My advice is to open them and display them as an army. Buying doubles is just a waste of money that could be spent on different Transformers. Re: packaging, for boxed toys I cut out the front and backs and toss away the rest. For deluxes I carefully run a knife around the edge of the plastic so as not to damage the card then toss away all the plastic. You keep all the good bits, space is saved and you get to play with the toy...Good enough for me.