A good topic! I am done in the sense that I have pretty much all I want from the entire history of Transformers. Everything realistic at least. Good luck finding a still-white G1 Star Saber under $1000. So in that sense I am not really "on the hunt" anymore. Once in a while I might pick something up if I find a really good deal, but we're talking deep into B-list territory here. In the case of new figures I'll judge them as they are released. I specifically only bought the 5 WFC and 3 Studio Series figures on my list and I have no desire for the rest.
I started collecting the bulk of (but not all) the Studio Series line this year. WFC has been knocking it out of the park as well. I'm sticking through the last of Kingdom and SS86, and until I have all the Bayformers I want out of the Studio Series line. When it comes to the Studio Series line, I'll be done. Generations depends on which series they'll focus on. Generations Selects? Done. Masterpiece I'm 100% done unless they redo Soundwave or release Galvatron. Lio Convoy broke me, and Starscream is (fingers crossed) solid so far.
Well, as an update, I'm ever closer: US G1: Chunky fun Cosmos Blaster Overdrive Camshaft Downshift BW: Terrorsaur Tarantulas Inferno Eight more figures I could end with a rather high degree of satisfaction with what I've got and what's been shown/pre-ordered. Unlikely, but I'd take it: Deathsaurus Liokaiser Star Saber Victory Leo Voyager Animated Omega Supreme/Lugnut Supreme Some extra ladies: Voyager Slipstream Voyager Strika Deluxe Shadow Striker (I'm a little hurt that Prowl and others got better Deluxes/Warriors, but not her) Deluxe Flamewar Lyzack
So I was thinking about this tread, over the last year I managed to complete G1 not just the main bits but I managed to get all the combiners and have another set for them uncombined, now I'm sitting here wondering is there actually anything else for me going forward
I'll never be done. Even if I get all the stuff I "need", I'm sure a while down the road an even bettet version will come out then I'll "need" that one.
By the time Deathsaurus is in hand by year's end, I'll be done. The prices keep rising. My priorities need a change. There are new things I want to explore. Ten years were spent doing this and every year has been a good time. I changed through it all though. I want to do something else. Just a few more figures, Deathsaurus and I plan to be a regular ex collector but constant visitor of this site.
Well, 2 1/2 years on from my first entry, and 18 months on from my second... Only 44 characters to go, but those 44 are being stretched out... There are 10 confirmed to be coming this year or next, and half-a-dozen or so that are safe to presume will be repaints with new heads of some of those 10. Several more should be coming as the remainder of teams, and then there's a few slots in capsules that are presently unknown. But that still leaves over 20 of my original list to go, with nothing in sight for them over the next 18 - 24 months as yet. And I'm still hacked off by multi-packs.
Eventually I'll figure out how to nail figure shelves onto the trees outside, and then I'll be collecting robits forever.
I don't think I will ever stop, maybe slow down and maybe take a hiatus. But I foresee there will always be something cool to get. I get the feeling, however, that eventually transformers will just be an app on a phone and there will be no more physical toys left. That is when I will stop.
After posting in this thread over 2 years ago, I have to look at the road that I followed, and my previous post was about trying to complete the main crews and it's something that I feel that I've now done! And on top of that, I was able to financially go after so much more, so many other figures that I didn't think that I'd ever manage to get, plus new figures that weren't known about at the time that filled the "what if these were done after all".. and many 3rd party figures on top of other stuff that I couldn't have guessed at the time. But that said, I had to change my vote from no to yes, as now, I do feel close to the end of it, with just a few that I'd pick up now and then, but that if I would stop now, I'd be set with enough for the rest of my life... I have a few kits and three (?) figures on pre-order, with the upcoming Airazors that will be on my list to get, and possibly the next Titan as I should at least have one Decepticon Titan... but from everything else announced and the way things have been going, it really is going to be a trickle compared to the flood gates of these last few years. I have all the combiners I wanted as definite, every "crew" for both Autobots and Decepticons, with a few variant versions for a few of them... loads of seekers (all of the Siege ones, and many others) and so much more, that I can't even imagine how much floor space I'd need to display everything, let alone ever having enough shelves up for everything. So for the question, I say yes that I'm close... but "close" means to me that all of the essentials are done with and now it's all about what pulls at me enough to get it. I have a few other priorities in life that I'll be spending on in the next while and once I can finally retire and the mortgage finished, I will be able to assess what's next, but I do plan to say enough at some point... if I can...
Almost done. My buying has slowed to a trickle based on the current gaps in my CHUG collection and the offerings leaked for this year (2023) and next. A few impulse buys that don’t fit my overall collection (CHUG), like a KO MP36 and a few Newage legends here and there are scattered in the mix, but they’re very isolated events. Once the collection is complete (meaning an updated version of every G1 toy/character), new versions will only be added if they’re leaps and bounds better than a version I already own. Long story short, the end of the journey is just over the horizon.
Only when interesting and fun figures are no longer being made. And even then there will be the thousands of interesting and fun figures I passed on for reasons at the time.
I already know what's going to replace my collecting tfs. I'm getting back into collecting specific types of paperback novels with those oh so beautiful paintings that they had at one time from the'50s '60s and sometimes into the 70s. I already started back in again. I had one time been interested in a New York company from 1952 called Falcon books. Really rare and they had a short run but I've almost got them all except for the few which are very very very expensive sometimes even more than some Transformers expensive. So there's a dive I might have to take a place back in.
I won’t be done collecting until Hasbro releases an actually good BBM VW Bumblebee. That, and a deluxe-sized Erector.
I'm going to be skipping most of Legacy Evolution this year. There are a few figures on the rumor lists that I might be interested in but it's just easier to make a clean break and just skip the line. Chalk it up to a combination of running out of display space and a lack of characters that I want figures of. The only toys I'm for sure getting this year are core class Thundercracker, Ironhide, and Frenzy, and probably Buzzworthy Bumblebee Hound and SS' 86 Ultra Magnus but that's going to be about it for Transformers in 2023 for me. If the rumors of BW Silverbolt, Tigerhawk, and hopefully the other season 2/3 Beast Wars characters hold true I'll come back for those guys but until then I'm pretty much done.
So, 2.5 years after posting this, where am I? I spent more in 2022 than I did in 2021, so that was bad, but I bought fewer figures, so that was good. I also sold a bunch of figures that more than equaled the amount I spent, so I came out ahead, which was very good. Right now I'm living in fear of what Hasbro may be cooking up for the 40th anniversary, so I am committed to spending less this year.
Not finished I dont think I'll ever really be done but I only bought 5 figures last year and 2 of them were for my son. Rotb will probably have some cool toys and that will pull me back in for a while but 90 percent of generations does nothing for me anymore
Since CHPS is worse with every year, Im currently not buying official Transformers products. CHPS is cheaper every year and the new version of CHPS, yellowing, is just unacceptable. Currently focused in 3P and 4P products with better quality wich is just amazing. How products that are not official have a better quality than official products? We are living in wild times, really miss the 80s.
