How much of your collection is on display?

[Vector Prime]

It never ceases to amaze me that some of you guys have dedicated collection rooms.

At any given stage, I only have approximately 50% of my collection out on display.

The other 50% lives in storage boxes in cupboards, etc.

So, my question is, approximately how much of your collection is displayed?

[Sky Shadow]

So, my question is, approximately how much of your collection is displayed?

None. Actually, technically one toy - I think DOTM M******* is 'out' as in he's sitting on a box in my room, so I have... like... 0.15% of my collection 'on display'.

[Vector Prime]

None. Actually, technically one toy - I think DOTM M******* is 'out' as in he's sitting on a box in my room, so I have... like... 0.15% of my collection 'on display'.

Why such a small amount SS? Renovating? Moving houses?

[Sky Shadow]

Why such a small amount SS? Renovating? Moving houses?

A combination of factors, VP - our housing situation has been in flux this year so we've moved from place to place half a dozen times. We're currently in a studio, so (despite the fact that Mrs Shadow seems to 'display' her clothes and costumes all over the room) there's not much space or call for a Transformer display. Still, even when I do have my own space (like my previous study) I've never kept more than a small fraction of Transformers out - mostly it's just the ones I've been fiddling with and haven't bothered to put away yet. The highest percentage I've ever had on display since 1985 would have been around 1999 when I had my own room in a share house at uni and all my Beast Wars toys out at once, but even then I had all my G1 toys stored away. I don't really 'get' displaying toys - I don't quite understand why people do it, particularly since it would mean that random visitors to the house might think I'm some sort of strange deviant or - possibly worse - have kids of their own and think it's all right to give them... say... e-Hobby Orion Pax to play with.

[Verno]

I'd say about 5-10%

I've got the Hard Hero Rhinox Statue, X-9 Ravage, Takara 10th Anniversary Beast Wars Show 'bots and Transmutate. Thats it.

I don't need to have all of them on display. Plus there is no point displaying sealed stuff.

[Sky Shadow]

A tangential question that I'm wondering about as a result of this thread: http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?p=237344

[kup]

I would say about 100% of toys which I consider to be part of my collection.

However if I count some of the spares, 'universally countable' junkers and others it would be more in the realm of 98-99.9%

[Vector Prime]

@SS - fair enough mate... thought that may have been the case.

[gdmetro]

At the moment? Probably about 50-60% of my collection. That number is dwindling the more I purchase though...

[Hursticon]

For me, I'd say close to 100% but not all as I purely just don't have the shelf space to display everything.
(That and 1 thing in particular isn't quite able to be displayed... yet )