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Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 13:48:29 No.11608745 View View Reply Original Report

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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?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 14:02:10 No.11608752 Report

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>>11608745
half 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 14:04:03 No.11608753 Report

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>>11608745
I'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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 14:05:54 No.11608755 Report

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>>11608753
Also 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

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 14:07:11 No.11608757 Report

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>>11608745
I'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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 15:14:57 No.11608847 Report

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>>11608745
They 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.

Subjecthistorian

Subjecthistorian Tue 28 Oct 2025 15:17:38 No.11608852 Report

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>>11608745
I 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 15:32:35 No.11608868 Report

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>>11608757
Yes, 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 15:52:48 No.11608897 Report

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>>11608745
Why do people collect action figures and leave them on a shelf?
you are a retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 28 Oct 2025 16:10:46 No.11608915 Report

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>>11608745
My 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:03:07 No.11609459 Report

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>>11608745
I only keep the rarest ones in their box, as god intended

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:35:41 No.11609481 Report

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>>11608755
I 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 04:53:08 No.11609488 Report

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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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 05:09:10 No.11609494 Report

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Because they want to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 10:33:58 No.11609596 Report

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I have some Exodia vinyl figure thing I keep in the box because he is thematically sealed

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 11:29:52 No.11609671 Report

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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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 29 Oct 2025 13:32:36 No.11609783 Report

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>>11608897
nta I do action figure photography. Makes it feel like not so much of a money sink.

>>11608868
You weirdo.

No, I'm totally joking, that was wholesome.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 30 Oct 2025 02:39:31 No.11610509 Report

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>>11609783
I'm here all week, don't forget to tip your servers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 31 Oct 2025 20:58:43 No.11611852 Report

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>>11609671
this is sort of a basic take, there's since been plenty of toys from in-demand lines that sell for higher in package despite being made in good numbers and kept in good conditions. It really has to do if the figure is
>in demand
>one of the best options for the character, especially so if it's the single best one in a popular scale
>has historical significance
there's countless JP figures that aren't particularly rare and kept in great condition,but the demand for them is high

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 01 Nov 2025 07:50:53 No.11612236 Report

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>>11611852
You can't keep shit in a package indefinitely. People are unloading, at giveaway prices, factory sealed packages where the clam shells have yellowed, or the card is damaged, wrinkled, has torn from the clam shell, etc.

Especially for the people that stick those Star Wars and Joes with thumb tack on their walls so the weight has slowly made everything receded downward - none of that shit is increasing in 'value.'

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 15:33:47 No.11613318 Report

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I started doing it purely because I liked the presentation or wanted to keep all the pieces together (TMNT Ray Filet Re-Issue, Marvel Legends ROM, Shredder as Dracula, Dark Vader Conceptual Art Fig)

I couldn't care about the value of them at all

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Nov 2025 20:32:48 No.11613613 Report

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>>11608745
I do it just to piss you off.
I hate toys but i hate you too so its a no win situation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 00:20:11 No.11613825 Report

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>>11608745
Actual mental illness

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 00:33:41 No.11613839 Report

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>>11613613
>>11613825

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 00:41:20 No.11613851 Report

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>>11608745
I used to be pretty critical of this but am ok with the concept now. You get to both enjoy looking at the figures (which is a lot of the pleasure of art, which is why people but statues), and enjoy the box art which is very nostalgic and beautiful in itself, plus there's the concept of hoarding items for some future hypothetical sale.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 01:16:02 No.11613881 Report

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>>11608745
If I knew how to take the toy without damaging the package I'd do it, but for now my Monev will be kept inside his prison.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 19:01:20 No.11614456 Report

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>>11608745
So for the longest time I was a strict box open guy. But in the last five years I've got a backlog of toys I've left in the box.

I think the reasons vary:
>Some toys look better in the box then they do out. For example: Marvel Legends Retro card backs are like this, the anniversary Street Sharks look better in the cages with the fins stickin' out.
>Too many pieces that get lost, have to put away. This applies to BAF pieces as well.
>Boxes stack better in closets, the basement and they're easier to store than loose figs that get dusty, damage from the sun, falling from a shelf.

The best of both worlds for me is a cardback that has a clam shell plastic that hand slide on or off. The Boss Fight Studio's Bucky O Hare figures are perfect for this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 03 Nov 2025 19:08:23 No.11614462 Report

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>>11612236
Yeah last summer a guy at a toy show was selling a lot he picked up at an estate sale of Mattel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone toys still sealed and he had almost everything.

I got the deluxe Hagrid for a reasonable price and the packaging was really well designed. The plastic bubble was sculpted like Hogwarts columns and there was folded printed cardboard behind to make a 3D effect. But unfortunately the glue holding it to the card was so dried up it was falling apart and the edges where beat to hell and the bubble plastic was beyond yellowing it was browning. So I opened it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 10:57:07 No.11615939 Report

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I have a few hanging on walls because they look cool and its the best place for them. Would be nice to see if the value increases but I wouldnt sell them anyway.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 13:45:19 No.11615996 Report

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>>11615939
>I have a few hanging on walls
This is so bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 05 Nov 2025 22:17:58 No.11616327 Report

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>>11609671
Yes, but a lot of the people selling this crap are selling it at scalper prices, like record stores and book stores used to as if they were out of print material.

>>11614462
Also this

>>11615939
Man - if this is really what you want to do, get one of those narrow floating shelves and display them ON that, leaning against the wall.
Don't fucking nail or thumb tack or anything like that to the fucking plaster walls.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 07 Nov 2025 14:23:16 No.11617964 Report

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>>11616327
Then the cardboard with eventually bow or curve.

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