What do you do with your backing cards & boxes?

[SuspectimusPrime]

I was cleaning some out the other night and found the backing for Animated Cybertron-mode Ironhide. The backing card showcased the unreleased Wasp, black Swindle and black Blurr, and that just made me smile and thought of what could have been if the line wasn't prematurely cut.

I am attempting to build a one to one cardboard and plastic Titanic with them

Maybe someone should set a thread in the creative section to showcase the most creative thing you can build out of transformers packaging! The prize can be Fansproject Bruticus or something. We'll also need someone to donate a Fansproject Bruticus.

Something else I do is keep a lot of the bubbles for use when shipping stuff.
they are perfect, thin, lightweight, easy to modify to fit a spece (with a pair of scissors).

That's a really good idea!

Interesting... I've got a few "doubles" I'll try this out on. Not sure what I'm gonna open and what I'll leave MISB/MOSC. Thanks guys.

Do it! Unboxing is fun! Unboxed a few last night that's been sitting around MISB for no good reason. This little gem is awesome:


Little dude with a giant head? Yes!

[1AZRAEL1]

I normally cut the bubble off the card and keep the card. As for most of the G1 stuff, I usually sell because they take up room in storage and would get more appreciation from other people who collect them. Though I do have a few I don't think I will sell, Victory Sabre, Sky Garry, Overlord and a few other special pieces. I keep all the Masterpiece one's too.

I'm on (short) holidays soon, so I will go through it if people are interested. I know 5FDP will be, I told him I was going to do that ages ago

[5FDP]

I know 5FDP will be, I told him I was going to do that ages ago

Been waiting ever since man

[1AZRAEL1]

Been waiting ever since man

Yea I know, life got in the way

[Verno]

I bought the vast majority of my BW Collection 2nd hand, so I spent a great deal of time looking for backing cards for the Basic and Deluxe sized figures, because I don't consider a figure complete without them.

When it comes to boxes, I prefer them to come with the innards.

[griffin]

A collection of my size unfortunately needs packaging to be condensed, and plastic bubbles/inserts thrown away. It makes the toys feel more complete with the packaging (before Armada in about 2002, I would just cut out the bios and throw away the rest, because I didn't have the space to keep everything).
Some of the boxes I remember throwing out that I regret, was Omega Supreme and Scorponok... big awesome boxes, but at the time I didn't value packaging, I was only interested in the toys.

What I do now though...

The better ones (mostly JP ones), I use as "wallpaper" around the tops of the shelves.


Of the ones I don't have on display...
Boxes (flattened out)


Backing cards (bubbles and inserts removed)


And all the inserts and instructions, go into plastic tubs.


After regretting not keeping Gen1 packaging in the past, I just about horde everything now... just in case.