ReAction - How do you buy and display???

Postby **Alleycat** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:52 pm

I've never collected action figures before. Those who intend to collect these, or those who have collected similar figures before, I got some questions for y'all.

Will you be buying one of each figure you like and display on the card, or will you remove them from the cards to display?

Will you buy 2 of each - one to display out of the packaging (to "play" with), and another to display on the card?

Will you buy 2 of each - one to display out of the packaging, and another to remain on the card to be packed up and stored??

Finally, how will you display them - whether in or out of the packaging?

Postby **haydenstorm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:53 pm

Mint on card for these

Postby **tlc38tlc38** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:03 pm

I'm only buying the figures in the "Buffy" line and I'll only be buying one of each figure. I'll display them on my wall, mint on card.

Postby **Joker_Heath** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:04 pm

haydenstorm wrote:Mint on card for these

Agreed, and unless the card hasn't been punched, I'll hang them on the wall. If they're not punched, then I'd use a picture frame ledge, much like I have my Pops on (shallow shelf).

If price were no object (I'd own GiTD Green Lantern Pop) I'd buy two of each, one to open to stand in front of the other.

Postby **Jeff Cope** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:17 pm

I open all my figures, and will be opening these as well.

Postby **glowfunkofreak** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:19 pm

Out of the package of course ..

I usually make little nooses for them and hang them from the ceiling ..

.. and those are the ones I like .. lol

Postby **haydenstorm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:41 pm

Joker_Heath wrote:
haydenstorm wrote:Mint on card for these

Agreed, and unless the card hasn't been punched, I'll hang them on the wall. If they're not punched, then I'd use a picture frame ledge, much like I have my Pops on (shallow shelf).

If price were no object (I'd own GiTD Green Lantern Pop) I'd buy two of each, one to open to stand in front of the other.

I have yet figure out why unpunched figures are worth so much more. I can understand "moc" , but unpunched would just be too hard to get.

Postby **TulaBug** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:53 pm

What does punched mean?

Postby **unoudid** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 5:58 pm

I will buy two of each. One mint on card. one to tie firecrackers to and blow up in the yard.

Postby **tabby1375** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:00 pm

TulaBug wrote:What does punched mean?

glad im not the only one confused by this conversation

Postby **Cristina** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:04 pm

TulaBug wrote:What does punched mean?

This one is punched - it has a hole at the top of the card to hang it from a rack in the store. Evidently, there are ways to get them without the hole at the top.

Postby **haydenstorm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:08 pm

Sometimes you can get them straight from the factory unpunched. It makes the value go up for some reason. Im sure some starwars collectors know more about this.

Postby **Blanka** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:24 pm

IF I buy any ReAction, (and really, that all depends on how they turn out), I'll be buying one of each and opening.

Legacy?

DEF opening.

Postby **glowfunkofreak** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:48 pm

unoudid wrote:I will buy two of each. One mint on card. one to tie firecrackers to and blow up in the yard.

I knew you were Sid all grown up .. lol

Postby **haydenstorm** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:48 pm

Sometimes you can get them straight from the factory unpunched. It makes the value go up for some reason. Im sure some starwars collectors know more about this.

Postby **TulaBug** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:50 pm

So do the companies make so many unpunched purposely? Those would be the higher value ones. I wonder how hard they are to get. If they are anything like a chase?

Postby **glowfunkofreak** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 6:51 pm

Unpunched - also known as a "Virgin Card" or "Virgin Character".

Just a FYI .. lol

Postby **Jeff Cope** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:33 pm

Punched cards are, really, nothing special. Some collectors place a higher value on them because they are technically rarer than punched cards.

Ever used a hole punch and for whatever reason the "hole" didn't fall out of the paper? That's all an unpunched card is. When going through the packaging process the machine imprinting the hole intended for the shelf peg at a store isn't punched out all the way. The perforation is still there. Factories do not (to my knowledge) produce intentionally unpunched cards.

Postby **TulaBug** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:35 pm

Jeff Cope wrote:Punched cards are, really, nothing special. Some collectors place a higher value on them because they are technically rarer than punched cards.

Ever used a hole punch and for whatever reason the "hole" didn't fall out of the paper? That's all an unpunched card is. When going through the packaging process the machine imprinting the hole intended for the shelf peg at a store isn't punched out all the way. The perforation is still there. Factories do not (to my knowledge) produce intentionally unpunched cards.

Thanks...1 question down...50 more to go lol

Postby **Jeff Cope** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 7:43 pm

TulaBug wrote:Thanks...1 question down...50 more to go

I'm happy to try to answer what I can. I've been collecting action figures for a long time (longer than I want to admit), and writing about them for a long time as well.

Postby **Alleycat** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:02 pm

glowfunkofreak wrote:Unpunched - also known as a "Virgin Card" or "Virgin Character".

Just a FYI ..

Or "un-holey" . :dontknow:

Postby **Joker_Heath** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:27 pm

Jeff Cope wrote:...ever used a hole punch and for whatever reason the "hole" didn't fall out of the paper? That's all an unpunched card is....

Yup....it's because it was intended to be fully punched but it just didn't happen. And that's why they're so expensive...because they're rare.

Kinda like an uncut sheet of baseball cards...Or hundred-dollar-bills. Just try and find one of those :eek:

Postby **MadLove** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:54 pm

1 of each character I like and take 'em out and play with them!!!

Postby **BigM** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 10:11 pm

I'm going to wait and see how some people display them. If anyone wants to show off theirs , that may give us a better idea. I want to take them out but to me action figures need to stay in the box.

Postby **Queen of Marvel** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:28 pm

I am not sure if I am jumping on the money train with this. However, I would display out of the box. In my early tomboy days, I collected sports action figs and displayed them out of box.

Postby **Pumpkin King** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:40 pm

I been collecting figures since about 94-95. I always prefer to keep mine carded, mainly cause I like the way they display better in the package. I love the art work on the cards etc. If I really really love the figure I will buy a second one to open. But then again they display better in the package, with opened figures they are harder to clean, fall over a lot and you need a lot of space to set them up.

Postby **Cosmic_Cow** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 6:29 am

I'll be buying full carded sets with extras of my favorite characters to open and display with my vintage 3.75" collection.

Postby **EZA** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:40 am

They all come unpunched "factory fresh" and when the retailers put them on the pegs the tabs get pushed out. Collectors who are MOC collectors love that "barely touched by human hand except my hands unpunched goodness".

Postby **Otter** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 7:40 am

I think I'm gonna find it hard not to want to display these on card... which may mean buying two of each (if I'm impressed).

Postby **FunkoNewb** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:41 pm

I remember seeing Jeff's pictures of his basement with all his toys, and he had that huge wall with small shelves for his Marvel Legends? toys... looked so awesome.

p.s. I want his basement

Postby **TulaBug** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:54 pm

FunkoNewb wrote:I remember seeing Jeff's pictures of his basement with all his toys, and he had that huge wall with small shelves for his Marvel Legends? toys... looked so awesome.

p.s. I want his basement

off topic ~ Do they have basements in California :eek:

Postby **Cristina** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:57 pm

TulaBug wrote:
FunkoNewb wrote:I remember seeing Jeff's pictures of his basement with all his toys, and he had that huge wall with small shelves for his Marvel Legends? toys... looked so awesome.

p.s. I want his basement

off topic ~ Do they have basements in California

They're rare, but they do exist. I would LOVE a basement. Always feel jealous watching House Hunters when there's a huge basement

Postby **FunkoNewb** » Tue Jan 14, 2014 4:04 pm

They have some in downtown sacramento... I dont know what for though... haha

Postby **Ditch** » Wed Jan 15, 2014 4:23 am

Joker_Heath wrote:
haydenstorm wrote:Mint on card for these

Agreed, and unless the card hasn't been punched, I'll hang them on the wall. If they're not punched, then I'd use a picture frame ledge, much like I have my Pops on (shallow shelf).

If price were no object (I'd own GiTD Green Lantern Pop) I'd buy two of each, one to open to stand in front of the other.

I don't know about the upcoming ones but the Alien ReAction figures all had punched card backs. I can see a revival in Star Wars protector case sales coming.

Postby **atommcvr** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:34 am

The SDCC Early Bird set shipped unpunched ;-)

and yes I put them in star cases for protection and displaying...

Postby **punksnotdead** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:15 pm

I just take pictures of the figure MOC, and then display it loose. I collect everything loose but I've started to take pictures of stuff just to remember what the card backs looked like and everything. I have too much stuff to keep it MOC, but I can keep an endless amount of pictures so that's how I do it. If we start getting Goonies, Back to the Future, Buffy, Firefly, and so on, I'm going to fill up an entire loose display shelf with ReAction figures. Keeping all that MOC would take up a wall haha.

Postby **bgiles73** » Sat Jan 18, 2014 2:39 pm

I collect these out of the pack, but for some I might feel inclined to buy two. I just bought DST's Delorean Time Machine to display Funko's Back to the Future figures by it.

Postby **TMThor** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:16 pm

Right now Just the Alien Line....with cherry picking the rest unless I get bitten and the completest comes out .
I will do lose and MOC on my faves and just MOC on ones i get other wise. sounds like between these and Zica's six million dollar man figures I am gonna be broke next year.

Postby **kroffty** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:42 pm

I collect the Sleestak variants made by the SuckLord/Suckadelic. Because most of them are sent uncarded, I opted to remove the few that were on card and have them housed in great display cases from smalljoes.com, a GI Joe 3 3/4 collector site. The cases fit a large quantity of figures and keeps them dust-free. At the moment, the APEX display cases are out of stock. The first photo was taken about a year or so ago but shows the cases with the covers on and that they easily stack.

The next one shows a more recent image (I've since added a handful more that came after this photo) but the photo was taken without the covers just for the photo.

Depending on what figures are released in the ReAction series, I'll most likely keep them carded.

Postby **Alleycat** » Wed Feb 05, 2014 10:11 pm

If cards are partially punched are they hanging chads? Perhaps a Florida exclusive? ;-)

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