I was wondering if anybody else had these traditions like initiation ceremonies or celebrations whenever you get a new figure, for me I don't put my figures on my shelf before I look them over while eating a bowl of cereal, or ice cream, or soup... Anything that belongs in a bowl really. Also heard about a guy who punched a hole in his wall everytime he got a new figure, um ok. Anybody have their share of this or is it a small collection of folks?
J/K you do you... And if I have multiple figures to open, I rank them and open them in order from the figure I'm least excited about to the most.
I like to sit on the couch with something playing on the TV. Used to do the same with Lego MOCs when I was a kid.
Spend at least a week maybe two messing with a new figure before setting it on my self and then coming back an hour later to take it down and mess with it again.
I like to buy transformers that I don't need or have an attachment to only to end up regretting and selling them later.
Not at all a given. I'll often not transform a figure until I've owned it for six months to a year or more.
I don’t blame you for assuming that. But, I’ve read posts here of people that have never transformed some figures. For different reasons, not just fear of breakage..
I look it over very closely and carefully to locate the fault the figure will ultimately have right out of the packaging...
Once I open the figure, I usually learn their transformation, take a few photos, and then mess around with it for the next 1 - 2 weeks. After said 1 - 2 weeks are over, I find a place on my shelves for them.
The only tradition I have is that it must get transformed at least a couple times before it goes onto the shelf. And it usually stays on the shelf long enough for me to forget exactly how to transform it…at which point it feels like a new toy again, lol. I rarely transform the shit out of anything these days.
I just open open them, take them out, transform them, then look in the instructions. Also I do photographs for cataloging purpose but it's after the amount of new unphotographed figures is 3 or more.
I pose my figures a lot, so the first thing I do when I open a figure is test each individual joint, to get an idea of the range possible, and of the overall tolerances I didn't even realize I do that with every single figure I get until I read this thread and thought about it lol I do this too. I don't often get more than one at a time, but there have been a few times where I've got multiple figures at once, and I'll stack them up and open the least exciting one first. "Save the best for last" and all that Extremely based. I listen to that all the way through every now and then, and it makes you feel like you're in a while different world no matter what you're doing I do this on purpose. When I haven't gotten a new figure in a while and nothing is coming up, I'll scan over my shelves and go "ooo, I haven't messed with that one in a while" and I get to rediscover a figure I practically forgot about
When I take them out of the box, if they are in robot mode I make some whooshing/landing sound as I put them on a table to make it seem like they just freshly landed on a new planet.
New figures generally accompany me to work for a few days so I can fiddle with them when I have a spare moment.
Transform them; think of some photo scenarios for them; jot down notes. Photo sessions might wait weeks though. I'm already five weeks out for ready Insta posts, and have like twenty ideas sitting in a notes app still to get around to shooting when the queue starts running low.
Against my better judgement, I'm going to try to help you save some face here. For the Transformers I buy used off of ebay, I give them a quick smell to see if they reek of cigarettes, since I've have that happen more than a few times. If they do, I toss them in a baggie with a dryer sheet for a few days. ...Why did I just admit this?
