Same here. I don't actively collect anything.

Back in the day, I had Star Wars, my friend had Joes. He kept breaking them and losing parts.

I'd fix them for him, he'd give me the extra bits. Eventually I started slapping together my own.

Then painting, then carving, then...LOL

I have a Zartan somewhere, his rubber band snapped

So now he’s in two pieces

Easy fix. Hardware store, buy package of small O-rings. Tiny Philips screwdriver, replace.

Cool, I try that out

Zartan's gimmick was criminally underused in toys.

Besides him and his siblings, and much later a couple of Dreadnok vehicles, I don't know of any other toys that really used it.

Thermal changing plastic, yes, but UV is really ignored.

I feel like his ability was a bit to hard to portray with toys, at the time

But yeah they could have done better

They never went back to it.

Modern Zartans don't feature it at all. They just come with clip-on masks.

I had a Batman like that as a kid

It was a Bruce Wayne figure that change into Batman

Yep!

He just had a clip on suit

Clip on gloves and boots, cowl (with cape attached) slid over his head

Yeah, I had that one as parts once.

I had a Spider-Man that could “crawl all by himself!” The gimmick was achieved by making his hands and feet out of a sticky rubber

You were supposed to throw him at the wall then watch him “crawl down”

Oh, *those*. Yeah, wall crawlers were big for about a year.

Those, and the sticky hands things.

Slime! Slime was huge in the 80s then came back in the 2000s

Oh yeah! I never understood the appeal, though.

I have containers that once had slime in them, now it’s more like Kryptonite

LOL

I took a slime-oozing Jabba out of the package recently, the slime was like a chunk of green flesh.

Not hard, but definitely not oozy.

Ew

Slime was fun to play with, but once it got boring it was a pain to clean up

I'm still in the middle of my first full move in thirty years. It's taking forever, and I'm finding all sorts of stuff.

...And I'm wandering off topic again.

I’ve moved so many times stuff goes missing all the time

Small stuff and big stuff

I moved constantly as a kid. Lost almost everything every time, too.

I had a framed Spider-Man 2 poster that actually came from the movie theater so it was huge, and it just disappeared

Now I'm something of a hoarder.

It was this poster