Anyway, I was at work today thinking about how I never think of anything to blog about when I realized I did have something I could blog about from time to time.
Yes ladies and germs I am a 31 year old child. I have loved the transformers since I first saw the G1 (Generation 1 for those not in the know.) cartoon in early 1985. Being from a poor family in Detroit, I only had a select few of the toys while growing up. Then puberty hit and I forgot all about them.
Fast forward to 2002, I was living in my first place a condo/apartment in Fraser MI. Being a typical male my place had no decoration at all. What photos I owned could all fit inside my wallet at the same time and the artwork I owned was all things that I myself had drawn. To me it seemed conceited to use my own humble comic art to dress the place up so I was at a loss for what to do.
A couple of days later I was at a Meijer and I saw new transformer toys in the store and decided to buy an Optimus Prime figure. After that I was hooked! I started using eBay to get the old figures I owned as a kid and soon every shelf in my living room was littered with them!
Anyway, now that I'm married my bots are mostly confined to a room in our basement. I haven't counted how many I have in about a year but the last time I did the count was at about a hundred or so figures. I'd almost bet I'm at about two hundred by now, or at least pretty close.
My wife loves to tease me about them saying that I'm child, but for the most part she tolerates my hobby and I love her for it. She puts up with me spending a lot of money on these little pieces of plastic and I'm grateful for her patience.
So here is a look at SOME of my collection.
I decided that for now I'll only show my Optimus Primes and one of the shelves. There are a few more displays about the room but these are the largest.
My darling wife likes to tease and say that she's going to sell them all one day when I die for a quarter a piece! Doesn't she know that just means I have to get a million more so that she still ends up rich when selling them at that price?! :P
