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Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 09:49:57 No.11532972 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11532982 >>11532983 >>11533278 >>11533416 >>11533796 >>11540972 >>11543324

I got a hard choice to make. Ive been collecting for decades, I have things like original Cardbacks and condensed Figure Boxes, from lots of figures I've bought over the years. Approaching critical mass. Not sure I can keep them anymore...
Option 1, Put them in storage.
Option 2, Digitally archive them by taking pictures.
Option 3, Sell them online
Option 4, Bin the lot.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 10:29:23 No.11532981 Report

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Option 4, Eat them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 10:35:52 No.11532982 Report

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>>11532972
Put one card per toyline in storage and bin the rest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 10:37:37 No.11532983 Report

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>>11532972
Keep your favorites, archive them digitally, then sell the rest off enmasse

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 16:07:22 No.11533278 Report

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>>11532972
>Option 2, Digitally archive them by taking pictures.
that's a good one because sometimes it's difficult to get in-focus or high res shots and ones without yellowing or frayed edges.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 16:36:56 No.11533324 Report

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honestly digitally archiving them sounds cool and its very hard to find sites for that sort of thing, you might be on to something

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 18:08:04 No.11533416 Report

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>>11532972
Dig through them to cherry-pick your favorites on any sentimental level, and lot-sell the rest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Aug 2025 23:58:47 No.11533796 Report

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>>11532972
>Digitally archive them by taking pictures.
>>11532983
>archive them digitally
The only way to do this would be to do it online
When you get older and pass away, whatever computer or external drive you have these archived to will likely with be something you family/children/neighbors, etc will either not be able to access or may end up corrupted. Digital media - especially recent digital media - will be far more susceptible to corruption and damage than even say things like reel to reel tape, nitrate film, vinyl records, etc.
External storage devices fail constantly and certainly aren't 'archival' - no legit museum or similar institution (library, corporation) relies on something like external drives to back up their history - neither should you.

IF this stuff has value, consider archiving it and selling off what you can part with and doing so slowly.
Storage will just be a toilet you flush money into hoping some of it will not be lost forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 23:35:35 No.11540972 Report

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>>11532972
Are there any toy archive/database websites that tries to store hq photos of toys?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Aug 2025 09:28:27 No.11542659 Report

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>>11540972
BWTF and Seibertron do. I think.
Also YoJoe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Aug 2025 23:00:03 No.11543324 Report

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>>11532972
Archive is a good idea

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Aug 2025 23:31:50 No.11545676 Report

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It's more difficult now with collector figures that make really cool packaging, for the most part older figures you could just scan them and throw them away for the most part otuside of a few outliers.

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