Five years goes by quickly

Today, Halloween 2009, marks the five-year anniversary from when I started collecting wrestling figures again after a two-and-a-half to three-year lay-off.

I was making the transition to my teenage years and "grew out of" collecting in the earlier part of the decade. However, the first sighting of Jakks Pacific's Classic Superstars line (then up to Series 3) drew me in and, after thinking about it for several days, helped to make the hobby a reality again.

Here I am five years later with hundreds of Ruthless Aggression and Classic Superstars figures, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

More importantly, though, the decision I made that day contributed to my using eBay for the first time to buy and sell in the summer of 2007 (current feedback rating: 308, 100%), which then led to the rebuilding of my BCA collection in July 2007 (although I didn't know it at the time).

Sometimes life throws opportunities out at you and you have to take advantage of them.

I'm glad I did on Halloween Day 2004, and my collection shows it.

Until next time, have a nice day and stay careful tonight!

- Alex

Check out these old Lee's Toy Review scans!

Thanks to WrestlingFigs.com forum member TombstonePiledriver, I was finally able to see these truly vintage page scans of old Lee's Toy Review issues from 1998-99.

He posted them all here, but I'll save everyone the left click (unless you wish to enlarge the photos, which will require, uh, more left clicks).

- Alex