I collect waaay more than just Joes, and my friends all know it and have no problem with it. My best friend collects lots of toys too (though no Joes), and we all read comic books, so it's nothing unusual in our circles.

My mom collects toys too, mainly re-buying stuff from her childhood, and picking up whatever looks interesting when she's at Toys R Us. I've actually used some of her stuff in the Joe/TF story (Spike's pickup truck and the office cubicles in the very first scene, to name two). I think my dad thinks it's sort of weird, but he's never said anything about it. My brother doesn't buy toys of his own, but he loves to check mine out whenever I get something new.

I don't have a significant other, so I can't speak to that part. All I can say is, she'd better be okay with, or at least indifferent to it, because if not, that's grounds for breaking up!

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