well I was asleep for 80% of it, yesterday's volleyball killed me.
When I woke up I decided to looked through amazon for the Pokemon Original Movie since I haven't seen it in such a long time...
What shocked me was, the DVD costs 125.00 on Amazon.ca... which is like REALLY? My childhood memory is worth 125.00? So I decided to just download it from Youtube. I'm saving that movie for my trip to Ottawa on Canada day, so I can't really say if it was worth the 125.00 it was requested on Amazon.
Now this makes me think, why do we go back to our childhood? I remember when I was a kid, I wanted to throw away all my toys. I didn't want my gameboy anymore, or my xbox, or any of my Pokemon or Digimon cards... or even my Transformers. Now I see them all over ebay for hundreds of dollars... Well actually theres Depth Charge, a transformer I was dying to have as a kid that is being sold for 60... so its not SO bad, but I have no physical use for it, why would I want to buy it?
Well let me tell you the story of the Science Centre trip I did this year. Traditionally me and Patrick go to the Science Centre every year, that's where we first met, and every year it gets worse... this year we thought they had hope with their new video game exhibit... which I sadly have to admit, I was very disappointed. It was like they went to a 30 year old's closet and picked their worst games ever. Who da hell plays Japanese haiku Atari game, where you stare at the screen and imagine its the sea -_-.
Anyways so while there, I was playing with Patrick and James on NBA JAM the original one and I saw a small TV. It was Yellow and I my jaw dropped. I ran to it pushing kids away and going, "ITS MINE B*TCHES*" and I started playing Pokemon Yellow. It was the FIRST gameboy game I ever owned, but it was in Japanese so I never understood how to play it properly. My starting line up was Nidoking, Charizard, Blastoise, Aerodactyl, Zapdos, and Articuno. [... I released Pikachu cause he wouldn't evolve into one of my favourite pokemon Raichu... I was so stupid]. So when I saw the game I almost went into tears, and to this date I've been looking through every single one of my shelves to find my old gamboy to play those treasured moments.
Today everyone's realizing how we are stupid when we were kids to throw out our childhood toys. Some people call this hording, others call this growing up. But when we grow up we start to miss those toys we use to keep.
These days when I find something special, I will pick it up. I have some ancient 1970s Charlie Brown comics, and some classic Battle Bots toys to remind myself of my child hood. Why? Well let me answer my previous question, I love my old toys because
1) It's like an ex girlfriend, what if you had it.... but you don't so curiosity hits you
2) Its rare and unique... kinda.
3) Well if a picture is worth a thousand words, having it in person must be worth more.
4) It's like family now... it means a lot to have around to remember who you were before
5) Well when I was a kid my parents got it for me... now I make my own money, I want to buy it myself
To be honest I do wish sometimes I have kept some of my toys, because their values have increased so much over the years, like my stupid limited edition card is worth 50.00 now than its 2.00 value i paid for. But then again, would I sell it? Would money make me happy for selling these memories... or would I keep it for my future kids one day, and they would sell it.
But ye, this is coming from the guy who spent 60.00 on the Digimon season 1 DVD set...
I guess memories are one of our major weaknesses to buying something. #Marketing101
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