Why I Sold My Collection
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- On this episode Dan talks about the need to collect everything and how quickly it can get out of hand.
He also talks about selling his collection to save his collection, his moment of clarity and getting things under control.
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I worked at Toys R Us when Gundam Wing model kits arrived. I literally spent my weekly paychecks on Gundam figures. Went broke for 3 months. At the time, I thought I was awesome but now I look back and realize how stupid I was. But when you're young and you live at home with your parents and pay no bills, anything was possible.
That’s so true 😂
When my favorite toy company stop producing my favorite series of toys altogether, I only have one thing to say to it: Thank you for releasing me from my pain.
Which was it?
Oh my God that is poignant
Did your favorite toy company is toy biz
Mattel still make barbie! You'll be fine.
@@suhtangwong zing
As a wise man once said; The things you own end up owning you
Tyler Durden is a legend
That guy had herpes. That’s for life, yo!
Consuming can be consuming.
People opinion, wife, girlfriend, friends, parents, mainstream, all would end up owning you either.
Things are made for humans, and apreciated for its beauty, like art, cars, toys, coins.
If you are Weak and dumb enough, even your fucking will own you.
That is so true.
I went through a huge personality crisis several years ago and vowed to limit my collecting to just Spider-Man (with extremely rare exceptions for really cool Star Wars, Batman, & pop culture items). Even with Spider-Man, I only get it if I'm at that point where I go "I gotta have it!" I don't just get everything with Spider-Man on it.
The Sean Ward Show I'm going through that now. Sticking mostly to Spider-Man, Batman and Dragon Ball. With a few exceptions.
Wondering where you fell on Web-Man...
I totally understand you. Before the internet we all thought everything was never going to be re made. And so here we are 2018. Wow Sometimes I long for the simplicity of my younger years.
It's a great and terrible time to be alive.
I loved how Dan told his own story with the same intonation he uses with the rest of the videos.
Very important lessons for collectors. You have to take the time to curate your collection and decide what you want it to be, otherwise it will become unwieldy and unmanageable. Not to mention financially unsustainable
This is the realest shit
Thew Adams : high praise indeed.
Thew Adams keeping it real on a toygalaxy vid with limited appeal?
My man!
Yes it is
I sold my whole collection like ten year's ago. Took up the whole guest room and garage. But just recently started collecting again & am just getting what i like when i can afford it sensibly. Started with a custom Thundarr. I feel this time around the game room will be enough to display a new collection. I'll also give toys away to family, grandkids etc. to make room for new one's. Love the video, great share.
Wonderful video! I've had to sell stuff I wanted. I never was able to go down your 2.0 road. My ex wife didn't understand my love for DC/Marvel and my desire to pose and display the heroes and villains. The Megos, Super Powers and Secret Wars long lost in previous moves, I built a nice 5" DC and Marvel collection as an adult, and when the scale went up to 6" I followed, eventually selling my entire 5" collection to make room and honestly, because I felt and still feel it's an upgrade. The ex always was upset and did guilt me into selling some, but after the divorce (for many reasons) I no longer have that problem. Now I continue my exclusively DC/Marvel collection, adding a few extra things that mean a lot. I just get what I love for pose/display purposes. Nothing in package and am very happy with the state of things. Anyway, wonderful video. Thanks for sharing!
From South America, collecting is a lot more expensibe here. Nostalgia drove me towards collecting three months ago. You really helped me to skip stages, focus to save cash, and be happy collecting. Thank you a lot.
I went a similar route when I first started. It was, like most people, getting the items you actually had as a child. I actually accomplished reclaiming most, save for a few items that were just impossible to find, but probably cheap enough to buy if you found them. I never could get that remote control car that ran by shining a flashlight on it. I digress, the collection filled one nice wall in my office. As children we mostly just got toys for our birthday and Christmas and the rare once in awhile occassion while being dragged on shopping excursions with Mom along 5th Ave. Brooklyn. Once bit by the vintage toy collecting bug, I decided to start selling for profit via Toy Shop Magazine. Living in a suburb of NYC afforded a vast array of places you could buy from, sell to, plus yard sales and toy shows. While working a regular job and doing this it was pretty good extra income plus it was fun, sometimes not fun when someone files a claim all the way to The People's Court television show (I lost but really won). After amassing a huge inventory and living in an apartment, I looked around it one day and asked "Why do I have all this junk and living in an apartment?" So I sold it all for a down payment on a house. That house bought another house and I got back a lot of the stuff I had, if I wanted it, back. Now I am slowly building a Batman Museum in my basement. I believe getting your priorities in order will get you to better places, however, some just can't let go. I think they have a show on TV for this...🙂
I've been collecting as an adult for 23 years. Early on I did the 1 to keep in package, 1 to open thing. But I generally was only collecting Star Wars and GIJoe at the time so it didn't get too bad. But I was in fact collecting things I really didn't like. When I found out I was going to be a father, my priorities shifted. I started to figure out I should only collect what I like. I stopped getting doubles, sold off what I didn't like, and only got what I did like. Along the way I have sold stuff I thought I liked but didn't. It happens. But for the most part, I buy something and keep it because I like it. I've been happy. It hasn't got out of control or taken over my life. It's just fun to have which I think is really the entire point of doing all this.
What a wonderful video Dan!
Thank you.
You're a legend, Dan. I bet you had multiple storage barns, possibly even the parents' basement, storing 2.0. I'm jealous, but also damn glad I never had that much of a collection :)
Me and my friends needed to watch this. Lots of love from Perú (where we don’t have Target, Walmart, Walgreens and no Store exclusives)
Thanks for watching. Tell your friends I said "hi!"
"I collect spores, molds, and fungus."
"I understood that reference"
“We had a part of a slinky... but I straightened it.”
I switched to buying just certain items within a toy line. Now days I look for clone troopers, mandolorians, klingons, borg, music figures, and occasional odds and ends. Now I like to find damaged figures and do custom paint jobs and mods just to have in my collection. My favorite customs are now some of my favorite pieces like the ones I did of my cosplays of a red black mandalorian, red armored saiyan, or of figures never produced like Mr Bones.
From time to time I sell for any of these reasons to keep myself in check. To get rid of something I no longer have an interest in, doesn't fit in the collection anymore, or to get my $ back or make a buck. For collectors who only accumulated but never sold, try listing something or selling a least liked item you have to see how difficult it could be. I say this because I know collectors that decided they did want what they had anymore and either ended up taking a bath or found other collectors weren't as interested as themselves and they were unable to move stuff. Collecting can be addictive.
Genuinely made me reflect a little on my collection. I’ve been buying/building Gunpla for roughly 2 years now and I’ve installed shelves, emptied out space, and even just generally found random places to put them. I decided a little bit ago to cool it with buying them but this video really made me realize that I should stop for a while, I have many to build and I have a lot I need to find space for
This is what happened to me with video game/console collecting. I was buying everything and anything - duplicate copies of games, sealed copies, alternative console models and so on. It was a compulsion. It was only when I finally obtained my 'holy grail' piece that I saw my collection for what it was - a formless mass which took up too much space. The majority of what I had collected was little more than something to fill the void of my missing holy grail. Once I had that piece in my possession I then saw that I had lost sight of what my collection was intended to be and I now could sell what I never truly wanted in the first place. It was liberating to be able to say "I'm done" and close that chapter.
I have since found a holy grail toyline to chase, but I've learned from my video game collecting experience to stay focused and not deviate from my original idea. If I stop having fun that means it's time to stop and reassess what I'm doing.
Great video.
I sold my soul once, but it was returned within 90 days.
Daniel Herrin lol
In Russia, soul sells you!
Good thing you kept the receipt, or you would have only gotten store credit.
Thanks Dan! This video was great. I'm just getting back into collecting Star Wars. When I was younger in the 90s my collecting was very unfocused, but now I'm letting go of some of those pieces and making my collection more focused on my actual interests. Thanks for the encouragement!
Gaming and movies...those are my vices.
I'm 40 years old and my parents bought me my first gaming system, the NES in 86 when I was around verging on 6 years of age. Needless to say, I never looked back. And while life has taken me through ups and downs where selling to pawn shops and the like were sometimes necessary, I've always managed to either retain my most important pieces or re-purchase what I lost later. Today, my collections encompass over 850 movies/series on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and 4K, and over 570 games across 19 systems and six console generations. I also have movie and game related paraphernalia revolving mostly around action figures, posters and a 1UP Arcade. And while that all may sound like a lot, it utterly pales in comparison to UA-camr room tours where the collections rest in the thousands or tens of thousands of pieces.
And that level of obsession has never been understandable to me. How any of those games/movies have you actually played/seen? How many do you even like? How many do you have 3 or more copies of? There's a lot of "Why?" there to me.
I have always had five hard-and-fast rules to my collecting; rules that I've only broken on the rarest of occasions. (1.) I DON'T collect based on projected or perceived future value. It's not about the money or the resale. I believe in the preservation of physical media. (2.) Never pay more for an item than it's earnestly worth until I've exhausted all other options and there's no other choice. (3.) Never buy anything that I don't have an affinity for, that isn't a direct part of my childhood or that I have no intention to play/watch. (4.) If I upgrade to what I believe to be a superior version of something I already own, I sell the inferior copy to recoup some of the cost of the repurchase. (5.) Outside of a handful of special cases, I DON'T do duplicates.
While game and movie collecting is far from inexpensive, holding to these rules have not only helped me keep my collection manageable and relevant to the nuances of my personal passions, but it's also allowed me to have a small collection that I can be content with that's not driving me to the poor house or to divorce due to obsession. There's nothing that I own that I look at and wonder why I own it. And my collection isn't such that I'm driven to no longer love...what I love.
Personally, I think that there are a lot of collectors out there who collect just for the sake of collecting or because they want to be known as "the one with the most". And that lack of focus or goal is what leads to a lot of issues such as disillusionment, a loss of love for the act of collecting and even an inability to afford the important things in life such as food in your refrigerator, a reliable form of transportation or a home as opposed to a possibly unsafe apartment. (case-in-point: Radical Reggie's UA-cam game room tour videos...both his stand alone and his MetalJesus collaboration).
Hands down the best toy collecting show on you tube 👍
I just sold my collection. So much of what you’ve said is exactly how I felt. Thank you Dan! I’ll still watch your channel because it’s fun!!
I got my six million dollar man and incredible hulk stuff in acrylic cases as well as my buck Rogers corgi die cast, none of that is going anywhere.
Excellent video. I sold off 95% percent of my vintage Star Wars collection to get the money to adopt my four children; greatest and most rewarding decision I ever made.
Thank you to the wonderful Star Wars community and EBay for making that happen.
I lost my collection back in 2005 to a house fire. We pretty much lost everything in that fire, I would never wish that on my worst enemy. Thank God my family got out safely in time. All I can think of was Rebuild I remembered when Juggernaut destroyed the X-mansion and when Bruce Wayne's mansion was destroyed 😔all I could think about is one day rebuilding. Thank God I got a bigger ans better collection, and like you said only buy what you like for the love and from the heart. Collect wisely!!!
Producer Greg, I got into Laserdisc collecting around 2000 when I bought a player and a small pile of em for $20. Second hand stores around the Seattle area almost gave em away for years, so it was easy to build a tidy little library of Laserdiscs!
That was a little joke because I collect Laserdiscs - Greg
My dude!
I sold almost everything when we I got married. We had no savings for a wedding, honeymoon, and starter items like furniture/plates/etc. For ten years never bought anything since the discretionary income simply wasn't there. Last year (about 15 years since we got married) I asked my wife if we could talk. We're not rich but we're doing OK. I told her how much I missed that part of my life. I don't golf, buy expensive clothes, or things many other adults do with money. I asked if I could re-buy some comics and plastic. She agreed I can have 75.00 a month to do whatever.
@Simon Turpin well we've been happily married for almost 18 years and many of my friends are sadly divorced so it works for us
This is peak cringe. You shouldn't need to ask your wife for permission to do something harmless for yourself with your own money. This is insanity.
Some of us have to understand that once you get in a married relationship, not every decision is your own. His wife knows that his hobby is a part of his life and is something he enjoys, but knows that it can get very pricy and that they still have to be financially stable. But you also have to be in the same position with your wife, does she have a monthly allowance for her money? A marriage has to be equal throughout it for it to continue, hope you and your wife the best and have fun collecting again!
@@mercy7364 I am married too. It hasn't affected my hobby whatsoever and won't because I found someone who respects what I enjoy and who I am as I do for her in return. If someone tries to change you from harmless things you enjoy, that is not a healthy relationship.
Man so much of this resonated with me. I’m glad to know my fellow collectors feel and experience the same struggles.
Great video brother. Thanks for sharing with us.
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE
You were supposed to bring characters to you collection...
Not sell them for profit!
My weirdest obsessive collecting habit spanning over decades which I grew to really resent? The Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett. It took me 20 years and 30+ books to realize I never really liked that series THAT much. Pratchett's prose is clever and imaginative in its fantastic metaphors of our own world - but somehow something at the very core of it didn't resonate with me. I got into it because I *kinda* liked the Discworld video games of the mid-90's - but even in those early days I wasn't exactly fascinated by the books. Over the years my tastes in literature changed dramatically - but I instisted on buying these comedy fantasy books I liked less and less as time went on. Grabbed them off the shelves, came home - and though "Urgh, now I have to read that...". It truly became a chore. So last year, with just a few books short of the whole collection, I decided that that was it.
i've been following your channel for a while, at least a year. but this pop up in my recommended and I've never been through a lot of your back catalogue videos. and mine is books. i collect signed books, and loads of merch and some games, and people had a go at me when I sold all my pokemon games, but I hadn't played them in years and they went to good homes, and had already placed the pokemon in the pokemon bank. i sold so much and all of that thanks to the pandemic. i decluttered and sold loads of them on eBay and made almost £2000 with more to go. i now cherry-pick more and it's liberating since the money I got from them I'm saving to buy a car
I'm selling my past to pay for my future
Here’s to you and collection 3.0! Cheers!
I just watched this video and your "is collecting embarrassing" video back to back. I appreciate you making these videos so much! Your message resonated with me on a deep level. I often reflect on my collecting, but am too embarrassed to share my thoughts on collecting with even other collectors, much less non-collectors. Your videos helped me feel normal and appreciative of my own personal interests, as well provided me with new vocabulary of describing my stage of collection development. My one word summary: Meaningful ^ _ ^
One time I had to sell my body so I could keep collecting...😞
Wtf ya'll
worth it!
Been there bro. Smh
How much?
Not enough unfortunately...😔
Lost my first comic collection to flooding. Lost my childhood toys to damage from play and thinking I needed to grow up after failing at college. Lost my second toy collection to space constraints and financial need. I'm 40 now and have 3 kids, I started collecting again about 10 years ago, I've completely rebuilt my Superman comics collection and buy anything with a Superman logo on it under $5. I have a varied collection of toys, mostly Superman, TMNT, and Star Wars, but I only buy what's on clearance with the exception of a few items that just really excite me. I have started just this year collecting the 90s Man Of Steel Kenner toys with the intention of having my first ever complete set of a toy line. When things get too crowded or I feel like the herd needs thinning I split things up amongst my kids, which gives me as much joy as buying them in the first place. Setting limits and taking my time has made collecting so much more enjoyable. Thanks for this video, it's good to know I'm not alone.
This video truly speaks to me. I started collecting Hotwheels in March of 2014. At first I picked up only the cars that I really liked. Then I would begin to hear all kinds of “buzz” about how valuable a particular release was going to be in the future and I’d have to run out and buy 10 or 12 copies of it. Eventually I just started buying every car that I thought looked cool in multiples. One day, when I reached approximately 8,500 cars, I knew it was time to start selling off a huge chunk of my collection and go back to the way I started out. Only buying my very favorite models. I’m now down to under 1,000 cars and they are only the cream of the crop.
This is a great video and covers a lot of what I've seen discussed lately. From action figures to statues to comics I've always been the type of collector who only goes for stuff that I really want in my collection.
Your story is well documented and I will say, I traveled a similar path however not on the same level. Following the Tobey Maguire Spiderman, I went berserk. Everything retro was new again and I was buying on a frenzy. It’s funny because, one day I said the same thing having accumulated enough to fill maybe 3/4 of a room on display. I walked in one day and asked WTH do I have all of these figures? So many variants and carded figures. Figures stored in boxes I forgot about. The fun of it all and the memories they held, mattered more by holding them. So I sold all of my carded figures to include a Hasbro BulletMan and a majority of my loose figures and only kept those that reminded me specifically of my childhood. Not different variations of them, not four and five examples or the complete run of an action figure line. Just that one toy that I wanted as a kid. For example I wanted the Shogun Warrior Raydeen but never had one. I recently bought one in well played with condition, restored the box and the figure and it’s on display as eye-candy. I don’t need all of them, I don’t need the rarest and I certainly don’t need Massinger Z lol (over it already), because I’m fine with only having the one I truly wanted as a kid in my current collection. So now, my collection is housed in 5 detolfs and another large curio. My philosophy is, if it won’t fit in the display cabinets I have, it will remain a memory without a physical example UNLESS, and there’s always an unless...I sell something in order for the new “want” to take its place on the shelf.
I just started collecting super 7 muscles its hard to stay in focus now I want original matel muscles but its easy to get out of control great vid I relate even though im in the early stage of collecting
This is so true , all the 80’s toys are so fucking expensive so i just get what i can and be happy
I sold me 80s and 200x heman collection to fund my marvel legends and dc universe classics collection. And then sold dc collection and bought back the motu 200x collection, which I sold again once I completed it. Now I have 650 marvel legends and feel very comfortable with only that collection.
Fantastic outlook on collecting.
Glad to know Im not alone in thinking about my collection in those terms, although I haven't really been worried about buying extras to sell later (just a few times). I think I would be at the beginning of version 3.0 now just getting what makes me the most happy.
When i first started collecting toys as an adult i started with transformers. but over time i started collecting other brands like masters of the universe. eventually I realized that i needed to focus. so i sold a complete 2002 heman collection (I grew up with the 2000's versions so thats what I collected.)
Yeah, my professor was talking to the class about that. Said she used to collect dragon statues because it was something that wasn't too common, so when she did see them she bought them, they were special. Now, you could theoretically collect all of the dragon statues. There's less of a hunt, and for some people that kind of kills the enchantment.
But as you've proved it really just depends on how strong your connection to something is. If you truly love it, you'll make it work with time.
[Overly serious tangent complete]
Collecting is a passion!
There has to be an endgame!
The comments on this video make me feel a lot better lol, I only collect Transformers and I hit 200 not too long ago, over the course of a decade collecting. That alone was too much and I'm in the process of reducing that number significantly. But I feel like less of an addict seeing some people's stories and numbers.
I never truly understood why people got obsessed over getting every price they could of something they liked and not just the ones that held value to them. I'm at that point where I only need the characters I liked from my youth. I'm a huge Freddy Krueger fan but honestly I don't need Freddy Freddy from each movie entry. Just the ones I liked like 4 and 7.thats good enough for me now.
This was very close to my own story. Working in a toy store certainly fed my addiction. Learning the ins and outs of eBay since its inception also helped me acquire way too much stuff.
Now I let my son open many of these things. Because isn't that's what it's all about?
The original, vintage 3.75 Boba Fett that survived my childhood is also his now. Although I do have others.. lol
"Now I let my son open many of these things. Because isn't that's what it's all about?" not really, but it really depends on the person/collector, some enjoy the figures far more in the sealed packaging on a shelf.
I personally could never open or play with any of them(I collect a wide variety of things like Raimi and comics based Spiderman figures, Matrix, Coraline etc)
@@prufan I have a number of unopened things I keep or display (Although my McFarlane Ash and some others through the years were too cool to leave in the packaging.) There are also toys made today that are clearly not for kids. But toys in general, ARE for kids. They are the tools of imaginative play. If you don't have any (kids, not toys,) I highly recommend them. It is through their sense of wonder that we get to enjoy a taste of youth again. And my Micronauts figures with magnetic, detachable limbs got to have some fun too.
“Because I deserved 8 gundams on a Tuesday in June.” I laughed so hard, great video!
There has to be a line in collecting. I have a carded dr who cyberman collection. I've limited it to one of each type, avoided dupicates in other packs as they are just cash grabs. I'm happy with what I have....and only need a couple to have a complete set. I could go the whole hog and get everything but it's throwing away money as it would just be figures I already have or boxed sets which take up alot of space. Completing a collection is bitter sweet as the thrill of the chase is a big part of it.
There has to be a end line.
Wise words, Dan, and you're the right person to say them! Thanks for putting this out!
When people get into collecting and then that evolves into primarily 'collecting for investment' everything goes awry. If you aren't collecting out of love and passion then you're genuinely doing it wrong. You're a speculator, not a collector. Great to see you came back from that Dan, you need to do the homework and mental stock take often to make sure you're really getting value (across the entire spectrum of the word's meaning) out of what you're putting your finite resources behind.
It must've been rough being a collector before eBay. I consider myself lucky to always have the opportunity to pay double MSRP for another Legends on the Bucky Cap body.
Jokes aside, this video has been validating and therapeutic. I've gone through the exact thought process of buying two of an action figure to keep one new in box. Not to sell, but in case my first one breaks somehow. It's my backup figure. I've since grown to value toys less into adulthood, and I'm not opposed to letting things go.
It seems like life has been a constant process of striving to put less sentimental value in material possessions. I don't have to buy an action figure of every character I like. Plastic only degrades over time, and there are better investments for me elsewhere. Power to those of you who are still able to find joy in toy collecting.
"Plastic only degrades over time" not if you keep them sealed in the packaging
I almost sold my collection several times but now that the Studio Series 86 is out I think it may be time to sell my original Transformers.
I just started actively collecting Transformers about two months ago, and worry that I might devolve into 2.0. So far I've limited myself to the roster of the g1 movie, as well as Ops and Megs, but I'm worried that it might spiral out of control
i'm at the stage of being overwhelmed by my collection. i just wanna sell them all.
I made this mistake and what happened? - I wanted all my vintage He-Man toys back and spent a lot of cash again. Keep the stuff that meant a lot to you since childhood. Everything else is filler.
@@SylentEcho Truer words were never spoken
No way you are abandoning the toys reviews ! You are one of the best out there love seen you doing different reviews of any brand , but hope you continue doing so but not buying for yourself , I can say I bought a few action figures only the one I like so far. Anyways I can say this hobbie is better than taking drugs or alcohol
I sold my MTG collection except for a few decks over 10 years ago. I'm glad I did it. It helped me break away from the game.
I started collecting hot toys over an year ago and thought never thought I’d have as many as I have now and I don’t see an end to it as I still have about 50 figures I want to get that I don’t have. Although I do feel addicted I still enjoy them but fear of many of the things you shared.
I'd say I'm probably in the early stages of Collection 2.0. Only consisting of Transformers. I'm not buying 2 or 3 of a figures, but I was really really close, I don't even buy Transformers of the same Mold, I'll buy re-molds/retools if there is enough difference that it looks like a different figure, but I'm trying my best to prevent it from going out of control as much as I can. When I got back into them last year I was pretty much in a "Gotta catch em all!" mood, but now I'm rearing back and I am only buying figures I really want with the exception of a few because of prices(Masterpiece Shockwave). Now I only buy a toy if I see a few video reviews of it so I can see if the Transformation looks fun, and if it doesn't look like it will break after a couple times to vehicle and back to robot mode.
That said, there are a few figures I'm planning to get rid of that I only bought because I had an itch of "I have not gotten a new Transformer in a couple weeks, that needs to change."
I still have that itch, but I decided to satisfy it differently. I pick out the figure that is only shipped 1 per case. Because the others always end up shelf/peg warming and will be there for a few weeks before My local stores re-stock. And I buy one of those shelf warmers when I get that itch. I never buy more than one at a time because no matter if I bought 1, 2, or 5, A week later I would be needing to scratch it again. It also really helps when one of the lines out right now I have no interest in, and no interest in another outside of one figure.
But when it comes to when I actually decide to sell off everything. I already know what I 100% plan on keeping. I only plan on keeping my Shockwave figures, and maybe a few Armada figures from when I first got into them or that I wanted for years and only got last year, and the ones Family bought me for Birthdays or christmas. and only buying more when a new Shockwave is out.
I've been collecting all my life, but always "on and off". I have ever only bought what I liked and never got hit by the FOMO as they say. Collecting has to be fun. I want books that I want to read and enjoy.
Fun I went more or less through the same journey in my collection 😁
OMG I had a passing interest in the videos until I understood we are possibly the same person continents apart! I am in 2.0 mode since my 80s childhood, and you Sir @toygalaxy just helped me convince myself of streamlining.
Sold my collection, bought a high end mountain bike and got back into shape...And had a nice nest egg in the bank. Best decision ever!
Having an egg in the bank costs money these days... The mountain bike sure is a good thing!
I know this is an old video, and the comment will probably end up going to the either....
I decided one of my long-term goals if my youtube channel is successful, is to turn my hobby *cough* obsession *cough* into something viable and productive.
I came up with this idea for a sort of children's/pop culture museum and storage center.
The idea is that collectors who are having space issues can donate their collection to the museum for display, also you can donate broken or old toys to be fixed and repurposed.. Collectors will be able to buy mint in box high-end products, while the kids can get a "Repackaged" version of "He-man" that they can open and get the same experience Dad and Mom had, but without the heart-wrenching idea of losing thousands of dollars.
My idea is to have various spaces for each brand, Ninja turtle, he-man, g.i.joe, etc. Kids will have bins to get into and just go to town... as all toys should be played with... while there are displays of the figures in the package, and in various dioramas... while the TV Series is playing on the TV.
For collectors who donate funding to the museum, I plan on having long-term storage space for vaulting a collection as well.
And, when the time comes and I move to the great Tokyo in the sky... I want to turn it into a time capsule of pop culture.
All the plastic will be melted due to the destabilization of the material. The cardboard will be faded to white... but after 1000 years, everything will be as preserved as it could possibly be, with crystal hard drive backup files of everything scanned and ready to be re-created as best as can be.
Between Legos, 90s Xmen, Beast Wars anf GI Joe Im pretty lost. Now everything new is boxed, mint or collector. I've shifted focus to Ghostuster, Back to the Future and Transformers with a splash of Star Wars. I still have my 2.0. I need to let go.
Cards, Optimus prime, Megatron, Hotrod, skywarp and seekers, gundam, Spiderman, flash. Thats it for me
Exactly what I went through!
Wonderful sentiment well articulated. Thank you for making this.
My collection was completely based on clone trooper from Star Wars vehicles, figurines and exclusive one.
But I sold everything because of bad times
I feel this but I am definitely more focused with my collection at least when talking what brand I buy. I’m a Tokusatsu Otaku all across the board ( tho haven’t dabbled much into Super Sentai ) But tho I want X-Plus and Sofubi, I mostly am focused on Bandai Japan stuff. Most of my collection is Godzilla, a chunk is Gamera, and then a trying to start to get more Kamen Rider stuff and have a small amount of Ultra stuff but need more.
Thanks for the video. I can relate to it.
Sold them all way back in 1996 at 22 to finance my film (crew) career. Its just stuff folks! Doesn't matter. That said, I'll browse at cool looking pieces, and with my Adobe skills, put together a custom with packaging but immediately sell them. There's TOO MUCH stuff. Be your own "action figure" in the real world.
Thank you for this video.
Very valuable message
you seem pretty well adjusted
I totally get you and I have lost control somewhat. There was a time I would've never considered paying anywhere close to $100 for a Transformer (MP Grimlock at TRU to be exact). But 10 years later I bought the KFC Junkions for $170. Characters I barely knew from the movie and didn't like all that much. I broke down and bought them on the second run. I was mostly talked into it by emgo, Bobby Skullface, Benscollectables and the Reprolabel set for them look amazing! I think that is possibly the most strayed from what I planned to get of just about anything in my collection, at least at the cost.
Strangely one of my favorite figures is the Unique Toys Allen with Reprolabels. I never was a Springer fan that much. When I saw the releases of Springer in MP form, I thought that is crazy, they are going way too far. Fast forward a while and seeing it over and over beside Ultra Magnus, and I was sold. Luckily for $85, after missing the BBTS blowout for $60. The figure IMO is one of the most beautiful eye catching pieces I have. I also think DX9 Richthofen is almost perfect to the character - maybe the most definitive character representation in my collection. I refused MMC Sphinx for a long time, but the more I saw him the less I could stand to keep passng him by. But anyway, getting off topic...
I bought a few odd and ends like Ares Nitrogen who was never an expected purchase. I have ended up buying 4 different Shockwaves (the Prime Beast Wars 1st, the MP 2nd, then the Cloud9, and last FT Quakewave for $65). For the heck of me, I could not decide which I liked best. I am waiting on the FT edition but I think I will like him the best. I bought Yes Model's Hardhead and Chromedome for $53 each, I think they are kind of cool but mostly as S2 troop build. Totally, a growing my collection rather than my main characters. They look good, but don't bring me the level of happiness as MP10, who was supposed to be one of the only figures I was ever going to pay so much serious cash for. But I couldn't pass up MP Soundwave or the FT Dibots, then I needed a Megatron and the Coneheads were mighty tempting. Had to get Starscream then. And the collection has just kept growing then on...
I still haven't bought MP Sunstreaker, though, because of the price being over $100, so I haven't completely lost my sanity and the value of $1, but close.
It can be hard to draw the line. And the companies making the figures aren't going to draw it for you.
Sell, sell, sell! Keep just what you really really enjoy
My collection just recently got so big that I have no space anywhere....
A question I'm considering.. Selling my collection. Since having a house fire 3 weeks ago. I have my toys at water damage in the basement... Press in. Years of collecting, piecing things together. So much work. Wondering about the toy collection now.
I was a masters of the universe freak...all castles but not Eternia...and then I joined the army in 1997... I boxed it all up and took it to my mother's...4 years later coming home from Korea I took a bullet to the chest( not real bullet) but my mother have given it all away...yeap devastated but I could not blame my mother.. I would not collect any more till two years ago I started to get back into it...
I start collecting as something i cant have in my childhood living in Dubai and it got to the point when i start drowning in it. its time to stop
Awesome vid. I hear where you're coming from.
Great stuff! I can relate! Trying to live in the 3.0 zone myself!
You don’t need to sell *all* of it- we all have those “collectibles”! Just go through what you have and weed out what you honestly don’t care about, hopefully sell it to someone who’d really appreciate it! 👍🐒
This 8 minute video saved 30 years
So this was back in 2018. I wonder how Dan feels about selling collection 2.0 now that there is a very real possibility of someone just creating a VR simulator where you can just play with all these toys from way back when?
Good for you you sold me i gave it all with my friends and other people without payment last 2018 but good my collection rise again but only balance amount than before only 50 pcs now not just before 3000 pcs wow
I'm into Masterpiece and 3rd Party Masterpiece Transformers, because they closely approximate the G1 cartoon look, while still having realistic alt modes like the original toys. These give me the very very best versions of these characters to look at and fiddle with. This tickles my nostalgia funny bone to the nth degree.
I hardly buy multiples because that doesn't trip my nostalgia. That just seems wasteful.
I loved Transformers Seasons 1 and 2, so I must complete my collection of those characters. After that, I only want the coolest characters from the other seasons and spin-off shows.
If a better version comes up, then I could always sell mine and buy the better new one. But generally, I buy most of my stuff a season or two after it comes out, so I can choose between the different options and go with the very best one. I don't rush out and buy the newest one, and then have buyer's remorse because 3 or 4 more versions come out from competitors. I might pay more for mine in the aftermarket, but I get the one that I really want and I stick with it.
I've finished my Season 1 collection, and I have cooled off a bit with Season 2. I'm in control here. No mindless addiction.
Besides, gun ammunition is a higher priority these days. Toys have been moved to the back burner.
I thought I was badd at flying to one to open and 1 to collect I totally spaced a 3rd to sell in the future
Collecting can be a bit of a rabbit hole. At first it starts with one figure a month. Then every other week. After a while you realize you sunk thousands of dollars on things that don't always retain value.
My wife gets upset because she says I have jumped from one expensive collecting habit($40.00 a week on comics) to another(3-4 brand new games a month) to another(action figures).
I have slowed down considerably to just the things that remind me of my childhood or that I never had when I was a kid. It can still be expensive, but nowhere near the amount i was spending before.
I had to set a budget and stick to it. Can't go back to 2.0.
I love collecting. Luckily, thanks to my pickiness, my collection is growing at a slower rate than before.
You could die at any moment, why hold onto access stuff or extras when it may bring soneone else joy? I only keep stuff that is very meaningful to me, took me awhile to realize that but at the end of the day having clutter and collecting just to collect isnt worth the time, money and space it takes up, i try to keep my collectijg modest and personal to me and me alone
I used to collect Bionicle both G1 and especially G2. Unfortunately my stepdad threw them out along with alot of my original Mario Games and a few others he didn’t agree with. I partially regret setting out to collect all PAL Versions of Nintendo’s mainline Games bar fire emblem and Mario Party. Honestly could do without alot of the sports and side games though some are still fun to go back to. I should’ve watched reviews to really know what to expect. Should’ve put off getting games for their latest systems like Wii U and 3DS until now. But I still enjoy them all the same.
Part of the story collection is the journey you took to get there. The scores and the mistakes.
"Collection 1.0" My childhood dolls, most of them gifts from family and friends, most of them the same blue eyed, blonde Barbie face over and over because that's what 90s Barbie was if you didn't buy her friends too. Sold most of them one day when I decided 90s Barbies were not my thing.
"Collection 2.0" When I started collecting again, it was Bratz and My Scene dolls. And the thing was, I didn't have her yet so I needed her even though I didn't really like her makeup or clothes. I wound up with over 300 dolls. I still have them, but I reached a point as My Scene and Bratz both faded from existence where I realized there wasn't a chance in hell I would ever complete the collection, so I stopped trying to do so. I stopped buying duplicates unless I had an exceptionally good reason to do so, for example, I do have two of my first My Scene Barbie, the one I abused as a twelve year old and a second one I bought because the first despite the fact that I won't give her up is so badly beaten to hell. And for a couple of years, I stepped out of the doll world altogether. I couldn't justify it to myself, spending the money on a doll. Took me a few years to get back into the collection.
"Collection 3.0", the current collection. It's more diverse instead of fixated on completing one particular collection, it's a little crazy looking from the outside. But I stopped trying to complete lines and buying the ones I didn't really want just because I didn't have them yet. Instead, I buy only the ones I truly want. It does mean I own some more expensive dolls now than I ever did in the past - I gave in and bought some of the ones I had dreamed of having as a kid (American Girl, for example) which aren't cheap, but they're so worth it. I love my current collection. But dolls are more fickle to collect than action figures...Barbie is the only doll line that doesn't eventually die out, fade away for years at a time etc. And even she gets a massive makeover every few years.
I strictly collect Game of Thrones items. Im kind of worried about the prequel that will be coming out...