I read this and was quite underwhelmed by the total. I have more than that, and my cousin has over $15,000 worth of SW stuff. Interview him instead.

 

Only $3000? Psh! Amateur.

 

My Transformers collection is already worth more than his action figs  , and I'm a newbie collector. Heck my own Star Wars action figure collection is about a fifth of his (and that's STRICTLY action figures, not counting role-play toys and Lego) and I don't really collect Star Wars full-time.

I'm feeling a bit guilty for overspending... 

 

My other half, (had to give you a shout out Honey) sold TF repaints/remolds he didn't care for anymore and so far its putting a new furnace in for us...and if things keep rolling along the way they are a new patio door too. So I say Thank you to the Board Members

Seriously, 3 thousand bucks? I saw a guy blow at least twice that in 15 minutes at the Hartman table during Botcon '06 in Lexington (I don't remember the actual figure) and I agree with most of the posters in this thread the writer ought to find a serious collector to interview and start with Haloid1177's cousin.

Thanks for pointing the article out; its good to see collectors being painted in a non creepy-light.

 

Yeah, this is light-weight compared to a bunch of fans here. Just go look around the collection thread, and you'd easily find TF collections worth much more than what he's got.

Still, I suppose to non-collectors his collection is large.

 

$3,000? Underwhelming, but still, sheesh. It's times like this I wonder just how much money I had spent on Transformers for the past eight years...

Too much.  

 

Good thing they didn't interview a Transformer fan, otherwise we would end up on Dr. Phil or Springer depending on the company you keep 

 

$3,000? That's nothing. I used to spend more than that in an year. Please.

 

He's also not as nearly impressive in his obsessive nerdiness as this guy:
World's Biggest Harry Potter Fan (self titled)

--Moony

 

pff my transformer collection is a minimum worth 2x as much as his, and that is not counting the other crap  

 

the only way i'd be impressed is if his entire collection was bought at the 99 cent store.

really, i am looking at just 3 star wars toys in front of my tv and that was $200 or just under 10% of his total (2010 AT-AT, PotF AT-AT, 2010 AT-ST.)

and to spend only $3K in 10 years is pretty frugal compared to the die hard collectors here.

has this guy ever seen what certain AFA graded figures sell for individually?

anyway, he's a hack, and this was weaksauce.

 

^yeah just looking in my room star wars alone i got at least $400 (the new AT-AT, the clone wars AT-TE, all the clones and snowtroopers manning it and my x-wing with some of the cast of the 4th movie)

then we go to my little brothers room where the rest of my star wars is.....yeah  

 

Stupid as hell. I don't even want to know how much I've spent on toys, but what I do know is that it would make Justin here run to a corner in the fetal position. I mean, if $3,000 since 1995 is 'obsessed' to him, try $3,000 since 2007 (That's just a guess, and I've only been collecting since 04).

 

i've spent almost $1500 in toys i think since august ><

 

$3000 in 10 years. $300 a year, $25 a month.

Spending $25 a month on your hobby is now classed as an obsession. Mind. Blown.

 

In star wars I KNOW FOR A FACT I've spent WAAAAY over 3g for my SW collection if not closer to the 5 or 6 range along with TF's,MOTUC,GI Joes 25th anivers so if I added up ALL my collection it would be well worth 5X more but I don't care how much its worth, I am NOT selling it anyway.

 

i've been buying transformers since i was 4 years old, *or well my parents were back then* lol but still, if you add ALL THAT UP, I know i have spent more then 3k.

hell, at my old job i was spending $400 twice a year, at bbts or transformerland.com.

but it's ok, what else are we supposed to spend our money on?  

 

crack, booze, and hookers?

 

i think i'll stick with transformers,  

 

LOL. n00b.

On the other hand I really don't want to tally up my Transformers collection. Or Video games collection. Think about it, if I at least 100 games (I have more but this is a cosy underestimate), with an average (ish) of £40 per pop, not including consoles... thats already £4000, which kinda dwarfs $3000 US...

Time to stop thinking. Or else I won't like where I'm going.

*runs off and buries head in sand*