Why do people collect action figures and leave them in the box? They have articulation and accessories and features that are meant to be interacted with. Just get a statue if want something to look at. Is it a speculation thing?
>>11608745half speculation, half being able to say you have a MIB of a figure, sorta the same way people collect TCG cards but don't play the game, they just like having a pristine version of that card.
>>11608745I'm not an inbox collector but I kind of get it. Some figs just look nice in pristine unopened packaging. There is also a nostalgia factor if it's older toylines. I don't know how they resist the urge to open and play with them though. If I tried to become an in box collector, I’d need a second copy to open. But I'm not rich enough with a big enough house to buy two of everything.
>>11608753Also to add I am very glad in box collectors exist so I can buy old figures still sealed years later from them as I don't like to get opened/loose figs
>>11608745I've heard that for some keeping it in the box preserves the memory of how they actually first saw it at the store. So it's about preserving the memory of wanting it... while you actually have it.
>>11608745They do it because "I'M KEEPING IT MINT ON BOX BECAUSE ONE DAY IT'LL BE WORTH A LOT OF MONEY AND YOU'LL BE JEALOUS AND I'LL BE RICH HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"And then more times than not they sell it for half of what they paid in a yard sale or Ebay. Unless it says "Star Wars, GI Joe, or Transformers" and says "made in the 1970s/1980s" on it, just open the damn thing and enjoy it because it's not gonna be worth shit in the long run.
>>11608745I have a handful of on card figures, but they're all retro inspired figures that are using vintage style cardbacks from my childhood. And it's only a handful. I have a bunch of unopened toys that will eventually be opened, but I'm not intending to leave them in their boxes forever. Hopefully not forever anyway.
>>11608757Yes, that's how I enjoy my tv shows and movies. I buy the steel books and admire them on my shelves. I buy the movie posters from the movie theaters and put them up on my walls. I treasure the TV guides with descriptions of each and every episodes I have never seen, but whose entire season DVD boxed set are the last thing I look at before I fall asleep.
>>11608745Why do people collect action figures and leave them on a shelf?you are a retard
>>11608745My buddy keeps his mint because his cats knock stuff over and he loses stuff or it breaks, but whenever he says that I wonder how hard it is to keep extra accessories in baggies and train a cat. My cat has never destroyed a shelf.I think he's lying and just has emo moments where he rakes his arms across a shelf and destroys everything. We don't talk much anymore after I bought him a Batman and he sold it on eBay, mint in box.
>>11608745I only keep the rarest ones in their box, as god intended
>>11608755I did the that recently for old kenner batman toys and they were all leaking plasticizers so my joy of reliving my childhood was full of weird slime and toys I cant touch that get dust in them.It happened with a Japanese guy toy from gaogaigar and it was so bad it was just fucking oozing orangefrom his hair. I never see plasticizers leak so bad. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't lol.
Cargo cult speculators emulating an age where this actually made money. None of this is really worth anything except to other people with hangups about mint in box, so it's just people trading boxes back and forth while the toys slowly rot.
Because they want to.
I have some Exodia vinyl figure thing I keep in the box because he is thematically sealed
Comic book shops, swap meets, flea markets, and conventions are all floor-to-ceiling with modern stuff MISB/MOC. Too many kept and still keep everything that way. That's one of the main reason why shit from the late 90s on through today is so worthless. It's not like the 70s and 80s where maybe 1% - 3% survived MISB/MOC. So you're not doing the fandom and the hobby any favors by keeping it sealed away, and quite the opposite you're hurting it.
>>11608897nta I do action figure photography. Makes it feel like not so much of a money sink.>>11608868You weirdo.No, I'm totally joking, that was wholesome.
>>11609783I'm here all week, don't forget to tip your servers.
