Gok,

It's not about the number either, whether its 100 or 1000. Not really bothered in the least about that. That's why I've never deigned to count my collection in any official or unofficial way. I know the ballpark number of TFs I have - but its just a that, a number. Personally, I'd attach more significance to quality than the number.

I get the 25 years dedication thing.

Don't forget that like you, I, too, was there in 1984 when G1 hit the shelves.

Like many others, I too rushed home from school to catch More Than Meets the Eye Part 1 when it first screened. I dragged my mum to the newsstand every Monday night to buy me a copy of Marvel UK. I cajoled my grandmother to travel an hour on the bus and to pay $18 for the TPB version of Marvel's Transformers Universe. I also almost died to acquire Motormaster.

The memories are priceless. The experience(s) are priceless.

Dedication arguably isn't. Dedication to a self-serving cause (which collecting is), isn't priceless. It's not priceless because it is a value that you ascribe to an action that you can resolve to take, for-your-self.