Would you open G3s for display?

[mlpgirly]

I had a whole room for my collection before children. Now I have a closet. I have had ponies in storage for three years. Should I open my G3 ponies so I can display them? Storage is not climate controlled. It is in a barn! What would you do. BTW all my favorites are mostly opened anyway.

[Icecrystalline]

That's what I did, opened them up

I wanted loose G3 unicorns, so I found  cheapest ones (some just so happened to be boxed) and I deboxed them.

[Katika]

If it makes you feel any better, the *only* G3s I still have in their packages are the HTFs that I have that came in bags.  Part of keeping them in their bags is to preserve their value, protect them better and because I can still nestle them beside others of their pose without taking up more space than necessary.  BUT I also collect almost strictly loose.  If when you think of your collection, you see ponies MIP, then I'd say don't open them; that's how some people prefer to collect.  I'm not sure how full your closet display is, but would you be able to still "display" them by stacking them four or five boxes deep? (As in, push them all the way to the back of the wall and layer them forward?)  That would allow you to get them out of the barn and you could always rotate who's in the front to see them

[Skeen]

 I would, and did.  There were far more people in "collector" mode when they came out versus when G1 came out, so more people bought them to keep them MIB, and there are now so many MIBs floating around they're hardly more expensive than a nice loose one in most cases. 

[HelloGoodbye]

I debox my G3s.  I have to admit, the "new pony" feeling when I opened my first mib G3 I found ages after they were out of stores was pretty awesome! 

[Tiffymh1fan]

I would, and did.  There were far more people in "collector" mode when they came out versus when G1 came out, so more people bought them to keep them MIB, and there are now so many MIBs floating around they're hardly more expensive than a nice loose one in most cases.

This is so true...I never looked at it this way 

[mlpgirly]

Well, I have a lot of. G3 ponies so I would not be able to have anything that looks nice without deboxing. There isn't room. I have two big shelves for G3 and the rest I the room is G1. I have a lot of holiday ponies in boxes. I guess I need to see if any are duplicates before I open them. I don't think I will be worried about value as I agree that there were many collecting as they were released. Honestly, they are so much prettier out of the box with styled hair. So my decision is to open what is not a duplicate and store duplicates in the barn! Although I will keep my babies in the box, disney ponies, breezies, and anything else that might not take up too much space or is more valuable.

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

When I was collecting G3s when they where new, I only kept three MIB. A Target exclusive Valentine pony,Star Shimmer, and Desert Bloom. Because each of them had been gifts. The rest of mine where free range.

[achab1984]

I would not open them but that is just me. I love to keep my ponies in there boxes. 

[hathorcat]

Skeen summed it up perfectly. A lot of ponies turn up as much MIB as they do loose; because when G3s were on shelves there were a lot of collectors and therefore many of us purchased and kept them MIB. Unless its a particularly hard to find or popular pony, I would and have happily taken mine out of the packages.