Toy Bender

As a toy collector, I’ll admit there are a lot of my fellow collectors out there that drive me nuts. They really don’t anything to give the rest of us, or “the normals”, a good name. A friend of mine named Jacob shared this video with me, which is an example of toy collectors gone wrong:

When defending toy collectors recently, I tried to get across the point that a lot of us are normal types that have lives and aren’t ultra troll like. Sadly, there are collectors out that that like to enforce the socially abnormal stereotypes by being… well, socially abnormal. With that being said I’m going to do my best not to knock the guy in this video. I don’t know him, maybe he’s a really nice person. Hell, I’m a fairly sensitive guy myself so I wouldn’t want any random jackhole with a blog tearing me to pieces. However, this video really doesn’t do him or toy collectors any justice. When fighting stereotypes of toy collectors you really don’t want to hold this video up saying we’re just as normal as anyone else.

The main problem is that “Dcompose” goes on for ten minutes complaining about the Spider-man 3 figures when it should be obvious that this is a toy line designed primarily for children. His numerous complaints about the size of the figure is both something that wouldn’t really matter to kids and a cost saving measure for Hasbro. Have you seen the price of gas lately? Toy companies are trying to keep costs down any way they can so it would make sense that they’d make their figures in a line where kids really wouldn’t care that much in the first place.

There’s a whole nerd culture that is composed of extremely whiny fanboys. This is especially true in the toy collecting world where you have supposed grown-ups bitching endlessly on forums about a six to ten dollar piece of plastic. Yes, I too have been disappointed in certain toy lines, but I’m not going to whine and complain about it forever. There’s more to life than bitching about a toy. Instead of actually buying figures to simply complain about them, you can buy dozens of other Spider-man figures that are geared for collectors. There are certain toy lines that simply are made with kids in mind.

Another complaint that Dcompose airs is that Venom is purple in this line. This is something that I didn’t understand when I first saw it either. Maybe purple paint is cheaper? Who knows and really who cares? To spend the amount of effort bitching and complaining about these toys is a waste of time. Don’t buy them if you think they suck so bad. Hasbro’s making a mint off of the kids that don’t give a crap about the complaints aired in this video, they just want their Spider-man figure.

The worst part of the video is when Dcompose talks about how things would be different if he ran Hasbro. He admits that he applied twice and didn’t get hired. Is this something you really want the world to know? I haven’t been hired at plenty of places and I don’t go bragging about it. Perhaps there is a reason that he wasn’t hired, it’s obvious he has no concept of how a business is run or how much actually goes into the production of an action figure.

This isn’t to say that the video is entirely bad. There’s some funny stuff in here, but it’s lost in a sea of bad editing and whining. Also, it seems like this thing was filmed in a basement. For the love of god, I hope that this isn’t the case.

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