When did you realize you were or start to identify as a toy collector?
For me, it was seeing an Another Agito figuarts review, and seeing some pictures of the rotf sideswipe.
Something clicked and I just started getting really into toys. I had a bunch of Bionicle and gunpla before but never thought "yeah I'm a toy collector."
The day I got this baby on a thrift store at 15$ I Coudn't fucking believe it! that day I started collecting mechs (mostly Gundams & Megazords) I had a pair of gundam action figures before him but getting this one marked a Before & After, 2 years later now The collection has grown quite a few... :)
>>5419674
Forgot the pic lol
I saw this at the store, thought I might check it out, paid what I later learned was way too much for it, had a hell of a time transforming it, enjoyed it, and that was it. That evening I looked up Optimus Primes, then I looked up the movie toys, then I bought something else (no idea what #2 was, looking back, maybe it was Universe Hound?) and that was it, I was a collector.
Around the same time I started associating them with pieces of art and in the case of transformers, engineering feats.
>>5419666
Pre-op or post-op?
