We could be here for an eternity arguing the individual merits of everybody's own system of classification. In the end, there is no right or wrong way. As I've said before, classification is by its very nature, arbitrary.

 

What's more important is that we agree to a uniform convention of classification when presenting our collection counts in order to make a worthwhile comparison.

 

There's little value in me saying I have 900 Transformers, and you also saying that you have 900 Transformer, if we both have different definitions of classifying and counting our Transformers.

 

Our comparative results would hold more value if we were to say, "under the 2005 survey protocol, we both have 900 Transformers" -- that comparison would actually hold integrity as we would have both achieved our results under the same guidelines.

 

So, according to the 2005 Protocol, the average Australian collector has 415 Transformers and the average North American collector has 313 Transformers. Based on these results, we can estimate the international average at 364 Transformers.

I just count anything that has a head.

If theey have a head of thieir own they must move on thier own and i figure that makes them a thier own robot.

 

I stopped counting last year when i got upto about 1,500 and got sleepy and went to bed cuz my 2 month old girl was crying.