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Has the world gone mad!?
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<blockquote data-quote="subzero" data-source="post: 452307" data-attributes="member: 9185"><p>Why do collectors do this??, it's been bloody opened up into the fresh air and handled haha, doesn't matter to me if it's been out of the bubble for 5 seconds or for 15 years I see either one as circulated.</p><p></p><p>I'm all about preservation with my collection as much as possible, i'd prefer everything MOC however I do have a loose SW figure set i'm building up because of the cost of MOC being waaay to expensive to get every figure. But wherever I can, if it's affordable or easy enough to find i'll go for brand new & unopened to preserve exactly the way it was meant to be on shop shelves, I've got Manta Force, MOTU, TMNT, Micro Machines, Pokemon cards etc etc and then half of my ROTJ stuff all MOC, it's not just all simply 'packaging' it's actually artwork and it's part of the toy. I love the fact that a figure/item has gone into that packaging all those decades ago and has literally been frozen in time in that bubble/box, it hasn't even had a single limb move since that worker put it in there, it's been on a huge journey around the country/world and had many chances to be opened and played with or handled but it never happened, all this fascinates me!</p><p></p><p>It baffles me why collectors would want to destroy that history to have it opened up just for some 'bloke' to grade it and stick a stupid number on it, that piece of history should never be destroyed it should be preserved, I can maybe understand it if the card/bubble is in very poor shape?.. If you own something like this you have the right to open it if you want but if everyone thought that way then there would be nothing left one day for people to enjoy the original condition it used to be in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="subzero, post: 452307, member: 9185"] Why do collectors do this??, it's been bloody opened up into the fresh air and handled haha, doesn't matter to me if it's been out of the bubble for 5 seconds or for 15 years I see either one as circulated. I'm all about preservation with my collection as much as possible, i'd prefer everything MOC however I do have a loose SW figure set i'm building up because of the cost of MOC being waaay to expensive to get every figure. But wherever I can, if it's affordable or easy enough to find i'll go for brand new & unopened to preserve exactly the way it was meant to be on shop shelves, I've got Manta Force, MOTU, TMNT, Micro Machines, Pokemon cards etc etc and then half of my ROTJ stuff all MOC, it's not just all simply 'packaging' it's actually artwork and it's part of the toy. I love the fact that a figure/item has gone into that packaging all those decades ago and has literally been frozen in time in that bubble/box, it hasn't even had a single limb move since that worker put it in there, it's been on a huge journey around the country/world and had many chances to be opened and played with or handled but it never happened, all this fascinates me! It baffles me why collectors would want to destroy that history to have it opened up just for some 'bloke' to grade it and stick a stupid number on it, that piece of history should never be destroyed it should be preserved, I can maybe understand it if the card/bubble is in very poor shape?.. If you own something like this you have the right to open it if you want but if everyone thought that way then there would be nothing left one day for people to enjoy the original condition it used to be in. [/QUOTE]
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