Toy glossary

September 3, 2008 | By Juliana Heng In Overview of collecting toys |

Here are some of the more frequently used ‘technical terms’ in toy collecting that I also often use in my blog posts.  Thought that I gather some of them here for easier understanding by newbies and non-toy collectors.

MOC - Mint-on-Card.

MIB - Mint-in-Box.

MIP - Mint-in-Package.

NBRFP - Never-been-removed-from-package.

NBRFB - Never-been-removed-from-box, a variant term of NBRFP.

Loose - refers to a toy that is none of the above, that is, it has been taken out of its original packaging.

Action Figure - refers to a human or animal toy figure with movable parts, usually the limbs, head and torso.  Some of these toy figures come with toy weapons that shoot out projectiles, hence another meaning for the term “action”.

I’ll share more of such toy collecting terms next time! 

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    • 4 Comments so far

    1. Dhana J. on November 18th, 2008

      May i add a few :)
      01. MISB: Mint in Sealed Box
      02. MOSC: Mint on Sealed Card
      03. Loose Complete: No box/original packaging but comes complete with accessories/manuals.
      04. BIB: Back in Box (toy taken out of box, then displayed/played with, and returned to box)

      btw, Great blog :) and helpful hints there! keep on Collecting!

    2. Juliana Heng on November 19th, 2008

      Hi Dhana,

      Thanks for the additions, and thank you for visiting my blog. Btw, what do you collect? :)

    3. Dhana J. on November 28th, 2008

      It’s a nice blog :) and you’re welcome. I collect mostly Macross, Transformers Masterpieces, PlayArts, Voltron, things from the 80s, haha..

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