Your Collecting Habits

[Martin Milner]

You might be right but if it was available through the websites then it wouldn't be exclusive

Hurrah! Down with exclusivity and elitism! Up with the common Klicky!

Come the revolution, those exclusives will be first up against the wall...


It gets me thinking about why I'm collecting Playmobil in the first place.

Does rarity matter? Do I enjoy a piece more if other people don't have it?

If I'm collecting a theme, how complete does it need to be?

If new versions come out of things I already have, do I want to buy the updated version?

At what point is any collection complete?

[Gustavo]

It gets me thinking about why I'm collecting Playmobil in the first place.

Does rarity matter? Do I enjoy a piece more if other people don't have it?

If I'm collecting a theme, how complete does it need to be?

If new versions come out of things I already have, do I want to buy the updated version?

At what point is any collection complete?

I've been waiting about 20 years to get a timbered house, which may come to happen in September or October (the plan is October, so, lets see how it goes). So, to me it's HURRAH to the INTERNET!!! I can buy from (most) anywhere!


& Interesting questions indeed, Martin!


It gets me thinking about why I'm collecting Playmobil in the first place.
1. I like it; 2. it makes me, somehow, turn back to a productive part of my childhood & teenage days; 3. I found out some very interesting pictures in the internet, some time ago (February, March?), and decided to try to do it myself ... My hobby isn't exactly collecting Playmo, but photographing klickys ...

Does rarity matter? Do I enjoy a piece more if other people don't have it?
To a collector, yes; To a photographer, no.

If I'm collecting a theme, how complete does it need to be?
Complete (or incomplete), in a view of someone from outside ... You could find a system of grades, but I think it's a matter of self evaluation.

If new versions come out of things I already have, do I want to buy the updated version?
If you like it, yes. If you want to expand your collection's range (it has to do with the question right above), yes; but you could focus on 1970s' Medieval Playmo, for example ... Or only the "Merry Men" collection. It's "healthy" to try to complete a collection, but not necessary (nor "unhealthy" not to try). -- Long discussion here (...)

At what point is any collection complete?
At the point you have defined what are the limits of your collection. If ever it has a limit. Playmo is always appearing. You'll probably be 70 years old, and still have Playmobil to buy. And lets hope it's steck system (!).


Gus

[Gustavo]

Does rarity matter? Do I enjoy a piece more if other people don't have it?

Does rarity matter? Do I enjoy a piece more if other people don't have it?

A collector's question indeed. Not only, though. You should enjoy the pieces because of themselves. Wish to have it? Well, there's things I would like (love, actually) to have, but I can't, and won't. (If I ever come by it, it will be 1. accident & 2. strike of luck! ...)

Of course, with new stuff coming up (like Egyptians), it's a bit different: you'd like to have it now, this is the ... problem. (Or the trouble, because you ... I see you suffering.) And to tell "Be patient, Martin" won't calm you down. But you have kids, if I recall it right, don't you? ...

Gus

[Martin Milner]

Of course, with new stuff coming up (like Egyptians), it's a bit different: you'd like to have it now, this is the ... problem. (Or the trouble, because you ... I see you suffering.) And to tell "Be patient, Martin" won't calm you down. But you have kids, if I recall it right, don't you? ...

No kids yet Gus, but hopefully in the next few years I'll have an excuse for my collection!

Taking things to their logical, or perhaps illogical conclusion, suppose I was automatically sent one of every set or figure Playmobil released on the day it was released, would I still feel the same about rarity and collecting?

No, I wouldn't value any of the pieces for long, because there'd be a new one to replace it all too soon. I'd probably start by opening everything to play with, then just too look at, and eventually I would just stash the boxes unopened, and possibly even unlooked at. Before long it would not be fun anymore, it would be come a chore.

Rarity would no longer be a factor, since I'd have everything, rare or not. All the pleasure of anticipation, searching, comparing and discovering new sets would be gone.

With the Egyptians, I don't care who else has them, I just think they look great and I want them!

[Timotheos]

With the Egyptians, I don't care who else has them, I just think they look great and I want them!

My friend feels the same way about the cheerleaders for the University of Illinois Fighting Illini.

[Gustavo]

No kids yet Gus, but hopefully in the next few years I'll have an excuse for my collection!

Right ...

Do we need an excuse?
(I don't think I have [size equals if it could be smaller, it would](a good)[dash size] one ...)


Concerning other things, maybe you buy too much playmobil ... Get a holliday! (I'm kidding ...)


Gus

[Gustavo]

Taking things to their logical, or perhaps illogical conclusion, suppose I was automatically sent one of every set or figure Playmobil released on the day it was released, would I still feel the same about rarity and collecting?

Oh ... I missed this question before the hypothetical answers. Right. Now, this is something for me to think about.

So, we aren't measured by having all, I think with myself ... And it seems that the less you have, the more you give value, and take profit of (in some ways) ... -- This is a hypothesis too, but untrue, I think.

(Once you said that my first "Sir Elmo" stories made you remember some old plays you made yourself; Richard sent a thought about why having a great lot of klickys & buildings doesn't produce interesting stories necessarily. These thoughts may be related to this thread's direction ...)

Maybe a better hypothesis would be "the more you have, the less you get yourself the work of doing things with them" ...

I miss a smiley with the hand at the chin ... A "hmm", mixed with a "roll eyes", being this last not smiling, and the first not looking at us, readers.

The last hypothesis may have strayed a bit from your original thought, but it's a vague topic, and it's good that it is so! We can come back to your subject, pull me back whenever, however you can! I'm a wanderer ...

G.

[Gustavo]

&, Lastly, ...
"My Collecting Habits", all right

It's odd, but I don't have many yet. (I began again too recently.) So, it's a bit like it was in late youth, just before giving them.

One of the things that made me return was to think that I had no playmobil in my closets ... I missed them, because I remembered that, whenever I got depressed, in youth, I'd take the playmos & legos out of the closets, and put them on the table, and do things. It was easier (and more frequent) with legos, but more interesting and fruitful (to me) with the playmos. However, back then, more limited, because I was in days of no playmobil around. Estrela was bringing, but I wouldn't go to toystores, and it didn't las long either anyway -- Estrela's playmobil importation. And there was no internet either. And no playmofriends, ... Not even real ones (which I wished to mean, actually, because my only plamofriends before you guys was a cousin, who lives in Minas Gerais, another (distant) State of the Brasilian federation ...) The few friends I had then (late youth) were all "lego guys" (two of them), an one "only-books guy", so, I had noone to make me turn back to playmobil, and, at last, other things happened (first girlfriends) that made me think that I dnd't want any toys in the closets anymore, ... or needed them.

There was no digital photography.

So, however I still have very little toys back in my closets, I still have a ... childish perhaps, way of storing them. (I got a bit ashamed, when I evesdropped Jochen's homepage ...) I'll never be so ... clean, I believe, as some people (Jochen), but maybe (I believe so) I'll need better organization practices in the future.

I will possibly post another one, because there's a lot to speak about this, but I'll honestly try to make a (significant) break, so as to hear other people's thoughts ... My self-evaluation asks so. I am a selfish guy ... (Love to speak about myself, call attention to myself, &c..)

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G.

[Richard]

Gus ...

I am watching you replying to your own posts. And, I'm beginning to feel bad that you have to talk to yourself ...

I'm sure that everyone here would like to play with you, but most of the members have other commitments on the weekends.

My suggestion would be for you to make a list of Playmobil weekend projects that you would really like to do. Things that you would like to do and photograph to share with the other members here at Playmofriends. Then every Sunday night or Monday post your wonderful creations for everyone to see.

Your "creations" could be stories, custom Klickys, photographs of your Klickys taken in different places around Rio or maybe some photos of Klickys on the shelves in some of your local toy stores.

I know that you can think of many things that would be exciting and of real interest to almost everyone here.

Brazil is an incredibly fascinating and beautiful country with a rich history. I would love to see your history told through your Klickys. I have never been to Brazil, and I don't know if anyone else here at Playmofriends has been to Brazil either.

I found a page that shows many of the old forts where you could take some great photos with your Klickys ... Click HERE!

Have fun y buen fim de semana ... 

All the best,
Richard

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[Timotheos]

I'm sure that everyone here would like to play with you, but most of the members have other commitments on the weekends.

Most but not all, eh, Richard?   

Why don't we call this place a pub so the social failures among us don't have to feel so embarrassed about frequenting a site with a name that sounds like a TV show for five year olds.

"Playmopub"--no place to go when the bar closes, but, thank god, the bar never closes...