I don't think anyone can say they are a 10 if they have not spent at least $5,000 on a single project or piece - be it a GOLD MP PRime... or taking a real car and repainting it and decking it out like a TF, etc. Feeling like a 10 is one thing, putting your money where your mouth is - is another different thing. JMHO.

 

 

if i win the lottery & spend five g on a power ranger does that make me a "10" does it? i think not

 

that is not what I said. I didn't say everyone who spends 5G's is a 10. I said anyone who is a 10, should have spent at least 5G on one. I think if someone is going to be a 10 - they have to go above and beyond what most would do - isn't that what makes them a 10? Just my opinion.

 

so if someone is really struggling with their cash & they save up for a good 6-12 months to buy say a junker G1 scorponok then spends all their spare time cleaning it & repairing broken bits they're less of a fan than someone that drops a stupid amount of money on a toy?

 

look my point is you can't put a definitive cash figure on what makes a fan "a 10" okay - just like you can't really scale how big a fan someone is...

this thread started dumb as f*ck and went downhill btw

 

 

argue semantics if you want but you surely understand what i'm saying

 

I understand. I just disagree. I think how you spend your money is a huge reflection on where your heart is. And I think if your having some kind of scale... everyone who 'loves TFers' is not an automatic 10. I know I certainly am not. I would never spend that kinda of money on one - because I have other priorities in my life. And I have no desire to insult the emotional intensities of a 15yr old who has alot to learn about life yet. I'm just saying.. in any given scale.. of anything.. you usually have a bell-curve. Do you think the masses can all be a 10? If they were, wouldn't you then find another way to scale and measure the nuances between them? Thus it all gets down to - what makes someone just a tad crazier than someoen else. TO ME, after reading what some have spent and done it seems like a rasonable distinction. There should be a time element as well probably. AS they say - your heart is where you spend your TIME and MONEY - that is simply a fact of life - no matter how PR you want to make it or not.

 

Key example -- the guy who went out and built a 6ft Prime out of scrap parts - welding them together etc - spent HUGE amounts of time in his endevour. I believe it sold for thousands. I'd say they are both 10's. One spent vast amounts of time on it - and another spent the money on it. Now the caviat is - did the guy who spent all that time on it - do it because he loves TFers OR 'purely' the money and TFers were just what he thought would bring th emoney. That is why I said - not everyone who spends the money (or time) IS a 10 - but someone who is a 10 should have some type of 'extreme' story like this. Same like the guy who hunted the Gold MP Prime for YEARS and then spent so many thousands on it - he's obviously an extreme person - ie, a 10.

 

Maybe you believe emotions alone make a person a 10. I disagree - but your free to have your opinion. I was only explaining my rational. I mean no disrespect to your view. Like you said - the entire subject is meh. I'm just saying.. 10 is a 10 for a reason and is not usually classified so that it can be just anyone.

 

if you look at my original post on the subject - I was using humor to suggest on any given day i'm a bigger fan or lessor fan because I have other priorities in my life that mean more to me than a hobby. On any kind of serious scale.. i'm a 4 or 5.

 

Most days about a 4-5.

 

Occassionally as high as 8, but some days as low as a 1 or 2.

 

Sometimes as high as 7, but others only a 3.

 

Altho there are instances, not at all, except for occassionally and sometimes which are hardly some days and others, but even then it's more like most days.

 

Don't take things so serious. :tfevil

i only read the first line & let's just agree to disagree

 

 

PS: you're wrong

 

I don't know about all of this talk about money. Shouldn't knowledge of the characters and story also factor into this? I have a decent amount of G1 toys [vintage and reissue], all Alternators and two BTs, all Masterpiece toys, some odds and ends [like THS-02 Convoy for example], a few Beast Wars toys, a few Cybertron toys [some via repaint in the Universe line] and the majority of the Classics/Universe toys. To me, that's a lot of stuff. However, I could tell anyone much about the comics and just a little bit about the cartoons, and then it's only a small amount of G1 and Beast Wars knowledge. So by that, I wouldn't even put myself at 5.

G1 < Everything else that's come after

JMO :shrug

Lier

I'm like a 8. I have no TF clothing and have never been to a convention yet.

I have a TF T-shirt (and used to own one of those Megatron club shirts). But I wear it for the irony.

I have two TF t shirts. One with this Decepticon logo

and a t-shirt with that DW Megatron that I think is also on the infamous "club shirt"

 

This is also the only non-toy or DVD-related TF merchandise I own. No stickers, no Christmas ornaments, no coffee mugs,

I have the Track jacket from the movie with Barricade's logo on the back because it's farging awesome... and surprisingly was in my size :D

In my childhood was 10, now is 1000.

I'm like a 8. I have no TF clothing and have never been to a convention yet.

 

I own an Autobot logo T-shirt and I've been to one convention I really just like the toys...

10! Even though i haven't been to a convention I REALLY want to! My parents just won't take me. :( I own Transformers toys, clothing, comics, DVDS, etc.! I collect EVERY line, but not every transformer toy in the line.