What do you collect?

Transformers figures, that's my big one. Not for the sake of completion or anything; I'm not going to buy a recolor of a figure I already have just to say I have X number of Transfigures (didn't even realize I made that word until a minute after I did it. I think I'll keep that) more than the other guy. It's more for personal enjoyment. I find it very satisfying when a robot and alt mode manage to look good without either one making the other look unnatural or clunky. Articulation too. If the robot mode doesn't have bendable arms or legs, it bothers me. Finally, I love bells and whistles on my figures. Not like lights or sounds, because those are pointless gimmicks. But more than one alternate mode, or the ability to join with other figures to form one big figure, that makes me happy. Alt modes moreso. The more alt modes, the better. I recently purchased the Devil Gigatron figure, and I am in love, proverbially. It's an improved version of the Gigatron figure, which is a six-changer, meaning it has 6 transformable modes. Devil Gigatron has 10, which is unheard of. And all the modes look rather well done, without parts from the other modes getting in the way. With the possible exception og the elephant mode. I have no idea what that's about.
In all, I have 25 figures that I actually enjoy, and 5 that are kept in boxes (they are: G1 Starscream, G1 Megatron, G1 Targetmaster Stepper, Binaltech Ravage, and Binaltech Grimlock).

If this doesn't set me as a pathetic fanboy, nothing will.

EDIT: 26 figures. I forgot about my Energon Scorponok in the livng room figure holding my roommate's Ulala figure, as if to say "You gonna get raped!"

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Lost_solitude

laugh all you want but I used to collect sonic comics...Come to think of it I sould contenue.

Holee-shit. The Archie ones? I have from about issues 50-100. That was about the only point where I really got into it. Before that was too cartoony for me (in comparison to the events of 47-50), and later then that it seemed they were trying too hard to blend their own story with the plot of the games and whatnot. The art was getting pretty weak too (I recall one issue where it was basically copies of the art from pervious issues), but nothing irked me as much as the dialogue.

Example from issue 96-
St John: "All right, boy...how did he get there?"
Sonic: *Drinks soda* "Uhhh...How did who get where?"
St John: "Blast."
Sonic's mom: "Way to go, son..."
St John: "Has Princess Sally contacted you lately? Guess not. Don't be late for school."
Sonic: "I sure hate that guy."

It hurts to read, really.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Arkhangelsk

This was apparently a phase a lot of people went through, myself included. I was really into them for about 3 years, and when they released the Knuckles solo book I actually liked that better than Sonic by that point. I was such a StH nerd for the better part of my elementary/middle school years. Then the comics went to shit, and I had to force myself to buy until around 100. But by that point, I figured I was just getting a little old to appreciate the comics, and perhaps the deterioration in the writing was my imagination o_O.

I hated when they changed Robotnik/Eggman's appearance to match that of the games -- even though the games' design came first. I liked the Archie version of Ivo Robotnik .

Amen. And it wasn't your imagination. The writing was deteriorating, it pretty much started doing so at the point when they decided to do the whole Sonic Adventure plug-in story. Hell, I felt it was going a little when they did that pointless episode that was a blatant rip-off of Indiana Jones. Then again, issue 48's ending was kind of a rip off of The Fugitive, so I figured maybe they just liked Harrison Ford.
Robotnik's appearance was awesome, in a grotesque, overweight sort of way. He was anatomically correct for the most part, and that made me happy. It made him seem more believable as a character, and more sinister in a way.
And finally, yes, the Knuckles series rocked. Had a ton more original characters, all of whom were more interesting than the Sonic characters, and some deeper issues. Racial tensions between the dingoes and echidnas for example. I would have loved to have seen more development in that, except Archie is retarded...

That reminds me of this idea I had for a fan-comic once. Maybe I should dust that chestnut off...

How ya doing, buddy?