Welcome aboard Snowhawk. I have to say that your story reminded me of my brother and I when we started collecting Star Wars. He got his first figure and that's how we got hooked. Each time our mother would get us a figure we would go back to the cardbacks and decide what each of us would pick. We never fought, except for that one time that there was a 5 figures for 5$ special at Simpsons, andmy brother always found a way to convince our mother that he would get 3 and me 2. I remember laughing as my brother was lying to my face! Yes I took it very well as a kid and i still cant believe I managed to. He got married 15 years later, and he just couldn't keep the toys so he asked me if I could keep them all, including the few Joes that we had, and I was made Safekeeper of our collection. A few years ago he realized I became a serious collector and decide to leave it all to me. My brother still appreciates what I collect, especially the seeminglessly never ending ARAH collection, it reminds him also so much and he actually plans a visit to my place whenever I get something that we used to have or wished we had as kids (collecting Star Wars and gi joe was very expensive for us back then).