[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by CMIII

I had that issue with DCUC Stargirl they packaged the figure with the arms facing the opposite direction (how did I know... Stargirls Arm stars are on the outter arm not inner). I open them so she is displayed properly

Well I suppose even if you were a MOC/MIB collector you could open it, reposition the arm, and then close it again (as long as it's a box). And don't give me that "but then it isn't really mint", it's a toy, unless it's a convention exclusive or proven valuable nostalgia piece, open it. I don't care for the "I don't open them because they'll lose value" either because it's almost guaranteed 50/50 on whether any toy gains or loses value, and if your only reason for buying toys is hoping that they gain value and you can flip 'em that way, then you made a horrible purchasing decision. That changed from how to make a toy look better in box into a rant about my dislike of why some people keep toys mint, but I feel it needed to be said.
I do sometimes see why someone would keep a toy mint, like if it's already old and valuable, a particularly liked convention exclusive, or nostalgic. Hell, I understand keeping them mint because you like the look of it in the box. Toys are still just toys though, if you're looking for resell income, look at house/car flipping, not toys. I'm sure there probably aren't even a lot of people here who do it for those purposes. If that's why you do it why do you have an account to talk about how you like toys on a forum? I open my toys, save some old ones that don't stack up to the toys of today and one exclusive which falls to similar circumstance, because I feel the best and truest way to enjoy a figure is to hold it in your hands and see all the little efforts put into it. Then I display them somewhere and every now and then while cleaning I like to fiddle with them, find new poses, rearrange them, the works.
Then again I'm not everyone, I don't want to be everyone, I like doing things the way I do them and that's fine.