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I'm sorry, did I follow a link to Shortpacked! by mistake? If I didn't know that it was Dumbing of Age, it would have been indistinguishable from dozens of similar interactions between them in the older strip.
The same occurred to me. DoA has made small references to Amber and Ethan being into toy collecting, but not recently at all.
It was a big thing for Amber, I think, when she first appeared, though her obsession was more with that TV show based on It's Walky that I can't remember, with a monkey. Monkey Master? I dunno. I never made it through that chunk of the Walky-verse.
Ethan, though, I can't remember any specific Dumbing of Age references to him collecting toys. I mean, I maybe do, but I might be confusing DoA with Shortpacked!?
In other news, it's weird ending a question with a title that requires an exclamation point. A simple question became an interrobang, and for once, I didn't intend to do it to show outrage and disbelief.