monkeyradio1 wrote: turns it from a collectible and in to a common toy...
monkeyradio1 wrote:As an adult, it thrills me to be able to afford toys I didn't have, but wanted as a youngin'.
However (and I do have a collector friend that buys & opens toys) I still think opening them is weird.
“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
Autobot032 wrote:
2.) How can you truly admire it if you don't use said item to it's full potential? (This is one of the reasons why I've never liked AFA. I find a total waste. Both time and money.) I can see it for a "Holy Grail" Über rare TF, but your run of the mill figure? Why?
Leaving them locked away in their cardboard and plastic prisons is no way to enjoy them.
Art is meant to be placed on a shelf or a wall and stared at forever. These are not art, no matter how incredible the engineering is.
UltraConvoy wrote:Autobot032 wrote:
2.) How can you truly admire it if you don't use said item to it's full potential? (This is one of the reasons why I've never liked AFA. I find a total waste. Both time and money.) I can see it for a "Holy Grail" Über rare TF, but your run of the mill figure? Why?
Leaving them locked away in their cardboard and plastic prisons is no way to enjoy them.
Art is meant to be placed on a shelf or a wall and stared at forever. These are not art, no matter how incredible the engineering is.
I guess you never been to a museum.
Do you know videos games are a form of Art? so is music and many other things.
This is my Art
Its not about understanding the way we collect but enjoying the hobby that makes each one happy.
I can see it for a "Holy Grail" Über rare TF, but your run of the mill figure? Why?
monkeyradio1 wrote:Well now...
I didn't expect anger or bitterness to manifest over my question, but it is nice to see the impassioned responses that came.My question was not about "playing" with these toys.
monkeyradio1 wrote:My son is in infancy, many years from toys of this nature. Playing with your children is one thing, however, I was addressing adult collectors; and whether they displayed their collections in the box or out of the box.
monkeyradio1 wrote:I certainly didn't mean to spark such "controversy".
So if inadvertently offended anyone: I apologize. I was simply looking for an answer as to why people display "open" predominantly as opposed to those who display "in-the-box". (I say this from what I noticed browser several different forums)
If it's cost, or personal preference; that is an acceptable answer, and I appreciate those who coolly and calmly expressed those sentiments.
--Steve
Editor wrote:
I collect transformers because as a kid the idea of a robot that changed into other things was incredible
monkeyradio1 wrote:Transformers (aside from human skulls) are the first thing I've collected as an adult
monkeyradio1 wrote:I personally cannot, in good conscious, pay $250 for a 1986 Takara Ultra Convoy, wait two weeks for it to arrive from Hong Kong, and then remove it from the box.
Burn wrote:Let it be known, I murdered Amelie.
Accidentally.
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