[thechris]

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

No wires crossed, I'm just pointing it out before someone else reads it and starts feeling ashamed about their own habits. Joke or not, there's been too much BS in the world misread or mis-used as an excuse to hate on others for whatever reason. Even if it's meant as a joke, how does a new reader here know that?

And yes, I do feel the stigma of collecting toys is just in people's heads. It's the same as casting any kind of perception on others for whatever reason or difference they have. Calling ourselves geeks or comic book nerds is another matter entirely than as opposed to implying something could be thought of as 'bad.'

Everything else was opinion and rather moot to discussion. It's not like I'm using capslock cruise control.

I still don't get what your aversion to heart-throbs are though. Then again, I don't look at em like that. They just are whatever character they are portraying for that role. It doesn't really make sense to me at all why you'd fear or be concerned about buying characters you may like just because some people find the actor hot.

It's cool, man. I'm not trying to offend anyone. Be careful, though. You might make a certain Bieber fan on here feel like shit. No seriously, it's a joke, dude. I don't think anyone is going to read my thread and think "Oh no, I have a movie Thor figure. I'm a loser." I don't feel that I need to defend myself on why I don't want a Chris Hemsworth Thor figure or a Ryan Reynolds Green Lantern figure, though. Some people just have certain lines that they won't cross on toy collecting. Like you might collect He-man, but you won't collect She-Ra because they have combable hair. No, I think what happened here was I inadvertently offended you by saying that in my opinion, collecting figures that bear resemblence to heart throbs is a bit silly, and for that I'm sorry.

As a result, I think you read too much into everything else I said because I've never seen you challenge anyone else on this before and I've seen almost everyone say at least at one point that they feel silly collecting toys but stopped giving a damn. I've got to assume, that that was what pissed you off the most of what I said and I apologize. Everyone should be able to collect whatever they want without being made to feel uncomfortable with their choices. I'm not going to make an open apology, as I still don't feel that I offended a lot of people. I'll give you a personal apology, for offending you, but I wasn't actively trying to be malicious in my post at all. I don't think most people would've taken it that way. If so, then my bad.

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Originally Posted by Snowflakian

And yes there is a difference between action figures and dolls. Now Old school GI Joe does blur the line, but there are different criteria to both as sub genres of toys. Just as much as say a stuffed doll, and a stuffed animal or a plushie. (Materials being the biggest seperating factor as well as articulation. Compare a ken doll to a mego figure and you'll see the differences in the elbows and knees. Old school gi joe on the other hand, afaik they were pretty much military ken dolls.)

You know, it's not easy to reply to you when you keep creating a revised version each time. LOL. Look, I don't know. I never really cared. I don't get angry when people call my toys dolls. It's just a word. Maybe I'm not as hip to the toy terminology as you are but I'm not that hardcore. I mean they're toys. I don't take it that seriously. I collect them for fun. Nothing more.

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Look, Snowflakian. I apologize. You have no idea how much I regret posting that now because if I knew it was going to set you or anyone off like that, I wouldn't have done it in the first place. I made a comment about why I don't collect a certain type of toy and why I didn't think a line would do well and I said I thought it was a bit silly and I used the D word which apparently is the N word for toy collectors and I didn't realize it would piss someone off so bad. It's all cool, man. Like I said, it's just my opinion on those two lines and why I don't collect them.