MIB/MISB Collectors - a Dilemma - Cybertron.CA - Canadian Transformers News and Discussion

chuskers · 12-15-2014, 08:40 AM

Need some advice from my fellow collectors - specfially those, who like me are hooked on the monkey that is MIB/MISB ... I was a fan of MIB/MISB for 3 reasons - easier storage, easier to dust and inventory and most boxes are just pretty to look at.

I've been collecting since 2002 (TRU Re-issue Thundercracker got me back into the game) and my collection has grown to over 670 figures, all mostly MISB with about 60 MIB, so many that storage room has become an issue, I mean, you can only stack boxex so high. Lines range from TRU Re-issues to Tak Encores and MP's, some third party and mostly CHUGS and the movie lines So my dilemma now is this: Do I crack them open, bag em and make a nice home in storage bins and/or display them ... Leave them in their boxy prisons and hope that maybe, just maybe one day ROTF Recon Ravage is gonna pay my mortgage LOL!! ... or try to sell them off to another fellow MIB/MISB collector so that they may still be appreciated in all their boxed glory ...

What would you do if you were a MIB/MISB junkie and ran out of room ....

omegaprime · 12-15-2014, 08:48 AM

Sell it all to me ..lol

chuskers · 12-15-2014, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by omegaprime

Sell it all to me ..lol

Watch it .. I may hold you to that LOL

xueyue2 · 12-15-2014, 10:32 AM

I remember I read this somewhere: MISB collector means you are paying huge amount of money just for boxes...

wervenom · 12-15-2014, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by xueyue2

I remember I read this somewhere: MISB collector means you are paying huge amount of money just for boxes...

Yep

chuskers · 12-15-2014, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by xueyue2

I remember I read this somewhere: MISB collector means you are paying huge amount of money just for boxes...

Oh, I totally agree ... that's why I have a problem LOL

I never got into collecting for financial gain or investment, cause, that's not a reason to love something ... but what if, one day, one of those boxed goodies can pay some bills or benefit my family ... very doubtful with the toys of today I know ...

wervenom · 12-15-2014, 11:03 AM

Free Me!

DuG · 12-15-2014, 11:04 AM

My collection consits of both loose and MIB/MISB items. My advice is to pick out the ones that you really want to keep in MIB/MISB condition and release the others from their prisons. Open the ones that you care the lest about or don't have any sort of attachment to. This should free up a lot of space for you.

Metroplex79 · 12-15-2014, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by xueyue2

I remember I read this somewhere: MISB collector means you are paying huge amount of money just for boxes...

I've never been able to buy loose figures from TRU. All figures I buy from them are always carded or boxed.

We can buy figures cheaper from them without packaging?

Rev · 12-15-2014, 12:21 PM

Do what feels best and makes you happiest. If you like MISB, maybe sell the ones to which you are not attached and buy a few more MISB holy grails with the cash. I've moved from "collect everything" to more of a MP/3rd party collector. I have boxed away a lot of stuff, and don't buy many movie/Generations toys. I have found greater happiness in having less with better quality.

If I were you, I would sell off anything not G1 or MP and buy more MISB figures (if that is your thing), or open even open them up. I'm not a MISB collector, but I can appreciate it. There is something cool about knowing that inside that box is a pristine Autobot or Decepticon. Like a little time capsule. Of course, I don't know if that feeling applies to a reissue or current Masterpiece.

I think that was a ramble.^