Breaking the seal

[LordCyrusOmega]

I wait till I'm home. Not because I'm ashamed but because I have a ritual.
I'll pop on a dvd that features the toy (or if not the toy then the character. Failing that anything will do), get my tools and open it up. Theres more to it but I like the time and the space to really have a good play.

[liegeprime]

Well the reason is that they don't want people to carry knives around as they can be used as weapons in assaults. So just because a few rotten apples have misused them for assaults in the past, the rest of us who have normal uses for them (e.g. using a box cutter to open boxes!) are inconvenienced.

Anyway, I just never thought about it until now. It's like when you find out that you need to have a permit and safe storage requirements for gun Transformers -- for a lot of people, until someone brings it to your attention you just don't consciously think about the potential that these toys can be used as replica weapons. And again, it's because of a stupid minority who would use gun Transformers to threaten people that the majority of us collectors are inconvenienced. But anyway, the law's the law... so as I said, I'm not gonna be bringing my TF liberation kit outside.

Which is why it's safer to bring that little ceramic package opener I showed you way back, its easy and safe, though it's quite easy to loose as well.

[jena]

What about baseball bats? Thats what i have incase i ever get into a road rage incident. (them being the aggressors of course)

I know you can't carry a hockey stick in the car without having other hockey stuff otherwise it's a 'weapon'.

One of the girls I work with always has her work blade in her handbag and I always remind her it's actually a crime.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I usually open them up at home. Or Since I too pick mail up on the way to work, work. The last time I opened one after buying it straight away, I still took the time to go and buy myself a coffee and have a sit down to open it then and there.

Then I had a smarmy waitress come up and ask me "You still play with toys"

Well, the answer she got back wasn't exactly what she was expecting. Needless to say I was never served by her again

It was super powered Sideburn from RID for those playing at home, my first RID TF, and bought coz he looked like Hot Rod. ( at the time, I thought Beast Wars was a dodgy knock off trying to ride the popularity of G1 "Optimus PrimAL. I had been out of the link for a while

[Robzy]

I do it at home... with the lights off.

[bowspearer]

If it's something I'm cracking open, as soon as I come out of the store. I've also been known to open ebay parcels (or at least start to) before I've even left the post office.