And we though being Star Trek fans was bad

[trekkiedane]

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.

I would have thought there would be more room for things like that, not less, in the suburbs

When I had been living away from 'home' for a couple of months my parents decided they wanted to use my room for other things; they packed up all my belongings, rented a van and hauled it all to my new place... the only thing that went missing in that process was my porn

 

[Colonel Green]

This thread has brought back memories of my beloved A-Team van. Thanks a lot

 

[TJinLOCA]

While I certainly don't condone the arson, I can completely relate to the guy's feelings. My mother was very respectful of my stuff and never touched any of my treasures, even years and years after I'd moved out. I still have boxes of stuff in storage in her old house. I should probably go through it some time before I turn 50 ... if I put it on eBay it might help pay for my kids' college educations.

I never throw out any of my own children's stuff without their consent. That's not to say I don't lean on them a bit (and even bribe them, if necessary) to get them to agree to cull the herd somewhat. But I absolutely respect their right to a final veto and I wouldn't dream of tossing their belongings when they're not around. It horrifies me how many people have told me their parents did that to them. That's just awful.

 

[Rett Mikhal]

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.

I feel your pain. My nephews systematically destroyed my toys twice over. Since there are two of them, and they are 10 years apart, I had the pleasure of having it happen twice. First when I was a child and second when I discovered the world of Ebay.

The worst, for me, was the really nice (and totally illegally imported, thank you very much Harmony Gold Nazis) Skull Leader Veritech. It was all metal, and I told the younger nephew A HUNDRED TIMES it wasn't a toy and put it on the top shelf where his four year old self couldn't reach it. OR. SO. I. THOUGHT.

My mom in her infinite wisdom gave it to him to play with when he requested it. Before you ask, I told her specifically never to give the nephews any of my expensive toys and jut let them play with THEIR stuff. Nope. Nephews get what they want. The detachable limbs of the Veritech was its own downfall. I still sometimes find missile packs and weep.

What's so great about family, again?

 

[exodus]

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.

Yo, muthafucka is cray-zee!!

 

[Jetfire]

I don't mention liking Star Trek really...I do mention liking SMALLVILLE and people have no idea what I am talking about...then I say Superman and they are like...oh, right.

 

[Tan Ru]

awwwwww man, now I miss my Johnny West stuff I had as a kid in the Seventies.

 

[Sephiroth]

I never had a great purge (tho my parents in 1988 got all weepy-eyed over a local sob story and some little bastard got my NES) It was left to my decision to get rid of most of my toys, which I did when I was 17 (but I kept all my g-1 transformers, original power ranger zords, the giant SDF Macross I got mail-order, my M.U.S.C.L.E. guy collection, and a few odds and ends overall i kept 2 of the 8 boxes of toys I had)

 

[Rett Mikhal]

Was that the SDF-1 from those really awkward 80s commercials?

"RO-BO-TECH." "What's that, in the sky?" "RO-BO-TECH." "IT'S THE SDF-1!" "RO-BO-TECH."

 

[FPAlpha]

It amazes me how parents can simply take their kids' stuff and throw it away without even asking.. shows huge disrespect towards their own children for not even taking them serious for a moment.

As for the japanese "kid".. well, he has bigger problems than his Gundam addiction and needs serious help (which he'll be probably getting now).

 

[exodus]

It amazes me how parents can simply take their kids' stuff and throw it away without even asking.. shows huge disrespect towards their own children for not even taking them serious for a moment.

Usually by the time a parent does it, we aren't kids anymore and need to stop playing with toys anyway. Everyone has to grow up sometime. Most folks outside the sci-fi, comic book crowd find someone over 17 and still having toys a little odd and immature. Most parents don't want their children viewed that way.

 

[trekkiedane]

It amazes me how parents can simply take their kids' stuff and throw it away without even asking.. shows huge disrespect towards their own children for not even taking them serious for a moment.

Usually by the time a parent does it, we aren't kids anymore and need to stop playing with toys anyway. Everyone has to grow up sometime. Most folks outside the sci-fi, comic book crowd find someone over 17 and still having toys a little odd and immature. Most parents don't want their children viewed that way.

Yeah, but those parents don't seem to mind their own obsessions about things like cars, MCs, porcelain figurines...

It's a double standard I tell 'ya!

 

[Miss Chicken]

It amazes me how parents can simply take their kids' stuff and throw it away without even asking.. shows huge disrespect towards their own children for not even taking them serious for a moment.

Usually by the time a parent does it, we aren't kids anymore and need to stop playing with toys anyway. Everyone has to grow up sometime. Most folks outside the sci-fi, comic book crowd find someone over 17 and still having toys a little odd and immature. Most parents don't want their children viewed that way.

I disagree somewhat. I know women who still have their Barbie dolls, grown men who collect tin-plate toys, men who play with model trains.

My aunt collected die-cast cars until she died (aged in her mid-80s).

I sold my swap card collect (Coles and Woolworths cards from the 50s and 60s) on eBay one card at a time. Most of the people who bought my cards were middle-aged women who had kept their childhood collection and then decided to add to it. made a total of about $1900 for my collection and about the same for my sister's collection.

I collect rubber ducks for my bathroom.

 

[Finn]

My mom gave away my LEGO stash without asking. Yes, I stopped playing with them but they would have come in handy for school projects. If I had my way, it would be in storage with most of my stuff.

 

[trekkiedane]

Exactly, LEGO isn't a kid's toy - It has multiple uses in a grown up world! -Whenever you need a little thingemagoo you can either go to the DIY shop and pay a fortune for it -or build it in LEGO (or Mechano -of course- if that's all you've got)

 

[Miss Chicken]

I forgot to mention that one of my friends has at least 500 teddy bears in her rather small apartment.

 

[trekkiedane]

^As long as she has less than three cats she can be considered normal!

 

[Miss Chicken]

It takes at least 6 cats to be a crazy cat lady - which means I am only half way there.

 

[trekkiedane]

^True, but it only takes three cats to be a 'cat lady'

 

[JonathonWally]

It amazes me how parents can simply take their kids' stuff and throw it away without even asking.. shows huge disrespect towards their own children for not even taking them serious for a moment.

Usually by the time a parent does it, we aren't kids anymore and need to stop playing with toys anyway. Everyone has to grow up sometime. Most folks outside the sci-fi, comic book crowd find someone over 17 and still having toys a little odd and immature. Most parents don't want their children viewed that way.

Says the guy I shot PMs back and forth with for 6 months while we both hunted down the ROTS action figures.