I’m in the suburbs filled with paranoid/nosey old people who won’t hesitate to call the police on you if you even resemble anything suspicious. Annnnd unfortunately, standing in front of places at night on my phone looks suspicious.

That’s really the major downfall to being slightly involved in PoGo. If you’re not in the know, the whole affair looks really suspicious and creepy. And naturally, Gyms/Raids are always in locations that make the whole affair worse— like playgrounds.

That’s something I will likely end up doing once I eventually acquire them. I’d probably never sell anything, honestly, because these items have more personal value to me.

Both?

I’m really excited about this. I was a Genesis kid in the 90s until Nintendo swooped in with Pokemon and this has pretty much everything I’d want to play on it. 

He’s got a lot of sealed cards from various sports (basketball, baseball, football?) from mid-80s through 90s. Neither of us have bothered to try and see how much anything’s worth. He could be sitting on a retirement fund for all he knows (but probably not) 

Toys are meant for display; not play! 

Same. That’s pretty genius actually. I still have a few of those “unofficial” value guides floating around somewhere. 

My favorite is whenever they link me a listicle that’s like, “Here’s how much those Beanie Babies are worth!” and it’s just links to eBay sellers and I have to explain that just because someone’s selling their Princess Diana bear for $234,000 doesn’t mean that that’s what it’s worth.

I probably won’t ever actually sell my cards, as I still collect them and they’re a nice nostalgic callback. But I’ve priced some out and I could probably make a good $300-$400 if I sold everything.

That’s what I keep telling my parents. They see that a set sold for $107K and they wanna know where all my cards are. Which, I don’t understand either because my dad collected sports cards and collects coins... he knows how grading works. And he knows damn well I took those cards everywhere too. They’re in good…

The current (31 YO) version of myself continually kicks myself for opening half the toys I did when I was younger. I’ve gotten into this habit recently of just keeping everything unopened, so I feel like even if I spent some hefty cash on a shiny new Transformer, I’d just keep it in the box.

Legit both of my parents this morning: “DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR POKEMON CARDS?? DID YOU SEE HOW MUCH THEY SOLD FOR?!!”

Yes, I always forget about the Transformers KOs floating around that are sometimes better than the real thing. I’m not a huge Transformers collector, but I do love me some Unicron. I’d definitely consider paying in the upwards of around $200 for a high quality version, but that’s about it before spending guilt kicked…

Hey buddy, you okay there? 

As awesome as that is... yeah, I imagine most people don’t just have $600 lying around in spending cashflow to use toward a toy-- especially on such short notice. 

I never knew I needed gentlemen weezing, but here we are

I’m fairly out of room for any more figures buuuuuuuut, I think I can scrounge up some space

Oh yes, very much so! I’m about 20 minutes north of Detroit and people around here loooooove to turn their trucks into these behemoth monster trucks, complete with full flags (usually Confederate or “Don’t Tread on Me”) hanging off the back and a set of truck nuts.

They really should have swapped the blue and purple joy-cons-- purple/yellow, orange/blue are much more complimentary colors. That purple just makes the orange look like brown, and no thanks.