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It's about the krinkle sound the bag makes when you hold it, which you can't get from a box or a foil packet.
It's about the sound the elements make shifting in the bag.
It's about the overall uniformity of the packaging. Most polybags are the same size. (I don't dare say all of them are because I don't know if that's true.)
This, to me, is what polybag collecting is all about.
Personally, I can't do that, to me it's meant to be built, so I build...
Yes I do. I am "taken aback" when people take their SDCC minifigs out of the package. The package helps to distinguish it's "importance", for want of a better word. The art on the card. The SDCC logo. It's all part of the collectible,to me.
But you're talking to the guy that wouldn't have taken any minifigure apart 6 months ago and now is ripping off heads and arms and hands to make MOCs. I sure wouldn't do that with a figure I paid $100 dollars for, or that someone else might.
I can understand opening a SDCC exclusive that had to be built, like the Batmobile. I understand it but I wouldn't do it. :) Once again, the SEALED packaging is part of the collectible, to me.
I have the Hulk minifigure that came in a poly and I opened him because he's my favorite and that was the first version of him, so if you asked me if I had the Hulk polybag I would say no, I have the minifigure.
In the grand scheme of things it is of course idiotic to buy something and never use it, but is it not also idiotic to spend $100.00 on something that probably cost 25 cents to make? But that is what collecting is about. It's also something my wife doesn't understand. :)
Obviously there's a million ways to collect LEGO or anything but I always assume these questions are more relative than trying to determine a concrete set of rules that have to be followed in order to consider yourself a TRUE collector.
@TheLoneTensor, love the descriptions, especially the last, the first two & the last one, I'd say definitely apply to my Lego stuff. Unfortunately, until I get the back room sorted, my building has to stop for now, we don't have enough shelf space out of reach of our little mister almost a year & half...
I'm not suggesting that all collectibles have to be kept sealed. I collect different things and don't treat them all the same way, which is the point I was trying to make in my last statement.
There are many facets to the way I collect LEGO. This is how I do it, not how I expect anyone else to:
If I buy a polybag specifically for my polybag collection I will keep it sealed. Once I open a polybag I no longer consider it part of my polybag collection.
If I'm adding to my CMF collection I open and assemble them because leaving them sealed would just be dumb. Then I display them in the order they are shown on the pamphlet.
If I add a LEGO set to my set collection I build it exactly the way the instructions show right down to the placement of the cups, brooms and wrenches. The only thing I don't do the majority of the time is add stickers. Then I leave it intact. Once I take a set apart and mix it with other LEGO I don't consider it a set anymore, it's now part of my collection of LEGO elements.
If I could afford to buy SDCC exclusives I wouldn't open them.
This is what I like about Brickset forum. You learn different aspects of collecting LEGO and the different ways people view and practice those aspects. I took the definition of a polybag for granted and assumed everyone thought that meant a sealed bag. Obviously I was wrong and learned something new.
I didn't even know that some people specifically collected polybags till I read about it on Brickset. :)
Leaving parts in a bag would conflict with the way I like to build which is to dump contents and rummage for pieces as opposed to sorting everything first. :)
I believe I also assembled #30187 in the bag before opening it. On the other hand, #30225 was simple too large to assemble within the bag given its overall dimensions.
If anyone wants to send a #11910 to me, I'd be glad to give it a try.
Then work your way up to bigger sets in bigger bags until you can assemble a modular in a sealed black contractor bag.
Then and only then will you be able to call yourself a Master Polybag Builder.