What's the style of your toy display?

[willocrew]

What's the style of your toy display?

Do you like having one of those overcrowded, messy shelves that are choked full of figures?

What about the toy store style, with MISB display pieces neatly stacked side by side in all their pristine minty goodnes?

Or perhaps, you might be like me, subscribing to the school of the minimalist, opting for an uncluttered ikea glass cabinet with only 3 toys on display.

Personally, I like having 2-3 select pieces on display. Usually they are pretty big pieces (e.g. masterpieces or 1/6 scale figures, polystone statues). The big "play value" I get out of my collection is when I switch out those toys on display and replace them with those that are packed away.

So what's your personal style? Discuss.

[iceburn]

Toystore/Warehouse...!!

[SofaMan]

Mine's a jungle, albeit an orderly jungle.

[willocrew]

Toystore/Warehouse...!!

Hee Hee

Once you get up to 1000+, that strategy starts to have it's limitations. I'd have like 99.8% of my toys boxed up. In a lot of boxes.

Tis true.

[Golden Phoenix]

I get what figures I like, but that happens to be a fair lot of them
As such, I have run out of room. Some figures are officially displayed on the ground in front of the shelves.
On the shelves it is standing room only. They are displayed in a style jaydisc would call "Crowded Elevator"

[GoktimusPrime]

Mine's a jungle, but it's an organised jungle. I have all my toys on display - I don't like having any toys in storage because I love playing with them. The main reason why I started displaying toys in the first place as a kid is because I wanted my Transformers to be easily accessible for play, rather than having to rummage through a toybox to find them.

I organise them in order of series, which is roughly chronological. It starts from 1984 Autobots and goes year by year until my Animated Decepticon shelf.
Photos here (at least, that's what my collection looked like in February )

They are displayed in a style jaydisc would call "Crowded Elevator"

I like that description. But I prefer to say "crowded lift."

[Tabias Prime]

as many as i can get onto a shelf without it looking to cluttered.Big ones at the back in robot and smaller ones at the front in car or beast mode...

[klystron]

I used to bunch together by series and faction, arranged all pretty like in neat lines etc. Classics Autos and Cons were facing off against each other weapons drawn and so on.

But now I subscribe to the Botch-the-Crab school of TF arrangement, which can be best discribed as "all mixed up." A G1 figure beside a ROTF figure, beside a TFA, beside a BW. Decpticon beside Maximal. Robot beside an alt-mode, beside a beast mode. Some with weapons, some without.

Much the same as Botch, I find that I now pick them up more and transform them more, rather than being more worried about things like cool poses, facing-off-against-each-other arrangements, or segregation by series that influenced my TF collection before.

Only exception is G1 Dinobots who still have a shelf to themselves.

PS- really should post some pics one day...

[SentinelPrime]

misb all the way.

[kup]

I chose other as I do try to keep my display consistent but space restrictions mess it up.

I keep most of my G1s in one area and try to ashere to 'release zones' as in 1984-86 here and 1987-88 there and so forth but its a rule that I can't be strict about due to space. However I do try to keep Action Masters and and Micromasters in their own displays since those toys are don't particularly display well with others.

When it comes to Beast Wars, I use the same methods as with G1 but I try to keep all the show characters together and the none show characters separate but again not perfect due to space.

The movie figures and Titanium have their own shelves because they don't generally display well with others.

When it comes to Classics and Universe - I have a shelf for Classics Autobots and another for Classics Decepticons. By Classics I mostly mean all the figures that were either released under the Classics banner or new 'Classics 2.0' banner in Universe.

The Universe repaints representing G1 characters or within Neo G1 continuity are placed in a separate shelf.

Euros and Japanese Exclusives have their own shelf but I want to split them as its too overcrowded but I lack space to do it.