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Originally Posted by Mumps
MISB collecting always baffles me... They are toys! Open them, play with them, otherwise, what's the point? I can... somewhat see it for toys with window boxes, where you can see the toy inside, especially if it's displayed really nicely in the box (Pit of Judgement), but sealed for the world to never see? I don't understand.
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I'm the same for anything really... I understand buying a second one to keep mint, and have a spare should the one you have breaks, I do that.
I somewhat understand buying and keeping it mint IF the goal is to resell at some point (though I find anyone that does this is more a scalper than a collector)
But buying anything and never using it for it's purpose blows my mind... example: a painting is to be viewed so that would be like sealing that in a box and never looking at it, etc.
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Originally Posted by BeeTrain
It's actually only one of two I wanted to keep sealed. They're super hard to find, and very few of the 2nd run made it out of Japan.
I have all the Seekers, so I know how this toy looks and transforms...
Generally, I'm the guy the rips the box open right away fiddles with them at my desk while I am on boring conference calls :-)
I'm actually quite happy that I opened him. He will look better next to his brothers than hiding behind the cardboard.
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Hard to find?.. I don't find that (several super overpriced of eBay right now)... It's just crazy expensive due to the market, numbers produced and scalping really. I know someone selling one in Ottawa and no one has bought it (and he is selling within the proper price range), while I got mine from Amazon for 54$. It's the whole exclusive thing that's been a bitch.
Same with RedWing.. I gave up, painted a Starscream and turned out better anyways. And then some sellers now have him, but too late, I'm good.
For me, the few "rare" figures I have still come out of the box, played with and displayed, or go back to the box, all depending on how I feel about keeping it out.
Unless you plan to resell to profit from the mint in box thing, never enjoying the toy for what it is, kinda takes away from the ownership of it. Note that I can understand fear of breakage if it's such a figure with reported defects.
My view, if you get it because you really wanted it because you were interested in the figure, but yet it just sits in the box for the rest of your life...it's the same as just having a framed picture of the box... then you die one day, and it gets passed on or sold by your family and ends up opened anyways by someone else, or someone else's "trophy".
I'd rather enjoy the hell out of mine... that's all.
