SDP EP 22.5: Collectors

Episode 22.5 (meta) of the Scarydad Podcast

How “Collectors” have ruined collecting stuff

One Saturday morning in the very early eighties, I was watching cartoons and eating Honey Nut Cheerios. It was still dark outside and my parents and sister weren’t up yet and this commercial came on and changed my life:

At some point I believe I had just about every MOTU figure and vehicle there was to get and I had duplicates of some of them. Later on it was Gi-Joe, Thundercats, Super Powers, Transformers, and then Rambo. (I already had a bunch of Star Wars stuff.)

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