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As a kid, I collected a bunch of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys. Over time, the series lost a lot of its "cool" factor when they started making more and more of the goofy characters -- a gorilla sergeant, a giraffe who played basketball, Michelangelo as a birthday party clown, etc. The Technodrome was definitely the best playset I recall ever having.

I also collected Transformers, but my childhood took place during that weird period where G1 was showing in rerun but none of the original cast members were still on shelves. I'm pretty sure the early 90s had its own Transformers show, but it was one I never got into. I ended up getting an Optimus Prime that was significantly smaller in scale than what he should have been and I never received a Megatron of any kind. I'm not into adult toy collecting -- I don't look down on it, I'm just not into it -- but there are times I'm almost tempted to spite purchase them. Like, Ha!, I've collected you at last!

Getting the Jurassic Park tyrannosaurus from Kenner was one of my favorite birthday memories from my childhood. That, and the Imperial Godzilla are still occupying shelf spaces in a closet and garage respectively.

I never really got into collecting superhero action figures. From the 1989 Batman, I had Batman, the Joker, and the Bat Cave. From Batman Returns, I had Catwoman. From the 1966 series, I had Penguin. (Penguin was smaller in scale, but it didn't bother me because he was canonically short anyway. Nor did I mind him being bright blue in contrast to the darker figures of the Burton movies.) On the Marvel side of things, I had Spider-Man and Venom from the animated series and a couple of stray X-Men characters. Apocalypse is the only one I specifically remember owning. For the most part, it just didn't sync up. By the time I started getting into more superhero cartoons and movies, I was phasing out of buying toys. Had I gotten into collecting superhero toys at a younger age, I think I likely would have been a comic reader in my teens and twenties.