Percentages? Pheh. My head hurts already. I can estimate that at least half of my open figures were returned to their packages and sealed in tubs with the rest of the MOC's when the hobby room had to be converted to a nursery. By and large there haven't been many additions to the collection since then, action figure-wise, and so it's a swinging state. I have about 16 cubic feet on top of the furniture/shroud that covers the radiator in our bedroom, and there is housed the remnants of my openers: S19 Spawn, still round-housing Jackyl Assassin; 4 loose preds from MM6, 4 loose Aliens, and the queen still in her box; Goliath; the ID-4 Alien that screams; UO Juggernaut; Pirate Spawn vs. the Sea Monster; Hasbro's Newborn Alien and Ripley; the Synestro and Sentinel HeroClix'; and the Matrix Sentinel grasping its way across the entire display. Nearby is a box containing two unfinished customs, BraveStarr, Alien Spawn 2, and a 12" Hasbro Alien. On top of that box, locked in an epic struggle, an MM5 Alien besets the throat of his MM5 Predator foe, who brandishing his wrist blades prepares to thrust them into the monster's side while one of the eggs the wrestle on has already opened - all formerly the property of one Dark Angel.
Then, there's the diecast collection - nearly a thousand HotWheels, all MOC, less than 50 are opened. I had to get tubs made of sterner plastic than the Rubbermaid jobbies at Walmart. One of them weighs about 120 lbs.
Conversely, my HeroClix and Mage Knight miniatures now total in the 1200-1300 range, and not more than 3 of them are still sealed in the original packaging. But, where the hell do you put 1200 1.5" disks? I could pret'near carpet the stairs with them and still have a few hundred left. So, they're all in boxes...upon boxes...upon boxes.
So, I guess that makes me a swinger. But it's still true that action figures die unless they're MOC, trapped with their original factory air, preserved in stasis. They simply can't breathe our air, and as soon as it fills their little lungs they are transformed into lifeless plastic statues. We are cruel murderers.
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