Action figure collectors...how important are vehicles and playsets to you?

[generic]

For the most part I don't like vehicles and playsets, but both the Mego and Superpowers Batmobile rock! There are actually quite a few that I like, but I was never as into the vehicles and playsets as the figures.

[Meule]

They look cool, they're great to display your figures and they're great to play with

[SainthoodDenied]

As a kid I had the POTA tree house and I've had it before several years ago in my collection and it does take up some space. I had the Enterprise playset as a kid and I have one now displayed with 4 trek figures on top of a book shelf.

My friend had the Forbidden Zone and that's one I'm really wanting to add to my collection.
I also had an Adventure Team HQ several years ago and it does look hood full of figures and gear but it sure is big. The coolest one I ever had by far is the Death Star playset I got as a kid for Christmas one year. I bought a original boxed one 10 or so years ago and filled it up with vintage figures and that's something I'd like to get again and a vintage x-wing and land speeder.

Oh yeah, the Adventure Team atv is awesome too and I'd like to get one for the couple Joes I have, and the General Lee for the 3 3/4" figures is a must have soon for me also.

[samurainoir]

I absolutely love them, but I do find them very cumbersome to store and display.

Particularly the vans and the Empire Helicopters! I've always wanted a Wayne Foundation, but I have no idea what I would even do with one if I had one. Don't even know what to do with the Batcave, Fonzie's garage, Enterprise Bridge, Hall of Justice, Hulk's Hidaway which I have now.

Not much you can do with 900 square feet.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

I built Supercity. And an 8" scale Mangler, so I'm okay with both.

Don C.

[TrueDave]

my childhood would have been a poorer place. Marx Navarone mountain, Little People Seasame Street, Uss Battlewagon, Death Star,

Never had or wanted the Falcon too heavy to lift. Death Star was great and I wish the modular line would have continued in the 1990s

[Sandman9580]

Don't even know what to do with the Batcave, Fonzie's garage, Enterprise Bridge, Hall of Justice, Hulk's Hidaway which I have now.

Alright, I'll be the first one to say it: "You send them to me!" Ha.

Playsets are awesome. I really love the McFarlane monsters sets that came out years ago. I remember buying the whole set at an Ames in upstate NY and thinking, why can't all toys be like this? Even my friend who was with me at the time, and has zero interest in action figures, thought they were awesome. The Star Wars Micro collection are also some of my favorites. I loved those things even more than the action figures when I was a kid. (My best friend had them all, I didn't own any.) My Ghostbusters collection just wouldn't feel like a Ghostbusters collection without that awesome firehouse. And though I don't collect MOTU, I loved it when I was a kid and I was reminded of just how cool those vehicles/playsets actually were when I went to a toy/yard sale a couple of weeks ago and saw them all spread out on a blanket. I almost started collecting vintage He-man right then and there.

Truth be told, I have a tendency to sometimes collect lines that I'm not 100% interested in, and getting playsets for the lines that I do really care about can actually be helpful. It limits space, forces you to focus, and makes the figures you do love look that much cooler and "complete".

[Thor]

I love playsets. Especially Gi joe and SW, but I just don't have the space for them anymore and what I do have are mostly packed up due to the lack of room.

[Falconhood]

depends on the playset. They don't make that many to begin with.
For Star Trek, i feel it's essential.
For super-heroes, not so much.

[Nostalgiabuff]

love the sets and vehicles Mego made but like most people don't have enough space to display them all....I really love the AT Joe vehicles too but have the same problem. So i just display my favorites and occasionally shift things around as I get new favorites

[jimsmegos]

Not too important to me, mainly because of space issues at the moment. Now back in the days of being a kid... playsets were the coolest thing next to the figures themselves. Especially the Star Wars stuff. Vehicles were cool too but mainly just the Star Wars ships. Especially the SnowSpeeder - still me all time favorite SW/ sci-fi ship