Do you "un-box" your action figures?

[SomeBrianDude]

I rarely buy any, and I usually do, though I'm not going to stop my younger relatives & children of friends from opening the ones I don't up and playing with them, that's what they're made for, after all.
If I do buy any, it's because I think they look cool, no so they can accumulate value to sell on.

 

[katsumoto03]

Fuck yes I open them. How else do you play with them? (Totally unashamed)

 

[Vault101]

The way I look at it is, if you're going to buy something and not take it out of the box ever, you might as well just buy a picture, right? Forget about ho w'valuable' it might be, think of all the time and effort the creators put into making it. Why buy a figure with 35 points of articulation if you're not going to articulate them?

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exactally

then again perhaps being "mint" has an apeal, like everything is right there exactally as it was at the point of being shipped out...a time capsual almost...

I saw an action figure of Spider Jerusalem (comicbook charachter) and was dissapointed it was like $50-$60...if I got it I couldnt bring myself to unbox it

 

[Starik20X6]

Mine get unboxed and then placed straight into my display cabinet. I should upload some pictures of the cabinets sometime... I do keep the boxes though in case I ever want to pack them up.

The only figures I have that I haven't unboxed are these collectable Mario figures, and really mostly because I was waiting to get the whole set first.

But yeah, unboxed definitely. No-longer-in-production-Kidrobot Gorillaz statues? Unboxed. Rare-out-of-production Invader Zim Gaz figure? Unboxed. Limited Edition Daft Punk Interstella 5555 figurines? Unboxed.

 

[EHKOS]

How is my Shining Gundam supposed to shine in a box? And I would even un-box a SotC figure if I had one....I really wish I had one

 

[Vrex360]

With the exception of a rare few, almost all of them get unboxed. In theory I figure that potential burglers are aware they are worth less unboxed, so they'll leave them alone.

Besides, they look better out of the case.