why do i collect action figures it's a question i get asked all the time
and it's for me the answers always goes back to that it's a hobby um some people play golf
some people go play rugby three times a week some people go drinking
clubbing some of us get up at the crack of dawn go to car boot sales and hunt action figures
me it's all about the thrill of the chase that's why i've got so many figures around this room
it takes me back to a simpler time in my life where i could sit on the floor
with a bunch of figures and make up stories and have adventures that i couldn't have in the real
hey guys it's me ho supersorrell thank you very much tune in and today we're talking about
why i collect action figures like i said at the beginning though it's it's all very it's a weird
topic to discuss because everyone's different yes a lot of people say it's an obsession some
people say it's a hobby it's hoarding it's collecting it's a mixture of all these things
there's got to be something deep down in all of us that drives us to do these things and whatever
reason the thing that i'm driven to do is collect action figures i've always been into toys ever
since i was a kid i've always loved nothing more than going out grabbing some new figures coming
home and telling stories as you can imagine as i've got older that hasn't gone away you have
the idea of wanting to sit and play is still there because and a lot of my friends may tell you this
the number one thing about me is i like to tell stories i love storytelling i like to write
stories i like to i if i could draw i would be a comic book artist because i would love nothing
more than to be able to create stories that's why i do action figure photography with all my stuff
because i'm able to tell you a story through photo and i'm able to relive the adventures
from the movies that i love so much like star wars marvel disney and dc from science fiction
predator aliens horror these are things that i love most in life and i've always loved most
but if we go back a little while my favorite thing when i was a kid was my dad would wake me
up on a sunday morning give me say three pounds which was a lot of money back then in the 90s
give me three pounds and he'd say son you can have whatever you want for that three pounds
at a car boot sale and he would take me and then i would be in charge of
that three pounds and i could get as many figures as i could for that three pounds
i used to love that more than anything and because i was a child of the 90s that means the products
that i was picking up was always turtles it was he-man it was thunderbirds it was things that were
before my time so even though this is why i always say even though i'm a child of the 90s i grew up
with the toys of the 80s i had thundercats i had i had old batman stuff i i had the ghostbusters um
they what'd you like the um the fire station i had that i had the blimp from the turtles i
had the van i had the technodrome which is now worth the fortune i had the original line of
power rangers when they first came out my parents stood in line at midnight to get the dragonzord ah
see nostalgic memories there all runs out i love it so much and as an adult i love
the fact that companies like hasbro have been able to reproduce these things for us yes we're
not collect collected the exact same toy from our childhood so it's not the same nostalgia
but it's kind of a nostalgia because we're going back and buying those original power rangers those
original marvel toys that have been reproduced on retro packaging and it's just so awesome to
be able to collect those now as an adult some things i couldn't afford as a kid i've now got
recently you'll have seen me pick up things like the sand crawler you'll see me pick up things like
the ewok village these were all things that i didn't have as a kid that i always wanted as
i've said before star wars wasn't a big thing in my childhood i grew up watching the films i loved
the movies but because i was in that late 90s early 2000s at that point lego star wars was the
latest and greatest toy so i didn't collect action figures of star wars i had the star wars legos
so i never had the ewok village i never had the vintage toys i grew up with the legos
that's why now it's so cool to go back and pick up these things because they're new to
me even though i'm aware of them they're new to me to play with and have fun with
so i just wanted this video to address a few things some people message me on a regular basis
saying aren't you too old to collect toys no not at all are you too old to be going out drinking
of course not are you too old to be going out playing golf it's the same thing it's a hobby
it's a passion some people collect beer mats some people collect bottle caps some people collect
stamps and train numbers i collect action figures and pieces of plastic that's the only difference
as a kid i and i'm getting a lot of collect collectors feel this way
there's something that resonates from these movies with us
a lot of us were probably the kid that got bullied i think a lot of us were the kids that were
maybe felt forgotten i don't know that's how i always felt i've explained before
my disabilities i grew up in a in a community where i was pretty much the only disabled kid
it wasn't until i was about 12 years old that i know about 13 years old even
that i even met another disabled kid that was in my school he didn't join us a lot later on so i
mean
i wasn't i was never around all the disabled kids i felt like the odd one out and i had my false
leg i had my colostomy bag and i felt different and then one day i picked up a copy of the x-men
my dad bought me one of those big bumper things that were in black and white paper so it was like
a comic book slash colouring book almost probably wasn't the color book but i tried it like one
but it had all those classic giant x-men stories and suddenly i was introduced to a world where
they were telling me it was okay to be different and that's where i got into x-men and marvel
and spider-man i started reading those books and i really got into comic books as a
kid
so basically what i'm trying to say is i think each of us in this world are different and we
all collect for very different reasons not all of us have the same type of collecting some of
us are more completionist some of us are just base collectors some people just grab the occasional
figure some people are like me and just spend most of their lives buying figures and you know
displaying them having fun with them and i know there's anything wrong with that and i just wanted
to make this little video just to address that because i do get a lot of um messages comments
emails on a regular basis telling me to grow up telling me to stop doing what i'm doing on
youtube because i'm pathetic and that i'm a giant man child which the last one i will admit i am a
giant man child i don't there's anything wrong with being in touch with your inner kid i don't
there's anything wrong you guys um obviously enjoy my content on a daily basis you come back
every day to watch so there are like-minded people out there that are into collectibles just like me
and those people that don't get it it's not for you it's clearly not your hobby
but there's no reason to hate on others for it and that's kind of my moral of today's story i wanted
to give you guys an insight as to why i think i collect and what goes on in my head when i think
about collecting kind of and just kind of give you guys some insight into how i got collecting
where i started and so this video has kind of touched on that but i've waffled quite a lot today
so i'm going to make another follow-up video in a month in a month's time or so where we will
definitively look at how i started where i started what what was the first thing we'll take a look
at some of my older videos together as well so stay tuned this is kind of going to be an ongoing
little series where i discuss with you guys um my journey in collecting and where i started things
like that so stay tuned hope you enjoyed this little video and i want to hear your stories
because like i say every collector's story is different so i'd like to know your comments
down below in the comments on how you got started collecting and why you think you collect
guys thank you very much for watching as always i'm your host supersorrell and i'll see you
in the next video and until then may the force be with you bye
you