[neatogecko]

Wow. It's like AndyCR has a mirror into my life. I really don't understand the almost compulsive need I have to buy a figure which is probably just a slightly re-colored version of a figure I already have, stare at it for an hour, put it away in a box, and then relax knowing that I have "the whole set".

I've always been an almost exclusively 3.75 - 4" collector. My biggest and longest running collection has been G.I. Joe. When MU first came out I thought it was cool that I could pick up a few of my favorite heroes in Joe scale. Now, a few years later, MU is my favorite toy line and I have become a completionist. All of my MU stuff (as well as all my other toys from the past 5 or 6 years) is still in package (partially because I don't have anywhere to display them until I get my basement finished, and partially because...well...for some reason I just like the idea of having them all in their package).

MU is really the first toy collection I have ever even tried to be 100% complete on. I loved Marvel comics and cartoons as a kid, and even had a few years where I was big into comic collecting. But for a long time I hadn't even touched anything comic related (other than seeing the big budget movies). Now MU has me buying animated dvd's and comic collected editions to catch up on what my favorite characters have been up to for the past 15 years or so.

I love the hobby and it's a great distraction, but man...sometimes it really starts to smack of obsession.