I lost a lot of my Beast Wars figures as a kid, but the most painful lost of that was the Insecticon figure from the line, since not only he was my first transformer, but that he was given to me by a very close family friend who passed away a few years ago.

Luckly I was able to by another one, so I can have that memory forever.

Yeah, I gots a question for youse guys: Why don'ts youse guys loves me no more? I asked a few questions back for Tomocast 9 but y'all screwed the pooch a lil and the broadcast ran long so basically all of the questions after a point were rushed through meaning I only got the smallest of my questions answered. Shit happens and all, I get that, so I went ahead and posted a reminder that I had outstanding questions when youse guys were taking questions for Tomocast 10 but, again, blue ball'd. So my question right now is where's the love?

Oh, plus sad toy stories? I have quite a few. Between moves, thefts, "cleanings", and hurricanes, I basically don't have a single toy that I owned as a child. I think my oldest toy (as in the one I've possessed for the longest length of time) at this point is a DC Super Heroes Riddler (that or a shrewd-looking one-whiskered teddy bear that keeps turning up). That's right, not even a Super Powers or Marvel Secret Wars figure. My longest-owned toy only goes back to 1989. Seriously, how frigging lame is that? I had pretty much everybody related to Batman in some way that was available back then but all I have now is a Riddler =x

Plus all of my Ninja Turtles? Gone (except the two movie mutants from Secret of the Ooze but they really don't count anyway). All of my He-Man figures? Gone. All of my frigging Thunder Cats? GO-NE. My Little Ponies? Erm, I didn't have any of those >_> Micro Machines? Gone. Pretty much all of my original McDonald's toys except for the dino Big Mac? Gone (except maybe a Garfield or two). Gone. You name it, I no longer have it =x Don't even still have a single figure from Captain Planet, Ghostbusters (and man did they do some cool ghosts), GI Joe, or even Transformers (last two I don't quite miss as much as the other stuff). Every now and then I debate about re-buying some of that stuff but most if it has gotten pricey (the two MotU Sorceress auctions I was following both closed over $40) and, quite frankly, no amount of nostalgia can really convince me to pay really large sums for most of those items =x

Plus I suffered unimaginable childhood trauma because I never had a Voltron OR a Megazord as a kid.

The toys I remember:
-Para-Trooper, from McDonald's Mario 3 line. Actually, ALL of the ones from that line rocked.
-My Panthro and Cheetah figures
-Visionaries. Yeah, you heard me, Visionaries.
-That Batmobile from the Super Heroes (?) line that I picked up for $2 at a garage sale
-That Batmobile from Burton movies
-The Bat Jet from the first Batman movie
-Pretty much every Batman item I ever owned
-Slimer
-Stay Puff Marshmallow man
-That ghost couch thingy that might've actually been a toilet
-Oh yeah, plus the Ghostbusters themselves. Their accessories were so cool, with the moving proton streams gimmick.
-Skeletor
-He-Man
-The Sorceress
-Beast Man
-The Ruby-Speares Mega Man stuff (well, technically I still have the 5"ers, but I only was able to get my hands on Proto Man and Cut Man from that series then also ended up losing the smaller pieces)
-All of those Micromachine helicopters and jets that I've lost in bushes & shubbery over the years, in addition to all the Micromachine tanks that've disappeared in tall grass
-Bebop and Rocksteady (mostly nostaglic about the 1989 arcade game)
-Michelangelo
-Donatello
-Leonardo
-Raphael
-Kang and his adorable robot stroller
-Norman and Virgil, whom I've lost from every Mighty Max set I've ever bought (along with the monsters, in many cases)
-Omega Red
-That kick-ass series of pocket comics with the mini-figures I took with me everywhere and then ultimately lost
-That one monster head or whatever launcher shark (?) thing that a "friend" strong-armed me into borrowing then claimed that he lost it when his house was robbed

And in the past decade or so:
-Renamon's right arm
-The damage sustained to poor Big Duo's arm
-All of the times I stupidly passed up Marvel Legends figures (and offshoots) in KB, ESPECIALLY the Sentinel series where I literally debated 10 or 15 times about buying that first app Spidey mostly for the Sentinel upper torso but thought the fingers and coloring looked too funky especially since that's the most expensive BAF piece that wave.

A sad story about a toy? Well since you didn't specify the story has to be about being left behind I've got one I don't think I've ever told anyone and it combines the type of childhood sadness and pathetic geekiness someone would want to read on this site, plus if you want to get technical this toy left ME behind.

I got one of the ORIGINAL Digimon virtual pets before the show was even brought over and maybe even before I knew what Pokemon was. I loved that thing as I watched it grow from an egg to a little bouncing ball to a BIGGER ball and finally some giant slug thing (I could never get it to evolve into anything else but that's another story). Anyway I go to get it one night and when I looked at the screen instead of my precious little derpslug was a computer in it's place. It took a little time to set in what happened and when it did I was absolutely crushed; my Digimon was DEAD.

I still remember everything that happened then, including me hiding under my bed and crying about it for way longer than I should have. Looking back on this gives me a new found level of respect for my mom though, who somehow was able to console my sadness without busting out laughing.

I mostly just played with lego so while my collection was all made from individual sets, only 1 or 2 of those would ever actually be made at any one time, the rest was the collective to create bases in the middle of the ocean! (my carpet was blue). Those bases would sit in my room for weeks while I would have episodic adventures using whatever narrative I had thought of. Then I would build something else and start all over again, this continuing well past the recommended age group for the sets I owned haha.

Now, my toys are all sitting in limbo in my room back home while I'm at university. I'm never going to play with them again but I really don't want them given away to some brat who doesn't appreciate or take care of them. Toy Story 3 is saddening in the way that it makes it so believable that your toys are lonely without you, but 5 minutes after the movie I've put that to the back of my mind and am continuing with whatever adult problems my life brings.

I guess that's my sad story, I miss the adventure and the simplicity of life, but it's not something I can recreate, nor should wish to go back to. My toys now are statues for display, their entire point is that they are NOT toys. They are art, they are a collection, you photograph them and put them in a display case. But I wonder if that's just what I tell myself to ward off those who disapprove of spending so much on PVC. Regardless, I'm glad to be back into the toy scene after several years of being out, even if it is a different category of toy that I'm interested in. Thanks Tomopop :)