Voting options for future collection polls

[griffin]

i voted 200 increments seems resonable as there isnt usually 200 items released in a year to make massive shifts in the figures

According to the 2013 checklist of Hasbro US, Hasbro HK and TakaraTomy toys released during this year (or expected by the end of this year), there were (about) 492 Transformers toys this year!
That does NOT count anything released in multiple markets that didn't change the packaging (like the Kreo in Japan or the Platinum toys in HK), or anything that was a multi-pack that had the focus on the combined form (eg Kreo combiners or the kreons in a build set), or any roleplay items. (so if you count any of those individual combiners or character toys in a bulk set, the number for this year will be even higher)

The number is a little higher this year, despite not being a movie year, because of all the Kreo and Botshots being released in cheap, massive numbers.
Next year should be even more, with a movie line (and all the gimmick stuff), as well as the ongoing Kreo & Botshots.

[GoktimusPrime]

Kre-Os, Kreons and Construct-Bots don't count under the UCM (Article 08) so it wouldn't affect UCM-based polling.

[Sharky]

According to the 2013 checklist of Hasbro US, Hasbro HK and TakaraTomy toys released during this year (or expected by the end of this year), there were (about) 492 Transformers toys this year!

wow it does not feel like that, i guess because we have such a limited release retail year and i am so behind in picking stuff up too

[DELTAprime]

How many people really have large collections in excess of 1000? I don't think many of us have collections that are that big. I only have 303 toys in my collection and I think there will be a lot more like me and far fewer with over 1000.

[GoktimusPrime]

How many people really have large collections in excess of 1000? I don't think many of us have collections that are that big. I only have 303 toys in my collection and I think there will be a lot more like me and far fewer with over 1000.

19% of collectors surveyed have collections numbering 1000 or more.

[UltraMarginal]

Honestly have no Idea what numbers I have. When I was a youngun it was around 100, I stopped collecting for a long time and started back up with Alternators/Binaltech then Generations and the Movies, animated and prime. so probably close to 1000.

perhaps increments of 150 or 200.
The problem with this is we then lose resolution in the data.
Why bother limiting ourselves to other threads, if we have 15 increments and somewhere else has 10 and we need to compare, just fit out 15 increments into their 10.

[DELTAprime]

19% of collectors surveyed have collections numbering 1000 or more.

That means that 81% have less than 1000 and looks like over 75% have 500 or less. More people have smaller collections. If you really want to increase the limit then maybe try something like.

100 / 200 / 300 / 400 / 500 / 750 / 1000 / 1250 / 1500 / 2000

[GoktimusPrime]

First of all, I've stopped doing the annual collection count survey poll since 2011. Pretty much other boards aren't interested in participating any more, unless we wanna still do it just for OTCA. <shrugs>

Secondly, even if we wanted to continue this project, changing the increments would render the results incomparable with previous years. The results that I showed you in my last posted represents the average of results gathered between the years of 2007 to 2011. If we were to conduct a poll this month for 2013 and we used the increments that you're suggesting then I would be unable to include results for anything above 500 into that of previous years.

But don't forget that from 2009 to 2011 we did have secondary polls for people with collections number 100 or less and 1000 and over - represented thusly:

[Sinnertwin]

5500 TF? Wow...
You'd need a hangar to store it all

[DELTAprime]

But don't forget that from 2009 to 2011 we did have secondary polls for people with collections number 100 or less and 1000 and over - represented thusly:

In that case there is no need to change the poll. Just do a secondary poll like you have done in the past for people over 1000.