Nope not at all .. Been going strong since 1996 .. AnyOne that knows buys me toys for all occasions .. Love It !!!

Not really except where I'm calling a store to see if they have female figures in stock. Trying to describe the costume to a female employee gets me a little red in the face as it sounds bad to call and say "yes I'm looking for a Marvel Universe figure and her name is Psylocke she is in a purple bathing suit with knee high boots on, can you check for me?" :)

for me anyways, thatd be a very awkard/embarrasing phone call....you really had to do that?

i didnt even know this thread existed. as for me, its not even an issue. maybe if i were some 16 to 24 year old trying to fit in with some group, but at 35 years old, im proud of it and even did an interview for Armed Forced Network, with no shame. its who i am and it reflects on those around me. they accept me and admire my collection and who i am as a person. what i have is an accumulation of years of well engineered and sculpted toys i play with and take pics of. no one should be embarrassed.

I try to describe the figure as much as is possible, I hate asking for a figure they might have and them not being sure if it is the right one and either telling me they do when they don't or telling me they don't when they do and they don't know it. I used that as an example of what a call like that would sound like, as of yet I haven't started calling for Psylocke because i know scalpers have started buying up that wave at the couple of targets I've seen remnants of that wave.

hahaha..

"Well, she has dark hair, stripper boots, pretty damn sexy for a toy,.. let's put it this way, if I was an action figure I'd bang her silly. Oh,.. she doesn't have claws because there's a figure with claws I'd bang too that you might see. So, is she in stock?"

........click...beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep is how THAT call ends...

If they speak/read english. An embarrassing description shouldn't be necessary. I should be calling places, but Ive called walmart before and got stuck on hold for 10 min before somebody just hung up the phone. Hate walmarts customer support

I never bother calling a retail store asking what they got for 2 reasons, 1 the empolyees 9/10 times are useless or will say yes or no just to make u happy, aside from that even if they did have said figure, no guarantee it'll be there when you get there ie scalpers and fellow collectors, and most don't hold items. A LCS I'd call and ask, as they know their stock directly as they're the ones placing the orders and if they don't have it often times they can order it or keep an eye/ear out for anybody who does.

No. None of my friends or people who have come over has ever said anything as I have both my DC Collection and my Gun Collection in the same room.

OH MY GOD I died of laughter when I read that Tim and Eric are hilarious

It's weird cuz I have alot of friends who collect toys, but for some reasons, when people come to my house and see my collection, they have a real hard time believing it's mine. I actually hate that. After several dozen times, they always end up with like a: Wow, that takes commitment.

Everyone apparently has a short-attention span around me. They're incredibly supportive of it, as well as my family. It's also rad that my fiance is also into hardcore toy and comic collecting. Half the time, people leave our place with envy because their lives are too boring to sustain awesome stuff that they adored growing up.

Next time you might as well just talk all Arker at her:
"Well, she's useing the first MU female buck, so no thigh swivels or rocker ankles, and she's got a repainted Phoenix head, which is still better than that awful Jean Grey figure they made, right? She's from Wave 6 or wave 18, depending on your perspective. I'm not a MOC collector, so that's not an issue, but it cant be some Cantina-swap return either, right?
I'm just looking to score before some damn scalper buys everything, y'know?"

that's hliarious

brilliant. the only thing you could add to finish it off is "check the paint apps please"

oh god lol.

on a related note, went into marshalls and was looking at the SW figs for 10 minutes. No fucks given on this day. no sir. i still hate shopping there. only 10 percent of the toys there were for boys.......but if i go to tj maxx they have alot of joe vehicles and transformers

I keep seeing that Joe mech thing at Ross for like eight bucks but I know that A) it's just silly and B) It's another useless thing to cluttter my apartment that I'll never use and feel guilty throwing away...eventually.