Do freak out when people touch your PF's?

[Adoptedscot]

Thankfully fot the moment I only have about 3 stats on display but everyone keeps going to either The Thing PF or Sauron and want to touch it.
With Sauron its like, oooo thats sharp, my response is well don't touch it then!

Once i get the rest displayed i'm hoping to have them in display cases so people can admire from a small distance
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[Wanderer]

No , I like it when women touch my premium format.

: Hmmmmm...I did hear a rumour it is 1/4 scale:

 

[theguru1]

The instant I even see any hands heading in the direction of my statues I'd be YELLING, DON'T TOUCH.

Hell, I don't even touch them myself without wearing white cotton gloves.

 

[orc brute]

i have the answer, do what i do,dont have any visitors over , go to there place and touch all there ****.

 

[The Ringer]

Glass=Barrier

 

[El Skutto]

I think that adults that aren't "in the know" assume that because it's based on a comic book, movie or fantasy license, it simply cannot be an expensive collectible. These are the same morons who have a display case full of Precious Moments figurines proudly displayed in their entrance foyer.

My sister-in-law is totally guilty of that mentality. As a result, she is permanently barred from even looking at my stuff. My nieces, on the other hand, understand that there is a difference between their toys and their Uncle's toys, and know better than to play around with my stuff.

I had a cousin come over once, grab and unsheathe my $800 katana and try to bend the blade against his belly. He said he was "testing" it to see if it was real. I came *this* close to showing him how real it could be, especially when it's plunged through your intestinal tract. Needless to say, I haven't talked to him since.

 

[creature4000]

Thats why I make sure everything I don't want ANYONE to touch I put behind glass.

 

[Battletroll]

Glass=Barrier

You'd think.
I thought placing my collectibles in glass cabinets, or on top of them (almost 2m high!), would form some kind of barrier. Or at least that it would send the message "these are expensive, please don't touch".
My Sauron statue was placed on top of the cabinet because it was too big and heavy to place inside it. One day when I had some friends and acquaintances over, I left the room for a moment to get some drinks. The moment I came back my heart almost skipped a beat; one of them had actually pulled up a chair and was standing on it, reaching out for Sauron. When he noticed me he asked "Can you move his arm" and started to pull on it!!?
If this was 'the average person', whose closest thing to a movie collectible is the Batman Bubble Bath they bought for their children, I might have understood (vaguely). Still I would have found pulling up a chair to touch someone else's stuff a very rude thing to do. But in this case, the person doing this is a collector himself, mostly of props and action figures, and even keeps his figures in little cases to protect them! Or is it that action figure collectors think something should be poseable otherwise it doesn't count!?

The sad thing is, after warning him that I was not amused by this behavior and that my stuff should not be considered as toys, the next time I left the room I came back and found that same person swing around my UC Anduril, almost poking a hole in my ceiling!
Maybe I was too kind in my warning, next time I'll pull out a whip to give force to my words

 

[uscmhicks]

Yep... I always freak out , I have alot of cousins who still attend school and once they break up on there holidays the house is like the wacky ware house.

In the odd occasion when they have picked something up they do it as if its something worth nothing. Not just my pfs though , figures too.

: Hmmmmm...I did hear a rumour it is 1/4 scale:

1/100 scale.

 

[Agent0028]

I think that adults that aren't "in the know" assume that because it's based on a comic book, movie or fantasy license, it simply cannot be an expensive collectible.

Even so I don't understand why someone thinks they can go over to someone else's house and start touching stuff. If someone had something that I wanted to pick up and look at for whatever reason I would ask first. I don't care if its a coffee cup full of pencils.