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Why do you collect?
Some thoughts which I saw on another Board...
Why Do You Collect?
Do you collect to play or decorate?
Do you get a new one just for something to review?
Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
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I love the cleverness of TransformersOriginally Posted by heroic_decepticon
Decorate, I guess. Appreciate is probably a better word.
At times, although usually at bargain price..
It's essentially complete now - but I do buy some of the new stuff as released.
Probably not.
No.
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I luv the engineering of the newer figures (& their nostalgia factor of the G1s)
To play - when I have the room to take them outDo you collect to play or decorate?
I used to get new ones because I needed a TF fix but these days my new ones are all for keeps (Reviewing has nothing to do with it - I acquire new figs cos they'reDo you get a new one just for something to review?!)
I'm no completionist. I only obtain what I want & it's a given that there'll always be something new...Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
Short answer = NoDo you ever think you will stop collecting?
Resale value doesn't even cross my mind when I've made my mind up to obtain something. I'm not one of those people who think like thatDo you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
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For the fun of it...have to collect something, and I'm certainly not a girly girl.
I like to play with them then leave them for display.
Nah not really, normally get a new one if I like the character and or like the figure.
I will always add on to it, although, I wouldn't minded completing a whole collection of Jazz toys and Starscream toys
As long as there are Transformers - NEVER
Nah, I am such a kid at heart, I love them too much. I probably pass them down to my own kiddies............................some day
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Why Do You Collect?
Its a niggling feeling which I havent the foggiest idea how to explain. But I guess its a rush that I feel. It satisfies an urge. Mind you I collect various stuff.
Do you collect to play or decorate?
Both. I have a whole room dedicated for em, playroom. It was always in my plan since I started that one day when I buy my house, one room to house my collections. And it now a reality.
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Do you get a new one just for something to review?
nope, I don't do reviews. not good talking in front of camera IMO or writing stuff so its a NO.
Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
Well as they say, "It never ends". You always tend to add more, whatever strikes my fancy. There have been past toys I found unappealing then but am looking to get now, which is silly, but hmm yeah.
Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
Death, Debilitating Illness, Bankrupt are the only reasons that will keep me from collecting
Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
NO
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1. I'm very left-brain dominant and am fascinating by the engineering.
2. As I was into TFs as a child when they first appeared, there is much nostalgia.
3. I want my son to be able to have the same enjoyment I did.
I collect to transform. I don't play like I used to, with simulated battles or anything like that. They're more like a Rubik's Cube I play with while reading something. I do sometimes bask in my displays/decorations of them.
No.
I can be a completist with current lines sometimes, but not with anything from the past. Too costly. Too late.
I see the scale declining, but hopefully never completely.
Never only for that reason, but there are some items that I keep MISB in order to preserve their value. That being said, every mold that I have MISB is a duplicate mold of something I have open. As the engineering is my attraction, repaints are only attractive for a.) completist reasons, b.) as investment, or c.) to to display in packaging. The best example I can think of is Crystal Convoy. I can't justify opening this figure as I already have at least three of the same mold opened and also of because the figure's valuable, exclusive nature. I kid with my brother that my loose TFs are for me and my son, and the MISB ones are to fund my son's college education.
Great topic HD!
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Well, I'm obsessive. I've always needed a hobby. Used to be music, then DVDs, now it's Transformers. No idea whats next. That's one reason. Others include childhood nostalgia, fun, and the geek factor I thrive on
I usually play, put them on the shelf, make displays. When I get my own place it'll be awesome. Toys everywhere!
I haven't reviewed in ages.
I think Animated and Classics will be my final "lines". With each new show it's too hard to keep up. I will definately be buying movie toys next year though. Phwoar.
Maybe. I'm seeing how I'm gonna go. I probably won't go back and complete lines though. I'm happy with the figures I have from each line so far.
If I wanted stocks I'd get stocks. Not TFs.
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Time for me to answer (right after my bath)
For the most part, its to 'acquire everything I wanted when I was young but was denied or never got around to buying'. That is why I'm 99% G1 focused, including a focus on all G1 boxes and cardbacks (these were what made TFs appealing to me back then).
I'd say play. But right now, the line is blurred. I don't really play with them (other than transforming), so they're just on display.
I only get ones that I fancy. Based on that, I've disregarded entire lines of TFs in the past years.
My aim: every 1984-1987 G1 Transformer in USA box or on cardback. Every other G1 Transformer up to to 1989.
I dunno. Lately, I've been thinking of stopping. It's scaring me.
I always buy multiples to keep first then resell for a profit so that the one I keep ends up being 'really cheap' or 'free' (Gok and dirge is going lynch me for this). Lately, I havnt been doing that since time became a premium.
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Why Do You Collect?
had to put my mind into somethingstarted when i was young watching BW!! then picked it up again with the movie
Do you collect to play or decorate?
to marvel
Do you get a new one just for something to review?
nah. might review the movie ones soon tho.
Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
to complete. will always add on to my BW MW movie lines
Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
how many moveis are coming out?
Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
not really. i hope to sell my collection in the future for lots of $$$$ but for now i shall enjoy them
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I love the engineering and the way they Transform. Also love hunting down a good priced Transformer
Both.Do you collect to play or decorate?
I need a hit. I'm an addict. But It is nice to see the collection grow too. Kind of like a tree, only made of lots of robots....Do you get a new one just for something to review?
I'm not a completist. As much as I could be, mentally, I simply don't have the money to be, so I usually just get the one's I like or am interested in.Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
Only time I will get one I don't like is if it is part of a bulk lot and it ends up cheaper if I get it. That is how I wound up with Armada Sideswipe....
Usually when my mum or misses yells at me about it, or if I am going to stop and focus on another, like my Lego or something. Although I don't think I could do that.Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
That is the excuse I use, but I don't think so. I collect because I like it. It gives me something to connect to the story with. And that is really what draws me in: the story/stories. It helps me escape to a much simpler universe where there is a plain and simple good and evil thing. Where I don't have to worry that it is 12.30am and I have to be somewhere in 8 1/2 hours.Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
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