I'd have included pen and paper lists if I thought anyone used them for more than groceries and project-specific parts and materials lists, so sure, that counts. Also, all these people too busy doing productive things to bother with a wish list or filling it, tch,you're making me look even worse... 
I hardly go a day without thinking of some possible but unlikely project or just an odd thing and searching a bit to see what exists related to it, then tossing some of the more interesting ones on a list.
Or see a cool toy and spend half an hour finding its exact rank in the ever-longer queue of cool toys I'll never have the money to buy all of, mostly Transformers because they're like little twisty puzzles that are actually a thing on either end instead of just a geometric pattern of colours or a mess of mixed up ones. I'm much happier since finally getting over mourning the collection stretching back to the original 80s debut, but also even more pressed on what was already a rather limited budget. The corporate overlords are perfectly willing to put a price on that and get me to pay it again and again; not every toy is a winner but the last, hm, five or six years, maybe back as far as 2015, have been full of bangers that there's no way I'll be able to catch up on before they're priced into the stratosphere on the collector's aftermarket.
That's without even going into store or convention exclusives or the third-party scene, which is a world of madness unto itself, with four inch figures regularly asking $60-90 US at MSRP and running up to around a thousand for sets of five or six in the seven to ten inch range that combine into a single giant the size of a small child. I put it out of my mind and forgot which one of those I looked up yesterday and didn't see a single ebay listing under $1500, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't even one of those group sets, or out of production for an entire year yet.
Picking which ones to bring along made real as companions would be very difficult beyond the first handful, and weeding it down to just that many, even on the basis of pure utility out of the varied special skills and abilities let alone favourite characters, would be worse.
I hardly go a day without thinking of some possible but unlikely project or just an odd thing and searching a bit to see what exists related to it, then tossing some of the more interesting ones on a list. Or see a cool toy and spend half an hour finding its exact rank in the ever-longer queue of cool toys I'll never have the money to buy all of, mostly Transformers because they're like little twisty puzzles that are actually a thing on either end instead of just a geometric pattern of colours or a mess of mixed up ones. I'm much happier since finally getting over mourning the collection stretching back to the original 80s debut, but also even more pressed on what was already a rather limited budget. The corporate overlords are perfectly willing to put a price on that and get me to pay it again and again; not every toy is a winner but the last, hm, five or six years, maybe back as far as 2015, have been full of bangers that there's no way I'll be able to catch up on before they're priced into the stratosphere on the collector's aftermarket.
That's without even going into store or convention exclusives or the third-party scene, which is a world of madness unto itself, with four inch figures regularly asking $60-90 US at MSRP and running up to around a thousand for sets of five or six in the seven to ten inch range that combine into a single giant the size of a small child. I put it out of my mind and forgot which one of those I looked up yesterday and didn't see a single ebay listing under $1500, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't even one of those group sets, or out of production for an entire year yet.
Picking which ones to bring along made real as companions would be very difficult beyond the first handful, and weeding it down to just that many, even on the basis of pure utility out of the varied special skills and abilities let alone favourite characters, would be worse.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus