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The end of an era . . .
Ed_McCarron:
Damn. I've got something in common with shmokes? Just got the LOTR set for Christmas. It's the Walmart "exlcusive" with the eye of Sauron dispenser.
One does not simply walk into Walmart.
fallacy:
Insult to the pez community!
Gray_Area:
I never saw the sense in collecting PEZ heads. Action figures....maybe.......
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on February 26, 2012, 12:07:58 am ---I never saw the sense in collecting PEZ heads. Action figures....maybe.......
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Seeing as I'm getting rid of my collection, I'm probably not in the best position to make a convincing argument to the contrary. But aside from collecting something as an investment, collecting Pez is like collecting anything else. It's an entertaining diversion. You derive a sense of accomplishment and pride for having done something that not many people have done. You have something to display that fascinates a lot of people (though of course many collections, including Pez might not cause the kind of fascination from some people that you'd probably prefer). There's a bit of elation in finally coming across an obscure one that completes a series you've been working on. Collecting action figures makes no more sense (unless they're a better investment which may be the case). You aren't just buying the characters you love and admire. If you're collecting ya gotta catch them all. That's the same as Pez collecting. It makes no sense except for all the reasons I mentioned above.
Edit: Unless . . . I completely misread your point and you would collect action figures because you would play with them. Admittedly, playing make believe with the disembodied Pez Wolverine wouldn't be as fun as fighting bad guys with the action figure. ;D
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: shmokes on February 25, 2012, 10:22:30 pm ---
Honestly . . . I suspect that more than growing bored of it, 30 year old me just doesn't think a Pez collection is nearly as interesting or fun as 20 year old me did.
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I hear ya on that one. I'm currently setting in a room full of Star Wars memorabilia. The funny thing is, I'm not really into star wars that much. But you've got to understand, I bought all of this stuff in the late 90's when the digitally enhanced trilogy was being released and and prequels were about to come out (you know, before we knew they sucked). I picked up a bunch of stuff because I honestly got excited about the new films about to come out and I thought that some original trilogy merch might be worth money some day. Little did I know that Lucas would spend the next 12-15 years leeching the franchise dry by making more merch than ever before.
Meanwhile my Star Trek, stuff.... which I kind of do like, sits in a drawer somewhere. I can't get it out to display because of all the SW crap.
So yeah sometimes you just need to get rid of stuff if you don't like it anymore, for no other reason than to give yourself more space for other cool stuff to collect.
**edit**
No need to defend collecting pez.... I've seen people collect far stupider things. The important thing is that you enjoy collecting it.
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