they're designed to be whatever the purchaser wants them to be.

i enjoy looking at them .. plus being a collector and a bit of a completist - i lke having them. they remind me of the movies i like and are cool little 3 dimentional representations of the things i enjoy in those movies .. but i have no desire to play with them.

i paid a lot for my Futurama toys ... and they are open - they are also long out of production and due to the limited popularity at the time - fairly rare.

i still dont play with them though :D

I never judge what people do with their toys, but personally I open all of mine....

I have a couple Japanese exclusive Transformers that I bought from the early 90's which I bought mint for 200-300 bucks a piece and I happily busted them out. I would just say to myself "I just made the mint value of this toy go up in price!"

...and I'm happy to. I don't buy toys to rot in a box, I buy them to enjoy mostly for display, but occasional fiddling.

-D

we talking toys, or vegetables ?

couple of things ..

for a lot of the toys the box serves as a display as well ... sometimes they look better in the box.


also - i have an 8 year old kid ... once open - these are fair game with him and he WILL lose the parts.

I'm hoping to pass everything down to him one day . if i keep everything perfect - he may have his first car if he decides to sell these things.


I also like to think he'd keep them to remember me by - but who knows)


at any rate the bottom line is : even if i open them - I'm 47 - what am i gonna do ? pose them ? at that point - yes - they will feel like 'dolls'

I have mine all set up on a shelf....it looks pretty cool. But no....I never "played" with them. Although when I was a boy, I did have G.I. Joes....the big ones...not the stupid little ones. So I guess I did play with dolls at some point.:o

funny.....they ALL had the same scar....I wish I kept these from my childhood

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...dventurer5.jpg

I had Major Matt Mason instead of GI Joe (typical canadian - didnt like war toys)

No one i mention Major Matt MAson has ever heard of him ... i LOVED those toys. He was a space guy ... I had him and his buddies - the gliders they came on ... the alien, the space equipment - lunar vehicles, and even the space station.

like everything else that would be worth a fortune now - my parents tossed them out - when they figured i was done with them ...

Yeah, I had this one toy in the package for a couple of years...for some reason I had been thinking, "Oh, I'll keep it in the package...it'll be nice and safe in there..." And then a few days ago I was looking at it, and thinking, "Hmm...I should really take this out of the package, put it on the base, put the sword in its hand, set it up properly" and so I did this. Aha! It looks good this way now too.

There is a time for being in the package and a time for not being in the package!

hard decision,... now i wanna keep them sealed.....


i took chucky and his family out of the seed box set, stood them up and felt it didnt look right...i guess only some toys look good displayed. i was just testing the waters with chucky because when we first bought him, my brother had already broken off the arm of tiffany and decapited glenn. but i fixed them.




and to add on the sub con, i remember playing with the "stupid" small g.i. joes....i had all the cool ones like snake eyes, slice, and dice, after the revengoe of the ninja i was hooked.
one time as a kid, my mom and i went to the park and brought home a giant boulder so i can use it as a command base or have a rocky battle.lmao, those were the days

LOL. My friend back in the day had like 150 of those little GI joes. He had both the Cobra base and GI Joe bases. The cobra base was so much cooler cause it had 4 stations with automatic rifles. Plus it was way bigger. Those were fun times. :D

Well, they're design specifications probably involves making them so they're easier to play with than most other things, but I see what you mean.


I personally don't play with mine anymore, but I'm glad I did, because I think at my age then I go more enjoyment out of them than I would just looking at them. Now I have a few things on display. I think they look better outside of the packaging because you can pose them etc.