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Why keep them in the package ?
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09-09-2008, 04:07 AM
Mandingo Rex
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What I don't get are the collectors who look for mint cards JUST to open. That makes absolutely no sense to me.
I look for the BEST card in-store, with a really good figure in it, then I look for a really good figure in a REALLY crappy box.
Right now, finding a B.A.T. in a crushed box? Fantastic to me. That's actually the reason I started opening the 25th figures... Originally, I started collecting them to keep in the box, because I enjoy the entire package as you would a piece of art. Besides, tearing off the bubble, no matter how you cut it or tear it, ruins the package. The "presentation" is ruined forever.
Now, of the ones that I want to open, I look for a really bent second and tear that bad boy apart. The hardest figures to open? I have 2 MOSC Beachheads, neither is in any worse condition than the other... And I really like Beachhead. I have yet to open him though. Same with Zartan.
I was so happy to find one of the reissued Bludds and Flash on a card that was bent to hell. So happy... I had foil cards of each, but only 1. I was so glad to get an opener.
In the long run though, what do you do with them? Pose them, at most? As much as my girlfriend makes fun of me about it, I don't ACTUALLY play with toys anymore... I haven't in nearly 15 years. I mess around with them and pose them at my desk... For me the enjoyment is the awesome construction and design put into them... Which is why I open them. I also love the card art and the presentation. Which is also why I leave them on card.
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