Why Do You Display Your Toys?

[Sky Shadow]

(Following from Vector Prime's thread and my post here: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showth...341#post237341)

We've had countless discussions on why people do or don't keep their toys sealed or why they do or don't play with their Transformers, but I can never remember anyone answering this question - it just seems to be accepted as something people do. So, I'd be interested to know...

If you do display your Transformers, why do you do it?

Is it for you or for visitors? To have something to show off in the collection thread? Is it something you've always done or only since you joined OTCA? What exactly do you do and what is your purpose for doing so? Do you keep your toys behind glass? In sideways boxes? Hung up on cards on the wall? In rows and rows on shelves? If any of these are things you do, what's the reason why you do it?

[Vector Prime]

If you do display your Transformers, why do you do it?

I liken my displayed TFs as works of art - displayed purely for my own enjoyment though.

I rarely have any people over (as my home is my private place of Zen) so it's certainly not for the benefit of visitors.

Some are displayed behind glass, some are on bookcases and I do have a couple of MOSC items hung on walls.

So I guess to answer your question, I display them because I like looking at them.

[loophole]

because i can, so i do

[Hursticon]

It's a personal thing for me really, whether someone sees the display and thinks ill of me is irrelevant to my own enjoyment of them.
For me, I like to have physical representations of things that manifest themselves within my thoughts, i.e. Like the Ancient Egyptians who worshipped statues as physical representations of whom they bare as proxies - So do I.

[Deceptic_Optic]

its for nostalgic reasons, its represents my childhood and my innocence

[gdmetro]

For me, this question is ancillary to the main question of of why I collect.

I think ultimately, we collect for personal enjoyment (Or Id like to think so) and we each enjoy the hobby/collecting in different ways -i.e. Gok enjoys by playing.

Personally, a large part of enjoying these figures other than the hunt is displaying/posing them- although I am starting to get into photographing them as well.

That is why I display them- they are awesome to look at/brings me enjoyment and is mainly why I collect. I don't care about how the display affects others or their opinions etc- but I only display them in my room- I guess being married /in your situation might be different.

As to why I get enjoyment for looking at the display?- probably to admire their beauty/engineering as pieces of art and childhood nostalgia- it fulfills a part of my childhood pining for toys I couldn't have.

[Oilspill]

If you do display your Transformers, why do you do it?

Because they're awesome

Fin.

[Tober]

I usually have about 5 TFs on display. I, too, find them to be fascinating pieces of engineering - with character. They are often in alt mode though, so people who see Binaltech or Macross pieces probably think I like diecast cars and model aircraft*.





* Not that there's anything wrong with people who like diecast cars or model aircraft. Heh heh heh...

[Lord_Zed]

Like everyone else I display them simply because I enjoy viewing them.

I display a fraction of my TF's and other toys at any time so I can better appreciate them, and so I have easy access if i want to transform or repose one.

They also help make a house a home so to speak, people fill their living space with things they like, so for us collectors that's their collection, it wouldn't feel like my space if there wasn't some strnage collectible lurking around. Just look at my work desk it has a Revoltech Alien living on it.

[Hursticon]

I usually have about 5 TFs on display. I, too, find them to be fascinating pieces of engineering - with character. They are often in alt mode though, so people who see Binaltech or Macross pieces probably think I like diecast cars and model aircraft*.





* Not that there's anything wrong with people who like diecast cars or model aircraft. Heh heh heh...

I display my MP Seekers in Alt mode for the very reason of them having incredibly awesome 'n' sexy Aircraft modes.