[Frank Richards]

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Originally Posted by Spyne98

I used to love going out and hunting for the new toys, but when Amazon gets them up for pre order, I normally go there. It makes life so much easier. There's a toys r us like 1 mile from my job, but they never seem to get anything new (and when they do, it's late coming out). I hate to sound old or something, but don't waste the gas lol.

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Originally Posted by Captain Nash

I hear ya. The hunt used to be awesome and something I looked forward to. I remember for about 7 years, until 2005/2006 or so, a good collecting friend and I would do an overnight run of about 7-8 walmarts in the middle TN area every other weekend or so.

I won't say that getting older didn't have anything to do with it, but after not finding anything but a big ole helping of disappointment for several months in a row, we just figured it wasn't worth it to do anymore.

Yeah, I just don't enjoy the thrill of the hunt like I used to either

Back in the day, if I didn't stumble upon the Marvel Legend or Star Wars figures that I was looking for, chances are I would spot a Transformer, a rare Lord of the Rings figure, a McFarlane figure, a Mattel Justice League animated figure, or whatever else I needed and was collecting at the time. I rarely went home empty-handed, and typically found something worthwhile.

I've been trying to figure out if there are just fewer figures that I want these days, or if I was just buying indiscriminately back then, but either way, these days, when I don't find the priority figures that I'm looking for, I'm unlikely to find "consolation prize" figures either.
Combine that with the large amounts of time required to hunt; time that I could be spending on my other hobbies and my social life, and yeah, overall, it's just not the exciting experience that it once was.