What happened to your childhood collection?

[_Lee_]

Given away to a spoilt little bastard :twisted:

And the most bitterness felt prize goes to... :lol:


I kind of remember bringing my Millenium Falcon and some other bits and bobs home from my Dad's and giving it to my brother who displayed it in his room. That was the start of our collection in the late 80's.

For a few years my mum was married to my brother's dad in the early 80's. I lived between parents so had two completely separate toy collections. One night my mum basically took us away from the pub they lived in with just the clothes on our back and never returned. She eventually got some furniture and belongings returned to her but I lost all my toys and clothes! Cousins donated a few bits to me (Christ! i forgot all about that :shock: ). Around 1987 the room I had round my mum's house consisted of furniture that came with the rented house, a Hinari Sunrise TV (donated) and a cassette player. Nothing else.

Meanwhile back at my Dad's hotel in Cheshire I had a room full of cool toys and posters and stuff. Total contrast to my other life. When they moved out in the 90's I hadn't seen them properly for a bit so had no hand in moving or saving the stuff I wanted, so they binned the lot! :roll: All my Star Wars and Lego. I had a Lego town set up. Gone! All my MAD comics dating back about 5 years! Gone! NES. Gone! Clothes!!!! Gone!. Childhood teddies (except Scruffy). Gone! All chucked in the ****ing skip! :x I honestly don't know how they didn't just get hold of me and ask if I wanted anything. People man!

All this childhood trauma and amputation of the past has probably influenced my collecting somewhat :?

Trust me Bazza, 'orrible little ****pig he was

 

[x-pack]

Which begs the question 'why did he get all your toys?'

 

[theslider]

Sold them all on eBay back in 2001/2. Although I did recently find my Rebel Transport and the breast shield from my AT-ST, so it's better than nothing.

 

[_Lee_]

Which begs the question 'why did he get all your toys?'

Because my mum was babysitting him one day and gave him some to play with. When i got home from school they were gone... :twisted:

 

[threesheepio]

Gave my entire collection away to a younger cousin in about 85/86.

Was well into my C64 at that point and they were sitting gathering dust when my mum suggested passing them on, so I did. My cousin played with them to destruction and sadly nothing now survives. I console myself with the fact that they fulfilled their original intention and were well loved by not just one child but two.

Started collecting again when I started browsing eBay in 2000. Found a lot containing a near complete Falcon, a Wampa and a bunch of loose figures for £50. Probably wouldn't have bothered buying it but turned out the seller was just round the corner. A quick email and a visit to the bank and within half an hour I had it all in my hands. That was it for me and have never looked back since then.

My folks have some old Xmas photos of me opening stuff and some carded figures can be seen in the background. When the old man inevitably digs them out again this Xmas and bores everyone to tears, maybe I'll post up a few for a laugh

 

[theslider]

Christmas 1981

Summer 1984 (I think)

 

[Matthieu]

Thought I would post this picture. These are all from my childhood, including the VCJ. Most of them are in played with condition... yet I have displayed them on the centre shelf of my cabinets . I'll display all my other loose figures from childhood when I manage to get some more display space.

 

[pizzathehutt]

My childhood collection of loose figures, ships and playsets went up in the loft until 1999.

i then caught the bug again and used all my doubles to swap toytoni for a few that i needed, which were last 17 luke poncho, and death squad commander. i seem to remember trying to buy an amanaman staff off him for £15 but he was having none of the bartering.

i managed to pick up imperial dignitary and a-wing pilot from the modellers loft quite cheap.

finally finshed getting the last few bits off ebay in 2004, mainly blue snag and ev9d9 and the full loose set was complete apart from vinyl caped jawa.

sold my collection on here around 2010.

 

[jedisearcher]

My childhood collection of loose figures, ships and playsets went up in the loft until 1999.

i then caught the bug again and used all my doubles to swap toytoni for a few that i needed, which were last 17 luke poncho, and death squad commander. i seem to remember trying to buy an amanaman staff off him for £15 but he was having none of the bartering.

i managed to pick up imperial dignitary and a-wing pilot from the modellers loft quite cheap.

finally finshed getting the last few bits off ebay in 2004, mainly blue snag and ev9d9 and the full loose set was complete apart from vinyl caped jawa.

sold my collection on here around 2010.

Some of them could be back in MOC's now!! :lol: :lol:

 

[Andyclarke]

This is one of the most upsetting threads I've ever read. I think it might have sent a few members into therapy!! :?

My toys were sold so I had money to put towards my ZX-81, they were all in perfect condition as were the boxes. I had a Kenner Canada Xwing, (I still have the dual language ESB catalogue that came with it, not sure how this ended up in the UK) it's the one with the buzz noise and light at the front. I also had the ubiquitous AT-ST and an INT-4. I acquired a couple of my friends collections so I had loads of figures and a few other mini rigs. All I have left now are my original card backs and instructions for the AT-ST and INT 4. I've ticked some of my card backs and catalogues so I know exactly what figures I had.

I'm very tempted to try and get MOC versions of all my card backs and mint boxed versions of the other stuff.

Anyone got a Kenner Canada ESB Xwing for sale?????

 

[mastersleepless4]

My collection was boxed up and put away into my closet over 20 years ago, as I prepared to go and live overseas (outside the US). The figures and ships (1978 X Wing and 1980 Snowspeeder), with all the original weapons sat in the closet in my parent's house all those years.

In 2013 my sister and her husband made move to take over my parent's house, seeing my parents age and needing more support. They moved into my parent's house and cleared out the house completely, selling everything at garage sales and giving things away. They went ahead relocated my parents to their own home, while they refurbished the house then moved my parents back in. My sister had wanted to receive a monthly payment from my parents for taking care of them, yet the lawyer she contacted got suspicious. An independent care review was carried out and my sister and her husband her deemed not qualified to care for my elderly parents, giving them an ultimatum to leave the house in a week.

Later that summer I came back to visit my parents with my family. I went into my old room and opened the closet. The box with all the old figures and ships was gone. As I moved things around, my old R2 figure fell down from between the boxes that had been stuffed into that closet. That is the last figure I have from that collection. Now I have got the bug again, and started picking up a few pieces here and there on eBay.

 

[Bremen90]

Thankfully I kept the lot - including the backing cards.

 

[jesterhud]

Still got most of mine from the original trilogy, stubbornly refused to pass it down to my nephews, thank god as they would have destroyed it all.
Still got, about 20 figures, Droid Factory in box, Millenium Falcon in Box, X-Wing, Snowspeeder in box, Y-Wing In box, Slave 1 in Box, AT-ST in box, AT-AT ( all have working electrics), Ewok Glider in box, Sy Snootles and band in box, Hoth playset and Hoth Turret (missing Probot), Die Cast Star Destroyer, Die Cast X-Wing, Die Cast Vader Tie, Die Cast Snowspeeder, Die Cast Slave 1.
And a bunch of cards from figures I kept as well, a bit ripped though.

Even as a kid I knew I wanted to keep this stuff, could not foresee the current interest of course, but I just knew I was never getting rid of it, the two things I wish I still had was the Landspeeder and the Imperial Troop transport, swine nephews must have got hold of them !!

 

[jesterhud]

Oh, and about five years ago my Mums gardener dug up a ROTJ Han Solo from the garden, he must have gone missing on a mission circa 1983/1984.
He is in very good condition indeed and has recovered well !!

 

[phreatobite]

My childhood collection of loose figures, ships and playsets went up in the loft until 1999.

I fished my figures out much later when I caught the bug in 2005 or 2006. And I got my vehicles/playsets out recently.

I used many of my childhood figures to put together my first complete (96) loose set as they we in nice condition. I have subsequently amassed thirty or forty varied MOCs and almost another set of minty loose figs.

All of my Action Force, Transformers, Thundercats and Zoids were sold to help me reach my collecting goals.