of those games that i do you know pokemon blue for gameboy or pokemon cards so i've gone i've gone straight to the top you know i wasn't i wasn't gonna i wasn't gonna muck around i wanted to if i'm gonna buy these things once and keep them forever i want to make the right decision right so that is basically my pokemon my my my my pokemon items i mean i could add to it quite easily but i thought no you know what i'm gonna focus on those two uh if i can get them in perfect condition i'll be i'll be more than happy and lo and behold i have so i'll put that one i'll put that one out there uh next on the list is actually believe it or not a wcw toy and this is another item that i couldn't for the life of me think of the name or i think i i typed into google goldberg action figure with a massive head and it came back with a head ringer now i would not have remembered that but what i can remember is this guy this guy right here i had a goldberg t-shirt back in the day i used to stay out in the weekends with my gym uh 12 o'clock midnight every friday night we had wcw nitro and it was fucking sick and my favorite wrestler from the get-go was always goldberg and this particular figurine with the removable heavyweight world championship belt just the muscles you know i was eight years old the ripped the ripped ripped a shred muscles i i didn't know how you'd get them but i knew that goldberg had them and um yeah this was this was another one that if i could find boxed i was definitely going to get and lo and behold i had been able to find it boxed and i feel absolutely blessed to have it and that brings back a huge amount of memories for me moving on skateboards i consider myself um yeah a bit of a skater back in the day did i land a few kickflips yep not much else though a bit of a couple of pop shove-its um a couple of acid drops off of like a i don't know meter and a half drop i thought doing that at the local skate park was probably the pinnacle um a couple of board slides on a little a little rail about that big but either way uh tony hawks pro skater obviously i was going to buy the game i didn't but what i did buy is a tech deck and at the peak of my interest in skateboards these came out tech decks miniature skateboards with the wheels and the you know the the the wrench and the the the the little um bushes and trucks and screwdriver and everything but not only like i i knew i was going to buy a tech deck i wanted to get it sealed but i didn't know that there was going to be a tony hawks pro skater version this was brought out in 1999 and uh it's sealed it's in pretty good condition and the coolest thing that i didn't even realize at the at the start is that uh like behind the the deck here is a little piece of paper and it says there's a pro skater signature move inside inside this packet so you can imagine how excited you would have been back in the day to have tony hawks pro skater playing on the playstation one you're going by a tech deck you've got your tech deck ramps and shit you open it up you play with it and you've got a signature move that you can then use on the game i mean this this is fucking awesome and i had to get one and lo and behold i got a tony hawks pro skater one um which kind of makes up for both the playstation game and the tech deck so i'm super stoked with this one another massive part of my childhood tech decks skateboarding in general and uh most certainly tony hawk and tony hawk pro skater so speaking of anime and we are you know there's not too many um things left speaking of anime it went well for me it went pokemon and then it went to dragon ball z and then it went to beyblades and then i finished it off with yugioh okay so we've done pokemon let's move to dragon ball z dragon ball z i'm gonna say was because i was just that little bit older than i was when i um had my pokemon cards the dragon ball z cards and the ability to trade and i went to markets literally every single weekend for like two years straight i'd spend six hours there easily with my folder of dragon ball z cards looking through other other stall holders looking through other you know kids um collections and trading and trying to add to my collection and fuck man by the end of it by like two years in i had a pretty sick dragon ball z uh collection but i never owned an ultra rare and that's something that i've been looking for um i was almost about to pay a thousand dollars us for a goku the uh sorry the goku level five personality ultra rare from the sell saga i was almost sorry in a ps8 eight um i was almost about to splash out on that i i decided not to and i decided to distribute that thousand dollars um into a collection of of other dragon ball z cards you know the cards that i had um you know i never had that ultra rare so i thought you know what i'm going to leave that but what i am going to buy are things that i i have had in the past and we started off with the say in saga of course is there really any other way so what you have here is an unopened say in saga uh villain starter deck and i'm going to put that there following that we have the freezer saga which only came out in booster packs but i haven't just bought a booster pack i've actually bought a sealed um freezer saga booster pack in one of these power up um blister packs so as soon as i saw this i i can't actually remember seeing these on the shelves and looking at the date it was 2002 so i feel like these i feel like these came out after the conclusion of the world game saga they came out as like a well a power up pack um i never had it in this form but i knew i wanted to get something from the freezer saga and and lo and behold i did so that one my friends is a pretty epic edition following that as we all know and by the way freezer saga freezer saga means the most to me because i remember i vividly remember um that battle between goku and freezer right that i i i remember i had to wait about three weeks worth of episodes to finally see goku go super saiyan all right you were there i was there we all remember that right i think i i did read a statistic recently that that was the like the longest battle in anime history i think it went for like i don't know 20 episodes or something so i i vividly remember that i used to go back to my grandparents house after school sometimes um catch an episode of dragon ball z and uh yeah the freezer saga and also i'm gonna say also the uh cell the cell saga was the one that you know meant the most to me and the one that i've got the most memories around but saiyan saga freezer saga what's next trunk saga well i was able to come up with a unopened sealed uh trunk saga villain starter deck and this was the most expensive of the lot and uh there's a reason for that because there's not many out there there's more there's a huge amount of saiyan saga uh starter decks out there but not so many um trunks so i've got that following that we went to the android saga and luckily luckily enough i was able to find one of those power up packs for a uh an android saga uh booster pack so what do we got saiyan freezer trunks android and like i said you know my fandom with um dragon ball z sort of faded after the world game saga but probably you know after the freezer saga the one that means the most to me was definitely the cell saga and so i couldn't go past getting myself a a cell saga uh villain starter deck now i would have got hero in all of them but the hero starter decks for whatever reason cost just that little bit more so this is my friends my complete dragon ball z trading card game or collectible card game um collection and i'm super proud of it and everything's unopened and you know the good thing about all this stuff is that if i become you know sick of it if i really want to move if i really want to leave my childhood behind i'll get rid of it and i'll sell it again back on ebay and you know i might have to wait a few weeks but i'll most likely get my money back and that was important to me i didn't want to buy shit i wanted to buy good stuff good quality stuff boxed great condition and to be honest for a collector the prices are only going to go up so that is my dragon ball z collection dragon ball z meant the fucking world to me i look literally um i can't even explain it how much it meant to me and uh i don't know whether kids these days will ever be affected you know because we had such limited um supply of of anime and and games and and you know channels to watch um because we had you know the internet wasn't even out then the internet came out i remember i remember collecting 10 booster pack uh rappers and sending them in uh to america from new zealand from little old new zealand i sent them in i collected them took me a while i think we had uh capsule corp points and you had to get a certain amount each booster pack gave you a certain amount we sent them in and got a promotional card back a two star so i can't remember what the card was but fuck it was sick i mean you think i'm excited getting this stuff in the mail to get a promotional card back after collecting booster pack rappers for weeks and sending them away ah just amazing but that's not all that is not all we talk about particular toys what they meant to me at certain times this toy was my only ever dragon ball z um action figure and it must have been around the time that the android saga came out i had this in my you know toy collection for years for years i think i got this one when i was about 10 years old i was on a rugby trip my dad came along for the rugby trip he wasn't a coach but he was a parent he came along to help and after the game we went out me and him and we went to the warehouse which is basically like your big w or your uh walmart and we went to the warehouse and basically i mean i played a decent game i think i actually kicked the i kept the i was the kicker for the team at the point at that point at age like 10 or 11 and um yeah we went away from to wellington we won the game no sorry we drew the game we drew the game and it was my kick that drew the game and you know i i was used to hit him up when i played rugby for a dollar per try or a dollar per kick and uh you know i'd have my dad and my and my uncle my auntie and my mom and everyone on board so if i got to try you know i'd get four bucks and anyway on this particular day i didn't get any money i just wanted a toy and so we went to the warehouse and this is the toy that i chose and i'll always remember it i know the exact place i got it um i know the exact place that i had at my room and i vividly remember you know he's got a hat he's got dragon balls there's a medallion and um unfortunately i'll never take this out of the packet but this toy guys this toy means the fucking world to me not only because i loved dragon balls e but also because my dad bought it for me all right and it's those type of memories that i really want to grasp on to the older i get uh the more i appreciate things like that so i don't know if i'm going to be able to stand this up let's try all right okay so that is my complete dragon balls e collection and like i mentioned before you know i was i was uh i was getting into geez i was getting into sport i was always into sport but sport sort of took priority and really trying to be good at sport and perform at sport took priority over like cartoons and shit like that um so you know my interest in anime and in toys and stuff like that at age like i don't know 13 or 14 sort of tape it out there was there was one other uh anime that i enjoyed which was yugio and i did my very best to find a reasonable reasonably priced yugi original starter deck unopened but unfortunately i was going to have to drop at least eight or nine hundred dollars to get one of those now that would have that would have completed my collection my collection of cards right unfortunately i don't have one yet and i don't think i will get one uh they're just too expensive but it was the yugi deck i got dark magician i got all of those things that was my first starter deck and i went i actually played that game i went to the fucking arcade each and every weekend with my my mate tim and we actually played the game and it was fucking fun like there's a lot of strategy to it and and and i really enjoyed it i did and the only reason i stopped playing is because i went to high school finally and at about age 14 i took my entire deck to school um by that point you know it was getting phased out and i was probably wasn't that cool um at the time to be still playing yugioh but i really enjoyed it and unfortunately on one particular day my whole entire deck got stolen and that was the end of that for me so prior to yugioh prior to yugioh and uh most probably you know basically at the same between pokemon and and dragon ball z but more so around the dragon ball z time came out a a program called uh beyblades and beyblades were was a sick program right poke we loved pokemon because we we imagined one day we could actually be a pokemon trainer we loved dragon ball z because well they were just epic characters but the main reason why i loved beyblades is because you could literally battle real life beyblades i mean go to the warehouse and pick up a beyblade right and you could actually battle just like they did on the program and so that's why i loved it and everyone else loved it and i remember we used to make you know for those who couldn't afford them um we used to make beyblades out of bottle tops a pencil and a piece of string don't ask me to do it now but i vividly remember that we had we had school desks that that flipped up like that which meant that if you took everything out of your desk you had like a battle zone and we made our own beyblades out of like i said bottle tops and we fucking battled them away but the lucky ones actually got real beyblades and uh the one beyblade that i got and the one that i vividly remember and when i thought about picking up um a beyblade from ebay boxed hopefully it was this beyblade it took me fucking ages to find the name of it i had to i had to write in green beyblade green original beyblade i finally found out the uh the manufacturer back then was hasbro so i had to write in hasbro green original beyblade and i finally came across a certain beyblade called master dress seal master dress seal and uh it was green and as soon as i saw it as soon as i saw a picture of it like i just had this massive smile on my face because that was it that was the one that's the one that i had and i found boxes i found you know used ones i found opened ones it took me a while but eventually i did find and its original condition i'm gonna say the best condition possible the best conditioned boxed hasbro beyblade of master dress seal you will ever find in your entire life i felt like the luckiest guy on earth when i found this and it is indeed this this pack right here i didn't even know they came out in double packs but apparently they do um when i saw that it had this one in it i thought right i'm gonna have to do some thinking here what am i gonna do do i do i pay you know two or three times the price um because it's boxed and because it's got another one in there do i just bite the bullet and buy it because i mean this is the one that means the most to me and i thought i i you know i slept on it for a few nights and i thought fuck it i'll buy it so what i have here guys is an unopened never seen the lighter day um double pack of uh master dress seal and this one is called i actually don't know i i i think uh what is it uh seaborg seaborg this one doesn't really mean much to me but it would mean something to someone else out there it's boxed it's unopened and it's in mint condition because it's been in this this plastic cover its entire life but yeah beyblades was awesome i fucking loved it um i loved the fact that you could battle yourself and i looked you know beyblades it's still it's still popular the thing is all of these things are still popular they stuck around and they stuck around for a reason because they're sick and they're all colorful i mean look at this like it's that everything's colorful everything's bright um you know well marketed and they got me on board so this is the final thing the final piece of the puzzle eventually i think i probably will take this one out put it in some sort of acrylic case and i might flip this one on because you know it's a bit bulky it's hard to display but for now guys this is it this is my complete collection of uh of items and i'm going to try my best to get some sort of thumbnail right now because you know i want you guys to click on this i realize not a lot of you are going to watch the whole thing but you know with that being said um i wouldn't expect you to this is my childhood and it was about time i connected with it again you know i'm super super stoked to say that i have indeed reconnected with my my childhood well and truly and we move on you know it's going to allow me to move on into adulthood with without those memories without those longing memories you know those thoughts of fuck uh do i have any regrets as a kid you know what was i like as a kid i can whenever i want to go down memory lane all i have to do is open up this box of goodies and have a look so like i said at the start well like i said before i need to get a thumbnail so we'll do that now and um yeah like i said uh well what did i say oh my sorry i just got transported to a new uh another another dimension back in 1998 or 1996 or 2000 and oh this stuff is just so awesome and you know i've never really been a collector i've never really been willing to to to put the money into into collecting anything but this is not just any collection this is this is me this is my childhood and i'm super super happy to have shared it with you so thank you for being here guys um it was my pleasure to take you down memory lane and have a fantastic day i'll see you soon