Hello friends and fellow Toy Hounds. It’s been a while! I’m going to gas on a bit about FigureFanZero and I’ll intersperse my thoughts with some quick snaps of the new Toy Room, which is still a work in progress!

So, it’s been about nine months since my last check in, and a full year as of this week since my last regular review was posted. If you’ve ever uprooted yourself and moved to a different State, then you probably know that it’s a pretty disruptive thing. And to be honest, I wish I could lean more heavily on that as an excuse, but all things considered my move went extremely smooth and it took me very little time to settle in and feel at home. There were many times over the past months where I wanted to get back to some kind of regular posting here. I even shot a whole bunch of pictures for some reviews that may or may not ever get seen. The truth is while I have enjoyed every minute of the decade and a half that I’ve spent working on this toy blog, it’s always kind of been a “tiger by the tail situation.” Or perhaps more like spinning plates and needing to keep them spinning lest the whole thing come crashing down. And I kept that going for about 15 years. But, once the routine was interrupted, I began spending time getting back into reading and playing my backlog of video games, and realized that I didn’t want to be chained to the deadlines anymore. And I’m the kind of person that doesn’t do well without deadlines.

I haven’t lost my love of toy collecting. If you follow me on X then you’ve seen pictures of new stuff I’ve been getting in. I have kicked some lines to the curb and tried to curtail the stuff I’ve been buying with varying degrees of success. With the Toy Room taking shape, I have a planned finite space for the collection right now, but come Spring I’ll be starting to convert my garage into living space so I can expand some display space there.

I do want to be clear that I’m not packing in the site. I’ll continue to keep it up and running and I do intend to contribute to it again, once I get what that will be figured out. I’m still working more than I would like and more than I need to, so that’s one area that may eventually give me some additional time. Ultimately I’d like to commit to a few times a month. Maybe weekly and just showing off some stuff that I got in or I want to talk about and see where things go from there. I don’t think I will ever return to the old format, but you never know. I think I put off this post as long as I did because I had hoped to bring something more definitive to the table. But in the end, I just know that I’m not ready to come back to it yet, but I hope to be in the future.

Lastly, I want to send out my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has stopped by here over the years. I’ve made some great friends and really enjoyed receiving Emails, Comments, an DMs from all over. It’s a wonderful thing to be able to share my passion for toys and collectibles. I’ve loved seeing pictures of people’s collections, and hearing their own stories. This is not Goodbye. I will make a commitment to be back a few weeks into the New Year with something. FFZ is my baby, and I could never abandon it.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and thanks again!