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Destruction of ships/vehicles is getting too much.
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<blockquote data-quote="Bonsai_Tree_Ent" data-source="post: 494202" data-attributes="member: 3845"><p>A 100% complete toy is the 'final state' that all collectors are aiming for.</p><p></p><p>I spent a good amount of my collecting time buying up 'job lots'. Childhood collections, filled with many items that some might call junk. You know the sort; random pieces of a speeder bike, maybe the leg of a CAP-2, odds and ends from other toy lines thrown in too.</p><p></p><p>I'd have bags of bits, and when I could put a complete toy together that always felt like a little victory!</p><p></p><p>However for some toys I did sell individual pieces as parts because I thought the job was too big (such as the Palitoy Death Star with so many components), or the item too obscure (I had a ramp for the Ewok Battle Wagon, and thought I'll never get the rest of one of these to finish it off).</p><p></p><p>If buying parts allows a toy to be made complete, that's a good thing and it means that toy has been made whole again for the rest of its life. But if someone 'breaks up' a 100% complete toy to sell so that they make a couple of extra quid that is ridiculous and not good for the hobby. I'd also have thought it a false economy, as selling stuff does take time and effort, for just a few quid more is it really worth it?!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bonsai_Tree_Ent, post: 494202, member: 3845"] A 100% complete toy is the 'final state' that all collectors are aiming for. I spent a good amount of my collecting time buying up 'job lots'. Childhood collections, filled with many items that some might call junk. You know the sort; random pieces of a speeder bike, maybe the leg of a CAP-2, odds and ends from other toy lines thrown in too. I'd have bags of bits, and when I could put a complete toy together that always felt like a little victory! However for some toys I did sell individual pieces as parts because I thought the job was too big (such as the Palitoy Death Star with so many components), or the item too obscure (I had a ramp for the Ewok Battle Wagon, and thought I'll never get the rest of one of these to finish it off). If buying parts allows a toy to be made complete, that's a good thing and it means that toy has been made whole again for the rest of its life. But if someone 'breaks up' a 100% complete toy to sell so that they make a couple of extra quid that is ridiculous and not good for the hobby. I'd also have thought it a false economy, as selling stuff does take time and effort, for just a few quid more is it really worth it?! [/QUOTE]
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