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5 years 11 months ago
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From Arachknight's sad but true department.
I had over 100 X-Men action figures. Original figures, box set figures, Wizard exclusive figures, and home made custom figures. Multiple figures of certain characters. For instance, I had Angel/Archangel in every costume he ever wore from this school uniform to his Archangel costume. I had customs of the original X-Factor, Magneto in his rarely worn purple costume with the big white M on it, Collosus wearing his red military inspired costume from the 80's. I had a shit load of them.
Well when I moved into the place I live in now, I didn't have enough wall space to place my X-Men collection on shelves so I kept them all in a giant Rubbermaid container. My daughters kept getting into the container and messing with my figures. They never broke any of them, but I kept thinking to myself 'I need to put this thing in my closet'.
Six months go by.
I decide to open my Rubbermaid container and admire my collection, since I hadn't done that in over a month. When I opened the container I almost fell on my ass by a massive stench of ammonia. Covering my mouth and nose with a town I looked closely inside the container to see a thick yellow liquid at the bottom of the container. Apparently, at some point in time, my container had been opened (probably by my girls) and our cat had used the container as a litter box, and instead of telling me what happened, the lid was placed back on and sealed. So for at least a month my beloved collection of figures was sitting in a Rubbermaid container full of cat urine.
My collection was completely RUINED! 15 years worth of collecting and customizing (not to mention all the money I had spent on them) went right down the crapper. I tried to clean the figures up but no matter how much I cleaned them they just wreaked of cat piss.    |
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[color=blue]YOU MIGHT THINK I'M ALONE IN MY ADULATION OF SPIDER-MAN. YOU MIGHT THINK THAT I'M SOMEHOW SOCIALLY OR EMOTIONALLY RETARDED TO STILL HAVE SUCH GREAT PASSION FOR SOMETHING AIMED, ESSENTIALLY, AT CHILDREN, AND CREATED ALMOST 50 YEARS AGO.
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