Toy Display Protocols

[UltraMarginal]

Officially (well at least blacktown dose) Aldis uses these are some of the display cases they put products in to display

https://www.showfront.com.au/display...inets/tgl-1200

https://www.showfront.com.au/display...binets/tgl1000

Note they come in black ,grey and white (since this place is custom place they can paint it any colour in fact )

This is all they have (or even more expensive customise them)
https://www.showfront.com.au/display-cabinets

I found this place and this one https://www.bethelshopfitting.com.au...cases-counters after looking for better display cases than the ikea detolfs as i do not trust the structure of them.

thanks for the ideas, the main reason I don't have any more display space is a lack of space to put more cabinets.
One of the other guys here uses these guys. they look great, are lockable and as far as I can tell he's had nothing bus success with them. being mostly glass they are heavy though.

but back on topic, I also have a Metroplex on a shelf in the study with a hand full of legends class and WST figures sprinkled around him.

[G1Optimal]

thanks for the ideas, the main reason I don't have any more display space is a lack of space to put more cabinets.
One of the other guys here uses these guys. they look great, are lockable and as far as I can tell he's had nothing bus success with them. being mostly glass they are heavy though.

but back on topic, I also have a Metroplex on a shelf in the study with a hand full of legends class and WST figures sprinkled around him.

Thanks for the link, Sorry to go off topic again...
Though the thought of a frameless design gives me shudders (as isn’t it just brackets holding the glass with screws) and to me the semi frameless looks like the ones from detolf.

Even though it is more pricey i sticking with frames as by weight bearing goes though the frame and the glass is in the frame.

And to go back on topic for my collection i just get whatever i can from what i like and available.

[UltraMarginal]

it's 6mm safety glass, I think you'd be surprised how strong it is.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I've got a whole little personal fanon/backstory worked out for my 'mix-'n-match whatever I like'-based collection, so if/when I ever have the space to display them all properly it'll be based on a combination of factions and roles, eg. command-'bots/'cons grouped together, a city-bot/base display, medics in a repair-bay-esque diorama, etc etc.

Currently it's just 'whatever I have space to display in whatever combinations I feel like', which isn't much due to space limitations.

[Gouki]

Favourite Autobot and Decepticon figures. Repurposing all kinds a pseudo-G1 characters or specifically multiversal visitors, kind of like the IDW comics before it was call.

[Galvatran]

I'd much rather see displays in dynamic poses. Or recreating scenes from cartoon/movie.

[Dan]

Thanks all. Lots of common ground there with a few interesting variations.

I have a relatively small collection but also limited space (living in a share house) so there are always some set aside in drawers (or boxes for the few big ones I have).

Both the newest and the oldest tend to get preference in being displayed. So, there's almost always a G1 shelf and a Generations shelf (currently also have a few live-action toys out). I keep them separate because of aesthetic differences, but a few toys seem compatible with different displays (Energon Arcee being a good example of this).

Some of you arrange toys in order by specific date of issue. I lack such dedication but try to let story (mostly the G1 cartoon) tell me who can co-exist with whom (so Megatron and Galvatron rarely if ever stand in the same display).

Leaders (by role not size class) tend to stand front-and-centre within factional groups. Larger robots tend to stand behind smaller ones. However, in alt-mode things that are supposed to be smaller tend to go in front of ones that are supposed to be bigger (like putting cars closer to the viewer than planes as a kind of try-hard forced perspective).

I like the idea of having more action scene displays but that would tend to take up more space. I've not done that since childhood, but recently I've been taking photos of choice toys in particular scenes, some of them silly. In one, POTP Outback is trying to wrestle TR Skullcruncher, coz Aussies do that with crocodiles, right?

[G1Optimal]

it's 6mm safety glass, I think you'd be surprised how strong it is.

True , but still