We all grew up with different toys and we loved and cherrished them but at one point of our lives most of us decided to get rid of them for various reasons. Maybe it was cause of a girl or just because we felt that we became too old for them. They went into a trash can and we probably haven't even thought them much.

One day, however, everyone will look back and think: "Damn, where are my toys?" I had that exact thought on my mind several times in the past 2 years and I remembered that I had some really cool toys.

I had a Optimus Prime set, which came with a truck and a Prime figure, various other Transformers, I had all of the Turtle figures except for Master Splinter, a bunch of Batman figures, I even think I had a Bat Mobile or some other vehicle from the time when George Clooney played Batman. From Star Wars I had Han Solo and some other stuff I don't really remember. One more thing I thought was really cool was the Power Morpher from the Power Rangers, that thing was just awesome back in the day (and it goes for around 80-100 bucks on eBay these days. Damn!).

The thing is, I think all of this stuff is gone... I have a little bit of hope that some of it might still be hidden in an old box in my basement but I'm not really sure and I haven't checked for it yet. (I did check today and nope, it's all gone.) Thinking about the stuff being gone is kind of sad to me now, especially the fact that the Turtle figures are gone really sucks 'cause those were my favorites and I totally wouldn't mind to have them stand on my desk now, watching over my comic book collection. I think these memories are part of the reason why people start to collect toys or comic books or whatever else they might collect. However, I don't see myself getting into toy collecting. I might get me this Marvel Silver Surfer figure to have something to put on my desk but that'll be it.

If I ever have kids, one thing I will definitely do is to advise them to keep their toys, at least the ones that are their favorites. Or, if I see them throwing some away, I'll keep them so that if they ever miss them, they aren't gone.