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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 9, 2010 9:47:00 GMT
What is the average lifespan of your Transformers?
What I mean by that is: how long is it between getting a new toy, playing with it and then putting it on display to gather dust/passing it on/re-selling it/generally getting bored with it?
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Post by blueshift on Nov 9, 2010 9:52:14 GMT
What is the average lifespan of your Transformers? What I mean by that is: how long is it between getting a new toy, playing with it and then putting it on display to gather dust/passing it on/re-selling it/generally getting bored with it? It depends, but it is depressingly short. A week at most generally; I am fickle. Oddly enough, Universe Silverbolt was the exception to this! |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 9, 2010 10:29:36 GMT
Quick to box was he?
A few weeks/months usually. Some toys survive longer. MP Grimlock, Defensor, Piranicon & Straxus are long stayers. Armada Hoist keeps coming back!
But the record for longest solid stay is probably held by Movie Incinerator, who was on the shelf solidly for about two years. I'm not a movie toy fan but something about him clicked with me.
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Post by blueshift on Nov 9, 2010 10:40:44 GMT
No, quite the opposite. I found him oddly compulsive! |
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Post by legios on Nov 9, 2010 13:09:50 GMT
I find this difficult to answer. I have a fiddle around with a new toy once it is opened, then it goes onto display - from which it might get picked up and fiddled around with again - for a while until it is rotated out into storage and replaced with something being rotated out onto display. Then in due course its time will come again to be rotated out onto display, and occassionally fiddled with before being stored once more.
It is more of a cycle with my collection than a linear progression.
However, anything that I think won't ever be rotated out of storage tends to find itself purged from the collection in one of my half-yearly clearouts. So, I suppose you could say that the total lifecycle for something that is going to be disposed of probably averages six-months these days.
(Not really an answer to the question that was asked but the closest that I can get I think).
Karl
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 10:50:23 GMT
Mine get go immediately on the shelf. They're bought as decoration rather than playthings. As for a lifespan: I broke the thumb off an Optimus Prime statuette as soon as I took it out the box and tried to put his gun in his hand this morning  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 11:23:13 GMT
Mine are dependant on the compexity of transformation, price and the character.
I mean of course since I do a photo comic with them I tend to rotate between frequently used toys weekly lol
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 11, 2010 14:06:55 GMT
Tim, don't you even transform them once or twice before displaying? I call that "playing" with them...  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2010 17:11:30 GMT
I mainly display my TF's but do occasionally fiddle around with the easier to transform ones.
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Post by Bogatan on Nov 11, 2010 18:37:34 GMT
It depends. Animated has constanly entertained me so they entire line is all grouped together and tend to get pulled down now and again. Movie stuff is usually less lucky. Nightwatch Prime is the only orignal movie figure to stay out for any length. Generations is looking to stick around to I think and as a result classics and Universe are making a come back.
The whole house was rewired last year so everything got boxed up and a lot never got unpacked and new stuff took it place. So its been interesting for me to see which figures have made it back on to the new shelves and display spaces that went up after the rewire. Animated got back out as did some of my random figures. My Classic Prime moulds got grouped together too. What keeps surprising me is that most of my MPs haven't made it back out, nor did Botcon Pre BW set which had been out for a few years.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 11, 2010 19:11:52 GMT
Pretty random here. Though simpler TF's last far longer/are played with more than overly complicated ones. They are never fun to fiddle with.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 14:55:34 GMT
Tim, don't you even transform them once or twice before displaying? I call that "playing" with them... Yep, I have a go at Transforming them. Sometimes I do it at the request of my 3-year-old nephew when he visits too. Well, except for MP Megatron obviously ... |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 15:06:56 GMT
Oh, and it's probably worth pointing out, Graham, that there's not much scope for me to play with them anyway, since I have at the minute Revoltech Starscream, a model of Optimus Prime, around 13 Robot Heroes or SCF models, and a USB Ravage whose leg snapped off, and which has now been glued on in such away that it looks as though he's taking a leak on my IDW collection  Transforming toys are few and far between: MP Skywarp, Optimus Prime, Grimlock, and Megatron; WST Devastator; Titanium Soundwave; and G1 (Counter)Punch. And somewhere downstairs there are mini versions of the Coneheads, keyrings, and Motormaster and Astrotrain, but they only ever come out when the Anklebiter visits |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2010 17:03:40 GMT
I have a few Alternators toys and they are largely for display purposes. I transform them once in a while to display them in that particular mode before transforming them back again to display once more. The G1 toys I have however are different. They are much easier to transform and have more play value because of that.
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Post by Shockprowl on Nov 12, 2010 19:32:49 GMT
It is very rare that I get rid of a TF. Most of my TFs fit into the main 'collections' that I am striving to complete. Namely a classics '84 collection, and my Masterpiece collection. I also have my movie collection, 6" Titanium collection, Beast Wars collection, original three Strike Planes collection, and, of course, Prowl collection (AAAARRRGGHH!!!). I only generally purchoosel figeroons that fit into those two main collections (the other collections being more or less completed). However, I had a cull a while back, and certain figeroons from certain collections may no longer fit in too well anymore, eg Energon Inferno, now that I have the excellent Classics Inferno. Also, my Movie based figeroons may well be an endangered collection, as I believe my brief flirtation with that style/line has now passed. Leading, perhaps, to another cull.
So, to answer young Tomo's excellent question, mostly my TFs have long if not permanent life-spans, 'cos they usually fit into one of my 'collections'. But, every now and then, my mood can change, and particular TFs can become irrelevant or superseded. These figeroons are mercilessly culled. Such is the will of the Shockprowl.
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