[Redlantern161]

I will say I'm 21 & as a kid I couldn't get to induldge in too much collecting but as a kid I loved all the great tv series from the 90's & after I first got into High School I contemplated collecting & at one point I shoplifted some figures at one of the TRU's i frequented for things that were affiliated with Dragon Ball, Transformers, Yu Gi Oh or Pokemon. I got caught once & I stayed away from it & i felt like maybe it was best to walk away from toys cause I was driven to take em since I couldn't always buy them. So there was a blank stage until Spiderman 3 & Transformers the movie came out & my little bros got some toys from the movie lines & I liked em & i messed around with them. It made me wanna try to collect them. So after Iron Man came out I decided to collect once again & I snagged the Mark 2 figure & i tried to get every figure. I was enjoying it so I bought Ultimate Iron Man & Ultimate wolverine also (which started a weird cycle of me always getting either iron man or wolveine first in a line & the one I didn't get first would be my next one & it randomly happened). So then in due time i nabbed X3 Juggernaut & I didn't get to buy much else since I was only cherry picking. Until I started my second semester in college I didn't buy any figures & the XMOW line came out & i nabbed the 90s wolverine with the brown one & soon to follow was Cyke & deadpool. Then there was MU & i nabbed all that i could from that line since they were small but pretty advanced for their scale. By the end of the summer of 09 I had a good amount of them & I loved the hell out of them & my stepfathe rtold me he would put a big plank to put all of my figures & I even used some left over textbook money to get the ML two pack with Nick Fury & Iron Man. My girlfriend at the time surprised me by buying the Invaders SDCC 09 pack for christmas & then I even used my space to hang things up as a means to display & put my collection which grew a lot at that time. By 2010 I started with the DCUC figures & my first one was the classic Detective batman which was rare & my college buddy introduced me to this store that had a wide array of figures. Since then I've been all over it & 2010 was the "figureboomer" year for me. & now my collection is packed with ML, MU, MS, DCUC, WWE Elite, TNA, Dragonball, & soon some street fighter figures