{"id":22293,"date":"2013-01-06T22:28:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=22293"},"modified":"2013-07-01T04:20:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T09:20:42","slug":"truetorial-space-the-final-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsalltrue.net\/?p=22293","title":{"rendered":"Truetorial: Space.
The Final Frontier…"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a> I probably could write a whole series on the \u201cJoys<\/em> of Moving Your Toy Collection\u201d, so keep that in mind as you indulge me in this, only <\/em>the second installment. As of today, mostly nearly everything I own is in my garage. It\u2019s in my garage because I have no idea what to do with my new “office”. <\/p>\n

My wife and I have entered the unpacking phase of our move. Nearly everything is out of the old house and moved to the new, but we decided early on to use the new garage as a staging area. A two-car garage had been a stalwart part of our \u201cwish list\u201d even after my car accident last November robbing of my need for a parking space. As such, the two-car garage we did get became a great place to quickly stack up the boxes and allow us to worry about unpacking later. <\/p>\n\n\n
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If I have any advice for future movers, it\u2019s to never do that. Every time that we\u2019ve needed something this weekend, it\u2019s been buried under stuff that you have no idea why we took with this other than it being, unfortunately, our property. <\/p>\n

It made sense at the time. You go to your closet and start packing your clothes; your primary thread repertoire is up front and finds its way into a box and gets loaded up. As you dig deeper into the closet you find that JLA shirt that doesn\u2019t quite fit you or that really cool online-bought shirt that ended up being too thin, but you just have to keep it, sort of like a printed meme. Those get boxed up and moved next. And inevitably, the box with the current clothes gets put behind or under the box with the old clothes. My wife is ultra-organized. It\u2019s often joked that I have undiagnosed OCD. And yet here we are, our favorite clothes lost in a sea of cardboard when we have to be at work within the hour. Ugh. <\/p>\n

This has also been true of my toy collection. My MOTUCs \u2013 I couldn\u2019t tell you where they are right now. I can\u2019t see the giant tub they\u2019re in, but I assume it\u2019s in there. Meanwhile, I\u2019ve got easy access to some older items that make me seriously question my past self\u2019s purchasing decisions. I mean, I didn\u2019t even watch X-Files.<\/em> I try to look on the bright side, perhaps Mulder & Scully will come in handy here in future IAT photos or maybe I\u2019ll get $5 out of an eBay X-Files lot. <\/p>\n\n\n
This is here for a reason, trust me.<\/caption\n\n
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My collection being inserted backwards into my garage makes me really take note of what I\u2019ve done all these years. I, as I well know, have way too much stuff. My parents weren\u2019t happy helping me move it. My wife is not happy seeing it in physical form in the garage. And, heck, I\u2019m not all that happy about it myself. I could\u2019ve told you this last week, maybe I did, even I don\u2019t need this much. Many of these toys will need to find themselves new homes with new kids and collectors soon. Many have been boxed up for far too long. Many just can\u2019t be appreciated as individual pieces among the chorus that is my collection. And so, looking at it, I know I\u2019ll be doing plenty of trimming and selling in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s funny to me. Because for the first time in a long time, since before my brother was born and I had my own room, I haven\u2019t had this much space to display all my toys. The new house, among its rooms, affords me a little 10×10 room for a personal office. I\u2019m not sure why I need an office. Maybe I could finally manage to get myself published or at least have a quiet space to work on IAT as we rev up the engines here in 2013, but I do have one. <\/p>\n\n\n
Prolly shoulda taken the batteries out of the box.<\/caption>\n
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I\u2019m pretty stoked. If nothing else, this will mark the first time in my life that my writing\/work desk and my art desk are in the same room; that the art desk will actually be propped up and not a flat surface for whatever. It\u2019s going to be sweet. And there\u2019s going to be toys. Oh, there will be toys. <\/p>\n

But which toys? Well, that I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve got a lot to go through and it\u2019s going to take awhile, particularly those boxes of random\/loose cellar toys I had to box up in a hurry (I\u2019m thinking of turning those into a strange finds type column here at IAT). I\u2019m going to get some new shelving and it\u2019s going to be grand. But where do I start in reassembling my collection? Well, unlike all the other quandaries I\u2019m facing, that was one actually pretty easy. <\/p>\n\n\n
To Sticker, or not to Sticker?<\/caption>\n
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If you\u2019ve been patiently reading along with me, you\u2019ve no doubt questioned why this article is being accompanied by strange pictures of a golden Enterprise-D. When I was a kid and Playmates was plugging away at Star Trek, my parents did a great job of spoiling me with that line. I love that line even to this day. It, more than anything, helped me transition from playing with toys to collecting action figures. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s silly to look back on it now with the individually numbered packaging and collectible cards, pogs, and whatnot that Playmates added to make them collectible instead of just making a line of Trek toys, but it totally worked back in the day. Everybody bought those things, wave after wave, ship after ship, and now\u2026 well, now it\u2019s all pretty worthless because they made plenty of everything and everyone has it. But! It was a great line in its heyday. It had an impressive character selection, a great range of ships and props, and I\u2019d probably still have bought more if Playmates had the ability to go back and make anything remotely compatible. <\/p>\n

Among the many toys my parents bought me for those early 90s birthdays and Christmases was this ship. It\u2019s trying to be a lot fancier than it really is. It\u2019s just a simple gold recolor of the standard Enterprise-D toy. It did include a stand and a little shiny plate pointing out it was limited to 50k (how many toy companies would kill to be able to make\/sell 50k units of anything today)<\/em>, but it was really just one more ship in the line at the time. One with limited playability unless you concocted \u201cThe Gold-Plated Incident\u201d or \u201cOperation: 24 Karat\u201d in your home adventures. <\/p>\n

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But I loved it. I didn\u2019t see it like the other ships. To me, it was more like a prop. The show regularly featured gold-painted models in the backgrounds of offices and quarters. They didn\u2019t have red plastic bussard ramscoops and deflector dishes, but I didn\u2019t care. I resolved to keep this guy in box until I had somewhere nice to display it. And for a long while, it became one of only two toys to stay in their package in my young \u201ccollection\u201d. <\/p>\n

That was about twenty years ago. In all the moves, in the all the backs-and-forths, and changes to how and what I collect, this Enterprise always stayed somewhere known. It was stored, but never under, behind, or in the back. I\u2019m not sure which box my Bird-of-Prey is in or that even sillier Battle-Damaged Enterprise with pop-up off panels and fake damage, but I knew exactly where this gold Enterprise was. When it came to the new house, it came alongside my Hot Toys, my Masterpiece Transformers, etc.. Stuff that probably shouldn\u2019t ever be in the same box or trunk as a toy that I could probably get on eBay for less than my parents paid for it twenty years ago, but that\u2019s what I gave it. <\/p>\n

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And today, with that room still empty. My art desk and toy shelf in the garage to be cleaned and my work desk still at my old, internet-ready place so I can update the site, I moved in my first toy. I cut the twenty-year old tape and opened the box. I quickly discovered a smarter kid would\u2019ve opened it twenty-years ago and pulled out the included batteries, but nothing was amiss on the toy itself. And it was great to open a “new” ship after all this time. It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s a silly toy and my wife got a good chuckle out of that little golden Enterprise sitting all alone in what will ultimately be my office, but I\u2019ll take it all in stride. It\u2019s going to get plenty of company soon enough, but for now I think it looks great in there. <\/p>\n

It is going to have to give up that center spot in the carpet though. That\u2019s just not feasible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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