These Toy Companies just decided to hit us with so much Nostalgia all at once that I think it over whelmed us. Marvel Legends, Star Wars the Black Series doing movie figures on retro cards celebrating annv. dates like Empire Strikes Back and Jedi, GiJoe Classifieds, Motu Origins, Masterverse, TMNT classics hitting the shelves again on retro cards and DC Multiverse. Preorders are a nightmare because you don't know when they are going to come. Hasbro raising prices. Store Exclusives being a pain and your store telling you that they only got one in etc. I have come to the realization after messing with my old Star Wars vintage figures from the 80s and Super Powers from back then that I just really only care for the stuff I had when I was a kid. I have canceled my pre-orders on some future purchases and wrapping up my Joes with Retro Cobra Commander. Thats pretty much it for me.

Great video! Hope you continue to succeed with your budget and still get some great stuff in the future.

I debated black shelves vs white shelves for my collection. Your display makes me want black 👍

Why is it called a shit eating grin? Who eats shit and then smiles about it like that?

Thank you. The name of the channel is awesome

Yeah dude- feel that stuff with the premature preorders being charged and showing up early en masse. Lookin' at you, Hasbro! Talk about unnecessary stress outta nowhere

The things you own end up owning you. It's not as fun as it used to be. Maybe we don't do it anymore because we enjoy it. We just do it because we're addicted. Brands are constantly releasing products. We are trying to catch up with them. It's like a race.

Good to have you back brother. That wingnut is bonkers, I was blown away seeing it in person that’s my top pick so far

yaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!

Another great list, bud! Loving the recent super7 figures. Sad, but also glad Neca is taking some steps back with the toon stuff. Glad for that break. Glad to see you back!

Great video, glad you’re back bro!

Great list! I still need to grab Super 7 wave 10. Life has gotten in the way of my toy collecting this year, but they look amazing.

If you haven’t gotten the naked last Ronan turtle yet that would explain why it’s not on your list. It is amazing.

TMNT's 40th anniversary 🎉❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂😂😂🎥🎧🎤🎙️🖲️🔋🔌🎹🛍️📹📺📽️🍕⚗️🧫🧪🧬🔭🔬📡🌡️💉🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀❤❤❤❤😊😂😂❤❤💚💚💚💚🩵❤🧡💜💙🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

Great figures and glad to see you back!

Nice list!

Glad to see you back

Very solid list! 👍

You were right about neca, it is kinda at the end of the 90' s cartoon line. Sdcc already mentioned making the 2012 turtles.

Hey! Great video, man. Any time you’re able to upload content is a good day, dude. Definitely would love your thoughts on all the SDCC stuff or new stuff sometime!

The boy is back yall

The Mezco turtles are so good!

Eyy

The man. The myth. No, the legend is back. Haha Ronin Raph is cool, but mine has weak ankles and he's fallen over quite a lot. But Tatsu and Nakedangelo are my favorite Turtles pick ups so far. Marvel Legends Fantastic Four Wolverine & Spider-Man are up there, too. I am impatiently waiting for them Stump Wrestling Turtles to drop around me. I wish Ronin Leo would drop in stores. Strange he's the only neca store exclusive besides Bloody Raph.

Nice video and keep it up man!

Bro do you stay in indianapolis

I didn't know i was addicted untill my mom made me realize.

Thanks for sharing your story. Do you think you'd fall back into this if "that one figure" or "that one line" called your interest?

Great advice!

This all sounds so familiar

This was me in my 20's. I livedcat home and didn’t save. Spend so much on comics. 15yrs later and I fixed it. I bought a house and had kids and got rid of my credit card debt. I now only buy spawn and tf comics. And just enjoy looking at figs online. I loce lego but again only 1 set a month and only if its really specific. Space and clutter matter too.

This video gave me a great dopamine hit.

I’ve gone through something similar - to save on a long story……I spent a week deciding on which 2 lines I will focus on, sold off, everything else. Downsized to 2 x 6 foot tall glass display cabinets that are about 2 Detolfs wide each & said to myself, whatever I get, it’s all gotta fit in these 2 display cases. If there’s no room for something new, I have to sell something off. They are almost full now. I have ALMOST everything I desired & from here on are the tough decisions 😂

Ah nah the moment you said credit cards Ik it was over ☠️ I love collecting but also love money in my pocket if the deal is good it’s a cop if not I’ll pass or wait

thank god i learned that early on, I just buy my anime figures at discounted prices over facebook market place or ross/dd's

Dopamine is a chemical

The music is horrendous!!!

What happened to the party wagon podcast?

Well I’m 31 and I don’t have any kids so….im collecting , I have nothing else to look forward too other than acquiring shit I want

I love to collect figures, but life and priority will dictate things. When I did the math, figure collecting has put my savings and investments back 5 years. As much as I love figures, I got to prioritize on my investment and family. Maybe someday if I'm blessed to be making 10x what I'm earning now, I'm definitely going back to collecting, but for now, I guess it's on hold.

I used to be this way with my Tau army in Warhammer 40k. I had over 20,000 points worth of Tau (a regular game is 1500-2000 points) and 2 large space marine armies at about 6000-7000 points each. I got completely out of it and I feel better now.

U def say that every time lol but it’s ok u can. It’s a dope collection. U should be proud

This is me with comics and collectibles, especially with Batman. When you like different fandoms and franchises it's really hard to maintain self control and keep dopamine rushes in check.

He looks like Jesus Christ.

I feel ya man. Glad you’re able to sell stuff. I’m doing the same thing. I got pretty deep into diecast collecting which now has me selling about 10 totes worth of stuff over time. Thankfully I’m down about 4 totes over the past few years and am hoping to put more of a dent in it as time goes on. Thanks for sharing your story.

I'm a collector too. 3 rules is no credit cards, bills come first, and at the most half of my savings. But your right the pandemic hit me with 100 hours of work a week so I started to kill off collections very easy.

Recently seen a few videos about this pop up on my feed... I could not relate more. This is a classic ADHD thing, I know because I was recently diagnosed with it. It can be our greatest strength and weakness at the same time. It's what led me to go from not being able to draw 4 years ago to become a tattoo artist, but like you, its what has made me spend $10-20K on collectibles and cards in the last 1 - 2 years. Also, every few weeks, months, years, like you said, the interests keep switching and so does the "addiction". It is definitely very tough to live with, but like I said, can be a great strength and weakness.

I hear ya man. I started collecting knives and went from $50 knives to recently spent $2200 on one knife and 6k in one month!...collection sits at $25k

Fool who doesn't see our point are just that fools. I closed my channel Mr GOKIN and sold half of my collection

I gave most of my collection to cancer research uk to make money for the charity. Funko’s especially became an addiction, I still slip up and I just bought some Five Nights at Freddy’s figures but overall my collecting has stopped, I will get new x men 97 figures because I love them when they release but now most things I see I realise I don’t actually really want them I just want the thrill of buying something.