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my cousin and his mom stay with us till the end of this month. when he saw my collection including masterpiece prime and the rest. he start to say in his own humble opinion that he won't buy these figures, because he gets bored really quick after a couple of days starring at them. so do some of you feel the same way as he? or as a matter of fact you got very excited every morning waking up when you see the collection in front of you in the bedroom or in the basement.

Nope. I can switch "scenery", going between my Gundam collection and TFmers.

Or of course I am probably out anyway. That way they are off my mind altogether.

If I get bored I buy more...I have a sickness, and the only cure is more Transformers!!

Never get bored, each one is a piece of art. And I can always transform or repose them.

jacksonspade wrote:If I get bored I buy more...I have a sickness, and the only cure is more Transformers!!

Well I must say that I am in a similar boat I absolutely love my TFs and I can never seem to get bored of them.

Nope, because I have added my new 08 Bumblebee and Bonecrusher to my small collection!

Never got bored with my Transformers toys.

I had them in my office cabinet. A couple of shelves are devoted entirely for them.

The beauty of TF toys is that, you can transform them, and do different pose anytime. Never run out of new pose or scene.

(That's one thing lacking in the original G1 toys. Can't pose them. Everybody stood stiff in a row.)

I do loose interest in them sometimes, but mostly because I'm so particular about which ones I get so if I've bought all the ones from a line and there's nothing new of interest coming out for three months or whatever I'll have no new figures to buy and enjoy so I tend to focus on other hobbies.

But I still get exited when I find a figure I've been searching for for ages and just happen apon it one day, like last night Titanium Scourge came back into stock on BBTS, and I bought him - I'd been looking for him for ages, seems they only had one too

I hardly ever get bored of them. Every morning I wake up to see my Unleashed Bumblebee...

No and to think different is blasphemy that is only punishable by you giving me your collection. And death.

Yes. The more and more my collection expands, the more and more bored of it I get. I started collecting for sentimental reasons, trying to get all the figures I had as a kid, then I started getting all the figures I'd always wished I'd had as a kid. And from there it went to getting everything simply just to fill in gaps in my collection.

So now instead of having a small collection of figures I really appreciate and cherish, i now have 9 or so storage tubs of figures I have no interest in. A boring collection.

JaffleMaker wrote:Yes. The more and more my collection expands, the more and more bored of it I get. I started collecting for sentimental reasons, trying to get all the figures I had as a kid, then I started getting all the figures I'd always wished I'd had as a kid. And from there it went to getting everything simply just to fill in gaps in my collection.

So now instead of having a small collection of figures I really appreciate and cherish, i now have 9 or so storage tubs of figures I have no interest in. A boring collection.

Nail on the head. I think a lot of people fall into that trap. Keep it simple. Keep it to figures that you really have an attachment or apreciation for and you cannot go wrong. Once a person starts "filling in the gaps" as you said is when the collection goes downhill as quantity takes over for qquality and you are left in a situtation where you do not appreciate the good stuff anymore as it is lost in a swarm of mediocrity.

Done that been there. My advice: ebay.

I have been slowly selling all of my collection that I have deemed unworthy. It works out well as I have "made" money on almost every figure and get to use the money from the sales of figures I did not love to get ones that I REALLY do want and would cherish, but are pricey.

I want to get my collection to under 500. That is the goal. I'm a long way off, but I'll eventually cut off all the fat and be left with a lean, mean collection.

I dont get bored with the collection but I might get bored of looking at the same display after a while. So I just swap the figures around. I cannot keep them all on display at once so I might have the BTs out for a couple of months and then switch to G1. At the moment it is Movie with BTs.

Of course, the shelf of Masterpiece never changes.

You can get bored with them?!
I can't cos each time I lookat them I find something new and interesting about them!

No one gets bored with my collection.

It will be boring if you don't take them out of the box

The day I get bored with my collection is the day I die!

nope i love them all and that's why i never get bored of them i just feel so incomplete in a daily basis without looking at them...

Altertron wrote:my cousin and his mom stay with us till the end of this month. when he saw my collection including masterpiece prime and the rest. he start to say in his own humble opinion that he won't buy these figures, because he gets bored really quick after a couple of days starring at them.

Sacrilage. I would never invite him back again

He might need some medication for his sort attention span or maybe he was just jealous of you. I would support the latter.

Myself I never get bored of seeing them. Makes me feel like I'm at Towers, the Bay or Eaton's all over again surrounded by TFs on all sides. HEAVEN!

It delights me to wake up and see my collection towering over the room.

And then I remember all the good uns I missed and still need to buy

It happens.

The key is to have more than one interest. If you get tired of one, got to the other. Eventually, the first will come back around.

I only use two shelves to display TF's. Most of the time, I rotate them out. But when I'm tried of TF's I go to my Macross/Robotech collection.

When that fails, I have other random figures.

On top of that I am a music feak. So I spend a lot of $ on that too.

You have to keep it lively.

well my cousin say do you get the enjoyment from transforming them, cuz i don't see it. then i asked him if he would get a ps3, he say nah, i'm more into sports now.

jacksonspade wrote:If I get bored I buy more...I have a sickness, and the only cure is more Transformers!!

u r completely correct, but i dont get bored of my transformers that easily...

I dont ever get bored. whats realy fantastic about the TF toys is you have 2 toys in one!

whoever is the brains behind this TF concept back in the 80's is pure genius!

skyline says

whoever is the brains behind this TF concept back in the 80's is pure genius!

That would be the Japanese and they came up the with the concept(at least transformable robots) in the '60's.