Transformers Debate: Loose or Mint In Box?

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[TomMSTie]

Loose: they're toys, they're meant to be played with.

[coreyrobinson]

Loose, because I like to play with my toys.

[Starcat]

"Toy Story 2" had the right of it. Mint In Box just means you don't love your toys and just want them as a status symbol. Boo!

[FreebirthBoccara]

i like playing with my toys...the hell is a transforming toy for if you don't get to transform it?

[Bones-]

What I've always enjoyed about Transformers is that the toy was an action figure, a car/plane/camera/dinosaur/etc, as well as a puzzle. It feels wrong to me to just keep it in a box.

I have started to keep the boxes for my figures instead of throwing them away. When I rotate my display I put the figures back into the box for storage. Some boxes still have accessories I've never used with the figure still in the original packaging. For example, my CW Leader Megatron's hand weapons have never left the packaging.

[braydenpage]

I always collect loose unless it's very special occasions, like 90%/10% . I love messing around with figures of all kinds but Transformers specifically. Their complexity and the astonishment of how they got such a great action figure to crunch itself into a vehicle is fascinating to me. I love Transformers so I open (almost) every one of them I get.

[luzeerz]

Omg at 11:00 I’m surprised someone else, let alone YOU talked about having the Transformers in the box because of seeing them in the stores as a kid.

I’m Gen Z so I grew up around the Generations, FOC and the first 3 Bayverse toylines. As a kid my parents would always let me go to the toy section and just look at Transformers while they shopped. They'd buy me some occasionally, all deluxes. (Voyager and Leaders were for birthdays and christmas)

As years passed on they said I opened too much so after a certain point they'd buy me the toy, but never let me open it. I'd hang them in my closet and it was like a little toy aisle, I'd pic them up and look around the box, sometimes they has the little opening to demo the gimmick (mechtech)

I did open some years later after waiting so long, oh boy I got some whoopings from it. Made me so upset I couldnt play with my own Transformers. 😭 Still enjoyed watching the reviews of them on Baltmatrix, Emgo316 and your channels.

I still have some in their boxes, DOTM Leader Bumblebee, Voyager Shockwave and Megatron, Deluxe DarkSteel and Air Raid and a RID Bulkhead. It's been so long that honestly I don't mind them being in boxes anymore.

However after I got back into Transformers collecting, all of my toys are gonna be out of the box, still flatten in keep the box just to stare at the packaging. 🙂

[OverseerXIII]

If you treat toys as an investment, you do you but you are fundamentally wrong and highly joyless

Despite that though, I do keep one toy MISB more for sentimental reasons. A copy of the collab Gigawatt I got from a friend last year.

[RialVestro]

I am so happy there's a third option this time. I mentioned on the last video that I felt like it was situational there too but the poll didn't have an option for that.

I voted opened, I hesitated when I saw the third option there because I could see the argument for both. This is just my personal opinion but the reason I went with opened is because I only really collect Transformers. The whole point of a Transformer is that it's technically three toys in one, some times more if you get into triple changers but general, you have an action figure, a vehicle or beast toy, and a puzzle if you're like me and you don't look at the instructions. Which incidentally I think should be your next poll, cause I'm curious if there are other transformers collectors out there who view their transformers as puzzle toys and try to solve the puzzle without looking at the instructions.

Anyway, one of the biggest reasons I love Transformers toys and continue to collect them as an adult is because if I ever get bored of how my collection looks I can just take them off the shelf, transform them to another mode and have an entirely different display even though they're the exact same toys. I can't do that with any other toy line. I use to collect other things like Star Wars and I do still enjoy my Lightsabers but I don't really go after the toys like I use to because that Darth Maul toy that I spent a long time tracking down at multiple different stores because it was incredibly difficult to find... yeah I got board of him in like five minutes. I eventually realized that the reason I wasn't enjoying my Star Wars, or super hero figures anymore is because they were essentially all the exact same toy. Considering all they have to do is repaint a body, maybe sculpt a new head, and they can keep reusing the exact same mold for 15 hundred characters. Transformers reuse molds too of course but no where near to the extent that other toy lines do it. Transformers just continues to impress me with the engineering in ways that non-transforming figures just can't because they don't have to worry about that figure not only having articulation but also being able to transform into a completely different toy. So for that reason because it's the experience of the transformation that is the whole reason I love these figures, I can't enjoy a Transformers toy if it's mint in box.

If it were any other toy line, I would actually prefer to have it mint in box because I don't really care about having the experience of having that toy in my hand. I've looked at Marvel Legends figures, I don't really collect Marvel or DC figures anymore. I've considered getting a Deadpool and if I did get one it would probably stay in the box. I don't need to open him an pose him around on my desk, I don't want to lose the accessories and they likely would get lost if I opened it, that's living in the box. I've also considered getting a Moon Knight and Mr. Knight specifically the Disney+ version because I've researched comic book Moon Knight and I don't really care about the comic book. I think Disney actually made the right choice in the changes they made to the character to make him a more accurate portrayal of DID instead of making him like he was in the comics which is outdated and kind of offensive. I don't care about any comic book version of the character but I would actually consider getting figures of the live action versions because I love that series. Again they would live in the box though cause even though it's two different costumes with very different designs... really they're all using the same base body with different paint and accessories. I don't feel like I need to experience those figures out of the box. I just kind of want them because I love the characters but they would absolutely live in the box.

My dad actually use to collect Star Trek toys. He kind of still does but not as much as he use to cause they don't really make them as often anymore. But he would usually try to get two of everything as much as possible that way he could have one to open and actually experience first hand have a second to keep in the box. Though a lot of those figures were being stored in the shed which had a tree fall on it recently so he may have taken a big hit to his collection due to that accident.

[MikeD]

Loose .
I don't understand keeping them in a box figures are meant to be displayed and transformed once in awhile.

[KRBrickBot]

I'm a packagerat saving flattened boxes, but Kingdom's removal of plastic trays encouraged me to strip down on the frankly spacious packaging. Older transformers remain in box and tray. Still, I prefer compact vehicle mode storage in Selects boxes and plastic bags for protection from the elements and rubbing, especially shiny ABS Tobots. And just a small shelf for loose display to use for filming.

[rudyproductions]

For me, I equate MISB toys to posters: they’re nice decorations, but they aren’t the substance of the collection. I open my toys, and I play with them, but I’m not above getting a few duplicates that I keep in the box, if I think it’ll help break things up and make things look nice.

[wakeangel]

My Greenlight is out and on my female autobot display, but I do have her box on standby so I can put her back in there if I want. I rarely keep my boxes but when I know it's collectible I'll put the box away for safekeeping

[ArcheTelos]

For me, there's a lot more nostalgia in actually playing with and experiencing the toy than just having the sealed box. Like, my favorite figures from my childhood, I spent like what, 15-20 minutes with the sealed box from the store to home, and then I opened it up, threw away the box, and enjoyed the toy inside for years to come. All my good memories are with the contents, not the packaging. And if I want to re-obtain a figure that didn't survive my childhood, or finally get one that I wanted as a kid but my parents never bought for me, I'm gonna take the feeling of actually having the toy in-hand over the feeling of staring wistfully at a store shelf.

That said, if a box somehow survives 20+ years sealed and in perfect condition, then I can see the value in protecting it for many more. I mean, personally I wouldn't pay for it, but if one somehow entered my possession, then sure, I'd keep the streak going.

[Jimboliah]

"In the end, it's a toy. And you have to be able to play, with a toy. Not just stare at it because it's all nice and fancy." -TJOmega, Plastic Addict 15: Energon Wing Saber
Also, 21:58 gave us one *hell of a meme quote.*

[megagrey]

For ML Spider-Man, for so so long I stuck with the Toybiz Spider-Man 2 movie super-poseable Spidey that I found at a flea market for a dollar. Only that Renew Your Vows ML Spider-Man that you mentioned got me to upgrade.

I have the Voyager-class TF Prime Ultra Magnus and Shockwave still in box. And for other Hasbro stuff, the MLP Queen Chrysalis and Spike 2-pack and a WHOLE bunch of GI Joe Classified still MIB. I got RotF Leader-class Optimus Prime new in-package and opened it, but just about every other official Transformers toy I have on display, I got used.

[deepcover_studios]

I collect loose that being said I have one thing that I got the I have sealed from micro machines sealed in box because I have the set of cars that it has in that box

[kailig]

I had kept a lot of my Transformers {started collecting with the Siege line of toys} in box and displayed them on a shelf. Part of the room they were displayed in started feeling like a toy store. But then I ran out of room for boxes, and figured that I could get more of them on the shelf if I took them out. Also that helped me purchase more since I had more room 😂. I am enjoying having them out of the boxes and have gotten pretty good at transforming them. Toys are meant to be played with!

There is one that I probably won't ever open though, and that is my MP-01 Optimus Prime. I wasn't big into collecting Transformers toys at that time, but I was an 80's kid and grew up with the G1 show and got a lot of the toys. So when I saw the MP-01 in the store 20 years ago, I couldn't pass it up.

[BigBotBodega]

Thanks TJ I watch alot of Transformers content creators and this subject isnt touch on alot so I tip my hat to you. So there is an aspect you did touch on that is essentially how I collect. For me I unbox and leave in. My initial thought is always to open, though. Why, because not just playing with the toy, but displaying the toy, is such a big part of the experience to me. I am very serious about my display and how my bots are set up. However I do keep things in box. Not just to stay in a box in the closet but some are actually part of my displays. It adds a element in some cases. Example, I purchased Takara Tomy Transformers One Optimus Prime with the intention to take it out of its box. Then it got here.... The box was so cool and I got to thinking about the fact that the figure would not be released in the states. I came to the conclusion it was a better Idea to keep him in box. Another reason I may keep something in box is I just don't have a place for that particular bot to fit in to my display...yet. I digress, thanks again for the content TJ

[EeveeKing]

They hold there value on most figures so I open them and hold onto someone boxes. I only have figure that are 20+ years old such as g2 beachcomber and the collaboration ones like gigawatt.