Can i just ask this...

[plantman]

Im probably asking this because of my lack of collectors knowledge but why did people collect figures carded, then cut the pop out and keep the figure on the card??

It doesnt make sense to me, it totally devalues the figure in terms of value so why leave it carded.

If you intent was to send off for the bonus figure or pack, you would remove the figure anyway.

was it with the knowledge of u-grading even all those years ago?? (no grading back then)

 

[Ron]

Good qustion but i dont know

 

[Grant]

Im probably asking this because of my lack of collectors knowledge but why did people collect figures carded, then cut the pop out and keep the figure on the card??

It doesnt make sense to me, it totally devalues the figure in terms of value so why leave it carded.

If you intent was to send off for the bonus figure or pack, you would remove the figure anyway.

was it with the knowledge of u-grading even all those years ago?? (no grading back then)

Hello,

I think what that type of collector thought and i mean by type is the collector who thought the packaging wasnt going to be worth anything but they thought the unplayed with figure would be worth something not the cardboard with the figure in the bubble but hey who knows what went on in their heads.

Grant.

 

[Ron]

If they only they knew. I have seen quite a few figure and MISB where the pop has been taken off. I have a imperial tie fighter on the SW logo graded. It only got a grade off 50 because the pop had been removed. But the bos is mint

 

[plantman]

It defies logic why somebody would want to collect a pristine example and take scissors to it and cut pieces out, it would be like a comic collector tearing pictures out of his comics....

 

[Ron]

Here is my tie fighter graded at a 50 because the POP is removed

 

[plantman]

Here is my tie fighter graded at a 50 because the POP is removed

No pic Ron?

 

[Grant]

It defies logic why somebody would want to collect a pristine example and take scissors to it and cut pieces out, it would be like a comic collector tearing pictures out of his comics....

That type of collector never thought the packaging was ever going to worth anything rather they thought the the figure would hold all the value especialy if it was in unplayed with condition.

Like Ron said if only they new that the carboard round the figure with the bubble would be worth all the money then those scissors wouldnt have been any where near those cut card examples.

I myself remember sending of cardbacks to receive a free Niun Numb mailer back in the day.

Grant.

PS Ron your Tie is a sweet example shame abou the pop but hey its a beautiful piece regardless.

 

[weasel]

Im probably asking this because of my lack of collectors knowledge but why did people collect figures carded, then cut the pop out and keep the figure on the card??

It doesnt make sense to me, it totally devalues the figure in terms of value so why leave it carded.

If you intent was to send off for the bonus figure or pack, you would remove the figure anyway.

I often tried to figure that one out myself!

 

[Ron]

Sorry picture added. This was my first AFA vehicle

 

[plantman]

Im probably asking this because of my lack of collectors knowledge but why did people collect figures carded, then cut the pop out and keep the figure on the card??

It doesnt make sense to me, it totally devalues the figure in terms of value so why leave it carded.

If you intent was to send off for the bonus figure or pack, you would remove the figure anyway.

I often tried to figure that one out myself!

Been browsing for figures and came across some super cheap 12 backs...got excited...then hit the small print of 'POP has been removed'

Damn it :roll:

Hope somebody can solve it, Maybe its because they thought the mail away stuff would be worth more than the carded figures so it was worth the sacrifice?

 

[Ron]

Seams strange. Buy the card not take the figure off bubble. But cut the POP collect 5 was it. The get a figure sent to you

 

[Stargeezer]

they removed the pops because they all wanted such an rocket firing fett wich never came to most off them :roll: :? :?:

 

[gustie]

thats it... like dennis says

the POP was removed in the vintage days...

NONE of us could have known what each MOC would have been worth now... so we opened them didnt we.... so these pop removers thought they were being MORE clever by saving up the pops for free figures AND keeping thier figures MOC....


bet they are kicking themselves harder than peeps who just took thier figures off completely

 

[Capetown]

Strange behaviour indeed.

This topic on RS is about a find of an unopened collection of MOC's and MIB's, all with the POP neatly cut out.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=3590117&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1

 

[weasel]

I saw that, he did well there! 8)

 

[shawn_k]

Maybe the people who cut the pops figured "Hey I've got a carded figure and I can also get the mail away promotion. That would surely be worth more in the future. It's just a little circle cut on the back of the card."

 

[plantman]

I dont think collectors could think like that could they? i mean collectors back then had the same ideas as us now, cutting a card up would simply render it useless (to most anyway)

But i suppose when somebaody walked into a store when the first 12 backs were released for $1.99 or whatever there were thousends of figures on the shelf, they would never have known that a 12 back would be worth so much now.

they probably bought multiple items, like 10 lukes and thought, ill cut out 5 POPs and get that boba, ive only paid $10 for the lot anyway...

 

[shawn_k]

I dont think collectors could think like that could they? i mean collectors back then had the same ideas as us now, cutting a card up would simply render it useless (to most anyway)

But i suppose when somebaody walked into a store when the first 12 backs were released for $1.99 or whatever there were thousends of figures on the shelf, they would never have known that a 12 back would be worth so much now.

they probably bought multiple items, like 10 lukes and thought, ill cut out 5 POPs and get that boba, ive only paid $10 for the lot anyway...

It is really hard to say what collectors/investors back in the day thought at least not without asking them. Not only are there a lot of carded figures with the pops removed, but also ones with the card cut around the bubble. This is just my own speculation, but I think with some exceptions most thought that the value was in a mint non played with figure rather than the packaging itself.

 

[20backdPb]

Perhaps some people just liked the idea of keeping the figure attached to the card. Back then collecting toys for investment purposes was probably a rare thing. How many people back then would of thought people like us would pay small fortunes for these items now.