Storage - What do you do?

[Thanatos]

This comes up as I realise "Wow, I'm running out of space... time for a bit of storage advice!"

I have got most of the Movie Line, a bunch of G1/G2/Beast Wars from my childhood, most of Cybertron and Animated/Classics so far. Now, I only have one shelf I can dedicate to the TF fandom, so I need to make sacrifices!

I've bagged every toy I don't wish to display at the moment in zip lock bags, but I'm wondering what I should do next. Boxes? How do I keep them from being destroyed against eachother.

Any suggestions will be taken into account .

[GoktimusPrime]

I currently have 1180 Transformers and I display them all. The joys of having a dedicated room for my TF collection. (the video is 11 months old but you get the idea )

[Thanatos]

I live with my family in true poor uni student fashion. Probably got about 180 figs, and 1 shelf.

Would love a TF room but! :P

[Paulbot]

You were asking about storage right? Well, I have multiple stackable plastic storage boxes, about 10, holding my TFs, and I'm still forever running out of room whenever I buy a new TF. There would be some rubbing of figures if the boxes were shaken but sitting around they are alright. I keep meaning to go through and take batteries out of some of the recent toys that are sitting there unused (something else to consider with storage of the toys).

[loophole]

baggies, boxes and cupbaoards thats the way to go

[Thanatos]

Yeah I didn't think of batteries. Most of my electronic based toys are on display, but I had better check through, thanks Paulbot.

Sounds like what I had in mind (boxes and baggies) is the way to go. oh how i dream of more tf room.

[SilverDragon]

I have eleven, which I keep on top of my bookshelf. There's just enough room for all of them in vehicle mode, so there might be more if they were in vehicle mode. But I don't want to make them more prone to falling over.

I take them off when I want to play with them, and then usually put them on my desk. They make nice ornaments.

Of the packaging, I keep the cards for deluxes and scouts, and throw away the rest. For anything bigger, I chuck the whole box out.

[Omega Supreme]

Do what I did, choose what lines of figures you really like, sell the rest to the nice people on here, use that money to invest in every figure you have always wanted plus a shelving unit big enough to put them on. Then sit back and Marvel at the greatness

[Zippo]

I'm fust running out of display room in my small room. Looking at trying to get a glass display case, but they don't seem to be easy to get in my part of the world. It would also help with my dust issues.

As for the bulk of my collection, I had to hire a storage shed.

[BigTransformerTrev]

Well here is what it looks like when you start to sort through 1600+ figures so you can store them in a fashion that allows you to actually find specific toys :






Right now I'm sorting them into different sized crates (from 50L to 140L) under the following catagories:

*Optimus Prime/Orion Paxes
*Megatron/Galvatrons
*Bumblebee/Goldbugfires
*Starscream and all Seeker variants
*Soundwave and Minions
*Ultra Magnus/Jetfire/HotRodimus/Prowl/Jazz's
*G1, G2 & BW Autobots
*G1, G2 & BW/BM Decepticons
*RID/Unicron Wars/Animated/Aligned Autobots
*RID/Unicron Wars/Animated/Aligned Decepticons
*Crossovers
*Decepticon Combiner Groups
*CHUG/Alternity/Alternators/Masterpiece Autobots
*CHUG/Alternators Decepticons
*Kreons
*Kre-O Sets
*Huge Buggers (Metro, Trypt etc)
*MISC


And I ever get that done I'll make a start on all the other TF merchandise I have