Returning to Inside the Mind of a Toy Addict Part 2- Space Is a Premium

Part 1

Ironically, Christmas itself tends to be one of the rarest times for collection expansion. This is because of the evil action figure black market people and New Jersey’s action figure armpit status. The figures often sell out instantly, or have skyrocketing prices, or are only available through certain shifting outlets, or can occasionally be found through lucky “Thrill Of The Hunt” style auctions.
All of these combine to mean telling anyone about a figure I’m looking for is almost always pointless unless they buy it “RIGHT NOW!!!”

As should be crystal clear by now, I still have a problem, which is also a burden.
 

The holidays are, however, a time for remembering collections, due to the Christmas village. Even Anabelle’s Squinkies from the dark past got a starring role.
 

Transformers Rewatch Original Season 4B

Click for part one of this story.

Rebirth Part 2-

“Prepare to merge.” And now he’s arguing with his own head. Dude, this is messed up.

One of the green guys sounds like Bumblebee’s old voice. That is going to get distracting.

Returning to Inside the Mind of a Toy Addict Part 1 - The Problem Persists

A couple of notes before starting:

A) Jeff the Landshark is almost always on the Rotating Marvel Shelf, because the three of us (mostly the two of us) can't help ourselves.

B) There will be multiple "all of them" pictures where I regularly (and many would say foolishly) assumed, "Well there won't be any more additions to that shelf."

C) As should be crystal clear by now, I still have a problem.

It’s been a little over a year since the survey of my addiction driven collection.

Unsurprisingly it has grown. 

When last we left the gang, I was celebrating the wonderous arrival of Doctor Octopus. It was well over a month later that he and the rest of the Sinister Six  (the "creepy old men" as Anabelle calls Spider-Man's foes) could proudly grace the living room's Rotating Marvel Shelf.

Transformers Rewatch Original Season 4A

The Rebirth 

(Transformers Generation One Finale)

A bit of back story is needed for this "season" first:

Instead of ending on the (while not a perfect note) complete feeling finale of Season Three, or making another full season to flesh out the huge amount of new toys they were plugging, Hasbro cheaped out. 

Not only did they not fund a full collection of episodes, they also refused to spend enough to make a movie length five-parter. At three parts, without bumpers, recaps and coming attractions AND including only one set of each credits, that’s one hour and one minute of screen time. During this miniscule time span they introduced FORTY-THREE of their new characters. That’s about 1.4 characters per minute. Rather than have the entire set of reactions be “who the heck is that?” I’ll try to focus on people we know.

Maybe Keep That On the Borderlands

 

When I started playing Dungeons and Dragons at age ten, Module B2 The Keep on the Borderlands was the first adventure every one of us fledgling players knew. It was packaged in with the Basic Set at the time and served as our introduction to the game.

Transformers Rewatch Original Season 3J

The Return of Optimus Prime- Parts 1-2

Written by Marv (Crisis on Infinite Earths, New Teen Titans) Wolfman!!! 

At least the story will be good.