[flaccideagle]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deefuzz

Still to this day there are a few items I like to keep sealed. Sometimes I think they just look better in the package. I LOVE the Japanese packaging for Transformers, sometimes I see that as art in itself and love to display it as such. Some items I keep sealed are vintage G1 items, I have some vintage Battle Beasts on card that I will never open as well. And sometimes It's just a matter of I buy too much at one time that piles of stuff just sits around until I have the time to open it and enjoy. I have stacks of Lego sets I haven't even gotten around to yet.

With G1 I was always "open the box, keep carded carded" on those items. The old 80s Hasbro artwork always looks so cool, Joe and TF just had the best artwork and I wish they'd do what Star Wars has done with their "vintage" packaging.

In 1997 I had an "open the megos" party with my roommate in college that would make Megoheads cry deeply. Nobody really seemed to care about them in my area, and I can't even believe some of the trades I made back then (POTF2 Leia and several other variants that nobody cares for now, for a complete Marvel Mego set MOSC, oh the laughs nowadays)

I wish I kept them and replacing them has been quite hard for many years now. I cashed out in the "ebay boom" years, which was good for my wallet, but now I'd rather have the toys and trying to replace what i had is just impossible financially.

Over the last 3-4yrs I've noticed a serious drop-off in vintage toys not even being up for sale anymore, or at never-gonna-sell-it-in-a-million-years prices. It seems my old/current/always love, japanese robot die-casts, were once plentiful and cheap, are now nowhere to be found. Mego has become more like model kits if you don't want to pay the really high prices!

How do you feel about opening vintage stuff nowadays?
With many loose/complete examples available in the market, many people feel it's a crime, as it removes one more MOSC figure from the gene pool so to speak. You can always, and will always, find another MU Jungle Cap, but carded Battle Beasts... there's only so many left in the world...