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I'm sorry to say but I find this (buying expensive toys sealed and perfectly mint just to keep them sealed and sending them to AFA getting them graded and sealed again in a bullet-proof plexiglass box) completely ridiculous. Not only you are not going to enjoy these toys, you are sealing them away forever! Because you certailny wont be displaying the AFA boxes to protect them from any light. Not counting the fortune it will cost each time you are AFAing.
Hoh well, like we say, your stuff, your money.
I, too, am guilty of keeping part of my collection sealed in packaging. However, they are at 98% doubles of Transformers I already own. This way, if something happen to one of my peice, I have a spare to replace it. Also, yeah, speculation. Still, everybody keep toys sealed nowadays so a sealed toy from today will be worth way less than the good old vintage. Offers/demands.
Anyway, what I mean is please AFA to your heart's content. BUT if you have the money to buy the rare and expensive peices and paying the expensive AFAing, you do have the money to get the reisue and enjoy the toy.
That feel when you remove it from packaging. The pleasure to apply stickers. The fun to transform them back and forth, posing them, and making dioramas! These toys are meant to be played with. Dont deny yourself that, even if your double is in a different color.
For example, SDCC Bruticus is worth AFAing, but you can get the G2 color or the retail version as your double to enjoy the mold.
gavinfuzzy wrote:Eh, like someone here said before: If your intention is to get rich, collect money, not toys.
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.
RodimalToyota wrote:By far the dumbest toylike to collect sealed in a box.
Invest in stocks if you want riches of money.
Collect toys if you want a investment in richness of your life.
redoutlander wrote:(...) they come in. I'd probably collect more MIB if I could store them easier.
-Kanrabat- wrote:redoutlander wrote:(...) they come in. I'd probably collect more MIB if I could store them easier.
At least, you enjoy your TFs. There's a whole difference between "mint in box" and "mint in SEALED box" afterall.
Mkall wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:redoutlander wrote:(...) they come in. I'd probably collect more MIB if I could store them easier.
At least, you enjoy your TFs. There's a whole difference between "mint in box" and "mint in SEALED box" afterall.
You use the word enjoy a lot when making your case however you seem to use it only to your own own standards. I posit to you that those who only collect MISB figures enjoy them as much as you (or I) enjoy them free of their packaging.
It's just different standards; just because you (or I) don't agree with them doesn't mean they aren't as valid.
-Kanrabat- wrote:Mkall wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:redoutlander wrote:(...) they come in. I'd probably collect more MIB if I could store them easier.
At least, you enjoy your TFs. There's a whole difference between "mint in box" and "mint in SEALED box" afterall.
You use the word enjoy a lot when making your case however you seem to use it only to your own own standards. I posit to you that those who only collect MISB figures enjoy them as much as you (or I) enjoy them free of their packaging.
It's just different standards; just because you (or I) don't agree with them doesn't mean they aren't as valid.
It's something that I cannot wrap my mind around: what's so enjoyable about having something, sealed in box, that have never been touched, tucked away deep in storage?
craggy wrote:to be fair, I enjoy being the first one to open a toy. I buy pre-owned stuff and it rarely bothers me, but there's something special about getting a brand new package and opening it. All those MISB collectors are keeping that joy for future people, so well done to them.
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