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.

[SofaMan]

What's the style of your toy 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.

To be honest, If had 8 TFs, that's probably what I'd do too; it sounds like you've usually got about 50% of your collection on display, and rotations are easy to manage.

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.

[cygnus]

jungle......while never have a chance to count how many there are..

[jaydisc]

E. All of the above

[Vector Prime]

Mine's pretty easy seeing as I've only recently started collecting and only have 50 or so... everything's on display in glass cabinets neatly.

[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."