The Toybox

Hello Tropers! I'm here with you today to start off a threat about a certain nerdy hobby that I haven't seen a thread for yet! Let's talk about our toy collections!

For me, I have recently started getting into toy collecting. As a kid, I collected the main Pokemon games due to One Game for the Price of Two and the whole 100% Completion thing has kinda stuck with me since. When I got into My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, I started collecting G4 MLP brushables (Which I have nearly completed, missing only Glimmer Wings Sweetsong and Zecora). From there, I started collecting other generations of MLP too, with 5 G1's(Tic Tac Toe, Baby Tic Tac Toe, Speedy, Gingerbread and UK Gypsy ), 4 G2's (Dainty Dove, Wingsong, Clever Clover and Petal Blossom) and 1 G3 (Sunny Daze). I have also started collecting Monster High Dolls, which I adore. All in all, I have amassed 60+ ponies and 10 dolls

I used to display my ponies on my bookshelf and side desk, but they were starting to clutter up my work space and I stored them in a box. Now my Monster High collection takes up my bookshelf and they all display nicely on their stands.

So what about you, my fellow tropers? What toys or other things have you amassed collections of? Feel free to post your wants, hauls and grumbles regarding your collections here too!

edited 6th Jul '13 8:48:28 PM by PippingFool

I have a lot of Lego arranged in a cabinet like this:

Mecha and aircraft.
Land and sea vehicles.
Minifigures, weapons, tools, decoration, small furniture.
Spare parts, baseboards, large furniture and helicopter rotors (Too big to fit in top draw)

I usually have two sides with my minifigs: Stormtroopers, Clone Troopers, soldiers, police, Nanotroopers/Juggernauts (Guys wearing a full-face helmet, a third-party ballistic vest and armed with an LMG, Nanotroopers have rocket launchers and jetpacks.) and agents (Guys in all black, or guys in suits using pistols or energy weapons.) on the side of "The Government" and criminals, paramiltary, guerillas, militiamen, suicide bombers, (Guys wearing the ballistic vests and armed with two TNT.) rebels (Civilian guys using pistols.) on the side of "The Resistance." Occasionally, there are the "Alien Invasion Force" (Which is consisted of every non-human minifig I own.) who are hostile to both.

I stage massive battles for them on baseplates decked out to look like military facilities, laboratories, wartorn streets and around crashed aircraft, stuff like that.

I also managed to build Dave Strider, John Egbert and Jade Harley figures. I couldn't find the right hair for a Rose one, though.

...I put way too much effort into this.

edited 6th Jul '13 9:03:05 PM by Steventheman

I used to have a lot of plushies (mostly webkinz) until I was probably, oh, 13ish. Then my mom made me get rid of most of them. I gave 3/4s of them to my dog for chew toys, but I still have a couple.

I used to have tonnes of Beanie Babies, but we got rid of most of them, only keeping the ones that were special to us. Beanie Babies were awesome.

I liked to build things the most. I had large assortments of K'Nex, Erector, and especially Legos. :) I also had at least one Techno-Zoid.

I got some pictures here!

Homestuck Characters.◊ (I couldn't find John's hammer, and he's got the wrong shirt :/)
Three police officers (SWAT, Desk Officer and Patrolman)◊
An agent and a juggernaut.◊
A bomber, paramilitary and guerilla.◊
Two more guerilla troops◊
Three Stormtroopers.◊
One rebel w/ energy weapon◊
Four soldiers.◊
The aliens.◊

I used to have a ton of toys, including stuffed animals. However, I've passed most of them on to my little sister and my niece. I still have one box of stuffed animals and a ten pound bin of legos though, and I collect other things too.

I've got a bit of a baseball card collection. Some of them are fairly old and in good condition.

I've got a chest of stuffed animals and at least two drawers' worth of Happy Meal toys from over the years.

I have a Shelf of Interesting Items in my room, with a little troll (Not a [Troll or a Troll), a vinyl Doctor Whooves, a little Gypsy figure, a Charlie Brown snowglobe that plays 'O Tannenbaum' when you turn it over, a Mickey Mouse hat with a missing ear, a skeleton that sings like Michigan J. Frog when you push a button, a Gigan action figure, and a little plastic Dimetrodon.

edited 7th Jul '13 5:06:01 AM by maxwellelvis

I've got a bunch of random figures, odds and ends around my room.

The figures include Stocking, Axel, Vincent, Kadaj, Terry Bogard, Marida Cruz, Char's red Geloog, Char's red Zaku II, Samus Aran, five different versions of Saber, Rider, Kiritsugu Emiya, Saber's bike, three Black Rock Shooter variations, Link and Mari.

I'll soon have a Bayonetta figure too.

Here's◊ my most recent acquisition, which were preceded by these◊, at varying intervals over the past ~10 years.

I may◊ have a◊ teensy obsession◊ with toys.◊

I will be finding stray Knex pieces in my bedroom for another decade or so.

As far as figurines go. I only own a Russia figurine from Axis Powers Hetalia. Though I wouldn't mind owning a set of ATLA figures.

I liked toy trains too. :) I mostly had the wooden ones from the BRIO company; I can't recall ever having an electric one.

I'm thinking of adding a few Novi Stars to my doll collection. Most of them don't grab me, but a few, such as Malie Tasker and Una Verse are rather pretty.

I make OOAK dolls. Does that count?

Yep. As long as you have teh toyz, it alll counts.

I wonder if my collections will ever grow up to the massive sizes some of the collectors I associate with. I know a person with 800 G1 ML Ps.

I collected toys like mad as a kid. That included, at different points, Little People, Powerpuff Girl toys, Care Bear plushies and Webkinz, and I collected stuffed animals throughout my childhood. I still buy anime plushies sometimes. My collection of those consists of: Cure Black, Alphonse Elric, Black Mokona and Kyubey.

I still have a bunch of LEGO crap. Most the sets I have from my childhood are jumbled in a box, and thus irrebuildable. But I have a bunch of fully built sets from later in life.

Thankfully, the Bionicles from my childhood were easier to gather the scattered pieces to, and some kid even gave me a replacement for the giant gear on Onua Nuva's back. I mostly collected Bionicles that were black/of the earth element, and that even includes some McDonalds plastic toys. So I have a plastic Nuparu Mahri, Mantax, and Onua Mistika from Happy Meals!

Ah, Bionicles...

I just sold off all my Bionicle stuff. It wasn't worth it for all the pieces breaking every time I tried to disassemble Botar or The Shadowed One.

I've always wondered why we don't have a toy thread.

My room is basically flooded with Lego bricks. I have a bunch of Bionicle sets in boxes because I can't fit them on the shelves with the Lego sets. There's a few Nerf guns lying around in my closet too. As well as a freaking heavy box filled with Hot Wheels cars. Next to that is the much lighter bag where I keep my Pokemon Plush collection.

Also, I have some MLP toys on my dresser. Most of them are older ones that my sister gave me though.

edited 16th Jul '13 6:10:41 AM by strawberryflavored

I do have a bunch of old Lego sets in a closet, though. They're individually sorted into plastic bags, so they don't get all jumbled together.

Weirdly, before a certain point, none of them have any minifigures. We lost all our minifigures somehow, and have never been able to find them.

...Wow. I have a whole box full of mine. Back when I had more time to build things, I sorted my pieces by color. I have another box under my bed full of my brother's Lego sets he doesn't want anymore too.