Are the days of collecting over?

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by 0ursisthefury, Feb 18, 2020.

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What do you do when you have all the figures you want?

  1. Stop making purchases and rest

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  2. Find a new hobby and begin collecting all over again

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  1. boomerdave

    boomerdave Owns three Ditka figures. O_o Veteran

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    Yeah it's the only picture I could find quickly online but that V9 is the one I have too. I used YoJoe.com a lot to find the ones that looked like the Sunbow characters when I was putting a collection together so I think he's the only one that matched the V1 figure or the show too. :) 
     
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    i guess its one of the advantages of legends scale...

    but i love dat.. How about a bookshelf representing the interior scenarios of unicron. .. u could then retool/pimp the ikea bookshelf to look like unicron.. i guess the head would sit on the very top?
    or the bookshelve could be the interior of cybertron with the vector sigma at the very bottom!

    anyway whichever u go I'm expecting pics.. can we fix a deadline... and penalties if its not met? ;) 

    did u consider chucking some chugs as dead robots in the aquariums? sort of a diorama?
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    im all over those. i have a ramhorn-sheep army! ;) 
    I'm also 10 figures short of completing a complete series 1,2 and 3 collection (weapons excluded)
    the panda and the penguin especially are being incredibly elusive.
     
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  3. edgecrusher

    edgecrusher "She wanted nothin', and I delivered." TFW2005 Supporter

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    Between the delays this year due to the virus and overall slowdown of G1 MP 3P figures, I'm curious to see if resale prices start to trend upward over time across the board as new stock dries up. Some of the 3Ps may also simply stop producing reissues of older figures altogether as they wind down their business or switch to other lines at other scales.
     
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  4. calubin175

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    I stopped collecting action figures as my main goal was to make battle scenes so I avoided one off characters but I have also realised that smaller figures are better for battle scenes.

    Ultimately, miniature board games are even better since I just need to buy one kickstarter all in pack and call it quits. I could get a diorama going just like that. I avoid miniature tabletop wargaming that are constantly expanding and has no limits in the battlefield size.

    Boardgames tell me how big the battlefield is and also provide the appropriate number of troop pieces for that battlefield size. I don't have to agonise about how big of an army I need to get as the scope of the game determines it. E.g. skirmish level or army battle/open battlefield.

    So on average, 150-450 USD gets me a whole complete universe of characters(100 to 400 pieces) through a kickstarter board game .

    If I buy two TF combiners, it would cost 1000 USD and it will just be the same two guys or teams fighting. With a board game, I could always rotate the factions and troop composition. Board games are small enough that I could see everything within reach. Manipulating two combiners is way more difficult than manipulating two small armies of minatures.

    My Transformers needs have already been met through the 3P non transformable line, so I don't need any more transformers. I am looking to meet my fantasy army, space fleet and sci-fi troop needs now, which only required two-four kickstarter boxes.

    Most of the time, I think it is easier to collect a line when the line has already finished so I know what the end result looks like, as opposed to anticipating whether a character will get made or too many characters will get made. Of course, buying as you go has the thrill of new releases and them at optimal price upon release. The most disappointing thing is when some characters go missing when compared to the source material.and the toyline is finished. I got burned with Maketoys as they were incomplete in terms of meeting their long term vision.

    I would recommend board games to anyone that values efficiency and dioramas. Army building action figures(Star Wars/Gundam) is unfeasible as the buyer don't know the scope of the battlefield.
     
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  5. CowboyFromHell

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    they keep improving the figures so no. Some, it's "upgrades" to the collection, some are additions. I have half a dozen versions of Optimus and I like them all. You need an "other" option on your poll.
     
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    Yes. Definitely, irrevocably, and without question.
     
  7. Dead End14

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    The thing with collecting is you should never try and be complete. Let the chips fall where they may ;) 

    There will always be a better Optimus etc...
     
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    cheer up bud.
    if it helps.. museology has inquired in the opposite direction of Tyler Durden and his nihilist ramblings in Fight Club. -> a replica of Agamenons mask, or a replica of Alexanders sword (real or not) is NOT what I, and most people, paid a ticket to Athens /or the specific museum for. Objects are undeniably the proof of our passage, (see/google archaeology then see geology, then see the difference between the 2). Certain Objects have the 'power' to send messages through time/or generations ([​IMG] )

    Objects, carry stories, mean a lot to us, and it is high time that communities sharing appreciation for different aspects of modern industrial design start coordinating other than sharing information. I'd hate to see happen to all the modern collections and the stories behind them be lost in time just like many cities have 10000s of old collections of china pottery sitting in basemenets (preferred collector items of the 1930'-50's generations). If you want to find information about them u have to call an expert now and pay good money. Shared knowledge creates shared perspectives and thus shared meaning.
    Don't be ashamed of loving an object, especially if u share that with somone as close as a dad.
    Also, phases. just because it lost appeal now doesn't mean it can't find it again.
     
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    I got lucky, I got back into it when BBTS cleared out the comic 2-packs circa 2009, so I was able to get the cases of the POC / ROC-era stuff. If I had to buy all of those awesome POC figures after the fact (EG, Lifeline / Crazylegs / Sci-Fi / Law and Order) I'd be much poorer. I'm glad I held out on Alpine as they eventually re-released him.

    (I actually got my Nemesis Enforcer recently. Bastard is too back-heavy to support his own weight.)

    It's a really, really nice display on the shelf (well, mantle). Big regret is that I never got a "real" Dial-Tone; I've got the convention Tiger Force version, but he's not the same. I probably have enough parts lying around that I can custom a version later on, but it'll be somewhat annoying since it's a rather weird mix of parts.
     
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    I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon as I collect ”cool and/or weird robots” and there won’t ever be a shortage of that, but I’m slowing down, and once the children are big I’ll get back to fishkeeping. I miss my eels, wolf tetras, bichirs.

    Robot aquascaping is a neat idea, never thought of that. Sadly my preferred species would just eat them :lol 
     
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    deaculpa Stand Alone Complex

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    Weird, Tfw is telling me you quoted me somewhere in there. I think the site has finally gone full tilt.
     
  12. boomerdave

    boomerdave Owns three Ditka figures. O_o Veteran

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    I bought a V1 carded from Argentina that was the China version (or somewhere in South America) and was just going to put him in the back and call it good enough. I managed to find one on Ebay that was new in box V9 so that worked out. If you ever decide you want a V1 let me know and you can have him for shipping.. :) 

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    sorry i thought i did , but added the quote to a message i already posted to another user. I then did some more editing and replying to a later post.. so now.. color me confused

    but yes, 2 posts earlier at the end of that post, i was telling you about my collection of battle beasts, or rather the ones im short of
     
  14. GeoffDes

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    Heh, no I still have my v1 in a box.

    It's the 25th one (that was one of the first collector's club exclusives) that's the trick. :) 

    You can see my Tiger Force stand-in (which I know is bizarre since I think he cost more originally SHUT UP I MADE A BAD MISTAKE) here:

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    Daedelus Know sacrifice, know victory

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    The lulls definitely pull at the "I need something new", but collecting my most nostalgic themes in TF history just makes me rotate my displays.

    I display maybe 10% of my collection until I get tired of them. I never collect to complete, only complement.

    A stylized BW Perfect Effect Megatron vs. GT Optimus Primal is one of my favorite displays and its only 2 figures. I'll add to it as long as there's things like Cang Toy's Thunderking and GT's Red Bull in the pipeline...

    But I'm very strict on sculpt, articulation and engineering.
     
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  16. boomerdave

    boomerdave Owns three Ditka figures. O_o Veteran

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    Nah I'm not going to poke at you for that :)  The only one I *think* I settled on was Law and Order. Just too much for him for the one I wanted, so I got the one from the "Renegades" set and personally, he's good enough so I don't lose sleep over it :D 
     
  17. Metroplexcity2019

    Metroplexcity2019 Cybertronian

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    I only have a small living area to work with, much smaller than all my interests like Transformers, DC/Marvel Superheros, Star Wars, and G.I. JOE would fill up my small storage building. Also I am married and we have a son, so I have to always think about them and their wants and prioritize. I spend more time at home than anywhere else though, so it is nice to have a few nice things to distract and enjoy even if simply browsing. I've been a "collector" on some level all of my life, it's my nature I suppose, often I've had to tell the completionist to go away and wake up to reality. Later in life, I decided quality over quantity would be the best fit for a small living area. By quality I mean not just build materials, but also amount the details, and sculpt, the proportions and accuracy to whatever brings me joy or stirs up nostalgia or is "iconic" aka ideal. I must admit, for all of my collecting interests, I've never invested (not in the sense of an "investment") as much effort and money into a hobby as I have MP Transformers, but many here might laugh because my "much" is relative to my life situation and would pale by comparison to theirs, which is okay with me, so be it. Anyway, guess I should stop beating around the bush and answer the question, I don't know that I have lost any passion, but I have lost enough space devoted to Transformers that I have to slow down, and tell the completionist to go away, even limiting the characters to seasons 1 and 2, I think I would rather display a few Kotobukiya statues, maybe a Sideshow figure or two, I mean there are characters from the DC/Marvel and Star Wars universes I like more than most if not all Transformers to be real honest. Maybe it's because of this idea where I tend to think of Autobots and Decepticons as teams working together towards a common cause, whereas with Superheroes I can easily think of them more in the individual sense, especially because I grew up reading the comic books and many of them had/have their own title devoted to an individual hero, but there were/are the teams of heroes also that I adored growing up. So in short, what happens with me is, my collecting interest evolves and adapts to what is, looking towards what will be, and the brevity of life as I know and understand it now. I want to enjoy a few things before it's time to check out of here!
     
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  18. GeoffDes

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    That's actually something else: I've pretty much filled up the man cave with stuff. That Joe pic above has a few more frames to the left (EG https://i.imgur.com/K9IOsKm.jpg - I tend to use more "modern" versions of the characters on the display shelf because experience has taught me people are more impressed), and I've got two bookshelves of them (personal favourite - Imgur because that's where the goofier customs live). Then one more of TFs, and I'm pretty much out of room because the floor has a ton of Joe vehicles.

    One regret? I had a pretty good Gundam MSIA collection in grad school and I think I just gave them away to Goodwill rather than moving them back home. I liked those things a lot, and it seems like they've been overwhelmed by the models (which I can't bother with)
     
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    What to do once you've "caught them all"?

    Magic the Gathering. Obviously.
     
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  20. GeoffDes

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    AW HEEEELLLLLLL NO SON.

    (Pokemon. The daughter's already into it.)
     
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