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r/Millennials • … • u/TimmyTheNerd

Did anyone else get really into collecting random/useless toys or figures growing up?

I'm talking about stuff that didn't really have a point of having except to collect. With me, I collected GoGo's Crazy Bones, Trendmaster's Rumble Wars, and Homies figures.

Rumble Wars had remote control tanks and such for kids to have a war against each other. But I wasn't into the tanks and such. I liked the figures, so I just bought them to display on my shelves. Same with Homies and Crazy Bones. Didn't do anything else with them, just had them on display.

I know some friends of mine gave me shit for collecting Homies, since I was literally the whitest kid in town. But I liked how they looked and they were everywhere since my hometown was rich in the culture of Mexico due to having its roots in originally being a rancho (Rancho San Jacinto Viejo). A lot of my friends were Mexican and a lot of them had the figures to. I remember trading duplicates with my friends as we all worked to complete our collections.

As for Crazy Bones, they were fairly cheap and you could kinda play with them like they were marbles. But I just liked all the different sizes, colors, and shapes they came in....so of course they wound up displayed on my shelves as well.

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