Well ok. Maglor wanted me to chime in seeing as how I'm a MOC collector. 1st let me start with a couple of disclaimers: I'm not accusing any one person, I'm only speaking in very general terms. 2nd yes I know my spelling sucks a fat one. Feel free to insult me about it, but it will in no way make me spell any better or spend a week learning how to install a spell checker on my PC. & 3rd, as some have already pointed out....this is all opinion & there is NO right or wrong.
OK, now as I see it my reasons for being MOC fall in to 3 catergories. 1) monitary value or money, 2), personal asthetics or the way it looks, & 3), personal emotion, or spiritual reasons.
1st lets get the seedy & ugly one out the way. MONEY $$$$$!!!!!!! It kills me when I read collectors post about how they only collect for the fun & value has NOTHING AT ALL TO DO WITH IT........ I call BULL_____!! DCUC wave 5 was the biggest and most latest proof of this. I lost count of how many posted they seen them in stores but passed on them because they had reused bodies or dumb character choice or figured they would pick them at a later date & were not a priority wave. Then reality crashed in that the wave was the holy grail. well after 2 years of baggering Mattel has stated they will re-issue the wave in May. Now all the collectors who did nothing but talk _____ about the wave (mostly because they wanted to make them selves feel better about not being able to get it) are now about to jump on the gravy train & break their cyber necks in buying the very item they once bashed.
Moving on now to the next part about money & collecting. CONSPIRACY!! Thats right, I said it. I for a long time now have found it very strange that so many loose posters on so many boards will harrass & in some cases try to "shame" a MOC collector for being MOC. I just read 5 pages of loose collectors going on & on about how crazy it is that we MOCs are for buying toys that will never be touch by human hands. I sat back for the 1st few years of collecting & just read these type of threads & came to a conclusion........there is a conspiracy to trick MOCs in to turning to the loose darkside.
Many loosers are jealious & regretful that they caved in to temptation of fellow collector pressure & now as a means of making them self feel better they have become part of the wave of pressue that over took them. They now help pressure & guilt MOCs in to ruining their impressive MOC collection by opening them so that they don't feel quite so bad about having opened all their own stuff.
Matter of fact.....I feel a flash back coming on (we need a flash back smilely LOL)......I remember a time when these foster parents took care of us foster kids, ( & i use the term "took care" very loosely). Well they would get these older kids to watch us when they were not home, & after dinner they would encourage of to hurry up & eat our desert. Well later on they would pull out their desert & eat it in front of us & make us feel bad cause we had already eaten ours. They made damn sure they took their time & relished every bit of the sweet & tasty treat. They do mean things like ask us if we were still hungry & wanted another pice of desert. & when we said yes, they would howl & laugh at the top of their lungs. They took great delight in teasing us & eating the yummy treat in front of us kids.
As wild as it seems, thats exactly whats going on in the debate over MOC vs Loose. The loosers are made up of a combo of real loose collectors &........FAKER LOOSERS
!! Thats right my dear loose collectors......there are fakers among you. Those who only pretend to be loose on the boards while in fact they are secretly.......MOC!!!!!
Whats that you say? what would be the point of pulling of such a hoax??? Simple....to get more & more MOCs to open their coveted MOC collection. After all, for each & evey toy you open....it only increases the value of a MOCs collection.
OH boy....its hitting the fan now LOL
I tell you what, I'll hold off on points 2 & 3 until you've all had time to wrap your heads around point one. Or at the very least give the Fakers a chance to call me dumb & crazy & say my POV means noting because i miss spelled words LOL
