I have one at my office and one at home and that's it ! As G said it, looking at a shelf to realiza it is worth $1000 is not such a great feeling...
^^^ I'm glad I don't have that feeling! All i see when i look at my shelves is cool shit that's awesome
I hear ya . . . I'm just a borderline hoarder . . . i still have every book i ever bought and that's a whole shit-ton of books!
What happened? I didn't even post my number... My sofubi count was 638. May be a few off. It's hard to count toys all packed onto shelves. I am definitely at hoarder status. I can't imagine the number I'd reach if counting western stuff from years ago, MOTU, Star Wars, GI Joe, Sectaurs, Transformers, McFarlan, etc from when I was a kid. Should there be some part of me that feels embarrassed about this? Or feel bad and want to sell it all off? Nah!
i clocked in at 77... - 49 bwana customs - 11 dehara customs (including 8 clays) and the rest are at the office around my monitor... mainly rxh finger puppets. i stopped thinking about how much i paid for things, and focused more on the happy feeling i get from seeing them on the shelf and playing with them. (i'm a compulsive fidgeter... always have to be doing something with my hands. and it's plain exhausting to keep masturbating constantly.)
Just counted, im at 233. All vintage and out on display. I try to go by the if its in a box somewhere it probably needs to go philosophy. I probably have 75% licensed and 25% pachi/bootleg.
only about 10-15 so far, most from a friend who was clearing out space trying to start collecting more this year.
i'm at about 7--possibly 9 if i decide i don't need to sell anymore. reading along, i see some of us are self-proclaimed hoarders i remember as a kid really liking to collect, and outside of vinyl, i used to really be into mecha toys from japan--but sold those off too for the most part. it's weird. i have the collecting bug, but except for a few pieces, i don't feel terribly attached to things i own. the GID booska would be great to keep around. i love how it stands on it's own perfectly. the size, friendly presence, and GID and googly eyes just seems so perfect. i don't have children, but it would be great for when i do, that they would see the booska in their childhood in all his m1go glory. or maybe they'll think it's stupid and i'll just have to enjoy it after some thought, i would've been 100% happy keeping my tokojis. dammit. life!
Yes and no... I packed mine a month ago when we started showing the house, and I have indeed sort of forgotten about them, but I KNOW that when I start opening boxes again, I'll fall in love all over again. (so if you want to make an offer on 12 cases of toys, now's the time!)
Yeah, finding stuff you've stored and or forgotten about is like Christmas, over and over and over....
i'm tapped on space and am actually doing something i hated seeing done before...putting sealed figs away in boxes... i'm officially a hypocrit...
Hoarder here (actually I'm not a hoarder, I'm an archivist). Using the strictest definition, the number is about 40. Just recently started with the whole kaiju/sofubi thing. Not counting made in China designer toys, not counting made in Japan robots (metal and plastic) or Japanese vintage squeaky vinyls, etc. Started collecting toys in 1984 with toy robots, moved on to jack-in-the boxes, then Gumball banks, wind ups, jumpers, Viewmasters, Colorforms, action figure lines like TMNT, MOTU, Sectaurs, Centurions, Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice, ET, Star Trek, Star Wars, Hulk, Thing, Frankenstein and Universal Monsters, Shrek, Spiderman, Superman, candy dispensers (M&M, Halloween), roly polys, frame tray puzzles, magic slates, Pez, squeaky toys, pop up books, old maid cards, battery ops, space toys, dinosaur toys and models, Happy Meal toys and displays, Jurasic Park, Toy Story, Bugs Life, Godzilla (including movie toys), Aliens and generic aliens, tin litho tops, Imaginext, electronic hand held games from the '80s, board games, Chinese checkers, Pelham puppets, push puppets, designer toys, character telephones, novelty radios, cookie jars (over 400 at last count) and on and on. I estimate I have over 100 different collections. I have three storage units filled top to bottom with toys at a cost of $440 a month (one is the equivalent of a four bedroom house). I estimate I have somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 toys and collectibles. The one who lives with the most toys wins.
If its all organized and easily accessible or on display ill agree with "archvist," if its just randomly in boxes stuffed in storage its definitly just hoarding
