Love can be a funny thing.
I've been a Transformers fan for literally as long as I can remember. Over the years, my lifelong love of the franchise and ongoing fascination with the lore has led me to curate a collection of amazing toys, books, artwork and more. In more recent years it's given me the chance to join a community of excellent people (and for that in particular I consider myself incredibly lucky).
Yet despite all of this, I've had one foot out of the collecting game since late 2020.
It wasn’t a deliberate choice to get out of collecting, like in the same way that you choose to stop smoking. I didn't wake up one day and decide it was time to stop buying toys.
Looking back on it now with a few years perspective it was, simply, burn out. And it all hinged on one single tipping point.