Well, I´m from germany and I don´t really know how good or bad my english is, but I hope, it´s understandable and not too confusing
I have to confess, that I´ve never been a Rainbow Brite Fan. As a kid, I remember having had one of those (I guess he was lavender or blue and had a hat) sprites, but I never listened to the cassettes or watched the cartoon. My pleasure was (and still is) for He-Man and She-Ra. I always knew of Rainbow Brite Stuff to exist, but as they were "just Dolls" they did not gather my Interest too much.
When I grew up, all my "Kid´s Stuff" disappreared over the years and I did not spend even a thought on them for almost ten years. I don´t really know why, but one day, I sat at my PC - I must have been about 23 or 24 - and clicked a bit through ebay. That was the day I - just for fun and just because it kinda reminded me of my childhood - bought a She-Ra Action Figure for a few Euros.
That was the day it all began and i got the totally fever of buying back all of those things I loved so much when I was a kid.
It started with She-Ra and He-Man Figures, went over to Smurfs, Batman and Golden Girl and led to the discovery of Big Jim.
I love collection that stuff. I cannot spend too much money on this, but I´m always very happy when I discover something missing on my collection on ebay for a "normal" price, so over the years it grew and grew.
One day, not too long ago, I got a package from ebay with different 80s stuff (I usually keep a few things which are missing to my collection and put the rest back on ebay). In it was a story tape of Rainbow Brite.
As I like audio books a lot, I listened to it. I have to say, I did not like it too much. It wasn´t bad, but a bit over the top. However, I liked it enough to wanted to hear more, so I bought more tapes and my Interest in Rainbow Brite grew. I still think the tape-series is by far not the best ever made (to be honest, it´s not even good), but it´s kinda fun listening to and what is even more important: I fell in love with Rainbow Land.
The next step was watching the cartoon, which had a too small number of episodes I think. Then I watched the movie which is great I think.
For a while, I thought about trying to buy that little lavender (or was he blue?) sprite on ebay, but then again I thought this would be too childish. Okay, I collect He-Man and so on, but they are Action-Figures - these are dolls...so I decided against it.
Instead I discovered that there are smaller figures of Rainbow Brite (like smurfs) and I chose to collect them.
So I did, but I was kinda disapointed, because only very few charakters are available as those smuf-size figures and I soon wanted more.
Again on ebay I placed bets on some sprites (okay, they are still dolls, but I can place them somewhere not too striking in my "collecting-room"...maybe...). I placed only 1 or 2 euros on each, without really thinking of winning an auction - but I did! I won a white small one with a hat and a bigger blue one (a girl).
Well, they arrieved yesterday. They are (to me) in a very good condition and I cannot do anything, but really liking them (especially the white one - he´s now sitting on my desk and watching me writing
. So now: I officially surrender. I want more and no matter how childish this is, but I´ll try to buy some more on ebay (if any visitor ever wonders, I can call them precious collectior´s items instead of dolls, can´t I?
By the way, maybe someone here can help me out: Is there a good website out there, where I can find out, which Rainbow Brite Items exist? A kind of collector´s guide. I know about Rainbow Brite herself, 9 color kids and sprites in each of the kid´s colours (always a big and a small one I guess). Then the two bad guys, the horse and the smurf-size figures. But a complete (and comprehensive) guide would be great. So if anyone knows, please tell me.
Whoo, now I´m tired from typing - so this is all for now
