The MLP Arena
Pony Talk => Pony Corral => Topic started by: emera_lazzaly on January 18, 2012, 06:32:13 PM
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So I recently started collecting the G4 ponies and I'm so torn over whether or not to leave them in the box. Sure they would be mint in the box that way BUT how fun would it be to take them out of the box and sit them on a shelf to display! Especially since I dunno if I would really ever sell them but who knows!?
What are your thoughts on whether or not to debox a pony?
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I have only purchased two, but they were both torn out of their box as soon as I got them home :) let them out - brush their hair, let them breathe! Theyre your ponies, so enjoy them :D
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oh to debox or not deebox that is the question...
serouisly though set them free G4 is still running and unless you're never ever gonna get another pony just like the one you have take it out of the box and play with it
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I always debox mine. :x It's just more fun to have them displayed on the shelf with all my other ponies deboxed! Plus, I'm running out of room as it is, so deboxing is the only way I can store them. I do keep the back cards on the boxes plus the little cardboard thingies in a baggie with their accessories and pets though. :)
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I always debox mine. :x It's just more fun to have them displayed on the shelf with all my other ponies deboxed! Plus, I'm running out of room as it is, so deboxing is the only way I can store them. I do keep the back cards on the boxes plus the little cardboard thingies in a baggie with their accessories and pets though. :)
^This. There is just no room for them all in box! That and I feel that if I bought it in the store I can debox because if I do feel the need to have one MIB I can always go buy another. I love that feeling you get when you open one up, it's like being a kid again... like I got a little present for myself :)
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Debox simply because I can brush their hair and take pictures of them doing silly things.
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I debox them so I can give them huggles C:
It's just too hard to give a proper pony huggle through all that cardboard and plastic!
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OPEN!!!! *Did I just say that outloud?!** Oh hun, ponies were meant to be loved and played with, so unless they are 1 of a kind nirvana ponies, I say free them from their plastic prisons!! (Just my opinion)
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I vote for opening them! Ponies are for playing with. You know they'll feel unloved if you don't.
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I personally tend to keep my G4s MIB just because they display very nicely and I'm considering selling them later in the event that I would want to. At the end of the day though, they're YOUR ponies, and if you want to set them free, I don't think anyone will care.
I'm sure whichever decision you make will be the bet. :)
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I personally tend to keep my G4s MIB just because they display very nicely and I'm considering selling them later in the event that I would want to. At the end of the day though, they're YOUR ponies, and if you want to set them free, I don't think anyone will care.
I'm sure whichever decision you make will be the bet. :)
I agree. I keep all of mine MIB as well, unless I get a double somehow, and then I set them free!! But they're your ponies.... do what makes you happy!! :)
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I vote debox! They're more fun to play with that way, they display nice and take up a lot less room. Whatever works best for you though! :)
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I think you should open them.
That's just my opinion.
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I haven't ever regretted deboxing a pony. With the new G4's I debox. I want to brush their hair, touch the accessories. Guess I'm a big kid. ;) Now if it were a Nirvana pony, I wouldn't debox because I buy those for their value, etc and it's a given that their value goes down a lot.
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I deboxed my G4s immediately :) There are enough collectors keeping theirs MIB that I don't expect the standard ones to really become all that valuable. It's just like being a kid again, without damaging vintage collectables XD I just don't think MIB is that fun.
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Debox the poor ponies! Unless you have some kind of one-off international deal, I don't think there will be that much rarity going on with G4 ponies as there has been with previous generations. Let them breathe. Style their hair. LOVE THEEEEEEM.
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Thanks everyone! I've been dying to open them but there's that part of me that says "they will be worth more in the box one day and you shouldn't open them"
I love all your comments about them being happier out of the box and getting to enjoy them more! I may keep those with bangs in the box since they are really making them anymore and open the rest ;) I gotta get a nice shelf for them to so I may wait until I find a shelf to put them on! I do feel bad when I go in the room and they look so happy but they are stuck in a box! and I want to brush their hair and display them!
Other than the international ponies and those with bangs, are there any nirvana type G4 ponies or ones you think I shouldn't take out of the box?
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I had been keeping my G4s mint in box until I got the CMC and Castle Friends sets. Then my husband and I had a big pony-opening day when we opened up all of the G4s (except for 1 Twilight Sparkle, since we had 2 of her loose already).
Now that they're open, they take up a lot less space and we've been able to arrange them and play with them. It's just more fun to hold an opened pony than a boxed pony!
I figure there are so many people keeping the G4s mint condition, that they're probably not going to be worth much in the long run after all. I would rather have the ponies on display than tucked away in storage in mint boxes.
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There's only two over here, and they were both deboxed. Applejack so she could sit on my daughter's 1st birthday cake, and for Christmas her aunt gave her a white earth pony with red/purple hair. So they are both free and get pushed around the house in the doll stroller or ride around in the diaper bag when we go off places. :D
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In the end they're your ponies. Do what you think will make you happy. ^^
Personally, I admit anything I buy get's de-boxed or taken off it's card as soon as I can manage.
The things I buy, I but for me, not with resale in mind.
And if it's mine, I want to touch it, and handle it, and play with it. I'm a 26 year old kid really. :blush:
This is even worse with my transformers.
Because, well, the point of those would be that they transform, and they're not going to do that in their box and all...
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I plan on deboxing mine, but not until I have somewhere to display them as I don't want them getting mucked up or their bits lost xP
I shouldn't think G4s will be worth anything MIB for at least 20 years. G3s in box are still pretty cheap.
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I try to purchase 2.
I open one and keep one in box.
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I love the G4s so much I just can't resist unboxing them. I want them on display in all their glory! ^_^