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| bionic4ever | Jun 4 2017, 10:28 PM Post #1 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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If you own any of the dolls - oops, action figures - are they still in their boxes? If not, what do you do with them? Do they have their place on a shelf and that's where they stay? Or do you sometimes take them down and really enjoy them? Do you make displays or diorama for them? What do you do with your action figures? - |
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| bionic4ever | Jun 4 2017, 10:36 PM Post #2 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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No special backgrounds or dioramas here, but I do take mine from their shelves and 'play' with them occasionally. I'll make Steve's space capsule into the diagnostic lab (or vice versa). Then everything goes back onto the shelf in its place of honor! - - - - |
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| Inanna | Jun 21 2017, 12:55 AM Post #3 |
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LOL Funny you should mention dolls, ehm, action figures. My aunt started collecting Madame Alexander dolls when I was a kid and it was a hobby that my mom and my aunt sort of decided to get me into. I say that because the first couple of dolls I got were dolls that they liked/wanted and I didn't particularly care for, LOL. (I really wanted the Princess Leia doll that you could style her hair into a bunch of different hairdos, but my mom said she wasn't about to spend $50 on a doll that I was "just going to trash". ) Anyway, my first "action figures" were 12" dolls from the Babylon 5 tv series that were put out by Exclusive Premiere. They were advertised as dolls by the manufacturer but they were sold in comic book stores and everyone in the comic stores referred to them as "action figures". I got the entire set and they are floating around here someplace, still MIB. It was really the first time that I saw a doll/action figure as solely a collectible. I do like the dolls quite a bit, but I never plan on taking them out of the box. Got as many as the Amidala dolls and action figures that I could when the Star Wars prequels came out. There are some action figures that were only produced for the Celebration cons that I don't have and there was a porcelain doll produced by FAO Schwarz that was about $500 US that I didn't get either. But pretty much any of the ones that could have been purchased at Toys R Us, I have. Those are all MIB stuffed in a closet somewhere. The last action figures I got were from Tron Legacy, Tron/Rinzler, Sam Flynn, and Kevin Flynn, IIRC. I didn't get Quorra because they weren't making her in that size (12") or by that manufacturer. Tonner has put out some really excellent (and really expensive) dolls. Figure if I ever won the lottery, I might get a few made by them. I do have a small curio cabinet for the dolls that I lost boxes for long ago. Don't really have any action figures in there except for an Amidala Christmas ornament a friend got for me. I do have action figures of Nine, Ten and Rose from Doctor Who sitting loose on top of it, though. I'd originally got them for my "desk" when I worked in framing at the craft store, just sat them there as sort of a stress reliever and say silly stuff to them like, "Well, Doctor, how are you going to fix this predicament?" or "Of course, you guys go off on a great adventure and leave me here doing the drudge work..." (Wasn't exactly a non stressful job at that point and blowing off steam like that helped relieve some of the stress.) Then middle management decided that having personal items in the shop was "unseemly" and I had to take them home. (I do not miss that job.) So, now they hang out on top of the curio cabinet. Occasionally, my daughter gets a hold of them. Nine got stuck out in the backyard for a couple of days before I realized he was out there and brought him back in. Her fascination with them seems to be on the waning side currently because it's been a while since I've found one of them down from their perch. Never had a Steve Austin or Jaime Sommers doll though. There were a couple of boys that were as big |
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| bionic4ever | Jun 21 2017, 07:55 PM Post #4 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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Ahhh... Madame Alexander! My Dad used to bring one home for me after every business trip - and he traveled for business a LOT. I had quite a collection - several shelves full, including the entire Little Women set - and then when I was 20, I fell on some really hard times. I regret it to this very day... but I sold all of those wonderful dolls. Well... all but one. I couldn't bring myself to let go of 'Beth' from Little Women. The complete set of 6 or 7 dolls would've been worth more than what I ultimately received for all of the other dolls combined! (I lied to the woman and said I didn't have 'Beth'.) Three decades later, she's on my Treasures shelf in a protective plastic sleeve - not worth much on her own, but she means the world to me. I didn't have Steve and Jaime back in the day, but the circumstances that brought them to me make them even more special. ![]() - |
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| Inanna | Jun 24 2017, 01:37 AM Post #5 |
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Yeah, if I ever needed to hawk my Alexanders, the first one to go would be Scarlett O'Hara -- which would probably get me the most amount of money too. My mom got that one for me because she thought it was really pretty. I never cared for her, at least the version of her that I have, which is a white dress with some lace frills on it and a tiny green velvet sash with a little rhinestone in it. There was a version that they made a few years before that had her in a dark green dress that I thought was really pretty, but the white dressed version I always thought was pretty blah. What makes me laugh is that the white dress version is one of the most sought after versions of her -- the one I don't care for, everyone else wants. Unfortunately, I lost pretty much all the boxes to moving through the years, so I wouldn't get nearly as much as I could with the boxes. I really liked the 10" and 14" dolls that they put out. Most of the dolls I have are in those sizes and most of the ones I would want to collect are in those sizes also. Didn't care for the 8" ones. That size almost looked like the doll should have had a keychain attached to it, not something someone would be shelling out $40 or $50 for. I liked the few 22" they put out in the late 80's, early 90's, but couldn't afford the price tag that came with the size. (I think $300 was the cheapest I ever saw that size run for.) My mom always lamented the fact when she was an adult for trashing the Sonja Henie Madame Alexander doll she had when she was a kid. She told me about how she would have her Sonja doll do "leaps for distance" until she finally chucked the doll so hard she cracked the side of the Sonja doll's face. When she grew up and realized that she could have made a very pretty penny selling the doll as a collectible, she really regretted throwing the doll around till it broke. Shrugs. I've yet to meet a kid that doesn't give their dolls or action figures a large dose of abuse from time to time. A lot of the toys getting destroyed is part of what makes the ones that are left so collectible years and decades afterward. My collecting habits have dwindled over the years, especially after my daughter came along. It wasn't just a money thing, but a space thing too, for me. As I've gotten older, my attitude has sort of changed a bit toward collecting, that it should be contained to a well defined finite space and if and when that space is exceeded, it's either time to cut down the collecting to nothing more or thinning out the current collection if you want to add something else. I realized several years ago that if I didn't keep myself to that guideline, then the collecting would probably become less "collecting" and more "hoarding". And I certainly didn't want that, so finite spaces. |
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| bionic4ever | Nov 27 2017, 12:06 AM Post #6 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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Last week, I took Steve and Jaime down from their perch - which was/is on top of my stereo - so I could play my Partridge Family albums when David Cassidy died. While I had them down, I took out the box that held the pieces and assembled Steve's rocket capsule/diagnostic center... and when it was time to put Jaime and Steve back where 'belonged', I set up the capsule there too, so they could have a proper display! |
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| Bionika | Nov 27 2017, 04:11 PM Post #7 |
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Could we have a picture? Bionika |
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| bionic4ever | Nov 28 2017, 11:33 PM Post #8 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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- I moved it all again the next morning, to play some records... but I will find a better place where it doesn't all have to be (repeatedly) taken down and put up again, and then I'll take a picture. Soon - I promise! - |
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| bionic4ever | Dec 1 2017, 02:05 PM Post #9 |
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I TALK TOO MUCH! LOL!
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Until I take a bigger, better picture, I put the tiny photo I took of them awhile back as my avatar. I really like this pic, but it doesn't enlarge well; at least it's avatar-sized! |
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