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First off I guess I'll come clean. The last movie toy that I bought was either Brawn, Bludgeon, or that Deluxe Ratchet, either way a movie toy hasn't progressed into my collection for a very long time.

Despite the lack of activity with movie toys I still have quite the pile from the entire 2007 and ROTF lines. And I know it'll stop there. Even if we have a second trilogy I simply can't put myself through collecting another movie cast and getting what I want by digging through the aisles of Bumblebees. Even if I stumble upon a small fortune of money I can`t find myself backtracking into DOTM or whatever lies ahead for us in this genre of Movie Transformers.

Yet with the properties of the Unicron Trilogy and Beasties being absent for years I wonder why I don`t feel disenchantment with the majority of toys that I have of them.. and I guess there`s two things;

1) Did I really like movie toys? - A ton of people, and not just myself, were thrust back into collecting during a time when the only thing that we could collect back in '07 was movie toys. We needed that fix and while eBay and BBTS may have been alluring there's nothing faster than picking up toys at retail. Looking back that happiness and ecstasy of collecting toys clouded my judgement, I remember I made a thread about how '07 Voyager SS was the best Transformer ever.

2) Never having the perfect toy - You buy Armada Deluxe Blurr and you're done with that character for the rest of your life. You buy '07 Voyager Prime? Well he's going to be upstaged months later in a bigger class, and then a few months later in a Premium subline and then two years later he'll get redone in both classes. It's exponential for all of these movie characters. I'm stuck with a bunch of figures that are rejects compared to their ROTF/DOTM brethren and I just don't have the effort or time to go through the process of selling them and buying character mold upgrades. I'm not willing to own two or three versions of a character and mix and match parts for the perfect version. Just not me. o>:oP

Being a toy collctor, when I watch, read, play or think about a series, such as Gundam, Transformers, Halo or what not - always in my mind there has to be some sort of toy attached to my thinking. With Transformers Prime, and past cartoons - I can always go back and watch the cartoons and feel nostalgic about the series and appreciate the toys. With the movieverse, I can't backtrack. I'm not in the camp where I thought the movies were batshit terrible, I did enjoy them from a Transformers fan standpoint, but from a Transformers fan standpoint I'll take watching a cartoon like Animated or Prime than having to go through the movies again.

I'm well behind alot of you in bringing down the guillotine with movie toys in a collection, but I just haven't though about detaching myself from Transformers that I owned. Perhaps that's all I need to do - just forget about Transformers movie toys and turn that plastic back into cash.

So, I guess a question I'll throw at you guys is what has become of your Transformers Movie toy collections? Have you sold it all on eBay or are you still going strong? And if you are going strong, how do you do it?

I bought the ones I liked and just passed on those I didn't. I didn't bother buying every retool or upgrade of every toy either, just to much money for not enough return.

After ROTF, I started getting tired of buying that "better" version of Bee, or "the upgraded Sideswipe with the guns." By the time the DOTM line appeared, I was pretty much ready to call it quits.

Kind of off-topic, but Takara wasn't doing me any favors either with their "rebooted" MP-10 Convoy.

njb902 wrote:I bought the ones I liked and just passed on those I didn't. I didn't bother buying every retool or upgrade of every toy either, just to much money for not enough return.

Agree on this.

I really like my movieverse figures, and three shelves of my display cabinet are mostly those (plus the odd crossovers like Brawn, Banzai-tron, Terradive, Hailstorm and Lockdown). One shelf is just Generations/RTS, and all Autobots (Wreckers-ish, plus Seaspray, Jazz, Warpath and Guzzle).

I don't really follow the line anymore, and didn't really pick up that much from DOTM, although I did buy Leader Sentinel last week, as it was on sale.
In terms of doubles, I own Recon Ironhide and the DOTM Voyager, and the ROTF and HFTD Sideswipe (ROTF was my first figure, with Sideways, whom I still adore). I carefully waited for the 'better' options, so as to get Battle Blades OP and Battle Blade BB, for example.


I'd say it was nice until it lasted, but I'm not a completist, and happy with going on with Prime and Generations now.

Mykltron wrote:I love the designs, mostly so I still love my Movie collection. As for figures being released in different classes, that suits me fine as my collection falls into different scales. Displaying leader OP next to voyager Blackout looks terrible so they go on different shelves. I don't need to buy the new repaint of the same mold cos they added shiny silver bits cos I can do that myself.

As for your question "are you still going strong? And if you are going strong, how do you do it?" the answer is 'just cos I love them!'. I'm not forcing myself to!

I agree with your sentiments. I don't have a ton of movie stuff, but what I have I really like. I still can't get over how good Laserbeak looks combined with Dotm voyager OP!

I too still love having my movie figures i pretty much have every figure from first 2 movies and i have no regrets

As for DOTM i picked up all the new characters the last i got was Soundwave and i just bought Wheeljack and i would still buy Leadfoot,Vortex and Skywarp

For me there was a couple of great figures in the DOTM line but there was just no excitement collecting it were as i loved collecting ROTF from the first to last wave i was obsessed i just got the last 2 scout repaints i needed.

My movie toys are nearly gone.

I realized that while I enjoyed collecting them during the films, there's no staying power in these figures for me.

Just out the 3PF Headrobots makes movie figures exciting to have nothing better than and upgrade.

My judgment became clouded as well during the first film. It was the first time since I was a kid that I started buying Transformers again. Of course I didn't have any kids at the time and the figures were a little more reasonably priced so it wasn't AS big a deal. I ended up getting all the main Autobots and Decepticons. I rarely buy two of the same character regardless of class- saves money for different characters. However with today's prices I find myself really having to discern between what is something I really want and something that is cool in the moment but has no staying power. It's what I wrestle with when it comes to TF Prime. They're just not the be all end all versions of these characters. This is wy I've pretty much widdled it down to MP. DOTM was really disappointing for me- Shockwave was really the only one I wanted. Today I have no movie figs whatsoever and I really don't care. Maybe if TF4 fixes some things the DOTM got wrong (like maybe a new Leader Prime that improves on the ROTF one) I might pick it up. But other than that- US release of MP 10 is what I'm saving for.