Something like 99.9% of my collection is on display - so I just rounded it off to 100%

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I don't really 'get' displaying toys - I don't quite understand why people do it,
I personally don't get why people spend bucket loads of money on toys just to keep them in storage.

The reason why I display my collection is to make them quick and easy to access for play. Say for example I want to assemble a team of Autobots comprised of say G1 Warpath, G2 Manta Ray, Machine Wars Hubcap, Car Robot Super Red Alert, Armada Silverbolt and Drift verses and Decepticon team comprised of say G1 Buzzsaw, G2 Hooligan, RiD Sky Byte, Micron Legend Shockwave, Darth Vader/TIE Advanced and ROTF Bludgeon; if I had most of these toys in storage (most likely in separate boxes according to series and/or faction) it would take be ages to unpack and find these toys before I'm reading to lie down and start playing!

Finding spare time to play with my toys alone is hard enough... I don't wanna waste it by having to look for and unpack them. Then after I'm finished, I would have to repack them again (and probably in alt mode too). (-_-)

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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.
All my friends are cool with my collection. Then again, most of my friends are nerds. My wife's friends aren't nerds though, but they don't particularly complain about it -- most of them think it's cool. And I've never had a problem with other parents giving any of my toys to their kids to play with. Who would do that?? (o_O) Especially they see the toys in a collection room; everyone knows it's a collection and not a random assortment of toys in a toy box.

And besides, because I own gun Transformers, my Transformer room is always locked when I'm not home anyway. So nobody's ever in there without me. My wife has a copy of the key to the room, but she only unlocks it to either put in freshly cleaned TF clothes from the laundry or if I've left a Transformer toy or comic book outside the room -- she'll unlock it, put it inside, then lock it up again.

Not even my own kid is allowed in there without my permission, let alone someone else's!