How do you display your rare Polybag Minis?

balkris

I've got an almost full set of the rare Star Wars polybag minis (chrome Vader, TC14 etc.), but I've been holding off opening them due to the drop in value and the lack of a suitable display medium. Does anyone else have this issue? How do you display yours?

CCC

Buy two. One to display out of bag, one to display in bag. And probably a third too, to keep out of sunlight in a drawer.

paul_merton

Yep, buy two (or more!)

Shib

I came to the conclusion that actually I'm not collecting to accumulate a future jackpot of money, so I get more pleasure in ripping those bags an boxes open. I love having minifigures and model out and displayed and ready for setting up silly little scenes. Once I reached the "I don't care about future value" frame of mind collecting became a lot more fun for me, I know if doesn't work for everyone though.

balkris

Sadly, buying two isn't really viable due to the cost! I was thinking of carefully slitting the back of the bag along a seam and using the bag as a backdrop

rancorbait

Shib said:

I came to the conclusion that actually I'm not collecting to accumulate a future jackpot of money, so I get more pleasure in ripping those bags an boxes open. I love having minifigures and model out and displayed and ready for setting up silly little scenes. Once I reached the "I don't care about future value" frame of mind collecting became a lot more fun for me, I know if doesn't work for everyone though.

I am the same way with mine. I was always torn between keeping them sealed and opening them, so finally I just ripped them all open. That is the only way to enjoy them really, and if not to enjoy them, why buy them at all, right? :o)

Shib

^I realise that some people just can't see it like that, and I completely respect that, but yeah. Best day for me recently was getting a load of 2004 sets on a great deal and tearing those bad boys open! :-)

Farmer_John

Shib said:

I came to the conclusion that actually I'm not collecting to accumulate a future jackpot of money, so I get more pleasure in ripping those bags an boxes open. I love having minifigures and model out and displayed and ready for setting up silly little scenes. Once I reached the "I don't care about future value" frame of mind collecting became a lot more fun for me, I know if doesn't work for everyone though.

There are constraints to this point of view if children are about. Hence, I ascribe to the "purchase two: one for display and one as a decoy for the kids" philosophy.

Shib

^Which is fair enough, but just out of curiosity have you ever had an issue with a child loosing their, being upset and wanting the display one?
Not trying to pick holes, but thoughts of those sorts of scenario are what stop me taking that mentality otherwise it'd be one for display, one for decoy and one as a spare just in case which starts down a bit of an endless path - in my mind at least anyway. With the mindset I'm in if one gets lost, it'd annoy me, but at the end of the day there are far worse things that could happen!

1265

rancorbait said:

I am the same way with mine. I was always torn between keeping them sealed and opening them, so finally I just ripped them all open. That is the only way to I enjoy them really, and if not to enjoy them, why should I buy them at all, right? :o)

Fixed it for you. Glad you enjoy opening them instead of keeping them sealed.

monkey

I think the reason that for many the enjoyment is in seeing/playing with their minifigs, is because they are a form of art. And with art there can be no such thing as enjoyment purely in possession.

Unless art is treated like money in which case it is of course different (normally money is in the bank and you don't want to see the notes, ok maybe Scrooge McDuck does!!)

rancorbait

1265 said:

rancorbait said:

I am the same way with mine. I was always torn between keeping them sealed and opening them, so finally I just ripped them all open. That is the only way to I enjoy them really, and if not to enjoy them, why should I buy them at all, right? :o)

Fixed it for you. Glad you enjoy opening them instead of keeping them sealed.

@1265, But how can you appreciate a figure inside its packaging? You can't even see it. If you leave it sealed, you're most likely admiring the $ instead of the figure.

CCC

^ Depends on the poly. You can see it in some of them. And build it too.

rancorbait

^ Its just not the same though... :o/

1265

rancorbait said:

@1265, But how can you appreciate a figure inside its packaging? You can't even see it. If you leave it sealed, you're most likely admiring the $ instead of the figure.

Once again, you base your opinion without knowing an individual's motive for buying and/or collecting. Just because I like sealed sets doesn't mean I admire the $. I bought sealed sets over 10 years ago and never opened them. There was no reselling market back then.

I also like buying graded or loose gold and/or silver bars/coins. Plus, I had collected sport cards in the past. Nothing what I have had been sold, Once I traded some Lego sets to an another member here many years ago. Other than that, consider me someone who likes and collects what they want.

GallardoLU

there is a certain pride to be had from keeping things mint and sealed, the care that goes into that can be quite gratifying. I personally subscribe to the buy to, enjoy one as a toy, and enjoy the other as a fine piece of art safely protected from time and elements. that said if I can only acquire one of a certain fig I usually go with toy mode. I've not sold any of my collection and have no intentions of doing that either. the only time I concern myself with value is when I'm shopping for a fig variant (usually not a poly figure) and once I have it, it might as well be worth nothing cause its not leaving while I'm breathing :P

Shib

Each to their own I say, but keeping things sealed away in boxes was never for me.

rancorbait

1265 said:

rancorbait said:

@1265, But how can you appreciate a figure inside its packaging? You can't even see it. If you leave it sealed, you're most likely admiring the $ instead of the figure.

Once again, you base your opinion without knowing an individual's motive for buying and/or collecting. Just because I like sealed sets doesn't mean I admire the $. I bought sealed sets over 10 years ago and never opened them. There was no reselling market back then.

I also like buying graded or loose gold and/or silver bars/coins. Plus, I had collected sport cards in the past. Nothing what I have had been sold, Once I traded some Lego sets to an another member here many years ago. Other than that, consider me someone who likes and collects what they want.

Fair enough, I suppose each can have their own reasons for collecting. I was only generalizing.

Farmer_John

Shib said:

^Which is fair enough, but just out of curiosity have you ever had an issue with a child loosing their, being upset and wanting the display one? Not trying to pick holes, but thoughts of those sorts of scenario are what stop me taking that mentality otherwise it'd be one for display, one for decoy and one as a spare just in case which starts down a bit of an endless path - in my mind at least anyway. With the mindset I'm in if one gets lost, it'd annoy me, but at the end of the day there are far worse things that could happen!

It's a fair comment...

In the case you describe I find it's the perfect time to educate my child on personal responsibility, which is a lesson that is sorely lacking in today's world. Moreover, I am comfortable forfeiting a few expensive sets if the result is they learn that lesson. And to make sure they learn it, we have a nice Lego display case in our nook where they can see a pristine copy of the set they lost on a daily basis. But hey, that's just me...