You know you are crazy about toys when…

1) Your immediate living space is filled or rather packed with your toys.  That includes your bedroom, the dining or living rooms, and even your car!  Do beware of putting toys in your car cos they might fade when exposed to sunlight for too long.

2) Your PC, laptop and mobile phone wallpapers are all photos of your favourite toys, or are at least the animated pictures of your toy characters.  You also have the habit of taking interesting toy photos with your mobile phone or digital camera whenever you go.

3) Your work desk at home or in the office are ‘decorated’ at least a few of your toys to please yourself at work, and also to show everyone who walks past what your hobby is.  Some colleagues might tease you for it and some bosses may not have favourable opinions.  If your boss or colleagues happen to be toy collectors too, then good for you!

4) You spend the majority of your online hours surfing the internet for more or the latest information of toys you collect.  You read toy blogs, visit toy forums, check out toy websites selling toys or gather news of latest toys releases, and toy events etc., on a daily basis.  Your close circle of online and offline friends are mostly toy collectors!

5) You make at least a weekly ‘pilgrimage’ to the departmental stores at Orchard Road and other suburban malls to check if their toy departments have stocked up with the latest toys you want.  You also know which days of the week the departmental stores bring in new toys to re-stock their shelves.  You even give your contact number to the store staff to call you when new stocks arrive so that you can rush down immediately to check out their new stuff before other ‘competing’ toy collectors come along.

6) You visit the weekly Sunday toy market at China Square Central almost every week or at least once a month to see ‘what’s new’ there.  Your regular toy sellers there will also inform you if they have the toys you want.  Now you have new daily-opened dynamic toy place to check out and that’s at Toy Outpost.  This place never fails to surprise me with new things whenever I visit it.  I just spotted Bolt plush toys there yesterday.

7) You dream about your toys in your sleep.  What you think about frequently during your waking hours will tend to appear in your dreams too.  Sometimes you even ‘believe’ that your toys can ‘come to life’ and talk to you, or have their own lives and adventures in your room when you are asleep, or not around.  When you reach this stage, you are super obsessed already.

8 ) You start to conjure up and write fanfics about your toys.  You give them personalities and have them interact with other toys to ‘tell a story’.  I think most collectors only do this in their minds.  Some will feature their toyfics on their blogs with well-shot photos and interesting dialogue.  Others have filmed toyfic videos using their toys (E.g. My Little Transformer).

I wanted to write more but I’m exhausted already.  So I end this blog post here.  The more I write about this topic, the more “crazy about toys” I feel I am.  Incidentally, this was my very first header title for my blog!  So do you feel that you are “crazy about toys”?