Got an email that my TakaraTomy Henkei Megatron (old school grey and black Classics Megs) and my two new Revoltechs are in at BBTS. I should probably release them as-is and not wait for my Henkei Astrotrain.
After TakaraTomy's reuse of the movie packaging, I was kind of surprised to see that their Classics version is actually back to their own type of packaging.
Ok. I must shower and get to work.
I figure it being a xristian holiday and all, nobody will bother me except the security guards doing their rounds and I can catch up on all kinds of shit.
I thought you weren't gonna be purchasing any more pieces of plasticcrack - ever? (even those these were prepaid)
No.
I ended with "Maybe it is indeed time for me to just enjoy the little bits of this addiction on a personal level and to say Do widzenia to all this online and fandom toy silliness."
"Do widzenia" is goodbye in Polish.
By that I meant goodbye to participating in online and fandom toy silliness, which means staying clear of fan boards and news sites as much as possible, and once this Botcon is over not being lured into spending money on events sight unseen just "because".
I'm still getting rid of a chunk of my crap when I get it out of storage, but I'm still going to buy the things I enjoy and enjoy them on a personal level. Avoiding toy sites and such might just let me be surprised by something again.
I can't remember when something toy-related surprised me. Wow! Surprise would be amazing. The internets have totally killed surprise for films, television, and especially toy collection!
Since I've already got too much money and planning invested in Botcon this year I'm going to go and pick up my toys and have fun with my friends.
Who knows what next year will bring but FP'd have to pull some magic out of their asses to get me to want to register early ever again.
All I can do is hope that history won't repeat itself and I forget what I've been feeling like these past few weeks.
It's good to see that you're not giving up on the collecting or this site as I thought I would have to carry on the tradition of writing insightful yet self-deprecating blogs and reviews of transforming toys by myself (and I don't do it half as well as you do). As I said on my own site, the "adult collectors" need the kinds of sites that take a humorous and somewhat sardonic view of collecting as it makes adult collecting seem less weird or geeky.
Nala: That day or 2 when this place & Naladahc were offline got me thinking that you had closed up shop for good.
I don't go to the GRC's & I have no desire to. If I did, I would probably drop $1000 or so on a Liokaiser & my wallet would hate me for it.
I'd definitely recommend getting rid of the crap - It'll re-invigorate your luv for the plasticcrack 100-fold.
Pulse: My hosting company was relocating a server cluster that day. Alas, my server one on the relocation and all sites I run off them were down.