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Hi guys,

I am thinking that now that I have all the movie toys, it's time to get a display of some sort in which to put them.

Have some questions and requests for ideas to put to you veterans:

1. Cases
What sort of display would you recommend, and how do you have your TFs set up? Do you have a special set up for MISBs?
Would sure appreciate pics

2. Springs and such
For springs such as Barricades punch action arm, or missile launchers, would you have the spring coiled or slack in order to preserve the spring?

3.Poses and Rotations
By keeping a static pose is there a risk of stress to different areas? I would guess so, so does that mean you actually rotate the poses that you put your figures through? That is, if you display them in robot mode.

4. Preserving Agents
Are there any agents you use, either in the display case or on the TF toys themselves, to guard against plastic deterioriation, metal rusting, etc? I am especially concerned since South East Asia is a pretty humid clime, and I've had things like pipes and weightlifting benches rust on me relatively quickly.

5. Mode
How do you usually display your figures, robot or alt?

Any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly welcome! This is my first TF collection!

im keeping them exposed and getting dusted dust preserves paint and every week i pose them as alt and after a week on bot mode

Bonecrusher27 wrote:Hi guys,

I am thinking that now that I have all the movie toys, it's time to get a display of some sort in which to put them.

Have some questions and requests for ideas to put to you veterans:

1. Cases
What sort of display would you recommend, and how do you have your TFs set up? Do you have a special set up for MISBs?
Would sure appreciate pics

2. Springs and such
For springs such as Barricades punch action arm, or missile launchers, would you have the spring coiled or slack in order to preserve the spring?

3.Poses and Rotations
By keeping a static pose is there a risk of stress to different areas? I would guess so, so does that mean you actually rotate the poses that you put your figures through? That is, if you display them in robot mode.

4. Preserving Agents
Are there any agents you use, either in the display case or on the TF toys themselves, to guard against plastic deterioriation, metal rusting, etc? I am especially concerned since South East Asia is a pretty humid clime, and I've had things like pipes and weightlifting benches rust on me relatively quickly.

5. Mode
How do you usually display your figures, robot or alt?

Any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly welcome! This is my first TF collection!

Here's how I have displayed my TFs. I posted this recently in another thread. I like to angle the outer edges of the display as that brings the eye to the centre of the collection and it 'envelopes' the collection well as you see more of it instead of keeping it flush. Hope this helps

wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

softimus_prime wrote:wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

Thanks for the kind words. What you see in box are MISB. I buy doubles of the ones that I want to open and display them as such. '08 BB, Barricade and Blackout so far. I made add Wreckage to the list of ones that I will open since it looks pretty bad ass.

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

Thanks for the kind words. What you see in box are MISB. I buy doubles of the ones that I want to open and display them as such. '08 BB, Barricade and Blackout so far. I made add Wreckage to the list of ones that I will open since it looks pretty bad ass.

gee... that would be costly.. any im happy for you

softimus_prime wrote:

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

Thanks for the kind words. What you see in box are MISB. I buy doubles of the ones that I want to open and display them as such. '08 BB, Barricade and Blackout so far. I made add Wreckage to the list of ones that I will open since it looks pretty bad ass.

gee... that would be costly.. any im happy for you

It can get costly but I pace myself so that I keep it within reason.

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

Thanks for the kind words. What you see in box are MISB. I buy doubles of the ones that I want to open and display them as such. '08 BB, Barricade and Blackout so far. I made add Wreckage to the list of ones that I will open since it looks pretty bad ass.

gee... that would be costly.. any im happy for you

It can get costly but I pace myself so that I keep it within reason.

well atleast your getting double figures so that you can open one of them i feel sorry for figures that cries inside the plastic prison with twisties around him...

softimus_prime wrote:

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:

g1transformers wrote:

softimus_prime wrote:wow im so impressed that's so much of them and btw are you opening them and return it to the package or your keeping it in the box?

Thanks for the kind words. What you see in box are MISB. I buy doubles of the ones that I want to open and display them as such. '08 BB, Barricade and Blackout so far. I made add Wreckage to the list of ones that I will open since it looks pretty bad ass.

gee... that would be costly.. any im happy for you

It can get costly but I pace myself so that I keep it within reason.

well atleast your getting double figures so that you can open one of them i feel sorry for figures that cries inside the plastic prison with twisties around him...

They have many friends around them to keep them company. No reason to shed any tears.

I got a 30 X 20 X 5 acrylic case with one door on it and a slit for a lock. It comes on monday and it should hold the entire movie line. it ran about $250 with shipping

g1transformers wrote:

Bonecrusher27 wrote:Hi guys,

I am thinking that now that I have all the movie toys, it's time to get a display of some sort in which to put them.

Have some questions and requests for ideas to put to you veterans:

1. Cases
What sort of display would you recommend, and how do you have your TFs set up? Do you have a special set up for MISBs?
Would sure appreciate pics

2. Springs and such
For springs such as Barricades punch action arm, or missile launchers, would you have the spring coiled or slack in order to preserve the spring?

3.Poses and Rotations
By keeping a static pose is there a risk of stress to different areas? I would guess so, so does that mean you actually rotate the poses that you put your figures through? That is, if you display them in robot mode.

4. Preserving Agents
Are there any agents you use, either in the display case or on the TF toys themselves, to guard against plastic deterioriation, metal rusting, etc? I am especially concerned since South East Asia is a pretty humid clime, and I've had things like pipes and weightlifting benches rust on me relatively quickly.

5. Mode
How do you usually display your figures, robot or alt?

Any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly welcome! This is my first TF collection!

Here's how I have displayed my TFs. I posted this recently in another thread. I like to angle the outer edges of the display as that brings the eye to the centre of the collection and it 'envelopes' the collection well as you see more of it instead of keeping it flush. Hope this helps

all i can say is....wow ....
nice collection man.

Bonecrusher27 wrote:Hi guys,

I am thinking that now that I have all the movie toys, it's time to get a display of some sort in which to put them.

Have some questions and requests for ideas to put to you veterans:

1. Cases
What sort of display would you recommend, and how do you have your TFs set up? Do you have a special set up for MISBs?
Would sure appreciate pics

2. Springs and such
For springs such as Barricades punch action arm, or missile launchers, would you have the spring coiled or slack in order to preserve the spring?

3.Poses and Rotations
By keeping a static pose is there a risk of stress to different areas? I would guess so, so does that mean you actually rotate the poses that you put your figures through? That is, if you display them in robot mode.

4. Preserving Agents
Are there any agents you use, either in the display case or on the TF toys themselves, to guard against plastic deterioriation, metal rusting, etc? I am especially concerned since South East Asia is a pretty humid clime, and I've had things like pipes and weightlifting benches rust on me relatively quickly.

5. Mode
How do you usually display your figures, robot or alt?

Any other suggestions or ideas would be greatly welcome! This is my first TF collection!

1a. Displays are a matter of personal taste and accomadating to your environment, not everyone has the same amount of space available.

2. I usually leave springs slack/not-tensed/not-coiled, as i believe that the constant compression on the spring reduces its ability to contract and expand over time.

3. I have yet to come across a transformer in my 200+ collection that damages itself just from standing around in robot mode.

4. This gets tricky, in context of a temporary display, a sealed environment is optimal because you get less dust inside, and humidity is no longer a threat. I don't coat my tf's in anything to preserve them; plastic is pretty resilient from what i've seen so far. Just don't shine bright light on them for too long to help prevent color fading. I think it has something to do with Ultra-violet radiation, could be wrong.

5. Robot mode is usually the most space conserving way to go.

1.b. As seen previously on another thread, this is an older pic and is missing the masterpieces and such:

tom brokaw wrote:all i can say is....wow ....
nice collection man.

Hey man. Thanks a lot. It has taken some time to get where I am with the vintage stuff from my youth and the recent stuff since there are so many different lines to collect.

DeathAura wrote:1a. Displays are a matter of personal taste and accomadating to your environment, not everyone has the same amount of space available.

2. I usually leave springs slack/not-tensed/not-coiled, as i believe that the constant compression on the spring reduces its ability to contract and expand over time.

3. I have yet to come across a transformer in my 200+ collection that damages itself just from standing around in robot mode.

4. This gets tricky, in context of a temporary display, a sealed environment is optimal because you get less dust inside, and humidity is no longer a threat. I don't coat my tf's in anything to preserve them; plastic is pretty resilient from what i've seen so far. Just don't shine bright light on them for too long to help prevent color fading. I think it has something to do with Ultra-violet radiation, could be wrong.

5. Robot mode is usually the most space conserving way to go.

1.b. As seen previously on another thread, this is an older pic and is missing the masterpieces and such:

Awesome collection and display man. I love the lights alongf the edges. I may use that idea with mine as well. I guess that they are Xmas lights?

g1transformers wrote:

DeathAura wrote:1a. Displays are a matter of personal taste and accomadating to your environment, not everyone has the same amount of space available.

2. I usually leave springs slack/not-tensed/not-coiled, as i believe that the constant compression on the spring reduces its ability to contract and expand over time.

3. I have yet to come across a transformer in my 200+ collection that damages itself just from standing around in robot mode.

4. This gets tricky, in context of a temporary display, a sealed environment is optimal because you get less dust inside, and humidity is no longer a threat. I don't coat my tf's in anything to preserve them; plastic is pretty resilient from what i've seen so far. Just don't shine bright light on them for too long to help prevent color fading. I think it has something to do with Ultra-violet radiation, could be wrong.

5. Robot mode is usually the most space conserving way to go.

1.b. As seen previously on another thread, this is an older pic and is missing the masterpieces and such:

Awesome collection and display man. I love the lights alongf the edges. I may use that idea with mine as well. I guess that they are Xmas lights?

thanks!

I decided to go with xmas lights; but i am only using the LED lights because it is my belief that normal incandescent xmas lights (the ones that pass electric current through the tungsten filament) creates a wide spectrum of radiation, and you can even feel it in the heat output of the individual lamps. Led's on the other hand are much more efficient, output a much more narrow bandwidth of radiation due to the electricity-to-light conversion process (not sure about white led's, but this is applicable to single-color led's as white is a mixture of all radiations from only the spectrum of visible light ROYGBV)and so should not be a problem. Plus, they are uni-directional, and act like mini-spotlights, so you can aim them where you want them and stuff instead of having one lamp fill the entire room with light.

1 Drawback: more expensive than traditional x-mas lights

I considered rope light too, but it didn't suit my needs as my display for the individual loose bots is deep and i don't think the light would reach the back.

g1transformers wrote:Here's how I have displayed my TFs. I posted this recently in another thread. I like to angle the outer edges of the display as that brings the eye to the centre of the collection and it 'envelopes' the collection well as you see more of it instead of keeping it flush. Hope this helps

oh and by the way, your collection is awesome

mine just looks pretty.


Have you considered putting something over the tops of the boxes in order to keep dust off of them? I basically put a long sheet of saranwrap over my takara reissues 0-21.. I hate t he feeling of wiping dust off of boxes and feeling it scratch/grate the box surface like sandpaper :/

DeathAura wrote:thanks!

I decided to go with xmas lights; but i am only using the LED lights because it is my belief that normal incandescent xmas lights (the ones that pass electric current through the tungsten filament) creates a wide spectrum of radiation, and you can even feel it in the heat output of the individual lamps. Led's on the other hand are much more efficient, output a much more narrow bandwidth of radiation due to the electricity-to-light conversion process (not sure about white led's, but this is applicable to single-color led's as white is a mixture of all radiations from only the spectrum of visible light ROYGBV)and so should not be a problem. Plus, they are uni-directional, and act like mini-spotlights, so you can aim them where you want them and stuff instead of having one lamp fill the entire room with light.

1 Drawback: more expensive than traditional x-mas lights

I considered rope light too, but it didn't suit my needs as my display for the individual loose bots is deep and i don't think the light would reach the back.

I think that I will go the LED light option. I was concerned with the incandescent lights with the issues that you pointed out. Thanks!

Wow. Merry Christmas in August!