Question to the faceplaters

[Fargoth]

Why do you collect faceplates? Not trying to be personal or anything just wondering whats your facination in them.

[SpaceGhost2K]

Why do you collect faceplates? Not trying to be personal or anything just wondering whats your facination in them.

I started making them because I was giving something away and did a make your own faceplate contest. I had a couple, but once I started making them for other people, I started collecting them myself.

I like pop art and game art and this is just an interesting way of doing that. I also like the idea of something "cranked out by machines" that is then tweaked by a human touch, with the "crudeness" of painting or sculpting or attaching things that don't belong. I like adding imperfection to perfection, but not in a destructive way - a creative one.

[Variation-XBA]

I originally started because no one else was doing it other than me and Ranzo at the time.

I enjoyed being able to customize my console with something other than stickers, but found myself wanting to keep them in the packaging instead of using them for some reason and it began.

[wicked_d365]

I do it because I collect a ton of stuff, and faceplates are different. I like having my Xbox look different all the time. I change plates depending on my mood, or whats popular, or going on at the time. It's funny when a friend comes over and says, "Did you get a new Xbox?" just cause I changed the plate.

I don't do it because of the value, I don't do it because it's cool. I do it because I like it, and having something different, that others don't have and/or can't get.

BTW: Good to see you again Fargoth, where you been hiding?

[gameking28]

I do it because I went to Zero Hour and they gave me one.
After that the Pokemon effect set in (gotta catch em all)!

Honestly these days I'm less about collecting retail plates and more about signed plates and customs. I like faceplates because they're unique - can't get any more unique than a custom plate made just for you.

[pastries r fun]

there interesting and have such great stories behind them and since they arent from just one place, but from all over the world

[Fargoth]

Thanks for your answers I sorta understand now.

BTW: Good to see you again Fargoth, where you been hiding?

Bunkering in my stump waiting for the apocalypse. It didn't come.

[gameking28]

Bunkering in my stump waiting for the apocalypse. It didn't come.

Don't feel bad, there's always next year! I've got a good feeling about 2012 though - the (Aztec?) calendar ends there and either that's as high as they could count or they know something we don't.