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04-01-2023, 05:50 PM | #11 |
Crimson Guard
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Your parents are probably a little disappointed in you too.
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04-01-2023, 06:06 PM | #12 |
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Im a little more disappointed of them throwing the figures in the trash
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04-01-2023, 08:18 PM | #13 |
Iron Grenadier
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I'm amazed at how many toys my mother did buy for me. As a single parent with a not-great-pay bank teller job, she somehow managed to keep me well stocked with G.I. Joe, Transformers, MASK, He-Man, and toys from a variety of other lines I played with over the years. And not just figures, but plenty of vehicles and playsets too, even big ones.
Did I get everything I ever wanted? No. Did I appreciate all the things she did for me? Not enough, unfortunately. But thinking back on it now, I don't know how she managed it and still put food on the table every week. |
04-01-2023, 09:02 PM | #14 |
Browncoat
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I DID have the foresight to buy stuff and keep it mint on card - even way back when. I remember having dozens of MOC Star Wars figures. Man, I could put my son through college if I still had those now.
I still have my entire collection of Snake Eyes MOC figures. I kept them when I started selling off everything else. Glad I have them. It's fun to look back at how the packaging has changed throughout the years. |
04-01-2023, 09:09 PM | #15 |
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I'm amazed at how many toys my mother did buy for me. As a single parent with a not-great-pay bank teller job, she somehow managed to keep me well stocked with G.I. Joe, Transformers, MASK, He-Man, and toys from a variety of other lines I played with over the years. And not just figures, but plenty of vehicles and playsets too, even big ones.
Did I get everything I ever wanted? No. Did I appreciate all the things she did for me? Not enough, unfortunately. But thinking back on it now, I don't know how she managed it and still put food on the table every week. How do kids date nowadays? Dinner and a movie costs upwards of $75-$80! Who can afford to buy their first car? Used cars are priced at new-car prices! Action figures are $25 each! |
04-01-2023, 09:17 PM | #16 |
Iron Grenadier
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Back in the early mid 1980s during 1984 to 1986, Action figures werent that expensive.
They were pretty much just 2 to 3 bucks whether they were G.I. Joe, Star Wars or Masters of the Universe figures. Still a little disappointed at my parents not buying some of the figures like Lady Jay and Raptor and Duke when regular Duke figures were still around at the time in the early 1980s. Since you're highlighting a few figures, I'm inferring that you did have a bunch of Joes, maybe even a lot? If you were looking back on your childhood collection now as an adult collector and seeing some holes, I could understand being disappointed at that. It's normal to think, ah, if only we'd picked those up then, when they were readily available! But being disappointed at your parents isn't coming off well (especially with so many of us now being parents) and probably could use some explanation. I'm assuming your parents didn't object to or refuse to buy those specific figures. If they did, I'd be curious to know why? You hear about parents refusing some toys for religious reasons. And in those days, I could see some dads balking at buying their sons female figures. And some individual figures might be objectionable to parents for their specific appearance or connotations. Personally, I was lucky enough to end up with most figures, but there was still an element of prioritization or triage to it. It wasn't like I could grab all the figures I wanted when I saw them. So, you had to pick each time and prioritize. Was that the case for you? I could see a Lady Jane, for instance, being a lower priority to kids then, though not necessarily. There was also a randomness and luck of the draw element. I might give my appearance a list of ones I was interested in, especially around Christmas or birthdays. And, so, which ones you ended up with was an element of surprise. I didn't end up with duplicates, so maybe my mom poked around my toys to see what I had, or maybe I kept a checklist, I probably did, but can't recall exactly. There's also the question of what parents could get their hands on. While there were runs then on things like Cabbage Patch Kids, actions figures were pretty plentiful. But still, it's not like every one was on the pegs at every time. I grew up in a large Canadian city and we also went on long road trips in the States, so I had a lot of opportunities to look for toys. And those road trips did yield ones I might not have seen otherwise, though can't recall whether that's true. But if you lived in a smaller community with less or no travelling, I could see how you or your parents might not have an opportunity to come across all figures. There was mail ordering still, but I don't know how common that was, and I could see parents balking at it if there were plenty of other toys around to be bought. That brings up another point, back then these were just toys. Companies like Kenner and Hasbro may have tried their best to get us into the mindset of "collect them all!" with a ton of cross-sells shown on the cardbacks. But to parents, I imagine, they were just toys, and just one kind of toys among all the toys we had. So, I wouldn't be surprised if some parents, looking at all the action figures their kids had already, saying maybe you have enough of "those kinds of toys", let's get you something else. I could see that being a thing. And, of course, there's always cost. As others have pointed out, while we might think toys weren't that expensive then, that's not really so. Those two or three bucks back then weren't nothing. As a kid, a single-carded figure didn't feel like a huge purchase cost-wise, but it wasn't one I took lightly either. And I don't recall walking out of stores with arm-loads of them. For a lot of us, they were probably one-at-a-time purchases, especially if there wasn't a reason. And even when there were reasons (a good report card, etc), it was often pick a figure, maybe two, maybe three if you're lucky. And there was a lot of "wait until your birthday or Christmas". Time goes by and that alone could mean figures falling by the wayside, especially as newer more exciting ones kept coming out. |
04-03-2023, 01:29 AM | #17 |
Crimson Guard
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No i did not have a bunch of Gi Joe figures back then. i had a few joes mostly a small bunch such as Mindbender, General Hawk , a B.A.T. , the Cobra Twins, Scarlett and Quick Kick and Shipwreck.
Im saying that not just GI Joe figures but other toys back then were pretty cheap at 2 to 3 bucks. The only time hte toys were a little spendfy where the playsets like the GI Joe HQ and some of the big giant Transformers. Star Wars and GI Joe and Masters of the Universe werent that expensive back then anyway but it would have been nice if my parents would have bought a couple more figures like some Cobra officers or something Quote:
This thread isn't getting much sympathy so far, so maybe you can clarify your thoughts on this.
Since you're highlighting a few figures, I'm inferring that you did have a bunch of Joes, maybe even a lot? If you were looking back on your childhood collection now as an adult collector and seeing some holes, I could understand being disappointed at that. It's normal to think, ah, if only we'd picked those up then, when they were readily available! But being disappointed at your parents isn't coming off well (especially with so many of us now being parents) and probably could use some explanation. I'm assuming your parents didn't object to or refuse to buy those specific figures. If they did, I'd be curious to know why? You hear about parents refusing some toys for religious reasons. And in those days, I could see some dads balking at buying their sons female figures. And some individual figures might be objectionable to parents for their specific appearance or connotations. Personally, I was lucky enough to end up with most figures, but there was still an element of prioritization or triage to it. It wasn't like I could grab all the figures I wanted when I saw them. So, you had to pick each time and prioritize. Was that the case for you? I could see a Lady Jane, for instance, being a lower priority to kids then, though not necessarily. There was also a randomness and luck of the draw element. I might give my appearance a list of ones I was interested in, especially around Christmas or birthdays. And, so, which ones you ended up with was an element of surprise. I didn't end up with duplicates, so maybe my mom poked around my toys to see what I had, or maybe I kept a checklist, I probably did, but can't recall exactly. There's also the question of what parents could get their hands on. While there were runs then on things like Cabbage Patch Kids, actions figures were pretty plentiful. But still, it's not like every one was on the pegs at every time. I grew up in a large Canadian city and we also went on long road trips in the States, so I had a lot of opportunities to look for toys. And those road trips did yield ones I might not have seen otherwise, though can't recall whether that's true. But if you lived in a smaller community with less or no travelling, I could see how you or your parents might not have an opportunity to come across all figures. There was mail ordering still, but I don't know how common that was, and I could see parents balking at it if there were plenty of other toys around to be bought. That brings up another point, back then these were just toys. Companies like Kenner and Hasbro may have tried their best to get us into the mindset of "collect them all!" with a ton of cross-sells shown on the cardbacks. But to parents, I imagine, they were just toys, and just one kind of toys among all the toys we had. So, I wouldn't be surprised if some parents, looking at all the action figures their kids had already, saying maybe you have enough of "those kinds of toys", let's get you something else. I could see that being a thing. And, of course, there's always cost. As others have pointed out, while we might think toys weren't that expensive then, that's not really so. Those two or three bucks back then weren't nothing. As a kid, a single-carded figure didn't feel like a huge purchase cost-wise, but it wasn't one I took lightly either. And I don't recall walking out of stores with arm-loads of them. For a lot of us, they were probably one-at-a-time purchases, especially if there wasn't a reason. And even when there were reasons (a good report card, etc), it was often pick a figure, maybe two, maybe three if you're lucky. And there was a lot of "wait until your birthday or Christmas". Time goes by and that alone could mean figures falling by the wayside, especially as newer more exciting ones kept coming out. |
04-03-2023, 03:27 AM | #18 |
Mass Nerderer
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^ My dad would've told me to be happy with what I did get, or get a job. Entitlement did not fly in my family.
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04-03-2023, 04:55 AM | #19 |
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I was pretty happy with my action figure haul as a kid. I had way more G.I. Joe stuff than anyone else I knew. My friends always wanted to come over to my house to play, since I had way more than them and they wanted to play with stuff like the Terror Drome and Defiant Complex, which I was the only one of my friends who had either. I already know how lucky I was, growing up... my Dad and Mom sacrificed a lot to make sure my sister and I got what we wanted, especially my Dad.
Ironically, if anyone is disappointed I didn't get MORE toys, it's my Dad. He's mentioned many times that he wishes he had bought two of everything he ever gave me, so he could have kept one MOC/MIB, given how much that Star Wars and G.I. Joe stuff goes for, these days.
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04-03-2023, 08:17 PM | #20 |
Platoon Sergeant
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Never be disappointed with your parents, they gave you life.
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