What's the actual reason you collect action figures? Not you public relations answer or your cope answer. The real reason.
>>11799332Hunter-gatherer psychology.
>>11799332I like them.
>>11799332satisfies my autism in having mini versions of my favorite characters I can touch
>>11799341You eat them?>>11799342Try rubbing your two brain cells together more vigorously.
>>11799346>Try rubbing your two brain cells together more vigorously.Exactly as I thought, you're expecting some drawn out answer to be the real truth or the "non-cope, non-pr" answer, but the answer to your question was really simple and under your nose the whole time. And it was YOUR limited brain power that was trying too hard here to insist that there's something more to it.
>>11799332It's just what you do
>>11799332I couldn't afford to collect them when I was a kid
>>11799332I like to be surrounded by the things that made me happy. People don't make me happy. I feel like the older generation give people a hard time because it's not "grown up" yet they spend money on fast cars that they only use to go the speed limits, overpriced rocks to wear, overpriced clothes, the newest hottest gizmo device that does essentially the same thing as your last device just slightly better. Hell, as I'm typing this I'm using am outdated refurbished kindle that was on sale. The women with their ridiculous amount of shoes, beauty products...I could go on.I would also argue that my childhood (born in 85) was peak franchises humanity wasn't ready for. I'm the generation that was raised on TV and computer screen. I don't have pictures of family or old classmates or friends, I have artwork of fictional characters because they mean more to me. I guess in a way I worship false idols. I don't like figure that look like real people. I rather have RGB Peter Venkman than a figure that looks like Bill Murray. I loved my childhood, adulting is just paying bills and working until you can't anymore. No.different than we went to school now we go to work. That's the older high school.
>>11799332I think they look cool
Because arranging displays, posing and taking pictures of toys is one of the most relaxing leisure activities I engage in. I think it's the autistic nerd equivalent of knitting or fishing, where the main appeal is that you're not really thinking about anything what you're doing in that particular moment.
>>11799332Me like. Me collect. Me stare at and enjoy. Me arrange, take photo, feel happy.Also, autism.
>>11799332>Not you public relations answer or your cope answer. The real reason.Real reason: They look cool
>>11799332Started a few years back when I got my first job after uni. Told myself I finally wanted to have my favourite teams (Justice League, X-Men) and other figures to just have a small nerd area. Before that, I only had a shelf with movies and TV shows.So nothing really special but it's just to show my appreciation for comicbook characters basicallyIt's not my main hobby though so most of the time, I do sports and go outside. Still nice to look at the shelf while working in my office
>>11799332It gets me laid.
>>11799332It beings me joy to be able to look at physical representations of characters I like and I'm not into statues because they're too static. Hence, the action figure is the natural conclusion.Sometimes it feels like having my own little buddy of that character I really like and I can take with me or just pose around and make cute scenarios with them. It's one of the few things left in my life that makes me feel warm inside.
>>11799332Because I like them. Simple as. There's nothing more to it than that. Some people th8mk it's dumb, and some people think it's cool. I've had more people find a particular IP in my collection and gish about that than I've had anyone shit on it. Even complete strangers. I had some yoked black guys deliver a mattress tommy house and they lost their shit when they saw my DBZ SHFs and went on to talk about which 9nes were the favorites. I feel like there's less of a stigma nowadays around toy collecting.
>>11799544what do you collect and what do you do with it?>>11799549>monkeys chimping out over DBZwere those "yoked" black guys delivering your mattress the first time you were around blacks?
>>11799332I was poor as a kid and always yearned for toys when I saw kids I played with just drowning in them. I'd maybe get one or two figures a year, forget about playsets. Meanwhile I go next door and the kid has a complete set of kenner Aliens and Jurassic park toys. Drawers full of random figures. An SNES with a shit tons of games. He wasn't even a single child. Collecting to me is just my personal confirmation that I am no poor anymore. Also hunting for rare things gives me a high. It's why i played Diablo II for years and now play the remastered. Im no logner poor just in debt.
>>11799636>Collecting to me is just my personal confirmation that I am no poor anymore.>Im no logner poor just in debt.Toy collectors really are just bottom of the barrel men.
>>11799341This! So much this! I love the hunt!
I don't collect figures, I mostly buy more kinetic stuff like nerf guns, beyblades, legos, etc. even the few figures I do own are stuff like transformers or gunpla that I had to build myselfthat said the reason is pretty simple, I have disposable income and they're more fun than drinking
>>11799332I was molested and got a hot wheel monster truck. It’s how all hot wheels collectors are made.
>>11799947this seems like a metaphor for engaging in something else after your "incident"very disturbing
>>11799960Don’t victim blame anon. For all we know he collects funkos instead.
>>11799432>I guess in a way I worship false idols.I enjoyed and understood all of your post except this. What's with this random and irrelevant piece of self-deprecation?Wouldn't it be better to say that these action figures are your best friends? They're there for you when you're down, you do have to sacrifice things at least to some extent in having them in the form of spending the initial price and maintaining their appearance, you find new ways to understand their depth in what drew you to them in the first place the older you get, their presence makes your life better, and on some level, they must represent certain bonds/periods in your life such as them being an example of how much your parents loved you in gifting them to you or the old school buddies that encouraged you to get them.
>>11800025he is correct and it probably struck a nerve with you. you worship false idols made of plastic.
>>11800050>struck a nerve with youInsidious, crabs-in-a-bucket demoralization does in fact strike a nerve with me because the older I get, the more I see that it only comes from either snake oil salesmen trying to sucker you into their product or assembly line of choice or someone who's so deeply miserable that their instinctive reaction to seeing someone happy is to convince them that they are actually unhappy.
>>11800128you sound miserable. probably because you worship plastic idols.
>>11800131What are you gaining out of trying to convince me that I'm miserable?
>>11800134nothing. except misery because just being exposed to your drivel spreads your misery like aids
>>11800140>nothing. except miseryGoddamn, well I rest my case. Hope you've changed a bit after this interaction.
Customization. I sometimes get bored with what's on the market so I just pop JP figures apart, deindividuate them from being licensed characters, then try making my own.Also, I know that's (>>11799332) AI, but goddamn you're making me wish there was a Sigmund Freud figure... so I could have him wring his hands at hawt milf action figures like Revoltech Cattleya.>>11799540I getcha. I have a long-standing distaste for statues since they're not interactive, just beautiful space-wasters. Artistic, sure. Useful merch for keeping anime afloat, undoubtedly.But still, space-wasters with no playability.
>>11800157>coomer braini'd rather have him getting batman to start the waterworks. or maybe being strangled by angry spongebob
>>11799332I love photography and action figures are fun subjects. I like making up stories between characters I like and how I think they'd interact and react in a situation.
>>11799332When a video game or tv show ends, i can continue the adventures with toys
>>11799432
>>11799549>I had some yoked black guys deliver a mattress tommy house and they lost their shit when they saw my DBZ SHFs and went on to talk about which 9nes were the favoritesSame thing happened to me with a Latino utility worker who came in to check my apartment for water damage. Saw my Power Rangers collection and immediately started geeking out over it. Also went out of his way to refer to them as 'collectibles', because I think he was worried about offending me by calling them toys, which I found highly amusing. There's definitely not as much of a stigma around this stuff as there used to be, especially when looked at by people who grew up with the same toyetic properties as you.
>>11800270Or jam him into a pile of Gundam shavings to simulate his infamous cocaine addiction.I was also gonna suggest having Tony the Tiger strangle him in reference to a certain tumblr post about how John Kellogg could strangle the living daylights out of ol' Freud, but I decided to stick to the Revoltech first.
>>11799549>>11800456You want to know what would really make those guys "lose their shit"? You just save all the receipts for those collections then show it to them. They would be laughing so hard while pointing at you that you wouldn't even be able to remember the definition of "stigma".
My brain needs constant noise around me to inhibit my psychic abilities. If I were to take away all the cool figures standing on the shelves of every room, my subconscious mind would be floating out, being a rascal to other people or engaging unfriendly entities. Not having some toy on some surface to occupy my thoughts, objects would randomly fly off tables and counters. I'd be able to feel the emotions of others at least 1 mile around me. Things that have no business seeing me would suddenly take notice of me and what I can do. I'd accidentally harm or irritate people in life who I know to be harmful and irritating, as a sort of subconscious revenge.Without toys littering my life, I'd not be able to consistently contain the outwards expressions of what I am from / towards the rest of the world.I started writing this just to shitpost, but I now realize I probably have some of this right. I've seen / done some shit in the paranormal, man.
>>11800629You sound mad that some bros bonded over our DBZ and Power Rangers toys.
>>11799332The female form is beautiful, but most real women are awful. Some of them straight up scare the shit out of me. Plastic women will never love you, but they'll never fuck you over or cheat either.
>>11799332I appreciate the quality the same way I appreciate a really well made movie or t-shirt or a well written song or book or a well constructed car or motorcycle I love a finely crafted action figure like mafex DKR Superman for example. sometimes I like the things people make for each other more than people so I’m a typical introvert too
>>11801231So you just buy and collect anything that is quality? Seems ridiculous and insanely expensive. How many cars and motorcycles do you have?
>>11799332>need a long ass reason to enjoy somethingi hope you find your happiness anon
>>11799332>your cope answerTranslation: The answer you give me that answers my question but doesn't reinforce the conclusion I've already settled on before I hit the post button so I cope with it by accusing you of being the one who's coping.
>>11801300>>11801303You can't even be honest with yourselves. I don't expect you to be honest with me.
>>11799332I literally just love art. I love music, I love music and drawings and stop motion and comics. I love making art too. Toys are sculptures, but you can also create scenes with them. They make me laugh, they make me marvel at them I'm kind of a late comer to toys as well.
I wanted to make stop motion, but then I realized I just liked having toys hang out and entertain what was left of my adolescent imagination. Feel like its mostly gone these days but maybe im just being gay and need to go out and buy a toy. Its been about 5 months.
>>11801576Being honest, AI is really killing my drive to ever do stop motion like I'd dreamed of. I've seen people do quick little videos of a toy they just bought breaking out of their packaging, stomping past their other toys. ...And the tech just keeps folding in on itself better and better.
>>11801605https://youtu.be/q4dKRcVxjdc?t=49
>>11799332I like the diorama, do you know who made it?
>>11799332I don't need a reason, just to enjoy it.
