Nostalgia for nostaliga......

[megoat]

I'm sure we all get a whiff of nostalgia when we hold a Mego and remember birthday parties circa 1977 or Christmas of 1975 etc etc.

I was wondering how often anyone feels nostalgia for......nostalgia! I have been collecting Mego since about 1993 or so. Every once in a while when I handle one of my figures I get that feeling I FIRST got when I REDISCOVERED Mego's. It's really kind of weird, but y'know that feeling of excitement when you first started collecting.

Anybody else?

[toys2cool]

It happens to me when I go to a toy show and always when I see a Batman Mego,it was the first mego I ever bought at toy show about 19 years ago :grin:

I was 10 but I still remember it like it was yesterday

[vulcan2074]

I know exactly what you mean. It happens to me all the time. I get so jazzed when I see My MEGOs. There just so Awesome. They make me so Happy. I Love everything about them :beaming1:
Sammy

[palitoy]

Yeah, oh hell yeah. My toy collecting started in high school so it's intertwined with discovering music, tabbacco and girls. How could I not look at those days with anything but love?

I've been carrying this around for years. I made this want list in '87 when I had a huge Big Jim thing going on, probaby did it in graphic arts class. I have a huge folder full of comic buyers guide ads, photos and sales lists. Even journals telling me when I sent away for something and when I got it.

http://www.megomuseum.com/dump/wantlist1987.jpg

[vulcan2074]

Brian
Thats a Great Looking list. I do the same thing now but with no graphics. I can't wait to get off work so I can go look at my Toys :beaming1:
Sammy

[Riffster]

It's funny, i get that feeling if I'm at a comic/toy show and i see a comic that was in an add I saw. Or when a cartoon is released on dvd that I loved as a kid

[Sideshow Spock]

It's weird, but I'm even nostalgic about a recent toy line.. Playmates Simpsons figures that ran from 1999-2004. There was a huge and bustling online collector community for these.. lots of mail-aways and promotions.. just a really fun line to collect, especially if you love the show.

I view it as my collecting swan song..

[vulcan2074]

It's weird, but I'm even nostalgic about a recent toy line.. Playmates Simpsons figures that ran from 1999-2004. There was a huge and bustling online collector community for these.. lots of mail-aways and promotions.. just a really fun line to collect, especially if you love the show.

I view it as my collecting swan song..

Thats another line that I Love. I was so into The Simpsons. I have so many of them. There very awesome toys. I especially love the Treehouse of Horrors playsets. I never got any of the mail away promotions though. I did get a bunch of halloween figures. I think they were from Mc Donalds maybe. My Sis gave them to me :beaming1:
Sammy

[4NDR01D]

Yeah, I used to get a HUGE buzz everytime I re-discovered some toy from my youth that I hadn't thought about for the last twenty years. I still do, but there's just not as much undiscovered treasures as when I started collecting a few years ago.

[palitoy]

It's weird, but I'm even nostalgic about a recent toy line.. Playmates Simpsons figures that ran from 1999-2004. There was a huge and bustling online collector community for these.. lots of mail-aways and promotions.. just a really fun line to collect, especially if you love the show.


Heh, I put my collection of these away when my son was born and just recently found it under the stairs (comic book guy's voice scared the hell out of me) and gave it to the kids.

What a trip, now I'd never go to Toys R Us and spend that kind of money on new toys but back then we the dual income/no kids types and spent money like water. So, yeah, those give me a twinge of nostalgia as well.

[Mikey]

The first Mego I ever bought as an adult was a loose T1 Captain Kirk at a Doctor Who convention in 1984.
That show and figure was the catalyst of my whole collecting "journey" up to today.

[trekman101]

I get the felling every time I open one of my stored toy or collection cartons.
It always brings me back in time.Thats why I collect,it keeps me connected to the best of my past.

[HardyGirl]

Of course I get nostalgic for my past, but I also remember when I discovered toy shows and "Rummage-O-Rama" in 1990 when I was living in WI. It was great. I went to these things so much, the dealers got to know me and would save things for me. That's how I got my GIJOe Book & record sets and a large portion of my Archie comics.

[cjefferys]

A memory like that doesn't really apply to me, as it seems that I went directly from playing with Megos to collecting them. During my teen years I hung onto what childhood Megos I had left and picked up a few other nice condition ones from my cousin. I didn't have them displayed or anything, but had them safely tucked away. Then when I was around 19 or 20, I bought some boxed WGSH at a comic/toy shop and it went from there. So I never really stopped owning or thinking about Megos only to rediscover them years later, they instead have always been a part of my life since I was five years old. :)

[Hector]

That's the reason most of us are here...nostalgia.

[Nostalgiabuff]

hey, my user name says it all. I am always nostalgic for days gone by. But yes, I also get nostalgic when lloking at my collection

[Marvelmania]

I get nostalgia about my early days of collecting. While I've been collecting one thing or another most all my life (mostly comics) but only started re-aquiring Megos around 1997-98. The field was wide open and there were so many to collect, not to mention all of the the new stuff that never even knew Mego had produced. I never knew about things such as Fist Fighters and the Wayne Foundation. Fun times!

[clemso]

My first love was the Marvel comics, so whenever I pick up a British 1970s reprint I get transporter back in time.

Clem

[Joe90]

GI Joe is a catalyst for the nostalgia that I have for that time gone by: the innocence of childhood, laced with a boy's natural curiousity.

The night that The Beatles premiered on Ed Sullivan there was a Toy Fair going on down the street that had a premier all of its own: an Action Soldier.

Due to television network scheduling, Ed Sullivan came on right after Disney's Wonderful World of Color. That night The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh was on. The star of that program, Patrick McGoohan, went on to star in other television shows that typified the coolness of those days. The spy shows were fantastic, and I discovered that one could have strangely wondrous feelings for women, especially if they wore leather catsuits. These beautiful women were spys or criminals, and they impacted me so very, very greatly. I saw the late Eartha Kitt in concert a couple of years ago. The curious feelings from all those years ago came back, but being a man I understood what they were. And I loved it. The adventure shows were the incubators of my GI Joe play. GI Joe was a Combat Soldier, an Adventurer Submariner, a Time Traveller, and a Spy. But his most important mission was guarding me from the monsters and boogie men from the B Movies.

The toys, the music, the television and movies from that era, all synchronize in a wonderful orbit of nostalgia around me. These items from that era are my favourite things and reside at the heart of my nostalgia.

[garagesale]

Every so often I get that feeling of wanting to be overcome by the nostalgic. I guess that's what we mean by "nostalgia for nostalgia." When that happens, ebay look out. If there's something I'm hankering for, I'll pull the trigger just so I can get that rush, followed a few days later by the delivery of the item. That's when the nostalgia really kicks in and the "nostalgia for nostalgia" is satisfied.

The last time this happened I went for the Big Jim BEAST I'd been wanting for a long time. It got here midweek and I just got lost in the moment. I was actually playing with it on the floor of my office for about 20 minutes.

I had it happen to me instantly once... bought some D cell batteries on a whim of wishful thinking, and put them in the POTA Mego stallion I bought a couple years ago. The horse I bought that supposedly didn't work suddenly galloped to life! Wow, was that a blast of super-nostalgia!

JamesD

[YoungOnce]

Grew up playing with Megos in the 70's... when I pick one of 'em up, I get that "time-travel rush"

Had same feeling when I found the Glow-in-the-dark Kryptonite rocks... the Marvel Super-heroes lunchbox... watch original Star Wars trilogy... see a comic book cover from the era that I remember... Freakies cereal... WKRP in Cincinnatti... Rock'em Sock 'em Robots...

[nvmbrsdoom5]

I think I am a bit addicted to nostalgia/being nostalgic. In addition to collecting toys and comics and their related items, I also watch alot of old videos of tv shows from my youth, or I can sit and watch/listen to commercials for hours from 25 years ago....which is funny considering that they seemed like a nuisance at the time!!

I find myself often being nostalgic now for the time when I was first an "adult collector", between roughly 1990 and 1994. It was a great time to start this hobby and there were so many deals to be found at conventions and garage sales and in Toy Shop. Coming out of my angsty teen years I found a new source of happiness that'd been missing for some time, when I started collecting toys from my youth again.

Lately I've been going back and re-reading alot of my old Marvel comics from the 1970s and early 1980s, mainly for the old ads inside them and going "Oh I remember that!!", and also for the smell of the books themselves! Boy does that smell instantly take me back...

[megoat]

I guess by "nostalgia for nostalgia" I was referring a feeling of nostalgia for a time when you were feeling nostalgic. Nostalgia to the square root of nostalgia. I think Mike Watt said something to the effect--"Remember me and you rememberin' about rememberin'?".........

[nvmbrsdoom5]

That's kinda what I was saying about how I get nostalgic for when I first started collecting, feeling nostalgic for that great nostalgic feeling I had when I bought my first carded Mego as an adult......or at least I think that's what I meant, or you meant....whoa this is confusing LOL

[Twiki1979]

I feel this way about the superpowers line

[VintageMike]

All the time and not just Megos. Theolder you get the more things "go away" and thus more to be nostalgic about. Two recent examples for me. There was an awesome arcade/fun center that was open from I believe 1991 throigh 2005 twenty minutes from me. I was already technically an adult when it opened. It's only been gone four years. But again so many great memories. About two years ago the movie theater where I saw pretty much every movie since childhood was forced to close it's doors due to AMC (who now owned this theater) opening up a "better" theater connected to a nearby mall. Only been gone two years but I miss it like crazy.
Luckily last year I found mall about 40 minutes away from me that has both a movie theatre that's very similar to the one I talked about and a nice little game room right across from the theatre. But everytime I go I still think of those two places they are representing.
As far as toys I remember when you could go to a convention or comic store and find a decent selection of old toys. Definitely big nostalgia there.

[Uni]

I'm actually Nostalgic for my Star Wars Nostalgia back in 1999, *just* before Episode I came out. I had my first computer (a beige Mac G3) and downloaded every trailer I could, I still had my carded figures from Toys R Us blowouts in '85.... and I even went to the midnight Toys R Us release of the new Episode I figures. It was a great time to be a Star Wars nostalgia buff, reliving the anticipatory magic.
Even after seeing Episode I, not a great movie by any stretch..that summer felt very reminiscent of the first three or four summers after Star Wars came out originally.