What collecting means to you

MOC means Mint On Card (Brand New)

I collect because i have always liked wrestling figures. I mainly collect MOC but the odd loose figure aswell. I am past the days of playing with figures lol my gf think's it is sad enough that i collect xD

Loose= Out the packet.

I guess it can vary because usually an adult collector's 'loose' figure will be mint and basically new as where a younger person's played with figure is not mint and usually marked etc.

damn dude, 5 accidents!!!!!

anyway, i collect loose and display them. When i'm in the mood i play with the figures. I go all out as if it were a live show. I don't care if anyone says anything about it!!!! I collect because it is awesome that we have these smaller versions of wrestlers that i admire and enjoy watching. It makes me feel as if i can control the events and relive great matches. Same goes for the video games of wrestling.

i grew up with so much passion and desire to one day become professional wrestler. all my favorite memories are with WWE ( WWF ).. having those two Defining Moments Warrior & Macho King displayed on my desk at work remind me of my mom crying when Elizabeth came to the rescue of Randy Savage..

although i will greatly miss running into toys r us to find a legends series, atleast we have DM and two Flashbacks..

and a two pack maybe once a year ( rockers!)

and a random basic heritage

to me it means an endless addiction and stress of hunting figures everyday!!! but its a little bit fun too. SOmetimes not worth it sometimes I think its a sickness

Collecting means a lot, I might not have a collection as large as most on here (I have around 330 figures I think...) but I tend to collect the figures I want, rather than buying loads just for the sake of it.

Also, to me, each figure holds a different memory whether it's personal or just of a great match / wrestler. For example, if I look up at my top shelf, there is my signed 1/3000 Sunny Bodydonnas figure, it makes me think of that time just before the Attitude Era (The New Generation, some might call it) and how fun wrestling was, it also reminds me of how Sunny was my first crush and how great it was to actually meet her all those years later when I got that figure signed.

Or I can look at a Bret Hart figure and think "He's the reason I am a wrestling fan", think of all the great matches I watched growing up and think of how much he was my hero.

In general, my collection takes me back to a time when I was happy, I was full of hopes, not a care in the world and I believed in something. Who wanted nothing more than to be the Intercontinental Champion (Oddly the World title didn't appeal to me as much).

It's nice to have something like that when you grow up to be just some loser who works in a horrible job that they hate for over 40 mind numbing hours per week and spends the rest of their time alone as no one can be bothered to have anything to do with them unless they are getting something out of it, but you're used to it as your relatives have always been like that, to Hell with them... I went a bit off topic there...

Even though you went off topic at the end it still was a great read, and sorry to hear about that stuff at the end of what you had to say.Some people just don't know good people when they see them and that's there loss not yours dude.

;D PJ, you just got so much cooler in my book, which I didn't think was possible. I'm a HUGE Raiders fan. I actually just got the Elite 2 Darren McFadden figure the other day.

And to answer OP's question, I collect because I love having figures of guys I watched when I was younger. I watched from like '90 to 2002ish? So I only collect Legends.