Toy Ramblings: When do you age out?

[@TimHayes]

I think it depends on the person. Some people are autistic and then some are more nerdy. Then others might be both, so it all depends on what interests the person. I'm both mildly autistic and a bit nerdy, so not sure I ever really aged out. I just tried getting interested in other things as I got older. I was a Star Wars fan since I was 4 or 5. Then I collected the toys mainly as a kid. I didn't really get back into it until I was an adult. I collected a few action figures as a teen(Star Wars Kenner, Kenner's Beetlejuice and Playmates' Star Trek: The Next Generation). I stuck to mainly Star Wars figures: vintage, custom, reproduction and modern Hasbro toys as an adult for fun. Never was into collecting for money even though in the 1990s it was unheard of for a teen or adult toy collector to take action figures out of the package. I had to eventually follow by example of other people on youtube, who collect. I also collect physical media: CDs, Books, VHS Tapes, DVDs and Blu-rays. I mainly stuck to collecting physical media for fun as an adult.

[@SteelDog91]

I will never age out I started when I was 4 with mego Batman and Captain Kirk had the 12 inch joes, super Joe and adventure people. Collected the 3.75 mego as well as star wars. In 84 when that line ended I got into GI Joe. I then proceeded to get all the joes and other lines that interest me, if it was an action figure I had it. I was restoring and displaying my toys by the time I was 8. You could have quite the collection in the 80s when you lived in walking distance from a Child World and had pocket money every week from mowing yards. Collected all through highschool and even while in the service. In 94 when Hasbro killed ARH and shifted to Sgt Savage I was all in and got everything I ready for a change, but to extreme (those aren't Joe. 5 poa is not Joe). I sold everything all Joe and all the other toy lines to go all in on Power of the force until phantom menace then sold all the Star wars and shifted to GI Joe classic collection always missed the 1/6 scale while collecting 1/18 scale. When Hasbro killed the classic collection I switched to valor verses venom and spy troops but only in 1/6 scale. What hasbro told me to kick rock the second time I went to the marvel universe figures when those ended I stopped buying new lines but had a few figures kicking around until now I am all in on Action Force and Hammond collection. I kept Action Force at arms length do to my experience with hasbro and how they just end things, but after getting series 5, I went back and got the few characters that I passed on because I wasn't 100% on their design. I am now 100% vested in Action Force even if the line was to stop. I will say Valaverse Action Force has captured the heat and soul of what ARH was. Individual characters who go by their call signs and not their names, file cards, action points. I was never a fan of the mystery boxes/ grab bag as a kid because I didn't want to waste my money on something I didn't really want but with Action Force I have done it twice and was disappointed I couldn't have done a third. When I am 70 I may not buy a new figure but I will still have a toy or two in hand. Thanks to Valaverse.

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@@SteelDog91 Adventure people and Mego is where I started too.