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I usually keep the door to my office/toy room closed when there's company over, unless a fellow collector wants to check out my stuff, but sometimes a "normal person" will take a look inside the inner sanctum (usually after a family member says "Oh, you just have to see all the stuff he collects!" 
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After the initial shock wears off (most people don't expect an office to look like mine does!), I've noticed that some items get more comments than others from people who aren't obsessed by all this stuff like we are:
-the KISS dolls usually get the most comments. I'm not sure why, but everyone seems to like them, even non-KISS fans.
-women like the Wizard of Oz figures and usually comment on them
-not Mego, but I've also found that women think the big 2 foot tall Shogun Warriors/Jumbo Machinders are really cool. This one kind of mystifies me, but on more than a few occasions, women have really reacted positively towards these. And now that I think about it, it was my mother's idea to buy me a Mazinga for my 10th birthday. I distinctly remember her saying that she saw it in the toy store and thought it was a really cool toy for me. I think she even called it "cute"
-the toys that get the most negative comments are the 12" Black Hole figures. The grey faces combined with the not quite right looking head sculpts really seem to unnerve people. ("Why are their faces a weird colour?" "What's wrong with their eyes?") I know for a fact that they really creep my wife out, she hates them!
What parts of your collections do the uninitiated really seem to like (or not like)?
)After the initial shock wears off (most people don't expect an office to look like mine does!), I've noticed that some items get more comments than others from people who aren't obsessed by all this stuff like we are:
-the KISS dolls usually get the most comments. I'm not sure why, but everyone seems to like them, even non-KISS fans.
-women like the Wizard of Oz figures and usually comment on them
-not Mego, but I've also found that women think the big 2 foot tall Shogun Warriors/Jumbo Machinders are really cool. This one kind of mystifies me, but on more than a few occasions, women have really reacted positively towards these. And now that I think about it, it was my mother's idea to buy me a Mazinga for my 10th birthday. I distinctly remember her saying that she saw it in the toy store and thought it was a really cool toy for me. I think she even called it "cute"
-the toys that get the most negative comments are the 12" Black Hole figures. The grey faces combined with the not quite right looking head sculpts really seem to unnerve people.
("Why are their faces a weird colour?" "What's wrong with their eyes?") I know for a fact that they really creep my wife out, she hates them!What parts of your collections do the uninitiated really seem to like (or not like)?
-Tallahassee 
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