Star Wars Toy Commercial - SNL

A few years ago, I bought my first expensive action figure. It was a D-Arts Mega Man X Armor action figure. Mega Man X has always been possibly my favorite video game, and I was excited that they had an action figure that was good quality that had him in his white armor from the game in a way that looked like how I imagined it when I was young.

I think I bought the figure for 50-60 dollars. When it arrived, it sat there in the box. I felt like I shouldn't take it out. But then I kind of just decided fuck it. I bought this thing to experience it, for the memories it would evoke. Not to just leave it in a box. What was I leaving it in there for? For it to appreciate? So I can sell off this locus of my memories in a decade or two to make a profit? I didn't get this thing to make a profit off of it. I got it so that one day my Kid can look at it and want to see it, and I can explain to them why it's important to me, and share part of my childhood with them.

So I said fuck it. I opened that box, posed the figure, and put it on my shelf. I then promised myself that if I ever bought another action figure, I would open it immediately. I don't really play with them anymore, but one of the best parts about buying more expensive action figures is posing them and appreciating the quality and construction, the detail. Holding an action figure evokes memories in a way that looking at it in a box just does not do. My one exception is my Bill Adama figure. For some reason it seems funnier to have it in the box because of the way it's packaged and presented. Plus then people actually know what it is.

I mean christ, didn't these kind of people see Toy Story 2?

Source: 30 year old man, married, kids.

Here he is, happily pointing his doomstick at marauding mavericks.

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