Stage 2/5 of collecting toys: The Rapid Growth stage
This is usually the stage the toy collector’s logic thinking fly out the window and ‘uncontrolled’ emotions take over the head. Nothing can stop the Rapid Growth collector from getting the toys on his or her want list. This is when the learning curve is the steepest, and yet it is no sweat for the Rapid Growth collector because the more information there is, the merrier. The ’sponge’ in their ‘highly obsessed mind’ is all ready to soak up every related information that is available.
At this stage, the Rapid Growth collector will also seek out all available graphics/posters and use them to adorn his or her belongings/online signatures/personal space, like the laptop wallpaper, screensaver, desktop icons, and bedroom etc. The more artistic ones will doodle a collection of related artwork, scan them into their laptops to color them and use them as their own custom graphic files. The list of activities that the Rapid Growth collector engages in is endless.
This is also when the Rapid Growth collector embarks on a ‘die hard’ mission to buy up all the common characters/pieces of the toyline that are still available in the physical and online stores/flea mart/toy fairs/Ebay, so as to build up and complete as many sets as possible. Of course this period is when the toy collection grows the fastest. The time taken to complete this stage can take from easily within a week to within a year.
The non-toy collectors would use the layman terms like ‘obssessed’, ‘madness’, possessed’ etc. to describe the Rapid Growth toy collector. This is also when the Rapid Growth toy collector temporarily ‘banishes’ his or her non-toy collector friends and loved ones to the ‘outer circle’ and ‘promotes’ his or her new toy community friends into the ‘inner circle’. It will take some till the Rapid Growth toy collectors pass this ‘obsessive’ stage before they resume ‘normal communications’ with their non-toy collector friends and family.
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