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When I was a kid I grew up very poor, so when I'd get a toy I'd keep them perfectly intact 100%. This served me well when I sold them off a few years back (wow, ten years ago actually).

I was anal man, I had the weapons trees with unused missiles still attached, used and unused sticker sheets, catalogs, you name it. I even had that little styrofoam shim that wedged the cardboard strip against G1 Jetfire (those who had him know, lol)

I think my good fortune selling them came from the completeness of the packaging as well as the mintyness. I remember showing my friends the figures as I was selling them and they simply could not believe they were 20 year old toys. They looked factory fresh, despite being opened.

Nowadays it's another story completely, I can barely make it out of the parking lot without ripping open the packaging in a flurry of shredded cardbacks and mangled plastic bubbles, lol.

However, I think the colle3cting environment has changed so much. It's commonplace to find several 100% complete examples out there, whereas back in the 70's-80's if a figure/box survived 100% it really was a rarity.

I say toss that junk, recycle it, whatever. Makes more room for the figures! But I can totally see keeping packaging for high end toys, exclusives, etc.