The Energon Pub

News Credits: 5 · by **Maz** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 4:42 pm

Some things appreciate, some things depreciate. It’s probably best to base your collecting and buying on what makes you happy instead of aiming to maximise long-term investment potential for vintage Transformers, pre-Transformers or newer products. Unless you are a toy dealer with acres of storage space, all the time in the world and infinite patience to hold onto things until they finally rise in value, or you are a collector who never needs to sell, you will have shifted a few bits and pieces from your collection now and then.

This week I’ll be looking back on a number of odds and sods I’ve sold in the last year or so, trying to make some sort of sense of their final auction values or direct selling prices in the grand scheme of things. In a climate where the brand new or the ancient seem to be of the greatest value, creating the most hype and competition, it was fascinating to see how the hot toys of yesteryear fared against their more illustrious and desirable ancestors or descendants

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All the best
Maz

News Credits: 2 · by **xyl360** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 12:01 am

I've no plans of ever selling any of my toys, so I can only imagine how hard it was for a serious collector such as your self to let those go.

Last I checked, the RiD trainbots were still available MISB at some online retailers, which might explain why they went so cheap. I picked up a Korean boxed version from an online retailer a while back and was thoroughly impressed with the set. It still stands combined on my shelf and I love how its combining gimmick harkens back to the way that some of the Beast Wars combiners merged (particularly Tripredacus/Tripledacus).

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Thu Sep 19, 2013 3:55 pm

It's not hard for me, everything I've sold till now I've never really missed after I did it. In fact it fells damn good. Only complaints I had was that I wish MP Megatron would have made a little more.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:40 pm

Once I manage to get Metroplex, I'll be concentrating on getting a G1 Thrust and Ramjet.

No intention of selling any of my TFs, they're all for keeps.