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I have all but three wrestling figures open. I love fiddling with them and playing with them. It's how I enjoy my hobby.

The first paragraph said it all. When I see a G1 on ebay still in the box and graded, it's like Taps is playing in the background each time. These toys were meant to be taken out of the package and played with. They are 2 (or sometimes more) toys in one package for Cybertron's sake!....

I have about 50/60 sealed pieces, mostly the Hasbro Commemorative and the TFC collections. Why ? I never intend on opening them or selling them, they're displayed sealed and I intend to keep them that way. Again, my preference.
I have my G1, Encore and eBay toys for display & play purposes .
I have a few select pieces that i also keep sealed such as Henkei Wildrider & the Henkei Exclusives. The movie, animated and Classics toys sit out of packets on cabinets. I really don't subscribe to "let the toys out" mentality, If I want to keep whatever sealed, I will, if I want to display it I will.

RhA wrote:

gavinfuzzy wrote:Eh, like someone here said before: If your intention is to get rich, collect money, not toys.

That would be me.

In a somewhat ironic twist, I do keep sealed GEEWUNS. These are doubles (Within GEEWUN this is EXPENSIVE). All the other G1´s are boxed, but the Japanese made their boxes so that I can open them whenever and put them back, no visual change. My Masterforce collection is fully boxed, but I can play with the toys.

Why do I do it? Obviously not for the cashola, but the toystore feel of it. Like sitting in a HUGE pile of unopened presents.

I guess that works, for boxes... In the case of Deluxes... Well that can't be done. I prefer looking at my TFs on a shelf, displayed in a group, and not alone in their box. Even if i wanted to keep MISB stuff, I'll have already ran out of space.

I open ALL of mine.

I dont buy toys as an "investment" for resale value...I buy them for the nostalgia factor to remind me of the good 'ol days of playing for hours with my favorite toys. I put them on display up on shelves in my man room (okay, boy room ) in battle stances, fight scenes, whatever...and occasionally pull them down, play with them, re-pose them, and put them back up on the shelf.

While I do keep most of the 'hard-side' boxes (as opposed to the deluxes and such that only come on cardstocks), this is just for packing and shipping in the event that I ever move. Yellowing, fading, and the mythical "plastic rot" i here people dreading is fictitious at the least, slightly annoying at most. Plastic sits in landfills for decades without breaking down, and that is being exposed to the elements, heat, rain, etc. Sitting up on a shelf in a nice clean home these things should be virtually non-existance, and I find the people who worry about them a tad over-obsessed.

I do know a couple people who do this as kind of an income booster, but they normally buy them in lots (i know one guy who bought 15 MP Prime's in order to re-sell them at mark-up later), and there is almost no personal nostalgia involved for them. They see it as a business opportunity only...and I don't really see how anyone could have a "half-and-half" compromise. If you buy a toy for nostalgia value, but still worry about what shape it will be in in 15 years so you can maybe make $50 or so when you sell it...well, I don't really see that as real "nostalgia" if you are willing to part with it later.

Besides, most of us have all seen original G1 toys that STILL sell for hundreds of dollars even in relatively bad shape. I saw a G1 Megs at a swap meet a couple years ago, box was all crushed and dilapitated (sp?) and Megs was missing all of his extra parts (was only the figure and the arm-sight-cannon piece), and he had some serious rusty spots. I laughed to myself when I saw the price tag stuck on it...the guy asking $175 for him. To my surprise, going back the next weekend, I saw that he was gone, the guy had found a buyer for him.

For me it depends on the suitability of the packaging for display.

Masterpiece TRU figs look great on display in box are rarely boast transformations I feel the need to mess around with.

G1 Sixshot on the other hand is far more impressive to transform than watch collect dust on shelf. It's also hard to fly boxes around the room and yell "pyoo-pyoo"!

James

Doubledealer93 wrote:I never keep them in boxes. But i have a few boxes that i have kept to make moving easier. A transformer is meant to have 2 modes. If you keep it in the box you only have half a transformer. You cant play with it, you cant transform it, you cant pose it, the boxes take up a lot more space than the actual toy inside of it. If u buy a transformer in box and its in vehicle mode then just buy a car, jet or truck that looks like it, the joints and gimmicks it was given get wasted. And if its robot mode then buy a robot.

*slow clap* Well said, friend. Well said. But I am able to understand why someone would wish to keep their transformer in its original packaging.

If I had a couple of trestle tables I am sure I could get away with being a trader at a con somewhere with the amount of MISB and MOC Transformers I have!

I have recently turned 40, Im married and due our first child in February, so my wife would absolutely love it if I was to sell everything to put in the baby fund? Hows about Scotty dont!

I fully intend to open them, but space to display is tight. I have been shuffled out of the spare bedroom into my office which is stuffed full of shelves containing tubs of random desktop PC components (I used to build them for friends), USB music equipment (I wanna be a music producer ), thousands of bagged & boarded comic books (fanboy turned collector), my desk and Detolf cabinet for figures on display!

I dont play with my Transformers although my friends take the piss claiming I run around the carpet with them, brummm, brummmmmm!! I dont collect anything G1, only Alternators/Classics/Generations/Masterpiece/Prime and some of the nicer older figures from lines such as Universe/RiD/Unicron Trilogy/Movie.

Not having the space to display everything until we move house the majority of my Classics/Movie/Alternators and all of my Prime are boxed up in my office waiting patiently for their moment!

That said, I have gone out of my way to create my Neo-Classics line-up for The Wreckers (http://www.seibertron.com/energonpub/the-wreckers-whats-your-neo-classics-line-up-t88096.php) so I have dug out my respective Classics which are stil MISB ready to open, transform and display. As other folk have mentioned, itll be like Christmas/Toy Store sweep as there must be around 8 or 9 to open!!

In time, get 'em open!!

Me too, sometime, I bought some TF that I planned to keep sealed. If it was a toy I didnt already had, sooner or later, I always end up opening them.

Movie Scorponock, even if that display inside that Desert Attack box look awesome, your days as a sealed possession are numbered. If no one but you soon, I'm going top crack you open!