Confession Time

[Sibyl]

I admit it. I like my workspace and living spaces to look like the interiors of spaceships with lots of colored lights and flashy bits. I get some tools that are useful but have features that are not necessary, like an LED keyboard with animated LED lights in the keys and extra buttons. I'm even thinking of getting a MIDI pad controller with 64 pads and other buttons, each individually lit and configurable, to act as a macro keyboard for program-specific keyboard shortcuts and tools. I also love rack-mounted gear like my 16-port ethernet switch with a separate cable routing panel and power conditioners and sound equipment with lots and lots of knobs and buttons and inputs (I would so love a 16-track mixer!).

Hi, my name is Scribble and I'm a gear slut.

What silliness do you buy into, knowing that it's unnecessary, but you like it anyway, so there!

 

[Butters]

I’m a nostalgia junky. I’m on a secret mission to own all of my loved childhood possessions that were lost to time and wear, the books I used to read, the Lego sets, the transformers and go-bots. Not all of them, just my favourites, and the ones I always wanted.

Scooter, Huffer, Spoons.

I never had Soundwave and it bothers me that it was never available by the time I knew it existed. The Hornby APT, the Lego monorail, the tyco supertrain. I monitor eBay with envious eyes.

Toys were better in the eighties.

 

[Sibyl]

Wow. Soundwave...one of the few Transformers I did have! Sorry.

I begged my dad to order by phone it from a company that was eventually acquired by "Best" (I can't remember their original name...FOUND IT! LaBelle's!). I think it was my birthday. We went to the store and waited and waited and waited for our order to be ready and we were there for over an hour. I finally went to the toy department and there he was just sitting on the shelf. I finally had to convince my dad that we could just go to the checkouts and pay for it. The order was pay when you pick up, so no money lost from the pre-ordering.

I agree that toys were better in the 80s with some great ones in the late 70s and, like you, I used to be on a quest to collect everything I had that I loved and everything I couldn't get at the time. Then I just kinda gave up and sold it all. I focused my energies elsewhere. I kinda regret that and kinda don't. I have mixed feelings about it all.

 

[cosmic mouse]

I'm with @Butters on the nostalgia trip, although I draw the line at acquiring every last material item simply because I tend toward minimalism. I do still have a few random toys from my youth in the 70s. I also have all of my comic books (and other books) from when I was a kid, though most are in tattered, poor condition.

My one real frivolity with regard to purchasing stuff is with movies. I watch so many older, obscure, low budget films that I've taken to buying the ones that have become my favorites over time. I've got about 600 now and some are worth quite a bit of money (e.g. one individual blu I have is now worth around $200 since it's OOP).

 

[Admiral2]

I never had Soundwave and it bothers me that it was never available by the time I knew it existed. The Hornby APT, the Lego monorail, the tyco supertrain. I monitor eBay with envious eyes.

Soundwave was one of my first big ebay purchases. I scored the main robot plus Ravage, Laserbeak and Frenzy. I was well into adulthood at the time. I got Transformers as a kid, but like you never the ones I really wanted.

I have newer transformers on my desk at work, along with a Rise of Cobra version of GiJoe's Snow Job.

 

[Sibyl]

My memory did far more justice to the Crimson Guards than reality has shown.

In adulthood, I spent several years going from collectible shop to collectible shop searching for a Crimson Guard (one of my favorite GI Joe figs when I was a kid) and then on eBay when that became an option. I didn't see any until years later and when I did I kinda wondered what drugs I was on when I was younger.

 

[Admiral2]

Well, at least it wasn't the Battle Android Trooper...

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I’m a nostalgia junky. I’m on a secret mission to own all of my loved childhood possessions that were lost to time and wear, the books I used to read, the Lego sets, the transformers and go-bots. Not all of them, just my favourites, and the ones I always wanted.

Scooter, Huffer, Spoons.

I never had Soundwave and it bothers me that it was never available by the time I knew it existed. The Hornby APT, the Lego monorail, the tyco supertrain. I monitor eBay with envious eyes.

Toys were better in the eighties.

I have 4 Soma cubes, a Merlin electronic game, a couple spiro-graphs and other odd stuff I found on ebay.

 

[auntiehill]

^ I freaking LOVE Spirograph. My best friend had a huge set of them when I was a kid, and I was so jealous. Many years later, during a stressful time in college, I saw a small set on sale at a grocery store, so I bought it and took it back to my dorm room. My roommate laughed at me but it was very relaxing; it's analogous to a mandala or something, in the way I was so focused on the figures. At least, that's the story I'm going with, because it sounds better than needing a plastic toy to draw pretty circles with a ball point pen.

 

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[Kor]

I confess that I enjoy "so bad it's good" cult cinema.

Kor

 

[Sibyl]

I confess that I enjoy "so bad it's good" cult cinema.

Kor

My housemate's favorite movie of all time, saw it 21 times in the theatre the first 21 days it was released and has seen it well over 300 times on home video in different formats, is Flash Gordon.

I enjoy some so-bad-they're-good movies, but it's not my favorite genre--if it's a genre.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'm a wool addict. Just can't resist when I see a soft, cuddly ball of yarn. I have about 4 moving crates full of wool and cotton yarns and today I'll get another shipment because there's always one colour missing that I urgently need for a project (a Fair Isle patterned jumper =)) .
As a friend of mine put it so aptly: yarn is derived of yearn, not of need.