Hobbyist and toy collecting

Do people still normally collect plastic crap like anime figurines under socialism?
I'm wondering how that would work. My best guess is that there would be a lot more trading of figures, and people would actually work together to make them in co-op centers, rather than large scale mass production and buying them off the market. I would also guess the quality of figures would go up over time, due to the fact more care would be put into the production of each figure.
Am I correct?

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I mean, it isn't like the Soviet Union didn't make toys.
Why am I wrong?

3d printing will make all that shit obsolete anyway. open source 3d printers are a thing and it takes no effort to pirate zbrush or maya. instead otakus will end up collecting model files onto their harddrives

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Well, that's what I was thinking too.
I also don't see why it wouldn't be impossible for people to share the molds that people use to create vinyl and plastic toys, then making a space for people to do it. So, not only do you own high quality figures, but you develop the skill to make them yourself.

No. Its a fabricated demand with artificial scarcity.
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Under capitalism the manufacture of these kinds of intellectual property products are done only by license issues companies, who keep the supply artificially low to both increase the value of the brand and because they can simply do so with a monopoly. It is artificial scarcity of the figurines, with artificially little produces.
Under socialism this would collapse into two forms. The first form would be mass produced, cost-price, non-inflated figurines, posters, etc. These would not garner the enormous price that you pay for them today, and would not be rare in any sense. No limited edition bullshit. They would be purely for decoration. The other form would be hand made, "artisenal" things, like handcrafted statues, hand-painted posters. These would not be made for sale or mass production, but for own use, by artists, or to give away as they see fit.
Both forms would not have IP laws limiting it. Anyone could design a figurine and have it be mass produced if there was a demand for such a thing, even if the original creator does not approve of it.

Also sage because "collecting" plastic commodities or any mass produced fake-rare things is the same stupid capitalist logic as cryptocurrency, where a beanie baby, cryptocoin or pokemon card somehow has "value" just for being rare, when its really just all bubble meant to exploit peoples obsession with some work of fiction.

3d printers are a bitch to use and are not magic. They cannot print everything and are highly in-economical. They are suited for rapid prototyping, for situations in remote areas and specific cases in complex part manufacturing. They aren't that great for making plastic toys efficiently, especially ones with frail and complex shapes like that one that also require multiple colours.

If i were to choose what kind of toys we should have on socialism i'd totally go for spru kits and things like legos, easier to produce and have some educational value/ creative input associated with it. And since they take time to build people will be less tempted to get things just for the hell of it, which is the case with many toy collectors. Some toys can also be produced locally and if they become popular people around can copy them and so on. Community workshops can also have sculpting classes and what not, if there's a will there's a way really.
Even for the people who are really in to collecting things, locally produced and custom toys make the hobby way more interesting as you will often have to trade and hunt for some cool thing you seen on the internet that only gets made in a small town across the globe.

where we are going, there is no intellectual property of that nature though. I'm actually opposed to most mass production, like I've previously posted. I don't think we're really disagreeing on much. I'm just advocating for something akin to a hobbyist co-op center, like a library, where people can come and craft these objects using publicly available tools.

they made toys but they where for children to play with, where made out of steel and lead as to retard-proof it.

I wouuld appreciate it if you read all of my post before replying

I did, and I don't think people just collect things because they are rare.

There were a lot of nice model cars, though.
I remember seeing some of them.
I can't say someone wouldn't put one on their shelf.

Dead labor would still be destroyed under communism even if it was just accidental. There's tons of regular parts that we've lost the ability to produce, and people can tell when something is bootlegged even today.

If people want statuettes they can just print them. Collecting is based on designed scarcity. There will still be people collecting old shit that's not made any more though, like antiques and shit. There will still be people collecting rare books and comic books and shit.

People literally collect pretty rocks they find.
Scarcity can be a factor, but it's not the only one.

I was referring to a more specific kind, like collecting figures or pokemon cards or whatever.

The idea of cryptocurrency as an investment is hokey - it's a currency and the value is derived purely from exchange. It seems like with an influx of people just getting currency and holding it and increasing the scarcity, it would become a bit harder to get. Wouldn't that reduce actual use of it and thus the economic activity that gives it practical value in the first place?

Some collection is based on genuine interest and fascination, but much is simply conspicuous consumption. I guess people will always want to have pretty things to look at, whatever so happens to be pretty to their eyes in particular.


Oh right, I forgot that 3D printing technology has already reached it's endpoint and won't develop further.

You can use 3D printers to make moulds I would think.

Yeah, I see where you are coming from now. I agree.

Additive manufactureing has advanced to that point but it simply takes too much resources and is only available for rapid prototyping and models. The prints can't handle some of the stresses that normal subtractive manufacturing could handle.

There were stamp collectors and people like that in the USSR.

There are specialized 3d printing systems that can print load bearing parts of aircraft. Of course, your typical weeb won't want or need such a device.

That's just plain wrong. Additive printing, by its very nature, uses less resources, since you are adding material instead of removing it.