I'm pretty much a post consumer now. I used to collect star wars figures, gi joe, had everything TSR ever printed and every issue of Starlog and Fangoria. Too old for pogs and pokemon, never got into comic books. Now I look at things like that and just see a great way that someone figured out how to get other people to buy things irrationally. It's sad for me to look at it from that angle now because I was way happier when I was looking forward to the release of the next 'thing' that could go into the collection.