i try to buy what i feel is the best representation of a character.

or ... i buy if the mold is really cool. sometimes its just i gotta have it. like i had no real desire to be DOTM terradive, but the more i looked at it and the more i saw of it on here, i knew i had to have it.

i will also buy my favorites. i try to get all the OPs. BBs i can pass on, but those DOTM special ones ... Cyberfire and the walmart movie exclusive and nitro they were cool looking.

 

If I like it, and I can get it at a good price, then I add it to my collection. I'm in this hobby because I enjoy it, not as an investment. Sometimes that means buying something that's not popular or highly sought after. But I dig it, so I pick it up.

 

I have one particular buying habit: I buy far more from any given line than I originally intended to.

 

I'm incredibly picky now.

Haven't purchased a Transformer since earlier this summer. The prices now are just outrageous and the figures are awful...

 

this is exactly how i am totally in with classics picky with third party because of price and i only go after in show chracters for the most part in TF PRIME for example, i may get rumble tho

 

I would say I'm rather selective. My niche is G1 and MP with a smattering of Classics. And, even within that group, I only buy what I feel are the best representations of the characters I love most. I don't care for any of the movieverse iterations in the least and these new Generations figures are lackluster in my opinion. So yeah, if it isn't MP or G1 (reissues) these days, it's nadda.

 

 

This and depending on the show/movie I watch I usually try to complete the whole cast of robots that was featured in it, but I usually don't succeed very well on doing so. I also buy whatever is on sale at other stores like Ross/and Marshalls since some figures they do have in stock is very cheap, my brother actually just bought me DOTM Voyager Shockwave for like 6bucks, and a couple months I bought Reveal Shield Optimus, and Jazz for 10bucks.

 

I'm relatively selective. I have a few focuses...MP, Show-accuate BW, G1 in Clssics form (generally speaking, season 1, but some other portions I have notalgia for as well), and Optimus Prime. I do get the random figure now and then, but it is pretty rare these days (e.g Animated Prowl, Drift).

These are all augmented by 3rd party figures, Shapeways, and many have been customized or are completely custom.

Expensive and fairly expansive. I may cut out the classics depending on how developed the MP line gets.

 

If I like it then ill buy it

 

Not super selective but I do try and keep some semblance of order to things. I pretty much buy Optimus Prime, Megatron, Soundwave, and Starscream from each line. Other than those guys I try to keep my purchases to main cast character from each line/fiction/media only. I will occasionally buy a non-screen figure from time to time, DOTM Skyhammer and Prime shadow strike BB are two that come to mind. And I generally on buy figures that are released domestically, the only line I'm willing to pay import prices for are the MP's.

 

Lets put it this way.Here's the figures I got from TF Prime:
Wheeljack
Ratchet
Cliffjumper
The Vehicon

 

I'm not at all picky, hell I have and love figures some say suck (PRID Bulkhead and Optimus Prime)

 

Normally I'm not but recently i've become more because their isn't as much great figures as their once was.....that and the stuff i want is still not avaliable to me.

 

mostly completionist on lines i like. g1, classics, animated, alts.

extremely selective on the new stuff

 

Not picky enough! Lol

 

I am not terribly picky but i do tend to avoid figures with known Issues such as a tendency to break due to it design,GPS, and just plain bad figures. ( that said BM Supreme cheetor keeps catching my eye.)

I also strongly dislike the movie aesthetic and I dislike prime for reasons of personal taste in how the wrote the characters ( specifically Bulkhead and Wheeljack).

I collect from all lines prior to the movie line and repaints of earlier figures from the 2007 movie line.

 

I have a problem. If it's not movie-verse, I buy without thinking. Even some movie stuff I buy. Even stuff I tell myself I won't buy somehow ends up in my house. And even when I try so desperately to go cold turkey, my kids enable the habit by dragging me to the toy section of every store. So, no, not picky.

 

I like to get solid toys like Energon Decepticons, Omnicons, Terrorcons, Ultra-Sized including Landmine and Bulkhead, Cybertron, Robots in Disguise/Car Robots, Beast Machines Vehicons, Classics/Universe/Generations, Animated, 2007 Movie, Hunt for The Decepticons, ROTF toys that did not have mold change like Sideswipe and Brawn, DOTM redecoes from HTFD, and Prime First Edition.

I also like to collect Power Core Combiners and the Human Alliance Basics.

I also avoid toys that will break soon.

 

I'll buy just about any G1 figure, being as the guy I buy them from give me ridiculous discounts! not to brag or anything, but I've got some free casettes and wheeljack, and discounts of up to $40!!! I feel guilty about it, but it keeps me addicted to buying them to the point I reluctantly ignore the new figures I want.