“What I’m” Wednesday: x-men toys!

Today I want to talk about what I’m collecting: Marvel legends X-men!

Today I want to talk about my toy collection. More specifically I want to talk about my X-Men toys. I’ve been collecting toys for a long time and when I say “a long time” I mean a long long time. And when I say “a long long time” I mean I never stopped collecting them. I started collecting when I was around five and I’ve never really stopped. I have a bit of an addictive personality so collecting things and having complete sets of things has always been a part of my life. But you know what, this is at about my addiction problems is it? It’s about my toys!

The X-Men have always been my favourite group of superheroes, mostly because of what they stood for and how they stood up to injustices. They were feared and hated for being different and they never let that stop them, even if it meant saving those who oppressed them in the first place. They were true heroes and I always felt like I related to the struggles of being an outcast.

Jesus mike, this isn’t about trauma bonding, it’s about TOYS! GET TO IT

OK let’s try this all over again. I’ve always loved collecting toys and I’ve always loved the X-Men so collecting X-Men toys just made sense. Over the past 5 of 6 years I started collecting a series called “marvel legends” and anytime they had a character at Walmart or Toys “R” Us or even a convention, I would pick up any character I thought was worth getting. They could be from the Avengers or Spiderman or X-Men or the fantastic 4, it really didn’t matter as long as I like the character.

Flash forward to the quarantine!!!

Like most of you I was trapped inside summer board so much struggling and desperately in need of some thing new to relieve my anxieties.

Flash flash forward to me deciding to build the entire team of X-Men!!

Some stupid part of me thought that collecting the X-men would help relieve my anxiety in someway. It would give me something new to think about, it would give me something new to collect, and it would give me something tangible to make me feel validated. So, as I’m sure many of you did during the quarantine, I started to do a lot of online shopping. The shopping wasn’t really the issue it was the hours an hours I would spend online looking for deals or discounts.

None of this is really important, but my addictive personality really took over and I refused to pay market value for any toy. I even joined a bunch of Facebook groups where people would trade, barter, and sell marvel legends figures, and I would spend hours talking to these people trying to get them down to a good price. Once the toys started coming in the mail and I started to see my collection grow, I realized that having these characters in my room, having these characters that meant so much to me as a kid, truly was anxiety reducing. Whenever I felt stressed out I would go into my closet look at the toys and a sense of calm would just come over me. And when I tell you this, I am not joking at all. I would literally walk into my closet look at the toys think about how great they were take a few deep breath‘s and everything would seem all right again. Weird I know.

I know this is getting a bit long so I’ll just say that there is very little in this world that makes me feel as good as these toys do, and if that’s sounds pathetic, then I guess I’m pathetic. But Guess what, at least I’m happy.