I have more Transformers than I know what to do with
It started when I was about 18, I rediscovered the joys of Transformers through the internet, through started reading online scans of the old comics...I bought a couple of older ones (Blaster was one I had always wanted, and it was never available in the UK when I was a kid) and a couple of the newer "Beast Wars" Transformers that were available at the time. A few of my university friends were also into them, and we would sometimes go up to the Star Shop in Leicester to get all nostalgic about the old toys they had for sale there. Then my girlfriend bought me a couple, and my sister got me an Optimus Prime for Christmas, again, something I never got as a kid. Pretty soon I had quite a few toys on my mantlepiece.

Then I joined a couple of TF message boards and made friends there, eventually meeting up with some of them at a comic signing at Forbidden Planet. Around this time a lot of my friends from school were moving out of their parents' houses and I was donated a lot of boxes of old toys and comics to add to my now-rapidly-growing collection. My best friend scoured car boot and jumble sales, picking up some remarkable bargains and then each birthday and Christmas presenting me with a huge box of robots (this year was no exception, he gave me around 20 figures, including one of the biggest ever produced).

Right now I've probably got 600+ Transformers, I've hosted a convention and produced a convention-exclusive fan comic, I have a complete set of videos, DVDs and comics, 6-foot tall cardboard cut-outs of Optimus and Megatron, and tons of other stuff that I realistically don't have space to keep in my flat.

This year being the year that the long-awaited live action movie comes out, I have been considering selling the lot in the pre-movie hype and buying a house or something with the profit, but I know I never will...after all, what's a house without any Transformers in it?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 16 Jan 2007, 13:09, Reply)