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Originally Posted by jedirulz123

Well I only just turned 16, and have been collecting 3.75 action figures since my 7th birthday when I got the Revenge of the Sith Obi-wan, Anakin, Vader & Yoda. At primary school (age 4-11) I had a few friends that collected figures, and a couple in the first couple of years of secondary school before everyone just grew out of toys. I have to say that everyone I know younger than me is of the tech generation, or strangely still Lego. I think my year, maybe the year below, was the last of the great figure collecting age. Only those that had dads that collected as kids or still do really still buy figures.

Thoughtful statement. I am 30. I collected figures from 6th grade till second year of HS. I quit, because of games were a better VALUE back then. Figures were 5 bucks then at TRU but only had limited playability.

Fast forward a few years ago, I was online, and searching Turtles 90's wallpaper, and all of a sudden my eyes catch the Classics and then I kept looking and looking and went to Amazon, saw the price, went to TRU a week later and got myself a Leo.

I was so impressed with the sculpt and how much the leap was from the 90's. I was blown away by the paints, weapons, articulation and closeness to the actual cartoon. I actually got another friend into it. My other 2 friends who I told I started collecting, didn't bother to look into collecting. Their, brainpower is lower than mine to be blunt, so they do not understand things about paints and articulation. To be fair they never really collected figures when younger like I did.

The one friend I convinced, collected when he was younger, stopped in HS because of games also like myself. But I agree with your statement, dads collect so will sons.

A lot has happened, TV just does not have cartoon any more mornings and Saturday from what I hear. You missed out.....nothing better than seeing cartoons then having commercials about toys for that very show....lol