Are you a MOC or loose collector when it comes to MOTUC

**InspectorZartan** · January 19, 2013, 12:08am

Just curious to see what percentage of org members collect these figures MOC/MIB versus how many are loose figure collectors.

I personally have both a MOC and a loose collection going.

**MLHumble** · January 19, 2013, 12:12am

I'm a loose kind of guy.

**Collec-Tor** · January 19, 2013, 12:16am

I can afford them better loose, but I've been very lucky with a few MOC finds, and they look so darn nice in there, I'm loathe to open them...

**Lich Leech** · January 19, 2013, 09:43pm

Originally Posted by Collec-Tor

I can afford them better loose, but I've been very lucky with a few MOC finds, and they look so darn nice in there, I'm loathe to open them...

I don't have the will power not to open them.

**baronterror** · January 19, 2013, 01:43am

open of course. no reason not to open them. defeats the purpose of having a toy

**Colder Soldier** · January 19, 2013, 03:46am

Loose.

I wanted to have both, but MOTUC is too expensive to have two collections. With that said, I have multiples of probably 80% of the line with about 30 MOC extras I've amassed to someday open.

**shadowfall1976** · January 19, 2013, 07:46pm

Originally Posted by baronterror

open of course. no reason not to open them. defeats the purpose of having a toy

Defeats the purpose for my 3 year old, yes, not for me....

**chuc98** · January 19, 2013, 07:56pm

I open these things up! There's been a few that I've gotten a second one of to keep MOC.

**kylun flac** · January 21, 2013, 12:10am

I buy two of each. I open one to display loose. sometimes I open the other if its one of those figures that has other display options like Khan with the two heads & him being on two teams.

**wyldman11** · January 21, 2013, 10:15am

Loose. If they were done up more like DCUC was at retail and the figures were posed more in action style poses I might have kept them carded. Even then I have debated opening my other carded figures from other lines. The big problem is finding out figures don't like to stand on their own, or the inevitable cleaning day.

**iron_pride** · January 22, 2013, 04:19pm

Loose is the way we ride.

**Jubilation** · January 23, 2013, 02:46pm

I primarily collect these figures MOC/MIB.

**AGE** · January 23, 2013, 03:14pm

Plastic Prison for Life!!! Still Serving

**Jean** · January 23, 2013, 04:10pm

I'm about 98% loose collector. I only have a few MOC items.

**michaelAschamp** · January 25, 2013, 07:34pm

Mine are all MOC, and hanging on all my walls in my room! I would open them up, but my fiancee' would try to kill me! My children want to interreact with them, as well as I do (The Kid in Me)! So now I have a new strategy plan, I'm trying to convince her, to allow me to get 2 or more of each character! I so want to open mine now but am holding out for now! Maybe when I get my CASTLE GRAYSKULL! Muahhhhha!

**MOONCHILD** · January 25, 2013, 08:04pm

I collect them loose, but i keep all the bios and brick papers with the figures names.

**Nianotreve** · January 31, 2013, 08:27am

I have at least one full set of loose including all the sub exs, TRU repaints (minus spirit of Grayskull and Battle Armor Faker), plus a bunch of 2nds (figures like Kobra Kahn, Trapjaw etc where there are 2 or more display options).

Plus i have an additional 2nd run He-Man, first run Skeletor and a WunDar, which I keep MOC

**bamf1980** · February 2, 2013, 10:40pm

I find this poll to be very interesting in light of the recent cost reduction discussions. I wish more would participate.

**Alexx** · January 20, 2013, 09:46am

Originally Posted by shadowfall1976

Defeats the purpose for my 3 year old, yes, not for me....

I understand the "not a kid anymore" argument, but you really don't have to go there. No one is calling you crazy for collecting MOC, so you don't have to hit back by calling us loose collectors "kids." It's just personal preference: I just don't care about the art unless I can have a hand in it in some way. It bleeds over to my interest in video games, for instance - I'm not a big fan of first-person shooters 'cause I can't seem my character doing cool things. I need to see the results of my own interaction with my purchased items, in most cases. So I like to have my figures loose so I can pose them and set up the result, so it's a product that I interacted with.

That's just me. MANY MANY people buy art of all kinds, and you can't do anything with it but set it up around the house or on the walls - and that's COOL. No one here has a problem with that! Keeping things MOC is just like collecting art; they put work into the packaging and placing the figure within, and it looks cool, so there's no reason not to display them that way. Once again...it's all personal preference. There's no wrong way to collect. No one is crazy for keeping thier art intact, and no one is acting like a child when they want to interact with thier art. It's a win for both sides.

**Benedict Judas Hel** · January 20, 2013, 10:12am

I open my toys. If I buy or pay money for something, I'm going to use it.

**shadowfall1976** · January 19, 2013, 12:20am

I was a heavy MOSC collector....I opened mine and tossed the bubbles because I thought I was going to move, and would have to store them for a little while....turns out....it did not happen....color me ******....

That being said I chose to keep the painted ones carded, but have since opened them, but I keep the packaging now, and have a new count of 17 packages so that if ever I wish to do so, I can repackage a lot of them again....Zoloworld cases make an opened figure look as if it was still sealed....so I have that as an option.

My preference is MOSC, although I do open them and display them, I figured, I opened them, I might as well continue....so I am kind of both, but again, I prefer MOSC to loose, and I have the option to repackage everything from Spikor on in my collection except Frosta....

Spikor, Mekaneck, DB Skeletor, Rattlor, CGM, Randor, TOD Sorceress, Netossa, Granamyr....plus newer old ones....Buzz Off, Catra, Marlena, Griffin. And ones I never opened or bought extras of....She-Ra, Trap Jaw, Shadow Weaver.....And one smelly fella, that is sealed in a ZW case, because I couldn't stand the smell he was emitting.

So....if you count my answer, consider me for MOSC.

**Alexx** · January 19, 2013, 12:23am

Gotta be loose. Having toys in package gives me the shakes and I develop a rash. Best to open them to keep my sanity.

**snakeeyes0217** · January 19, 2013, 12:27am

Loose. I liberate all my figures from their plastic prisons.

**shadowfall1976** · January 19, 2013, 12:36am

Crap....I couldn't vote MOSC, because I have a majority loose collection, but I am still on the record as a MOSC supporter.....

And that is my true preference, I just don't get why others can't get that it's a viable way to collect, and they can be enjoyed just as easily sealed....but whatever.

I don't have to touch my toys to enjoy them....I am not a kid anymore, so long as I bought a couple extras if the mood ever struck me to open, and mess with from time to time, I was completely satisfied with my MOSC collection, and I am still ****** I opened them. But it would have been hard to store at the time 45+ carded & boxed figures, plus my 100 some Transformers and mt TMNT Classics, and all my Hot Wheels....something had to give, and sadly it was my carded MOTUC, because a lot of my Transformers were already opened due to storing my collection as it was because I had no place to display them....so it fell to my MOTUC....to make the sacrifice.

**bcrduke** · January 19, 2013, 12:53am

I collect both. One loose and one moc

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