What do you do with your backing cards & boxes?

[theheretic]

Almost all my collection is still sealed so I have to keep the boxes/cards. In that eBay auction some of the cards look perfect, how have they removed the plastic bubble from the card without tearing off any of the card?

[SuspectimusPrime]

Use a knife to cut around the outline of the plastic bubble, try to cut as close to the card as possible without scraping off any of it that's glued to the plastic. After you make the first cut, lay the knife down flat against the surface and glide it around. You should be able to make a clean cut until you get to the bottom (for most Hasbro bubbles), then just carefully saw off the perforated plastic.

If you've got Henkei boxes, the plastic bubble is just taped on by sticky tape.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yup. Nothing like a trusty Stanley Knife at your side when bringing home new toys. (and tin snips for boxed toys to cut through those pesky twist ties!)

Before: After:

[SofaMan]

I cut the bubbles off of cards, keep the card and discard the bubble & insert.

Boxes get the inserts removed and discarded, and the boxes get flattened and kept.

Paperwork gets filed in ring binders.

[KalEl]

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

[GoktimusPrime]

Watch out for those plastic blister icebergs!

[theheretic]

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.

[UltraMarginal]

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

haha, inside our outside your home?

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). I've shipped plenty of items that have scraped in under the cheaper price bracket because I used transformers bubbles instead of bubble wrap or styrofoam.

[5FDP]

I keep them all in plastic tubs - for the ones that are opened

[BigTransformerTrev]

I keep the Gen 1 boxes, Masterpiece and Collectors Club/Timelines boxes etc. Everything else I keep the backing card or like in cases such as the PCC's the side of the box where the personality and tech-specs are listed. Just too, too much room taken up to keep all the boxes - wish I could. And yeah, that plastic is a bugger to fold