I Gave Up Collecting Mini's

It's been a while now, but I just got a job lot of mini's off eBay

nice, nigel. are you getting back into them, then? there is another advent calendar due out, too

i found a new box locally yesterday, so got the new ones from that.

still missing 2 from series 24, and 2 from this year. i can find them on a website in the UK, but with postage its $45NZD, far too much for two minis.



and these are what i need still... EDIT: i just bought the monster harold off ebay.

Hmmm, I may be wrong but read the title

yes, he said he was out of the game, but just bought that bulk lot.

Haha....shows you how much this old man pays attention...I don't even remember you collecting Minis Nigel. 🤔

(08-30-2024, 01:45 PM)Destination Realization Wrote: Hmmm, I may be wrong but read the title

It read "I GAVE up", not "I GIVE up"

To be honest I probably would still be collecting them, but since the pandemic they are pretty much impossible to find in stores in the UK.  If you can't buy them you can't collect them.  I just saw that job lot on eBay and it had some that I didn't have so I decided to buy them.  As it happens I have another batch of 35 coming as well lol!  This isn't to say I'm going to start collecting them seriously again because as I said FP are making it very difficult to get them here, then they wonder why their profits are dipping, dumb arse company.

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(08-31-2024, 08:55 AM)Super Wrote: Haha....shows you how much this old man pays attention...I don't even remember you collecting Minis Nigel. 🤔

Back in the day when you walk in a store and buy them I was, I was even hunting our rarer ones online, but when they became as rare as hens teeth in the stores only to disappear almost totally (apart from old stock here and there) after the pandemic I was sort of forced to give up collecting them.  The cost of importing them was way too high.

Well, it seems having looked on eBay the other day was a mistake as shown by these;

Found this bundle, a rather nice collectors case with 58 mini's of all sorts...








Then a few days later another little bundle;

So you bought it Nigels?

Yes, bought both of those bundles and the one below which turned up today...







Means I've added over 200 mini's to my collection in the last fortnight or so lol!!!

LOL..." I Gave Up Collecting Mini's"