Are You A Completist? (And If So, Don't You Ever Get Disappointed?)

[GoktimusPrime]

I managed to get Lugnut for $25 at the beginning of the line from one of those China sellers on eBay selling them apparently as "new without packaging".

Okay, but I was responding to your comment of, "Love the consistency in toy designs and storyline, with its forgivable production restraints (like Lugnut's size compared to the other Decepticons" -- I'm saying that I don't find Lugnut's lack of size terribly forgivable due to the fact that he retails at $45 RRP. The fact that you acquired one at a discounted price doesn't change this, and thus the toy may not be quite worthwhile for most other people who would be paying the RRP.

It might be more accurate to say something like it's a nice toy and worth getting if you can find it on sale. For example, I think most Leader Classes are NOT worth their full RRP of $100, but they are nice toys and certainly worth it if you can get them on sale, like the Animated Leaders currently selling for $35 each atm.

[dsaint]

Non-Completist for the most part. Whatever my interests, the collecting aspect needs to be anchored to something - for example I might buy every toy released with the names Starscream, Megatron and Soundwave and the Combaticons because they were my favourite G1 characters. Unless the toys seem really "cool" or interesting to me on their own (I bought a lot of the Japanese Beast Wars toys for this reason) or at its worst, I like the paint job and tech specs. If I was rich beyond my wildest dreams I might become a completist, but that is unlikely to ever happen for any number of reasons.

The only time I continued collecting something despite intensley disliking the current quality of the product was Spider-Man comics during the Clone saga to the Byrne/Mackie run. And that is because at the time I could not imagine my life without Spider-man in it (now lets not interpret that the wrong way!).

[kup]

I am a completist at the individual figure level. I need to have it complete and in decent condition or it drives me mad. As you can gather, Roadbuster is a nightmare for me.

[Autocon]

I am a completist at the individual figure level. I need to have it complete and in decent condition or it drives me mad. As you can gather, Roadbuster is a nightmare for me.

^^ this. with beast wars tech specs / intructions argh

[heroic_decepticon]

I am a completist at the individual figure level. I need to have it complete and in decent condition or it drives me mad. As you can gather, Roadbuster is a nightmare for me.

totally understand what you mean. I bit the bullet and bought a complete MIB Roadbuster a couple of years back for what was a pretty hefty price back then (and with the AU dollar not as strong). No more nightmares.

[liegeprime]

Hehe thank goodness Im not that much of a completist...my roadbuster i s missing its gun viewfinder scope and missles but I dont care much for those accessories.
I complete my figures by piecemeal over time..which somehow as luck would have it works fine for me as I do find these pieces.... I prolly end up paying a bit more for a figure than what's it worth complete (G1s anyways) but Im more an opportunistic buyer in my collecting approach - as in, its there, it may be missing a certain accessory but I know i'll find it someday, so I buy it - so long as its not broken...

[kup]

I only need the handles and the brown driver's seat so I am not far off but I may need to buy a junker to get the seat.

Hehe thank goodness Im not that much of a completist....I complete my figures by piecemeal over time.... I prolly ended up paying more for figure than what's it worth complete (G1s anyways) but I more early on in my collecting an opportunistic buyer- its there it may be missing a certain accessory but I know i'll find it someday so I buy it - so long as its not broken...

I can deal with broken if all the pieces are there.

[5FDP]

I'm very much the same. If I see an incomplete figure for a bargain price, I'm more than likely to pass as not having all the accessories / weapons will bug me to no end until I track them down on Ebay. Then I have thoughts about 'what if the accessory / weapon was a KO from a figure that had been KO'd?' because it's so hard to tell as most are just small, moulded, one tone pieces of plastic. The very thought of having one of my G1's 'tainted' by non-authentic parts sends shivers down my spine.

Yeah.... I got a problem

So in summary - I am also a completist of individual toys

[kup]

I'm very much the same. If I see an incomplete figure for a bargain price, I'm more than likely to pass as not having all the accessories / weapons will bug me to no end until I track them down on Ebay. Then I have thoughts about 'what if the accessory / weapon was a KO from a figure that had been KO'd?' because it's so hard to tell as most are just small, moulded, one tone pieces of plastic. The very thought of having one of my G1's 'tainted' by non-authentic parts sends shivers down my spine.

Yeah.... I got a problem

So in summary - I am also a completist of individual toys

I don't mind pulling together a figure if the accessories are readily available and inexpensive - Several figures in my collection have been completed that way.

However I am having difficulty 'properly' completing a second G1 Prime that I bought as I only have reissue fists for him.

[heroic_decepticon]

So in summary - I am also a completist of individual toys

Yup. Me too. I just can't deal with incomplete TFs (figuratively and literally).

If I get something incomplete, its going ot bug me. And I just don't have the time to hunt for parts. So that's just going to bug me more.

Solution is that I only get complete TFs or not at all. Most of the time, I'm happy to pay a slight premium to get TFs complete (definition of complete = complete, nice stickers, w/ box or card).

Exception to that would be duplicate pieces of TFs, which need not be complete.