So what has everyone been doing for the past year and a half?

[figureaddict]

Ill start, Have still checked into the site about twice a week to check news and see what is going on. Mostly to check Pawlus's Figure of the Day segment and his weekly Q&A. Other than that, have really cut back on my Action Figure collecting. Price is getting too high. Also, just working on renovating my house.

[jedimc6]

Glad you all got your forums back. I have checked in on the site everyday I can and also 4 others. I only joined this site and never the other 4. I still collect heavily and now I will be able to do this until I am very old!!!lol I have done part online and part store and conventions. I still get crazy over this stuff at 43 and even crazier when people say they have collected since the beginning--in the 90's. I'll never get that.lol

[ShabbyBlue]

Collecting as always. Been focusing on my vintage collection these last 2 years, expanding it greatly with many of the rarer variants, including many Lili Ledy figures.

[Burn]

I'm still just as interested in collecting Star Wars as ever, and yet I've only bought maybe two figures in the past year. I have no interest in the animated style, and I'll only buy a resculpt if it's superior to the last one. Collecting has been bleak! Hopefully this Disney buyout will breathe some new life into the merchandising end of the franchise. (No doubt that it will, actually!)

I'm still collecting DC Comics figures, MOTUC, Doctor Who, and a couple of other things like the short-lived Thundercats line, the sporadically-released Walking Dead figures, and I have a real soft-spot for Transformers: Prime.

[Big Red]

I've been waiting for the forums to reopen. :D

I haven't restarted my collection in the meanwhile, although I had another kid or two. Our two-year-old loves my Max Rebo and Wampa Buddies. There's very little left of my old collection, though.

[figureaddict]

Another kid or two? You have one younger than 2, or is the 2 year old the youngest still?

[Big Red]

Another kid or two? You have one younger than 2, or is the 2 year old the youngest still?


We have a 7-month-old as well. We wanted the two-year-old to have someone close to her age.

[figureaddict]

Wow! Congrats again!

[Qui-Gon Jim]

Congrats, Red! My boy turned 2 a couple months ago. Fun age, but exhausting!

[Big Red]

My sister's oldest is a few months older than our 2-year-old. Before she had kids, she was already an "expert" on parenting and would often offer up advice on everything we were doing wrong. It's been fun seeing her deal with her own kids, especially when she goes nuts over her 2-year-old being a 2-year-old. Even better is when her childless "expert parent" friends on Facebook offer her the same sort of spot-on, excellent advice on how to deal with these things that she gave us for all those years. :D

[figureaddict]

Thats Karma.

[Big Red]

How'd you know her daughter's name?

(Just kidding)

[Qui-Gon Jim]

One thing you get plenty of when you are a parent is unsolicited advice. Ugh. Worse are the people with no kids who act like having a pet is equivalent. I'll admit, I may have been a little like that before I became a dad, but it makes me nuts when people compare how hard it is to deal with a dog comparing it to dealing with a child.

[figureaddict]

I'm sure I was like that before I became a father too, thats why I just grin and bare it when people do it to me.

[Big Red]

I have way too many friends and family who talk about their furry/four-legged friends. Sadly, a couple of them are parents to real kids as well, yet dote over their animals more than their children. I like when the childless ones have something go wrong with their dog (I think the worst has been a broken leg) and when they tell me how awful it is to deal with it, they say, "You don't know what it's like!" One of them (I think she was dealing with a particularly nasty case of kennel cough) told me this in a very condescending tone after, over a six month period, we'd had a miscarriage and then had to put our Jack Russell down after getting royally screwed by an ethically-challenged vet. She thought my reaction (I told her to get back to me after she'd held her dead baby or had to hold her dog as it died in her arms) was mean and uncalled for. She's one of those folks I'm quite pleased to not talk to anymore.

[Burn]

Okay, then how do you deflea your human children, Mister Smartypants?

[Qui-Gon Jim]

36
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[figureaddict]

36
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Fortunately have not had to deal with that.

[Big Red]

I prefer a scalding hot bath and plenty of Lava with pumice.