What do you do with your backing cards & boxes?

[SuspectimusPrime]

A Lot of Backing Cards

People dismiss them, throw the out or chop them up. But I prefer them whole like these.

Just curious, what is everyone doing with their backing cards and empty boxes?

Collecting the backing cards are easy, but boxes are more difficult to store even if you remove all the hard cardboard inside and fold them up. The plastic makes it hard to fold up without damaging/creasing the card too much.

[UltraMarginal]

Just curious, what is everyone doing with their backing cards and empty boxes?

Collecting the backing cards are easy, but boxes are more difficult to store even if you remove all the hard cardboard inside and fold them up. The plastic makes it hard to fold up without damaging/creasing the card too much.

I keep a lot of the backing cards lately, for cyberverse I just keep the tech specs cards. for larger boxes I keep the artwork, maybe blurbs and tech specs if there are any.

[GoktimusPrime]

I keep the cards. Most boxes I throw away. The few I keep are put into a cupboard in the collection room, but that's chock full, so there's some piling up in the garage. I usually flatten a lot of boxes I get now too.

[LordCyrusOmega]

Some boxes like Masterpiece, Gen1 or exclusives I'll keep as is. Back in the day with other lines I would cut out artwork and just keep that. For Prime though I'm experimenting with my own version of completism and am keep all boxes and backing cards. The boxes get cut up and glue together flat that keeps all the information but gets rid of anything like barcodes or TM stamps. I was keeping the packages complete with all inserts and plastic bubbles but it ended up taking to much room.

[liegeprime]

I chuck em in the recycle bin. Some I keep , e.g. Masterpiece boxes, a few G1s (jap versions). Ive got the top portion of the collection room closet quite full, so at times I do a purge of some boxes... I haven't really done much lately - I should and mebbe just sell it to someone who'd like em.

[M-bot]

I've kept the vast majority of my boxes and backing cards, although the more I think about it, the less I can justify why - all they do is take up space I don't have, especially as my collection is beginning to approach 180 or so. They're in a large storage container that is absolutely full.

I'm curious for those who do keep them - why do you keep them? I suppose I'm really looking for reasons to get rid of mine.

[UltraMarginal]

mostly artwork, but also for the techspecs and blurb. not that I ever really look at any of that stuff, but if I throw it out then I wont have the option.

[Paulbot]

I keep too much packaging. Nowadays I tend to keep the front of the box (for the character art) and the back of the box (for the bio).

I still have some complete boxes from the late 80s early 90s (minus the tech specs which I always cut out until G2).

I keep mostly because the bios/art are a key part of what's kept me interested in TFs all these years (even if the bios have got worse). I use to look forward to new figures coming out and reading the bio on the back of each one. Did that just today with some new Cyberverse Legions. (Yes they are online but it's just not the same).

It's also nice to have some physical reminders of what the toys looked like when they were on the shelf.

[liegeprime]

Well I keep those with good looking art in the box that I like. MP boxes for instance. Short of being a packrat and that of a hoarder is prolly why I keep em. But, now that is has been brought to my attention again, I gotta do a purge sometime. I need that cabinet space.

[SuspectimusPrime]

I think I am definitely becoming a hoarder (or just realised that I have been one for some time). I have 50L container full of card-backs (card-backs in A4 sleeves) and squashed boxes. Most of my collection has been bubble-wrapped and stored in 50L containers, but I've been lazy keeping up with that whilst the collection is building. So now I've had some figs sitting around collecting dust for months whilst ironically I've got Transformers packaging in better protection!