Do you catch up on missed toy purchases?

This blog post is a follow up from an earlier one that I posted a few days ago - “Did you ever regret from delayed buying of toys?”

What I mean is that at some stages of your toy collecting hobby, you tell yourself that you want to take a break or stop collecting a toyline altogether.  Then some months or years later, you suddenly feel that you really want those toys (that you had intentionally skipped) after all.

This happened to me for the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) 2007 Exclusive Super Hero My Little Pony (left).  She was available for sale at a local toy shop for a reasonable price that year but I skipped her, thinking that I didn’t wish to collect so many ponies anymore. Then I regretted my decision in the following year and I had to import her myself for a slightly higher price, and with some hassle.

Another scenario is when you see the toys you want at great abundance in every retail store you go, that you feel no hurry to get them.  You assume that the toys will still be there when you have the time to go back and buy them, or perhaps after you clear some space at home first before buying it.  You even procrastinate for months and even years, or forgot about it.

Then the inevitable happens - the toys you wanted were sold out or no longer available in all the retail stores, except in the resale market for much higher prices.  But you want those toys so badly that you put in last ditch efforts to hunt for them, and hopefully find them in some isolated store at the original retail prices or less.  If not, you’ve got to buy them at resale prices for $x more, but you will get them, at last.

So do you catch up on missed toy purchases too?  Or are you able to really totally forget them and just move on, never to ever turn back and hunt for them at all?  Do feel free to share your comments here!