The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:00 pm

Mine stay in Alt. mode but get rotated in and out storage and placed on my desk.

This is my current display on my desk with only 2 of my BTs

here is one of my Alt/BT drawers

by **Auto Bot** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:51 pm

A drawer for Alternators. Nice idea. Saves space. Alternators handy and available anytime.

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:21 am

Thank you...I found the drawers at Staples. I have 5 drawers for my Alt/BT figures. No dust on them and they are away from sunlight.

by **neliz** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:59 am

i_amtrunks wrote:I have the moulds

I bet you do, you witch!

by **Auto Bot** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:29 am

Cascadia wrote:Thank you...I found the drawers at Staples. I have 5 drawers for my Alt/BT figures. No dust on them and they are away from sunlight.

How about a full shot of the draswer?

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:41 am

you want to see my entire set up for my Alt/BT figures? Sometime tomorrow. Each of the drawers can hold 4 figures.

by **Auto Bot** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:33 am

Yup. You got it.

by **Nujevad** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 6:39 am

I keep them in their boxes, in whatever form they were in when I opened them. The boxes are then stacked over my shelves.

by **zemper** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 6:54 am

darn, after getting Alt Wheeljack (and completing the Mustang molds, whee) seems like the best way to display all of them is thru their Alt modes.

sure, it takes up spaces good for 3 deluxes (assuming you pose your deluxes on a line front to back, since the average Alt length occupies about 3 lined deluxes in robot mode) but they really make for an awesome display... people will mistake them as out of place if you pose them together with your other Transformers. :mrgreen:

so, how do the others do it?

:MAX:

by **Rijie** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:23 am

Well, I have an enclosed glass shelf with all my BTs excellently posed inside. On top of the shelf is both my sealed and loose, 100% complete Alt collection. The boxed Alts are stacked(from bottom to top, in order of their assigned collection number) to create a background. Then I have all of my open Alts, in robot mode, standing in front of them.

by **Pot Bot** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:34 am

lmao, mine are all in Robot mode, they were hard enough to transform them once, and i tried with Shockwave to put him back into alt with no luck, so they are all staying as bots :grin:

by **zemper** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:52 am

Pottermus_Prime wrote:lmao, mine are all in Robot mode, they were hard enough to transform them once, and i tried with Shockwave to put him back into alt with no luck, so they are all staying as bots

*chuckle* i remember the same feeling the day i acquired my first Alternator. it was really a trying time for me, to trying to transform it from Alt to Bot mode (even with instructions, i still managed to pop out the head and/or car doors!) so when i finally had it in Bot mode, it was like that for how many days. i was actually afraid of transforming it back!

:MAX:

by **Pot Bot** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:58 am

lol, i pulled the bonnet off, the doors off, his head falls off, dammit, all of em can stay like they are (:|

by **zemper** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:06 am

Pottermus_Prime wrote:lol, i pulled the bonnet off, the doors off, his head falls off, dammit, all of em can stay like they are

LOL, you too? :lol:

darn. looking back, i keep saying to myself: "man, am i glad they weren't Binaltechs... an innocent pop here and there could result in a heart-stopping paint chip!"

by **Pot Bot** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 9:12 am

lol

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:01 pm

My alts are in Car mode, I have pic around her somewhere. . . man my photobucket needs cleaning.

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:18 pm

two weeks ago, I indicated that I would post pictures of my entire set-up but real life got busy. However today, I have the pictures.

That is my current set-up on my desk...BT Jazz, once BTA Red Alert but now my custom Prowl, which I am almost done with, and Alt. Bluestreak/Silverstreak (who has a right-hand steering wheel).

These following pictures are shown in order of my drawers from top to bottom.

by **zemper** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:45 pm

cool, nice drawers Cascadia. it's amazing they were really able to fit 3 vertical 1 horizontal, exactly 4 Alts per drawer.

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:50 pm

Thank you. The drawers do not take up much room and very cost-effective ($25). The other set of drawers is for my G1 & Movie figures plus a place for weapon/accessory storage. So the total cost of my drawers was $50. My TF collection set-up probably takes up 7 cubic feet in my apartment. The only Alt that is missing in the pictures is my Swerve who is still in his box.

News Credits: 1 · by **No Death for Prowl** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 7:57 pm

Nice job, Cascadia!

Last night, I rearranged My Alternators. Right now, I have a row of the season 1 characters together in alt mode: Windcharger, Hound, Jazz, Prowl, Silverstreak, and of course, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker next to each other. I thought it would look kind of cool having all these guys together in a row, though I wish I could have fit Grimlock and Prime in there somehow(not a big deal since Prime looks like crud anyway).

An idea for a cool picture would be to have my 3 Decepticons surrounded in a circle by the 13 Autobot Alternators that I have with Shockwave muttering to Rumble that he knew he should have called in the Classics Decepticons for some help.

By the way, I mostly display my TFs on a 5 shelp bookcase that I bought on sale at Target for $80; it's the sturdiest, roomiest, and best-looking reasonably priced storage shelving that I found at major retail stores. I have been able to display all my Alternators, Classics, MP Starscream, Movie Leader Brawl and Prime, and most of my movie line characters with this bookcase.

News Credits: 1 · by **Cascadia** » Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:17 pm

That would make an interesting and maybe funny picture.

by **Maniac23** » Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:53 pm

My Alternator display, i also have Optimus Prime but he is currently standing amongst my Prime/Convoy collection. Just missing Swerve, Nemesis Prime, Rollbar and Ricochet to complete the Alts.

Right click and 'view image' to see the pic in its' full glory

by **zemper** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:50 am

Maniac23 wrote:My Alternator display, i also have Optimus Prime but he is currently standing amongst my Prime/Convoy collection. Just missing Swerve, Nemesis Prime, Rollbar and Ricochet to complete the Alts.

Right click and 'view image' to see the pic in its' full glory

awesome.now that's why i like displaying them in Alt modes...they really feel less like Transformers and more like die-cast car scale-replicas. i think you've got all of the molds and that's an amazing feat in itself.

News Credits: 2 · by **-Soundwave-** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:02 am

So yeah I've finally found the pic of my alts. I've got Nemesis Prime, Optimus Prime and Rumble still in the package, they didn't make it to the shelf.