Xmas comes early ...

[Bolingbroke]

Going through the sets. The small castle had the weathervane broken and some pieces missing, but I had the spare parts. The 3666 had the poncy feather from the nobleman missing and one wooden sword (had them), the ox cart had the necklace, the dog and one stool missing (had them). The prisoner's cart had a the spokes of one wheel broken and a shield missing. Completed as well. The life raft had one small connector missing - the one that attaches the sail to the fence thingummy. In its place, a piece of string  oh well. win some lose some, and considering the price ...

[basilsdad]

Congrats!  Great finds!  The train station is my favorite, finally got one last summer. 
Joe

[Rasputin]

Great haul on the sets. I like all of them  thats my problem 

[Rasputin]

WOW! Great lot.  I've wanted ox cart knight for soooo long.  The trains station is an amazing set.  Congrats on some awesome finds Bolingbloke.  You're right, vintage playmo even at high prices is a bargain compared to lego sets. They're frackin' expensive.

I usually only buy new lego sets so I do not know the collectors value of things but I have no idea what "frackin expensive" means  It is a term used for drilling wells but how does it apply to buying legos?

[tahra]

I usually only buy new lego sets so I do not know the collectors value of things but I have no idea what "frackin expensive" means  It is a term used for drilling wells but how does it apply to buying legos?

Frackin' expensive = Freakin' expensive...  (or insert your own...)

Slang from that lame Battlestar Galactica remake....

[Bolingbroke]

Thanks again. Yesterday evening I had my first collector's panic attack. I had just finished putting away everything (but there still remaind the schooner and fort glory to put together) and I realised I now have too much playmobil and I have nowhere to store the massive train station and 3666 boxes. I felt a bit ill - a bit when you feel ill cause you've binged too much on food or cigarettes and start hating yourself for it  I really have too much now, so much that I have decided not to get the remainder of the new western sets. Also yesterday I dismantled (finally) the new fort that had been sitting there since my bday and it was such a pain to put away, esp the sys x connectors and the way there's too many large parts - these new sets are not very 'put away neatly' friendly, are they? That's the main reason I won't be getting the other sets I think. The mine is too large: I already have the new redcoat fortress and the take-away western town there in the sitting room and my wife complaining and I can't blame her cause it doesn't look good at all. Regarding Lego, I don't know much about 2nd hand prices either. What I know is that 1) new sets are impossibly expensive (around the 100 euro mark is the norm), 2) prices vary wildly between one country and another and one toy shop and another (there was a price difference of FORTY euro between the same set in BXL and lille!), and as usual 3) theyre cheapest in the US.

[nunney]

Thanks again. Yesterday evening I had my first collector's panic attack. I had just finished putting away everything (but there still remaind the schooner and fort glory to put together) and I realised I now have too much playmobil and I have nowhere to store the massive train station and 3666 boxes. I felt a bit ill - a bit when you feel ill cause you've binged too much on food or cigarettes and start hating yourself for it  I really have too much now, so much that I have decided not to get the remainder of the new western sets. Also yesterday I dismantled (finally) the new fort that had been sitting there since my bday and it was such a pain to put away, esp the sys x connectors and the way there's too many large parts - these new sets are not very 'put away neatly' friendly, are they? That's the main reason I won't be getting the other sets I think. The mine is too large: I already have the new redcoat fortress and the take-away western town there in the sitting room and my wife complaining and I can't blame her cause it doesn't look good at all. Regarding Lego, I don't know much about 2nd hand prices either. What I know is that 1) new sets are impossibly expensive (around the 100 euro mark is the norm), 2) prices vary wildly between one country and another and one toy shop and another (there was a price difference of FORTY euro between the same set in BXL and lille!), and as usual 3) theyre cheapest in the US.

horrible feeling that i know only too well from a lifetime of collecting a very wide range of things. it sounds like you've made a good decision about holding off on the new sets especially since time is on your side and you can always pick them up when you have made the room. have you ever considered breaking the boxes down carefully and putting those away. so muh of the bulk factor comes from the boxes themselves and i suspect one could always re-set the glue without compromising the boxes integrity at some later date.

i am very new to all of this but i would say within the last few months - perhaps after looking at what  else an ebay seller who sold retired playmobil sets had sold - i had to do a double take when i saw various lego sets that had gone for well over 1k each. it makes playmobil values look like the bargain of the century. for better or worse, playmobil does not seem to be especially savvy about nurturing the collector market.

[Rhalius]

My space is already quite limited, and I dont have that much. 

Still, it's a familiar feeling. Many stuff seems great but theres simply no place to put it. That's why I just focus on the things that I'd need for telling my stories, the things that seem vital to portraying a variety of scenes.

[Heronimus]

Watching the auctions is just painful
Especially if you are not in the same time zone.
And that is some very great purchase  and congratulations over that. I dont like old klickies, but I love vintage buildings.
 
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Thanks. This was all ebay stuff, auctions most of them. I go through periods of watching ebay every day and I end up buying lots of things. But now, as I said, I have MIB versions of most of my favourite sets, and I have loose figures of around 80% of my favourite knight klickies from the 90s which I lug around with me when I travel, so next year Ill start taking it a bit more easy purchase-wise. I don't want to end up with 5 sets of everything - i dont have the space and anyway I collect other toys too, which are more expensive than PM all of them. It's crazy though, to think of it. I think nothing of throwing away the packaging from current themes, but then go on crazy sprees to get old sets in their boxes. It's a bit like that woody allen film with owen wilson, in a way ...

Regarding, the boxes thread, god knows where it is. It was probably somebody going off on a tangent in somebody else's topic.
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[Bolingbroke]

It's a fact that Collector's OCD starts creeping on you silently. We all know how it goes. First you're happy with the loose sets, then you want two of them - one to play with and the other to keep safe in the closet. Then you also start wanting one MIB, and so on and so forth. Recently (have I said this already, if so stop me ...), Ive been patronising some Masters of the Universe fora and the OCD there is incredible. People buying 7 of the same figure, one to open, one to keep MOC, and the other 5 'just in case' (Im not joking). And the same people going berserk if the figure is in any way damaged, or if there's some tiny paint slop you can't see withot a microscope, and so on and so forth. I know people don't like to mention this sort of thing, but Im sure there's a correlation. Still, I dont know what comes first (a bit like the chicken and the egg), do people develop OCD because they care about their collections, or do they collect because they have OCD? Either way, I'm definitely going to keep things a little bit more in check. Or so I like to think