And we though being Star Trek fans was bad

[Miss Chicken]

I don't think I have ever met a Star Trek fan this obsessed

A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys.
Yoshifumi Takabe told Kobe District Court in western Japan he became suicidal after losing the figures, which he says were partners he wanted to spend his life with.
The 30-year-old, who lived with his mother, torched the family home in retaliation, saying he wanted to die with his robots in the fire.

The robots were from the from Gundam animated TV series

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I have never bought many collectibles. I have a Legolas (but I have lost his bow) and a Supernatural mug and Supernatural book and a handful of Star Trek books but I would rather spend my limited money on DVDs.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I have a Red Dwarf Starbug and Skutter, and a Blakes 7 Liberator, but these came free with DVDs. I put the models away in storage to hide my shame.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'd never go so far as instituting a scorched earth policy, but I can certainly sympathize with this guy's plight after undergoing the Great 3¾ Inch Holocaust of 1988, where my mom decided before we moved that a fourteen-year-old was too old for Star Wars and G.I. Joe action figures and gave them all to my young cousin Matt, who promptly destroyed them in an ADD-fueled orgy of anti-toy violence that left dismembered plastic limbs with Kung Fu grips all over the killing fields of his bedroom. It was a dark time for the Rebellion.

Of course, I was fourteen and not a thirty-year-old living in my mom's house, so there's a slight difference.

There's this shop in Westminster Mall nearby that sells antiques and collectables, and it still enrages me when I see the Ewok Village, Death Star, Millenium Falcon, and Star Destroyer I had being sold out of the box for hundreds of dollars.

I had He-Man, Star Trek, M.A.S.K., Transformers (and their retarded cousins the Go-Bots), Voltron (the 3-foot tall remote controlled one), the U.S.S. Flagg, Robotech, a boatload of comics, a Superman pogo-stick, everything. I had the Jawa with the vinyl cape. It was glorious. Now they're all lost in time... like tears in rain.

 

[TheBrew]

All of my toys are still in storage, including my Ewok Village mint-in-box!

 

[B.J.]

I gave all my Star Wars toys (including Ewok Village) to my son years ago. Otherwise they'd still be in a box somewhere not doing anything. At least now I see them occasionally when he pulls them out to play with them.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

All of my toys are still in storage, including my Ewok Village mint-in-box!

Why don't you rub some more salt on the wound?

 

[Miss Chicken]

My mother gave away all my Barbie and Sindy dolls when I was about 12. The thing is she asked my elder sisters' permission to give away their dolls but didn't both to ask me who was the only one who still cared for the dolls.

 

[marillion]

^^ Ooo.. My mom tried that crap with some of my Star Wars toys when we moved from Nebraska to New Mexico.. A neighbor was having a garage sale and my mom, without telling me, but a bunch of my stuff into the sale... I caught wind of it (a friend of mine called to tell me my mom had dropped off a bunch of stuff) and hustled down there and unceremoniously grabbed most of my stuff (the important stuff, anyway) and took it home... Mom was not happy, but that's how it goes...

 

[Brent]

Ya know, I was never really attached to toys when I was a kid, sure, I loved to play with my stuff, I loved my Inspector Gadget doll, and my Knight Rider car, but never really been THAT attached to them, eventually they went away and I don't recall feeling so upset about it, I guess I outgrew them, heh

 

[Goji]

My parents never intentionally deprived me of my toys, but since we ended up moving interstate five times in five years when I was 10-15, very few of them survived anyway. Don't think I've ever considered arson as a solution though.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

I didn't start buying figures until I was away from home. That prevented the "great purge" my grandmother would have done.

That being said, this guy needs a mental evaluation.

 

[ThankQ]

Why buy a toy and leave it in the box? I've never gotten that. The point of a toy is to play with it. Kind of like having a penis.

 

[RandyS]

I hate this thread title. I never thought being a Star Trek fan was bad.

But since we're sharing horror stories with our toys. It pissed me off when my little brother ate the heads off my Star Wars action figures. We're talking the orginal 1977, vintage Kenner line here. You have any idea how much THOSE would be worth now?

Of course, my mom replaced some of them, but that did no good, since my brother ate the heads off those too.

 

[ThankQ]

I hate this thread title. I never thought being a Star Trek fan was bad.

Really?

 

[Jono]

Japan is an interesting place. From the outside it seems to be more accepting of fandom than western culture is. Didn't some guy marry his pillow that had some anime character on it?

 

[RandyS]

I hate this thread title. I never thought being a Star Trek fan was bad.

Really?

I was never ashamed of it. I've been told I should be, but I never have been.

 

[ThankQ]

I've a few flings with various pillows, but I really didn't see any of them as "marriage material".

Bu-dum-*clash*

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

I hate this thread title. I never thought being a Star Trek fan was bad.

Really?

I was never ashamed of it. I've been told I should be, but I never have been.

Neither have I

Most of my friends actually think I'm pretty cool for my fandom likes...

Star Trek
Xena
Anita Blake
SVU

I guess I'm just an uber nerd that other nerds aspire to be

 

[trekkiedane]

/.../ my mom decided before we moved that a fourteen-year-old was too old for Star Wars and G.I. Joe action figures and gave them all to my young cousin /.../

This is not the first time I've heard about something like this.

It always makes me wonder what kind of parents it is that don't respect their children enough to also respect them as human beings: I mean, the same people probably wouldn't dream of taking a bone away from their dog.

Things these people don't understand or like (no matter whom these things belong to) are deemed useless and must be discarded asap. -What, I wonder, would happen if the things they hold dear (porcelain figurines, heirlooms, excessive amounts of shoes...) were to be given away by someone else?

I've never had anything taken away by my parents -I, for instance, still have all of my LEGO

 

[Vendikarr]

I had two such purges in my lifetime.

First was as a teen, and my mother thought my baseball cards took up too much space in my bedroom. She endured it until we moved from the city to the suburbs. All of my cards except for a few favorites kept in my sock drawer were tossed away.

Years later when I was married, my then wife told me I could have one closet for my 'toys' such as collectables and comic books. When two boxes of comics ended up in the wrong place on move in day, she tossed them into the trash. I lost some very rare books that day, including a complete run of the Legion of Super Heroes in Adventure comics.

I was furious but she was unconcerned. Even though she knew what I was like when we wed, she hated my nerdish side and tried in vain to fix it.