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This leaves the question, who is crazier? Lucas or SW fans? I must ponder this.
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>He makes it sound like Vintage Star wars figures and rare variations are going to be key in future cultures to understand all of life.
Yeah.... It's often said that practitioners of the nerdly arts have huge entitlement problems, but I think a significant amount of self-righteousness works it's way in there too....
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Star Wars really did take a hit with the prequel trilogy. A good friend of mine that I grew up with went from liking Star Wars to feeling it no longer has any integrity left. He gave away all his stuff and wont likely watch the movies again. I personally still like the originals and the design aspects of the new ones, but it feels like its been cheapened by Lucas himself.
After reading that whole thread, I kinda want to get some MOC's and open them for kicks. Luckily I can't afford to do so.Comment
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^Get the new Vintage stuff and open them. Kinda killing two birds with one stone there.Comment
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When I first started collecting Micronauts as an adult collector in the early 90's, I was taking figures off the card right and left. I wasn't aware of any toy collector magazines or websites dedicated to collecting vintage toys. I never knew there would be a market for this type of thing, certainly not like it is now.
The figures I've taken off of crisp, un-punched cards would be Time Travellers, Galactic Defenders, Pharoids, Acroyears, and Space Gliders. I always thought I could always find another one carded. It took me years to find some on the card, in mint condition. What Micronaut figure I paid $15 on the card in 1993, costs probably about ten times that now.
I've even taken a Lobros off a card. But, in that case, the card was in terrible, terrible condition.
Apart from Micronauts, I recently bought some Buck Rogers figures that were mint on the card for about $20 a piece.I am more than machine. More than man. More than a fusion of the two.Comment
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My entire SW collection is resealed card 12 backs. I don't think I own any that are perfectly sealed.Places to find PlaidStallions online: https://linktr.ee/Plaidstallions
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This topic is similar to a question I thought of - toys or collectibles? Back in the 70's the MEGO figures were marketed for kids to play with and that's what we did. What is the market for today's figures?
I guess that if you buy figures as collectibles then you probably leave them MOC, if you want to play with or display them then you have to open them. It all depends on why you are buying the figures. I personally have opened most of the retro figures I own, DC, Star Trek, Apes, Space 1999, etc. I do open them carefully and save the packaging.Comment
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For those of you who open re-megos, is there a specific way that yu all open the figure that doesnt overly damage the packaging? Just wondering.
Bob".....Honey, I never drive faster then I can see.....Besides that its all in the reflexes."Comment
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Here's my approach...
I cut a flap at the bottom starting from the very back and along the sides. Peel back and remove figure. The plastic springs back into place after you pull the figure out.
I use DVD cutters to make the slice...
Here's the package after the figure is removed...
Here's the figure back in the package. It's being held up so you can see he remains held in the plastic.
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An original Mego in the box which has been opened still sells for the MIB price yet an opened carded one isn't much more than the price of a loose figure. Why? They're both technically loose with the packaging"Live a poem or die a fool"Comment
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That's a very good point. It's clearly down to collectors preference. I suppose the beauty of a box is that you do get the chance to handle the figure if you wish. Once a bubble is opened it's opened forever, but yeah, what is the difference between a carefully slit bubble and a card box flap? - clearly lots when money is involved."I should say I`m very much cleverer than any of the people who put me here. As a matter of fact, I could leave any time I wanted. It`s only a doll`s house after all. Anyway, I don`t mind. I like dolls" - The Mad Hatter, Arkham Asylum.Comment
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If you want to open your MEGO figures, vintage Star Wars figures or what have you, then open them. If you don't want to, then don't.
Once they're yours and in your collection it doesn't really matter what anybody else on the entire planet thinks, it only matters what YOU think.
Just do whatever makes y'all happy.Comment
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