We’re in an interesting moment in our collectors’ home here. Roomy’s MOTU fandom is on an uptick, with the recent She-Ra reboot, the new He-Man continuation, and all the associated toys (note to Mattel: needs more POP).
On the other hand, I look at the new G5 toys and I just…no. I think the animation looks great, I’m looking forward to watching the movie, and if kids like the toys that’s fantastic, but the toys are doing nothing for me. It’s the heads. Those faces (eyebrows?!?) make me think of them as people in horse costumes, and I’ve never been the biggest fan of the times when MLP veered more toward doll than pony.
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| Still my favourite generation |
This is not a bad thing. On the one hand, I don’t have to figure out how to fit another Generation into the Geek Cave (yet). On the other, it’s not such a bad thing for only one of us to have a major influx of new toys at a time, especially when our display spaces are being adjusted and can’t actually display new items yet. The family room is starting to look a bit like the backroom of a toy store, with all the unopened figures in there, but it’s a temporary state. Who’d have thought that finding an appropriately-sized cabinet for the space would turn out to be so difficult? If only Grayskull fit on a Billy bookcase.
In the autumn we'll get back to organizing things. There's months of winter to spend with our collections coming up. Something to look forward to.
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