The TF Toys place holders thread......

[Tigermegatron]

Defination of a TF toy place holder: When "one" buy a New mold TF character toy,they mildly like for a short term period. in hopes of giving it away or selling it when a better new TF character toy they like much better gets created & released.

I've got a few of these,I'm wondering if others have them as well.

I'll list a few TF Place holder toys I have & what I plan to replace them with:
(1)Place holder Alternators Sunstreak,place holders classics 2.0 deluxe sunstreak,place holder classcis 2.0 deluxe sideswipe. replacement,when I get the MP-12 Sideswipe & MP Sunstreaker,I plan to get rid of my place holders.

(2)Place holder,Classics 2.0 deluxe Galvatron,If a better toy version comes out then I replace this place holder. I'm hoping for a MP Galvatron.

[Onslaught Six]

You are the only person here who does this.

Most people do one of four things when a new version of a character is revealed:

1) "I really like this character, so I'm going to buy it!"

2) "I already have a version of this character, but I like this new one better so I'm going to buy it and sell/trade/keep the one I already have."

3) "I already have a version of this character, but I don't like the new one, so I'm not going to buy the new one. I'll keep my old one."

4) "I don't already have a version of this character/I don't like this character at all, and I don't like this version of him either, so I'm not going to buy it."

Nobody (but apparently you) buys a toy and goes, "Well, this'll do until they make a better one." If you don't like the toy, why would you buy it? ...no, why?

[Ursus mellifera]

You are the only person here who does this.

Yeah, I don't do this either. If the only TFs coming out are ones I'm not that interested in, then I fill my time with something else that is not TFs.

[Shockwave]

I used to do this unfortunately. That is how I wound up with like, 8 versions of Classics Hot Rod and still didn't have the actual version I wanted. And the same with Skeletor.

But, when I do start collecting again, it's gonna be different. I'm ONLY going to get the figures I really want and screw the rest.

[Onslaught Six]

I mean, I can understand accidentally or even intentionally ending up with multiple "conflicting" versions of characters; especially in a line like Star Wars or GI Joe. I can't even count how many Dukes I have, just from multipacks where he was packaged with another figure I actually wanted. And then there's the times where Hasbro just makes a new Duke and he's really cool so of course I want him...and then have to come up with some other character for him to be. (POC Jungle Duke became Sidetrack. Sidetrack was a 2002 repaint of Ambush who came...packaged with a Duke repaint in jungle colours. It works, even though this Duke looks more like that Duke repaint than the Ambush repaint he came with.)