To open or not to open...

[HoustonCollector72]

I struggle with this all the time. I love loose ponies, I love to play with them and arrange them. My personal collection is almost entirely G4 minis, which are super tempting to open because they are tiny and don't take up a lot of display space. And because I want to hold them!

But at the same time, MIB is appealing. Shiny and new, and "complete" by a special definition of the word.

I started late, so I'm playing catch-up collecting the earlier waves. For those ponies, if they're MIB they stay that way unless/until I get a double. I'm actually really happy when I find one that's already opened when I buy it, because then I can skip the guilt and go straight to enjoying my loose pony!

When it comes to the new waves I can buy in stores, I've been gradually trying to buy two of each pony or set so that I can open one and keep one sealed. It's easy enough to do with blind bag ponies because they're tiny enough and affordable enough to get away with it, lol! (My bank account is suspicious of my pony-buying activities, but so far it hasn't caught on. The trick is to shop somewhere like Target, and then slip a pony in with other, more mundane things like milk and socks. )

  LOL or Walmart   paper towels, pony, pony,butter,coffee,pony,cake mix,detergent ......LOL
 

[thekozmicpig]

I'm an opener. I'm not collecting ponies as a nest egg, and even so, I couldn't sell them because of gaps in my collection, and I'd always wonder if they will keep climbing.

With that said, vintage MIB G1s would remain boxed, which is why I don't go for them because I like my toys to be free. I blame Toy Story 2. My wallet thanks me too, because they can be pricey.

In a perfect world, more items would be sold like Tomica diecast in Japan where you can open them, enjoy them, and make them go back to MIB easily.

[Rainbow Dash]

In a perfect world, more items would be sold like Tomica diecast in Japan where you can open them, enjoy them, and make them go back to MIB easily.

And don't forget they have thir own Tomica Stores, too.  I would love to go to one someday.  The problem wouldn't be getting me there, the problem would be getting me out...

And of course Tomica got the box idea from the original Matchbox cars...not that they sell those in the boxes any more.

[Lollipop]

I'm an opener. I'm not collecting ponies as a nest egg, and even so, I couldn't sell them because of gaps in my collection, and I'd always wonder if they will keep climbing.

With that said, vintage MIB G1s would remain boxed, which is why I don't go for them because I like my toys to be free. I blame Toy Story 2. My wallet thanks me too, because they can be pricey.

In a perfect world, more items would be sold like Tomica diecast in Japan where you can open them, enjoy them, and make them go back to MIB easily.

Lol I'm the same I blame Toy Story 2 as well hehe 

[WrittenEmber]

(My bank account is suspicious of my pony-buying activities, but so far it hasn't caught on. The trick is to shop somewhere like Target, and then slip a pony in with other, more mundane things like milk and socks. )

  LOL or Walmart   paper towels, pony, pony,butter,coffee,pony,cake mix,detergent ......LOL
 

Yep, exactly! Keep it up long enough, and you lose track of what percentage of your shopping trip was ponies. "Oh, you got a some new ponies! How much were they?" "...I dunno."

[LordBlumiere]

I'm horrible--I always open ponies without much care for what happens to the boxes ;u;'' Lately I've been making a point to at least take photos of the boxes so I remember what they looked like. But I really do like having my ponies out and about so I can touch them and play with them and such. This is why I try not to be tempted by G1-3 MIB ponies--I'd just open them and make everyone else freak out!

[WrittenEmber]

I'm horrible--I always open ponies without much care for what happens to the boxes ;u;'' Lately I've been making a point to at least take photos of the boxes so I remember what they looked like. But I really do like having my ponies out and about so I can touch them and play with them and such. This is why I try not to be tempted by G1-3 MIB ponies--I'd just open them and make everyone else freak out!

Much as I love my ponies to be free, I'd never be able to open a G1, or probably even a G2 or G3. I wouldn't freak if someone else did, though, as I do understand the temptation.