I have a block about opening certain figures - like teh orange sub GhostFighter, the First Skullbee and the first 4 Skullwings - just can't do it. Weird, but also fun to have a hrmless little eccentricity. But then something like the BxH/Kaws Skull Kuns - np - opened in a jiffy - mainly because I couldn't see the vinyl action. If figures were packaged in opaque bags, I'd have to open them.
I saw that the chrome and bronze Blobpus come in opaque silvery bags. I don't remember seeing kaiju in opaque bags before. It looks cool actually ... I guess the Blobpus people know that it's a collector thing. "You don't need to see it, you know what it is, just buy the shiny bag" LOL.
That's why I carefully remove the staples half-way such that the header stays attached to the top of the bag. DANG I'm a geek!
The last blobpus (reg. size) releases came in opaque shiny gold bags...blind bagged...cool, but pricey and nerve wracking.
the only toy i've fretted about opening was the white flocked skullwing. i don't own many flocked toys. (hell, i think its my only one) but fuck, its WHITE! i eventually cracked it open. i worry about it, but i love it so much and its much nicer to be able to see it without the plastic
I know if I ever managed to score a Handpainted Skullwing it would stay bagged. I'd be petrified of screwing it up somehow. How much did those sell for at SDCC?
I've been collecting kaiju for tha past 2 months,everything I have bought are still in there bags..I guess everything will stay in bags until they build and IKEA in the next town over from me which will be 2 years from now,the nearest one to me now is about 8 hours away..So I guess I will be asshole deep in japanese kaiju before I can ever get me a few of those detofs.I am very proud of the figures I have purchased so far and this stuff cost alot of money so it's only right to display them in the correct manner,I've seen alot of board members collections on here and they look so good displayed in those glass displays with the lights in them..I am the happiest I have ever been collecting ,I never realized just how beautiful the sculpts and colors are on these toys and have gained a whole new respect for collecting..Long live Japanese Kaiju...
You'd have to ask Moco about that - Laura, Roger, and I were so far back in the line that we had no chance of even seeing one, much less scoring one . . .
the only time I didnt open was when I spent about 3 months as I waited to move . I didnt want to pull all of it out just to re-pack it all again . I had also just got back from my first trip to japan and had a whole mess of junk packaged well for the trip home. once I got to my new place and I was way psyched to pull them out and finally display them. anybody else get comments of you cases looking like museums? I don't think I'm the only here who is WAY OCD about how they display everything. I also keep what little carded figures I have inside just because alot of times they don't even stand well out of package.
Gotta ride your vinyl bareback! I think they were $425, I passed on'em though the ones that were left didn't do it for me.
You have to also ask yourself this - If you smoke - should you open the figure up and expose it to the smoke in your house? If you do and decide to sell it it will mark it down as it will now smell like ass! Vinyl breathes in the smells in your enviroment. Same if you cook with figures in your kitchen (I have a bunch of Food Related Funko Wobblers in my kitchen). So - if thats the case you may want to keep em bagged!
I am in the same boat as you, I currently live in a sunroom so all that's available for space is my desk where things get knocked over regularly and my bookcase which is jam packed already. Every now and then I'll take something out of the bag and admire it for a while. Some of my favorites are in my desk drawer so I can look at them, but otherwise everything is bagged and sealed in stacked cardboard boxes. Only a beautiful glass display case will ever do this stuff justice so I am looking forward to that day.
I open tha bags in most all cases, even on vintage toys, because it is only a bend of a staple difference. I just bend the staples, open and take off the header, bend the staples closed on the header, take out the figure, and then put the header indide the bag for storage. Otherwise you never get to move the arms, twist teh heads, or any other cool things about seeing the toys work. Plus they display better. I have shelves, but no glass, you just have to dust every once in a blue moon. I only have three toys that I refused to open the bags on, a vintage IKB Hedoran, Barom-1 chime figure and a giant size Ohgon bat. Those were just too rare to open. After that, you have to enjoy your figure, as long as you have the header, it will be worth 95% of what a bagged one is. (At least that is how vintage figures price.)
Right now I have a 1/6 medicom, Gold Sly, Purple Bagman, White Bagman, Gold Skullwing, Clot Skull pirate and slime mutant head all still bagged and sitting in a box only because I haven't paid them off yet. I figure if some emergency comes up and I need the cash before I've paid off my toy vault debt I can resell them for cost... Normally I try not to buy anything that I can't cover it right away but with the increasing rarity of SB on ebay and elsewhere I figured I'd better strike when I found them. But with all the new releases it's been taking forever...
90% of my vinyl stuff is opened. If it's not open, it's probably because I don't have space to display it properly. I have a huge backlog of non-vinyl figures that are unopened because they were purchased in the year before I moved apartments. I try to enjoy a couple of those every other weekend, rather than have some sort of box-opening, twistie-cutting orgy. Opening the staples is an interesting idea. I usually cut a slit at the top of the bag, so as to avoid altering the header at all, but this does not work so well all of the time. I might try the staple method.
Everything I own, except vintage Star Wars (because I love the packaging), gets opened. More fun, and I'm trying not to re-sell anything no matter what.
