The Energon Pub

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:14 pm

A recent trip home to visit my family gave me the opportunity to bring back some jewelry cases. I had been looking for a way to display my Mini-Cons and a little bit of work with the cases has provided a great solution.

I'm not sure if I'm done with them yet. I haven't decided if I like the bare wood shelves, so I may go back and adjust them more.

One of the cases has a missing shelf because I may use that area to hang Star Sabers and Sky Boom Shields.

The first case is my favorite Mini-Cons. The Second is primarily my interesting Japanese Mini-Cons.

Enjoy. >:oP

*There is a empty slot on one shelf that is reserved for Chrome. I have to pull him out of storage.
**This was about 1/3rd of my non-partner Microns.

by **alternator77** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:23 pm

that is a great idea! ive been trying to think of a way to display my legends and minicons as theyre taking up shelf space and was going to try and use some clear plexi for shelves and shadowboxes but cant seem to find any of a good size.
if you dont mind my asking how much did you pay for them (the cases)

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 2:39 pm

alternator77 wrote:that is a great idea! ive been trying to think of a way to display my legends and minicons as theyre taking up shelf space and was going to try and use some clear plexi for shelves and shadowboxes but cant seem to find any of a good size.
if you dont mind my asking how much did you pay for them (the cases)

Essentially, $50 for the pair, but they were actually given to me. I have no idea on a real cost for them.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:02 pm

That would work for me if I still had wall space. That's all now taken up with cases for everything else.

Still, keeps them nice and dust free! And the cases look good!

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:09 pm

Burn wrote:That would work for me if I still had wall space. That's all now taken up with cases for everything else.

Still, keeps them nice and dust free! And the cases look good!

Thanks.

One thing that's good about these is that they keep the Mini-Cons from falling over. A lot of them have front to back balance issues.

News Credits: 1 · by **Erailea** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:37 pm

Counterpunch wrote:One thing that's good about these is that they keep the Mini-Cons from falling over. A lot of them have front to back balance issues.

Until you open the case and they all attack you at once xD

Nice display by the way.

by **JRFitzpatrick7** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 3:55 pm

I like these a lot, each group or individual is well showcased here, nice and bright. When i get my collection displayed i want every single figure represented individually. originally i was going to go with a grid of cheap wood from Home Depot/Lowes but after seeing your set up i'm considering investing a little morre into it and going with a plexiglass grid, though that may prove to difficult a medium to work with. would you say the dreadwing type figure is the widest?

As i type this ideas are flowing....

in the supreme display grid it will go a little something like this:

The Rules:

1. Each minicon form will be represented in Robot Mode once (with a duplicate of original use of the mold)
2. Every Minicon/Micron/MinUKon will be displayed in Alt Mode (all characters, colors, and variants)
3. Each cubby will have to be as tall and wide as the tallest and widest figure to accomodate growth and rearrangement.
4. All teams that combine will be represented with a second duplicate of the original use of the mold in combined mode.
5. No figure will be displayed with another except where noted, thus no figure wil be displayed behind another.

is this psychotic? madness? sparta? i'd love some pointers and tips, comments questions and concerns.

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:12 pm

Figures that were troublesome...

Knockout
Armada Perceptor
Overcast was problematic but workable
Anyone you see in Vehicle mode was particularly deep, meaning that they inhibited the case from closing (except the bird type, that was just symmetry)

@JRFitzpatrick7 You're looking at a MASSIVE display like that. I almost did the cubby method too, but realize that it was kind of too much work for me at the moment. I only went through 1/3rd of my Mini-con dudes and this was two full cases. I think if you go the route you're looking, it will be amazing, but you're going to need a lot of wall space.

Keep me posted as to what you do.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 4:40 pm

A) I miss Armada sometimes. I just do.
B) I need to show my minicons some similar love as soon as I get them from my ex' house.

News Credits: 3 · by **DISCHARGE** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 6:12 pm

Those look great. Nice idea for a display.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:50 pm

Excuse me, gotta change my garments.

News Credits: 11 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Dec 05, 2011 8:56 pm

Very cool CP. :APPLAUSE:

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 8:37 am

Blurrz wrote:Excuse me, gotta change my garments.

So you, so crazy. >:oP

News Credits: 10 · by **gavinfuzzy** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:38 am

I am more impressed with the amount of minicons, more than the shelves. :shock:

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:50 am

That is a ton of tiny Transformers.

at display idea and execution of it. :APPLAUSE:

by **SJ21** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:51 am

I like the look of your set up. Very clean.

How heavy are those shelves? I would love to do something like that for my G1 figures, but I would hate to have them fall off the wall.