Hehehe, most of the Melb. boys here know I do open my TFs but I just package them back nicely into the box as if they are still unopened for ease of display / and keeping them away from dust. You just have to be very patient.
I keep every plastic string tie and cardboard backings back into the box after I open the figure. Then I play with it for awhile, have it displayed in robot mode then its back to the box. Don't be fooled- a lot of my movie 07 / cybertron figures have actually been opened before. You just have to go through the hassle of slowing tying all the string ties back and fitting it back in the box.
And as Gok had mentioned, Takara stuff is so much easier to open and put back into package because they don't use string ties and instead mold the plastic according to the figure's shape to cover it. Hasbro's more lazy with their insane amount of string ties.
It's quite straight-forward for Voyagers, Leaders and Special Packs because they come in a box. For deluxe figures if you wanna keep the packaging intact, it's a bit more tricky. You have to slowly run a penknife at the bottom of the packaging, then use your fingers to slowly push from the bottom to peel off the packaging from the cardboard. I have attached a pic for u to see.
Once 3 sides of the packaging is peeled off from the cardboard, you can tilt open from the bottom in an angle and pull the figure out with the inner plastic mould. This method was actually taught by Icy who's more of an MISB collector.
And I think it was someone else who passed on the method to him too.
The same method applies for scouts and legends.
I personally don't buy a set of doubles just to open as well. I only have doubles of figures I really like. Spend the money of other TFs you don't have instead.And yeah like Paulbot said, open your TFs slowly so that you can still have your MI(S)B collection on display - looking cool
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Originally Posted by Wheel-J
