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I’m having myself a serious nerd-derp moment. Since her release, I’ve wanted the Ellen Ripley figure from Hot Toys. I didn’t imagine I’d get her. Still, I managed to set aside money each paycheck and finally got her. And today… she has arrived!!!!

Understandably, Ripley is exhausted from her long journey here to Texas. Thankfully, though, she was soon greeted by one faaaabulous ambassador.

Welcome home, Ripley!!!!!

Welcome to Gensokyo, bitch

#nendoroid #good smile company #reimu hakurei #touhou reimu #touhou #touhou project #toy photography

Found some amiibo packs at a shop and grabbed one of each ( well, I had more but I put some back) and was lucky enough to get the two best girls <3

#animal crossing #new leaf #ac nl #ac new leaf #isabelle #sable able #sable #amiibo #nintendo #trading cards

ebiru-zeru

#pokemon #pokemon TCG #pokemon cards #pokemon trading card game

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Husbando visited my town and endangered the harmony.

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In the end they all have bad taste huh

#animal crossing #acnl #ac:nl #new leaf

We won’t have cherry blossoms here, but the Texas mountain laurel is our very fleeting spring flower.

#toy photography #nature photography #yuyuko saigyouji #yuyuko #touhou project #touhou yuyuko #flowers #mountain laurel #texas #nendoroid #nendoroid photography

I can't get her stand to work right but I hope to take more pics of her in the future! ( and with my actual camera and not my phone )

#oyodo #kancolle #kantai collection #nendoroid #kancolle oyodo #toy photography

There are many ladies out there who will mess you up if you step on the flowers. This one will murder you.

#toy photography #yuuka kazami #touhou project #touhou yuuka #nature photography #touhou

(Ran, off in the distance): Cheeeeeen!

#touhou #touhou project #toy photography #chen #touhou chen #chen yakumo #nature photography

Made a travel case for the nendoroids since I was doing outdoor photography. Word of advice, get something you can mount some tracing paper to that you can hold up to diffuse light because sunlight is haaaarsh

#nendoroids #toy photography #touhou #touhou project #nendoroid

Soon we will go on an adventure outdoors

#nendoroid #nendoroids #touhou #touhou project #yukari yakumo #yuyuko saigyouji #remilia scarlet

radiuszero

Voting day happened. Cloud decided to get dressed for the special occasion. OwO

oak23

I don't mind if someone wants to keep things in box because they like it or if they think the value will go up. .. but don't say you bought it for your kid if you aren't actually gonna give it to them and let them enjoy it :|

Yeah exactly, though my issue with Baby Boomer NRFB culture is EXPECTING a subpar quality product just because…. you opened the box.

jemvevo

I remember when I was about 11 the school had a raffle and some Barbie dolls were among the prizes and this girl won like 3 chances to choose prizes and she took like, all the Barbie dolls and when we were speaking about it she said her mum made her and that she wasn’t allowed to open them because they’d be valuable in years to come.

They had this little Barbie symbol on the box saying “collectible” like how blind bags say COLLECT THEM ALL, not actual collectors dolls. And even at 11 I remember things “that’s so stupid those aren’t collectors dolls and are worthless on resale” and there was this 40 year old woman pretty literally stealing dolls from kids and having a flawed understanding of Barbie collecting thought that these cheap play-line dolls somehow would be worth loads in box.

That really stuck with me.

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I’m glad to see this acknowledged as a weird generational culture thing because that’s what I grew up being told. That keeping them in the box made them more ~special~

I had some dolls sitting in box for awhile before realizing it was dumb and took them out. I enjoy them way more out of box and find boxes take up so much space.

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Boomer kids in particular are so wrapped up in NRFB because theirs was the first generation to have everything be disposable. As kids, they threw away everything, because that’s how everything post WWII was now being designed. (Reusing and recycling was suddenly something only desperate people did during wartime, and we’re not desperate anymore, so let’s explode the landfills as a sign of prosperity!) Boomer kids did what they were expected to do, and threw the packaging away. By nature of the beast, this made original packaging super-rare, decades later. This is not their fault. They were kids, being told by their parents to throw cardboard in the trash, where it belonged. Then, as adults, they wanted back everything they threw away.

HOWEVER… saving boxes today is one thing. I do it, myself, because when I really like a series or character, I hate to throw out anything with their likeness on it (it feels so disrespectful; I never said it was rational.) But I flatten those boxes. To never take a toy out of its packaging is whole ‘nother animal, and it’s due to the horrible combination of eBay’s rise in popularity, the Beanie Babies craze, and the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, all coinciding in the same small window of time. Seriously, around 1996/97 is when “collectibility” suddenly swelled into the fun-sucking monster it is today. And I know, because I was still finding ridiculously “collectible” shit in thrift stores, up until then, just because they were horses and playsets that 12-year-old me liked.

People equated the value of MoC 1977 Star Wars figures and MIB 1959 Barbies with the toys being sold in MUCH greater quantities in 1997. If those older toys are worth up to thousands of dollars more in their packaging, so must these new toys! We only have to wait thirty years! NO. THAT IT NOT HOW THIS WORKS. The old packaging got thrown away, the original accessories got lost or wore out and got thrown away, and only a scant few birthday presents that got forgotten in closets before they could be given survive intact. Those are rare. ANYTHING for sale on a shelf today is not. Companies learned that adding “collectible” to the labels increases sales, but as the sales increase, the real collectibility plummets because it kills the rarity that drives up the secondary-market values. Companies still try to promote artificial collectibility with short-packs, but again, those are rare by design (see: Shopkins, any action figure line with a female character. I’m sure Funko does this, too, but idgaf about their stuff, so I dunno.)

So, yeah. Buying Barbies just to leave them in the box forever is self-defeating, because thousands of other people are doing the same thing, resulting in thousands of NRFB dolls that aren’t worth shit above their original retail. It seems to me that the NRFBs that do end up valuable are the ones made rare because KIDS WERE ALLOWED TO PLAY WITH THEM and build good memories that make them want their old toys back as adults who now know how to take care of them. And because their boxes got thrown away.

Personally, I don’t want mint-in-box anything. I prefer loose-complete when I’m buying non-thrifted, or at least a damaged or opened box, because seeing the whole collectibles craze take off first-hand does affect you, and I feel guilty about being the one to “ruin” something that’s been kept “perfect” for 20, 30 years. And I know it’s dumb, but I still think about it.