Why do you collect?

[jaydisc]

I'm flattered. Thanks!

[JuzMel]

Why Do You Collect?
I loved Transformers since I was 7/8 years old when my brother let me play with the toys. But I never really got crazy until after the 2007 Movie in which one figure became a few hundred now. Always love toys but particular amazed at the engineering of TF figures that it can have 2 different appearances to it -> Robot Mode or Animal/Vehicle Mode. Just love'em thats it.

Do you collect to play or decorate?
I'm a girly, so it's more for the decoration. For those who have seen my collection, 99% are MISB and it's layed out on shelves like a toy store. Occasionally I do take the ones I like out to transform, but mostly I like to just stand in the centre of the room and look at them on display. I re-arrange them and wipe the dust off every now and then when I've got new TFs that need to fit on the shelves too.

Do you get a new one just for something to review?
Nope. I grab a new ones because I can't resist it sitting on the shelves or for continuing / completing a collection. But it has to be a series I like. Like I didn't grab the Beast Wars Robot Heroes cause Beast Wars = Yucky (for me.)

Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
Mostly to add on to collection. It's financially impossible to complete collections that started ages ago and trying to buy them now, so I try to complete those series that start now like Animated range.

Still I'm not a 100% completist for all series, like the movie series I didn't finish the Scouts and am planning to sell off the Legends. For Cybertron / Galaxy Force series, I defined my collection to be complete based on collecting only characters that appear in the cartoon.

Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
Maybe? Shockingly I DID have that thought before because of all the price-matched hassle and bad encounters at one point in time. But because of the nice guys from here who price-match the TFs for me or sell them to me cheaply and I somehow can't resist NOT walking to check out the TFs aisle, I don't think I will stop for the time being.

Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
I guess most people would in some sense collect to sell for a lot one day. Before I knew what "scalping" was, I was actually buying TFs and selling them 2-3 times the price on ebay during the 2007 movie. Of couse that stopped when I joined the forum.

But I wouldn't say I will never sell my Tfs. If there ever was a financial crisis and money is needed urgently I would probably sell away one series. And the one to go will be the Movie 2007 series cause it's my least favourite.

[heroic_decepticon]

Do you collect to play or decorate?
it's more for the decoration. For those who have seen my collection, 99% are MISB and it's layed out on shelves like a toy store.

any pics?

[iceburn]

any pics?

she did say she recently re-organised her living room but this is her collection thread

[JuzMel]

Kekeke thanks bro... Yes the shelves have since GROWN with more TFs since the last photos were taken. I have also bought another new shelf and moved the Cybertrons / Galaxy Force to make space for my Lego... :P

[1orion2many]

Why Do You Collect?
For the sheer joy of collecting something I like, well that and being a big kid at heart.

Do you collect to play or decorate?
I don't really play as such but do remove my figures from their packaging to display so I'd say a bit of both.

Do you get a new one just for something to review?
I don't do reviews but will get a new TF when I'm suffering withdrawl syndrome.

Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
It's really a bit of both.


Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
Not in the near future but you never know what's around the corner.

Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
No because if I did I'd never open any of the figures I buy and I would consider that a waste of money, if your not going to remove the figure from the packaging what's the point of buying a transforming robot that never get's to transform.

[Metroplex]

Why Do You Collect?
Ive always been a collector of many different things & when i found my old G1 TF's from when I was a kid last year I decided to add to my collection.
Do you collect to play or decorate?
If I buy them in the box they stay in the box, if they are outta the box then I play around with them.
Do you get a new one just for something to review?
I get a new one because im addicted to having as many as possible haha
Are you collecting to complete your collection or will always add on to it?
I collect because im a collect-a-holic especially G1 & anything to do with G1. I will always be adding to my collection.
Do you ever think you will stop collecting?
Not anytime soon.
Do you collect something just since it is valuable and will sell for a lot of money one day?
I would only sell something if I was in a tight financial situation.