Oh, yeah. We’re doing down that part of Memory Lane.
For a decent while now, I’ve noticed that a lot of my friends back from school like to collect things. Trading cards, physical games, “trend items” like Funko Pops, and my main focus of this thread, the occasional really cool figurine of fictional characters. I’ve thought for some time it would be fun to start getting into a collection of some kind that isn’t just “funny sock collection”. (Half of those don’t even fit me anymore anyways.) And yet, when I look at things that my friends all like that look like they could be fun to get into, nothing quite scratches my itch for exploration. I stopped collecting Pokémon cards a long time ago when the prices and scalping started getting out of hand, and other card games really aren’t much better. The kinds of character figurines my friends like are really neat, but they usually aren’t for any characters or series I actually recognize. That, and I don’t feel like dropping hundreds of dollars on Pokémon Trainer figures on the Internet and risk having something happen to them. And I already have a decent enough physical game collection, though I historically haven’t held onto the boxes for my GBA, DS, and 3DS games to my own regret.
I wasn’t really sure what I could get into, or back into, collecting. Game boxes without the actual games are much easier to find than the games themselves, I feel like, but again, that’s not quite what I was looking for. I was out of ideas for a while… and that’s when I remembered my obsession with Skylanders back in the early-to-mid 2010s. And here’s the funny thing- my enthusiasm for the series never actually disappeared completely. If anything my appreciation for the first handful of games has only gone up after I quit playing the games during the fifth installment’s lifespan.
Am I making this thread to give myself an excuse to get back into and show off some of my Skylanders collection on the Internet? …okay, fine, yes, that is my reasoning, but I also wanted to make a space where you guys can show of cool stuff you have, too. And who knows? Maybe this will help bring the motivation to actually get back into collecting. I still have all of the Skylanders figures I had when I was younger, for what that’s worth, and even some I forgot I had!
