What type of collector are you?

[Big Filipino]

I'm a MISB collector for the most part.

[Nocturn]

The best

[Pascal]

Borderline completist for certain lines (Animated, Movie, MP, BT, Alternity, Crossovers) and characters (Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Bumblebee, Rodimus, Soundwave, Shockwave).

[Bruticus82]

G1 and Classics. I try hard to resist completionist urges.

I also dabble in other lines, typically if it's a good deal, and even then only figures that I find interesting or have some other excuse to "want".

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by flexativity

Are you strictly G1? Are you Protoman with the carazy amount of Rodimus'? Do you just collect sets? Movie only collector? Hasbro only? Takara only? Exclusives? MISB only? Open, Play, Display? Scalper?

While I collect all Rodimus. I also well........ collect it ALL. I am a completiest, just along that road, I also get multiples of the "flame chested one"

[faustx]

It's a giant hot mess of collection madness over here...soon to be much better organized once SL gets live...

[Scrapper6]

The Predacon Kind.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Open it all, collect a lot almost to the point of completionist, but draw the line at packaging variants and certain repaints of too many bb's damn it Hasbro!

Here we shall break it down a bit more concisely:

G1: Dream of having it all, from every single US release to all the Japanese rare and exclusive figures as well as the UK exclusive stuff and the Mexican Jumpstarters, probably not going to pursue that dream to hard though.

G2: Want it all, may in fact succeed in having it all someday.

BW: All of the American stuff, BW II and BW Neo must be mine.

BM: Complete the line, including Botcon Exclusives

RID: SO CLOSE, Just need a handful of figures and I will have it all, Brave Max also required.

Unicron Trilogy: Want all of Armada, most of Energon and all of Cybertron, will I get it all? Depends on how hard I pursue the elusive figures.

Universe 1.0/Robot Masters: Want all of RM and most of the stuff from Universe 1.0, including some of the figures I sold to make some extra spending cash.

Movieverse: All unique characters from the first movie line with a handful of repaints wanted, from RotF I'm looking at a similar endeavor, for Dark of the Moon, mostly all the unique new characters with only a few of the remade from Movie One and Two characters.

Classics: 100% Complete
Universe 2.0: 100% Complete Deluxes minus the three SE Decepticons I want, need mostly Voyagers, Ultras, Exclusive Mini-Cons and Legends.
Generations: 100% Complete Mini-Cons, close to being caught up with Deluxes, and that's about it.

Prime: I'm only looking to pick up Arcee, Airachnid if they make her, Vehicon and Zombie Vehicon, and maybe one or two others. But I'm not going to get into it as much as past lines.

PCC: Want to Have'Em All.

So yes, I am Semi-Completionist, and everything I own is loose. (Some unfortunately need to be repaired/replaced due to breakage, but that comes with the territory in toys.)

I don't collect Machine Wars, Titaniums or certain other Japanese only toylines however such as the Masterpieces and stuff, and I decided Alternators were just not for me.

[gagagalvatron]

The results in this thread are interesting. Too bad it's not a poll (although it would probably be hard to define categories).

I would have expected more completionists, though I suppose each year that gets to be more of a challenge given how many Transformers there are.

I'm a pick-and-chooser that comes close to completionist. I like to have one of each mold, but there are some I just will pass on. I also don't bother with Legends. Unless they're G1. It seems every rule I have has an exception.

Recolors are tough. I've skipped Classics/Universe releases that were recolors, yet bought others that I liked. Sometimes color will be enough -- when the recolor is a dramatic improvement over the original. Other times not. It's tough because you can't always decide beforehand what to buy -- if you wait too long on a mold, it may not be easily available.

[ekf.kurt]

I'm kind of all over the place when it comes to collecting. Moviverse, with the exception of scouts, I only collect on-screen characters. Same with Animated.
With the Classics/Universe line, I really just pick up any and all I can find. Repaint or remold, it doesn't really matter.
My GF and I have really gotten into Beast Wars as of late, and I can definitely see us going full on completionist with these guys.

[Sureshot22]

what i like.
im a MP completionist. only one im missing is king grimlock. (oneday)

im a 3rd party whore when it comes to FP. others if i like it and can afford it.

mostly pick and choose what i like. i cant afford everything so i need to be choosey