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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2015 9:04:21 GMT
Doc'! You don't think Dear Philip is implying we have anything other than his welfare in our hearts do you?!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 23, 2015 9:10:39 GMT
That or you're in league with Mrs A!
I think it's quite well known that if SOMETHING should happen to me the forum's physical presence would be required in Swindon to help clear my collection, possibly involving certain items going home with certain people.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2015 9:12:32 GMT
I claim your collection of highly expensive, yet highly illegal French lithographs!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 23, 2015 9:17:32 GMT
..... featuring a certain 1984 released Transformers Police Car?
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2015 9:21:45 GMT
*drools*
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 5, 2015 9:54:43 GMT
I've got some unboxing to do AND IT WILL HURT! But it must be done. I'm breaking the habit, tonight.
I don't know how it happened to me. I got bitten by the MISB collecting thing a few years back and so, so many of my toys are chained in their cardboard prisons now. I'm sure it's an OCD type thing, it isn't to do with future value because I rarely sell on Transformers. I can't actually explain it beyond that urge to know my own toys are in the best possible condition. Oddly it doesn't get me with third party. Most of my third party figures are out on display. It's just the Hasbro stuff.
But Combiner Wars is where I have to break the habit, because otherwise I'll never see them combined!
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Post by kayevcee on Sept 5, 2015 10:20:11 GMT
I've started ditching packaging from Hasbro items due to lack of space. With Combiner Wars, I maybe keep the cardbacks if they're American. Takara boxes I tend to hold onto, and 3P items tend to keep their boxes in case I have second thoughts and decide to ditch them.
-Nick
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Post by browny87 on Sept 5, 2015 11:03:12 GMT
I'm the same pin, unboxing hurts me but at the core I wanna play with the toys lol!
ive started keeping boxes but not the packaging inside, you can fold the boxes down to smaller more compact space
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Post by Toph on Sept 5, 2015 15:49:16 GMT
I hold onto Japanese and 3P packaging. Throw away all others.
In the age of the internet, I'm finding it hard to keep them even for bios.
(Which honestly is one reason it pisses me off tgat TF Wiki doesn't do the toy bios)
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 5, 2015 16:13:30 GMT
Yes I only keep 3P or rarer figure's boxes. And in the house of Shockprowl EVERYTHING IS OPENED! EVERYTHIIINNNGGGG!!!!!!!
'Cept I have some Prowl's MISB/OSC as part of my Prowl collection, but I have opened ones as well. He he he.
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Post by Shockprowl on Sept 5, 2015 16:14:54 GMT
And generally modern bios are poor so I don't give a stuff about them. Make up my own.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Sept 5, 2015 16:29:13 GMT
Moved to it's own thread and poll added
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Post by Dezzeh on Sept 5, 2015 16:33:01 GMT
I open nearly everything, maybe not straight away but it will get opened once I have space and have rotated stuff back in to storage.
I also keep all the packaging, the convenient part about having a weather proof barn loft to put it in. It also makes it a lot easier to put stuff away!
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 5, 2015 16:42:24 GMT
That would be awesome. My loft is creaking with rkive boxes full of unopened toys. I've got 19 alone with Doctor Who figures in. I think I opened about 5% of the whole run.
I actually really like having neat boxes of lined up carded figures. Rooting through them is like pulling books off library shelves. The Who figures fit really well in rkive boxes.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 5, 2015 16:46:17 GMT
I'll generally open and chuck the box unless the packaging is special in some way.
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Post by blueshift on Sept 5, 2015 16:55:43 GMT
I want this to be true so bad. "This is Sideswipe. His weapon is a spam cannon and he enjoys walks on the beach. He used to have a pet starfish called Brian but Bumblebee stepped on it. On that day, Sideswipe swore revenge. His spam cannon can shoot targets up to 500 miles away. He only drinks Bovril." |
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Post by browny87 on Sept 5, 2015 17:13:46 GMT
as said above, I do try to keep everything although the missus keeps ranting about our spare room, if it isn't toys its piles of boxes!
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Post by KnightBeat on Sept 5, 2015 18:04:39 GMT
I open all TFs, though it occasionally takes me a while to get to them. I've owned MP10 Optimus Prime, DOTM Ratchet, and Alternators Rodimus for several years now, but haven't quite found the time to open and display them.
I used to store the packaging for every TF I'd bought between 1999-2014. However, I've been making an effort to de-clutter recently and have thrown away the card bubbles (but not the cards) for most of the Deluxe figures. I'm keeping the larger boxes as-is for the moment in case I want to sell figures at a later date (particularly the movie lines), but have started to wonder if it's worth the effort of storing them.
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Post by Benn on Sept 5, 2015 18:12:58 GMT
I keep boxes for Masterpiece and G1 reissues. The rest go.
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Post by The Doctor on Sept 5, 2015 20:35:06 GMT
I'll generally open and chuck the box unless the packaging is special in some way. Same here. I lack the space to keep many of my toys (hence twice-yearly culls) never mind the packaging! -Ralph |
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Post by Llama God on Sept 6, 2015 17:39:57 GMT
Well I *always* open them - a Transformer that is untransformed is simply a waste of potential! ;-)
I used to keep all the boxes. And then I got double glazing and insulation, and no-one checked the ventilation in my loft. And it rained in the loft. On my boxes. A sad, sad day that.
Now I only keep certain, "special" items of packaging - generally MP or imports. But I'll also keep the cardbacks if they have tech specs on them.
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 17, 2015 13:20:35 GMT
Got my collection organised last night and very quickly ran out of space. Currently have 12 shelves up (well 8 shelves and 2 units) which is one full wall and the lower half of another wall, but the shelves are all packed 2 and 3 rows deep. That leaves me one narrow wall and the top half of the second side wall so ideally I'll stack the 2 units on top of each other at the narrow wall and fit 2 units to the side wall.
My first stop last night was Argos and found an indistrial looking quick assembly unit that can hold nearly a tonne, which should be enough for Devastator. They're £50 each so reasonable enough. Does anyone have any experience of the quality of Argos shelf units? Is it likely to collapse whenever I close the front door?
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Post by Benn on Dec 17, 2015 13:30:35 GMT
The Argos ones work well enough for me. Most of mine are their cheapest ones and are stacked high with CD's, DVD's comics, books and toys.
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Post by legios on Dec 17, 2015 13:43:18 GMT
Worth a look in a Cancer Research furniture shop if you have one nearby. They often have secondhand stuff at decent prices and in really good nick. I got the shelf-unit I keep my Large Tomes and my Macross stuff on from one.
Karl
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 17, 2015 13:47:10 GMT
That's good enough for me. Argos it is.
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 17, 2015 13:48:30 GMT
Worth a look in a Cancer Research furniture shop if you have one nearby. They often have secondhand stuff at decent prices and in really good nick. I got the shelf-unit I keep my Large Tomes and my Macross stuff on from one. Karl There's a raft of charity shops next to where I work but it's not close enough to the house to make it viable. |
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Post by browny87 on Dec 17, 2015 13:57:52 GMT
ikea is where I got mine, bought 2 bookcases and some stand alone shelving all for under £70 and they've been perfect!
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 17, 2015 14:03:47 GMT
ikea is where I got mine, bought 2 bookcases and some stand alone shelving all for under £70 and they've been perfect! I did buy the shelves from Ikea, dirt cheap as well, as I liked the idea of spacing them out to suit me. But it's an old building i live in made out of about a dozen types of material so some of the walls are an absolute bugger to drill into. Some are masonry, some are plasterboard, some seem like marshmallow. The 8 that are up went into a good wall without any hassle but the rest of the walls are a nightmare so I've got spare shelves now and they're getting abandoned for units. There's an argos 2 minutes from my house so I'll probably go with that. |
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Post by browny87 on Dec 17, 2015 15:06:37 GMT
lol fair enough mate, I had problems with our walls but I used massive screws and they were fine.
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Post by Baron B of Triple B on Dec 17, 2015 15:12:30 GMT
lol fair enough mate, I had problems with our walls but I used massive screws and they were fine. Its getting the screws through the walls that's the issue. I've got masonry drill bits for getting through the brick but they're covered in soft plasterboard so the outer wall vanishes in a puff of grey smoke. Then what tends to happen is the hole is too big or not bit enough for the screw. So I've decided shelving units are the way to go before the walls look anymore like a sieve. |
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