TF Collecting during the Pandemic
 

Can't hit the streets to do a sweep of local toy stores. Shipping is crazy delayed for the most part. Distribution to stores is worse than ever. Ordering from overseas will take forever to arrive and exchange rates are garbage at present. An economy that's been shut down means penny pinching where possible for the vast majority. Has collecting become a boredom/burden? Do you look at your collection now and smile or have you re-evaluated priorities in light of world circumstance?

Would love to hear about peoples opinions on their own collection/collecting during this time.

*Lifted this convo from a Bobby Skullface vid and from a recent board post about orders/shipping during this time*

Re: TF Collecting during the Pandemic
 

right now i look at it this way personally - is getting a toy worth potentially getting sick and dying? no. so local sweeps is out for me.

If i go to Walmart for my once every 2 weeks food run, I check what they have. Otherwise toys are on hold atm.

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This is a time to appreciate what you've already got. Transform your toys, catalogue them, open anything you've still got misb, change up your display area, prepare your sales list for later. There's lots to do beyond adding to the collection.

As for adding to the collection, we're between generations waves. There's the Walmart Netflix repaints but that's just trickling in, and will probably be on sale later, like their 35th repaints are now.

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Perfectly said, slow clap AND an approving head nod lol.

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Whatever I have preordered I will get, but I am not looking for anything new.

And I am not actively hunting in the wild. If I need to pick up something like my prescriptions at Walmart then yes I will take a peek. To be honest now that Walmart is the only game in town not much else to hunt for.

And I am shifting to model kits - at least these keep me occupied after I received it.

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I am at the point where I want to package a figure up just so I can open it and pretend I got something new. Haven't gotten anything since beginning of March.

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Not a humble brag but I’ve had the luxury of being really behind in opening figures up so I can grab something from the hoard pile once a week to catch up. I had the telltale game of thrones game unopened for years up until last week. Honestly there isn’t too much out in the wild worth hunting for anyways.

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I still see people making posts about long trips sweeping through stores, and though it's their life, I still can't help but roll my eyes a little.

Personally, I've been collecting so long, I have more than enough toys to occupy my time with. I do not fear missing out on Optimus Prime or Bumblebee number 6001.

Once you go through collecting multiple lines, you realize it doesn't really matter if you miss out on something on the initial release. Either you find it later on or something bigger and better comes along with the new releases. For example, I couldn't find a CW Sky lynx, and now a Commander size one is coming out. So in the long run I ended up saving money because instead of paying for the CW Sky lynx, that money now gets shifted into purchasing the Commander sized one instead.

For me, I don't have enough space to display my whole collection, so I rotate stuff in and out. This usually happens on a time frame of years, so when I decide to rotate stuff, it's like super Christmas, because the time is long enough that I forget that I have certain things.

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I've been pre-ordering stuff mainly, and as much as I can from A3U so I can support a local Canadian business. And at the same time I've just been re-visiting some older figures I haven't messed around with for a while.

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Honestly, nothing has really changed for me during this time. I'm fortunate enough to be working a full time schedule, pre-ordering FT products from A3U and checking out Walmart every two or three weeks I go grocery shopping. Can't go browsing TRU but I only went maybe once a month.
I've been able to make a bit more room for display units for my collection that I don't have displayed but can't get anything at the moment. Would also like to do some nice dioramas like Bobby Skullface but craft stores are closed. Not like I have the skills but it would be nice to try and experiment