Has anyone ever purged all their modern toys?

[Jason73]

The older I get the less I enjoy stuff purchased from the 90's on up, and the more I enjoy my toys from the 70's and 80's.

I am starting to think I may want to get rid of my modern toys and only keep and continue to collect vintage. Has anyone done this? Was it a good experience? Or, did you end up regretting it?

[Brue]

yes - i bought tons in the 90's. i "sold" them 2000-2010 for pennies on the dollar. some never sold. i am glad i did. they were fun to collect and display -they never had real cash value, so if others wanted them, i was happy to see them go.

[The Bat]

yes - i bought tons in the 90's. i "sold" them 2000-2010 for pennies on the dollar. some never sold. i am glad i did. they were fun to collect and display -they never had real cash value, so if others wanted them, i was happy to see them go.

Yeah...I did the same thing when I got back I into collecting, about the same time as you. I wish I had just concentrated on Mego's at that time.

[Mawni]

I bought a bunch of ST:TNG. What a waste of money. They are ugly and near worthless. I should have bought Mego ST but this was in the mid 90s.

[hedrap]

I did this around the same time as Brue. All MOC TAS and Toy Biz runs. Like usual, the fun was in the hunt. When they sit in a giant box for years, it became hard for me to justify why I kept them.

[ScottA]

Trying to do it now.

[palitoy]

Oh yeah, i kicked all the POTF, Playmates Trek and toybiz to the curb in 1998.

I really like JLU but so did my son, so he got all of those. Playmates Simpsons went to the daughter.

[PNGwynne]

I still have 90's lines I love: commemorative MOTU, BatmanTAS, modern Joes and Action man.

But I could easily give up the Batman movie junk I so assiduously bought.

[rykerw1701]

Playmates made so much product in the 90's-Trek, Simpsons, Turtles, and none of if it worth anything now. I have boxes of Playmates Trek I haven't looked at in years, but I never seem to get around to getting rid of it. And while I was restrained with the Simpsons stuff, I know there's more of that someplace than I care to admit.

[Hector]

While I did get rid of Playmates and other newer brands...I'm really into Sideshow, Hot Toys, and Neca right now.

Many here know I sold my entire completed lose Mego collection, but retained anything Superman. And still have lots of older collectibles as well.

[boss]

My mom purged my "modern" toys back in 1980. I've spent the last 20 years re-acquiring them. ;-)

[VintageJoe70]

I did the same thing....Im a big vintage GI Joe collector....But then I got into collecting hot toys figures...I have since sold off most all of the Hot toys stuff, except for a choice 4 or 5....The newer stuff is cool and all, but it just doesnt have the "nostalgia" factor for me...Which is part of the reason I started collecting the vintage Joe stuff to begin with...It reminds me of a different, and sometimes better, time in life...Back when things were alot simpler...

[Nostalgiabuff]

I got rid of most of the 90's Star Wars stuff. most went to my son when he 2-3. I sold a bunch on ebay for pennies on the dollar. still have some of the stuff, I kept mostly for sentimental reasons. It was just so cool to have SW toys on the shelf again in 95-96 that I had to keep some of it, even if it is mostly worthless

[PNGwynne]

I honestly don't care what anything's worth. I either like it/feel attached, or don't.

[TrekStar]

I honestly don't care what anything's worth. I either like it/feel attached, or don't.

Yes, the same with me, if I don't feel attached to it, I try to sell cheap on ebay.