Ever forget that you have a toy?

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by rxlthunder, Aug 31, 2011.

  1. BumbleBee75

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    Can't say I have as my collection right now is very small. Wish someone would make a app for keeping track of TF's.
     
  2. RedAlert Rescue

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    I think I bought ROTF/HFTD Elita-1 twice as I forgot I'd bought her in the first place likewise Dlx GF Cybertron Optimus Prime I bought one and then couldn't remember if I'd got the logo on non logo one as i'd misplaced it so I ended up having to boy another one of each as I was unsure.... I did find the original one eventually and it looks like it was the non logo one.

    I'm still not 100% sure if I ever bought an RID Galvatron or for that matter a boxed RID Megatron or not I know i've got Devil Gigatron & Gigatron but I can't recall if I ever got the other one or not in a box - I've since got both as Bootsale junkers but that if anything just confused me all the more as to if I ever bought them or not in Hasbro guise.

    But other than that the only thing I can't remember is which version or versions I bought of the Black Bat Onyx Primal and which Beast Wars second toys I got in single packs and which came in twin packs.

    The greatest mystery though is where the heck is my BW2nd Megastorm figure... I remember buying it and playing with it but i've not seen it now since about 2000ad. It's vanished in to thin air. (perhaps it got put in a cupboard with some Megazords or it's in with my Webdivers) but its certainly not in with the Transformers.

    I'd also forgotten that i'd bought a Hasbro Magmatron until I was writing this. basically if I've bought a Japanese version first then they make a Hasbro one afterwards I might forget to open the Hasbro one and then no remember I bought it in the first place sometimes.

    I'm not as scatter brained as I sound I just have over 2000 of them so sometimes it's hard to remember which ones are which.
     
  3. Dran0n

    Dran0n miss me w/ that

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    Um, no. My collection is too small.
     
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    Almost accidentally re-bought Universe Red Alert, WFC Soundwave and several Robot Heroes packs before remembering at the last minute that I already had them.
     
  5. TrueNomadSkies

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    Not lately with Transformers since I'm actually into the stuff again, but it's always a nice feeling to stumble upon something in storage that I haven't seen in a long time, such as my little Zbot combiner that I'd totally forgotten about until a few months ago.

    I've never bought the same thing twice though, haha.
     
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    Toys? No. Instructions? Yes. Buying duplicates isn't fun.
     
  7. Raiju

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    G1 Wheeljack is probably still somewhere in Epcot Center, Florida. MIA since 1984-5 when I was but a wee lad. DX

    Luckily, Generations Wheeljack (with 539 Reprolabels) makes a pretty darn good replacement/stand-in!
     
  8. Nachtsider

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    It'll take Alzheimer's for me not to remember I own a toy.
     
  9. guard convoy

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    while i don't forget i own a toy when it comes to buying, i'll not even think about the toy unless i see it or something or i am focus on something else, but i have never accidentally rebought the same toy
     
  10. TF@TM

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    We bought two Animated Waspinators and Wreck-Gar's in the same week.
    Steve bought a yellow Galaxy Force Ramble several years after we had it.
     
  11. vidmouse

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    I forget which ones I've sold more than which ones I've bought.
    Makes it a real problem when I'm hunting for parts or "that one particular
    guy I just KNOW I have!"

    GI Joes are another story... too many troop builders, lost track of
    what I've got.
     
  12. deathsheadII

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    not got enough to forget :lol  but i do it with my vinyl all the time and sometimes end up buying that record again...always a nice surprise to find one that i have forgot and not played for ages when crate digging whilst doing one of my radio shows
     
  13. TrueNomadSkies

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    Just for fun, you should post this again in like 2 days.


    Also, I remember buying the old comics when I was younger & having my dad constantly think I was gonna buy the same one twice. The thing is though, since we didn't have internet or anything back then (let alone friends who were also into the TF comics), I had no way of remembering a cover well enough without owning it, so I always managed to pick out that I didn't have.
     
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    I only forget about the old Transformers from my childhood. I sometimes stumble upon them on the internet and remember "Ah yes, I have that one too!"
     
  15. Magnus12

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    forgot i had ha barricade some how. I was looking at him on ebay ready to buy one when i realized i had him.. FAIL lol!
     
  16. Shockwave9227

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    I forgot I had the Cybertron repaint of Armada Prime until recently.
     
  17. turboedguy

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    Yup, a few of the 2007 movie figures. Back then I would pretty much buy anything new, and after storing them MOSC, I opened up a storage box the other day and rediscovered a few I forgot I had.
     
  18. brr-icy

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    nope, not yet anyways, once my collection gets bigger, i might have to get a spreadsheet
     
  19. MisterFanwank

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    Mostly older Beast era figures. I have a box or two left to pull down from the attic, though it'll take some time to reach them.
     
  20. Valkysas

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    Nope, I have 645 TFs, and I've never forgotten anything.