Nostalgia for nostaliga......

[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.