Testimonies: Why I collect action figures

I really have to thank childhood for this, I haven’t stopped loving action figures since I was a kid and still have them to this day. As I’ve gotten older though I don’t collect as much than how I used to. Nowadays I tends to go for McFarlane toys with some of their Movie Maniacs line, in particular with popular horror characters. The other type of figures would probably be of video game characters as well. Usually if I get very involved with a game and learn more about a particular character I tend to get interested in it’s action figure variation.

During the summer however I became very addicted to Transformers which I hadn’t bought for well over 2 decades since their original reign. It wasn’t the actual film itself that encouraged me, but rather the re-runs of the original cartoon that was being shown during the summer. Never before had I seen a show so much as to make me want to see what the actual toy of it was like.

I don’t think I will ever stop collecting action figures especially when in today’s day of age you can almost literally buy action figures based on anything, even to the most bizarre types of creativity imaginable. Before you know it you can have Snoop Dogg standing next to Optimus Prime. Better than this though you can even have a version of yourself fighting the good fight with all of your good guy action figure counterparts from your childhood. Why play these figures when you can be side by side with them!

 

G1 Transformers Toys – Astrotrain – Triple Changer

 

G1 Transformers Toys – Headmaster: Siren with Quig