Collecting

Besides any dark blue, light blue, brown, or grey tracks, are there any other sorts of toys you collect or possess? Any stories behind them? How do you collect? How do you display or store them?

If there are toys that many members share an popular interest in, then maybe they can get their own thread.

Things that I have:

• LEGO (mainly the Harry Potter, CITY, and Creator ranges)
  
• Doctor Who (Character Building micro-figures, cherry-picked 5" action figures, and miscellaneous things like a few little models)
  
• Nintendo, specifically Mario. (I have a shelf devoted to Nintendo and it's mainly taken up by these little figurines PopCo made.)
  
• Mighty Beanz original range (I was really into these as a child and have a lot of Series 1 and the rare Bodz series you had to mail tokens from milk cartons to recieve. Also have a lot of carry cases, Trick Tracks and two race course sets. I haven't payed much attention to the relaunched 2010 series but if I see them second hand, I will get them)
  
• The Simpsons (a small amount of things like figures, fast food toys, but many of the things which came with potato chips like Tazo Pickers)
  
• Crazy Bones (I was really into the Things/Aliens series and I have a special magazine full of the stickers the bags contained)
  
• Various cars (a small mixed bag of Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and no name die-cast cars I've had since I was little. I also have a Shell petrol station, and a few larger wooden and plastic cars. I've lost interest in these so I'm going to get rid of most of them.)
  
• Happy Meal Snoopy toys (One of the few Happy Meal toys I've kept. I managed to get all of them during the first promotion and a few for the smaller second one. I hear they are quite valueable now.)
  
• Robopet and Roboraptor made by Wow Wee Toys (I love these! Even though I don't use them anymore and they are not in good shape, I want to keep these)
  

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