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  • megoat
    A Therefore Experience
    • Jun 10, 2003
    • 2699

    Nostalgia for nostaliga......

    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
    Ultimate Mego Warrior
    • Nov 27, 2006
    • 28605

    #2
    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

    I was 10 but I still remember it like it was yesterday
    "Time to nut up or shut up" -Tallahassee

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    • vulcan2074
      Live Long and Prosper
      • Mar 23, 2008
      • 7817

      #3
      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
      Sammy

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      • palitoy
        live. laugh. lisa needs braces
        • Jun 16, 2001
        • 59794

        #4
        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.

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        • vulcan2074
          Live Long and Prosper
          • Mar 23, 2008
          • 7817

          #5
          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
          Sammy

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          • Riffster
            Atomic batteries to power
            • Jun 29, 2008
            • 2487

            #6
            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
            Looking for Infinite Heroes Robin and Catwoman
            And Super Powers Batman

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            • Sideshow Spock
              valar morghulis
              • Mar 8, 2005
              • 2859

              #7
              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..

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              • vulcan2074
                Live Long and Prosper
                • Mar 23, 2008
                • 7817

                #8
                Originally posted by Histrionic 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..
                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
                Sammy

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                • 4NDR01D
                  Alpha Centauri....OR DIE!
                  • Jan 22, 2008
                  • 3266

                  #9
                  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.

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                  • palitoy
                    live. laugh. lisa needs braces
                    • Jun 16, 2001
                    • 59794

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Histrionic 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.
                    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.
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                    • Mikey
                      Verbose Member
                      • Aug 9, 2001
                      • 47258

                      #11
                      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.

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                      • trekman101
                        Persistent Member
                        • Feb 6, 2009
                        • 1432

                        #12
                        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.
                        "Thats the ticket laddie"

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                        • HardyGirl
                          Mego Museum's Poster Girl
                          • Apr 3, 2007
                          • 13950

                          #13
                          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.
                          "Do you believe, you believe in magic?
                          'Cos I believe, I believe that I do,
                          Yes, I can see I believe that it's magic
                          If your mission is magic your love will shine true."

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                          • cjefferys
                            Duke of Gloat
                            • Apr 23, 2006
                            • 10180

                            #14
                            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.

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                            • Hector
                              el Hombre de Acero
                              • May 19, 2003
                              • 31852

                              #15
                              That's the reason most of us are here...nostalgia.
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