my latest toy display project

Well if you have seen my collection before you then know im completely out of wall space since theres already over a thousand figures hanging up. The thing that sucks is i still have more than half my collection in storage. so i came up with this display while on a toy hunt in TRU. It allows for my figures to be seen but also serves as a storage center to clear out some room in my storage closets. right now i only plan on making them for clamshell figures, all my carded stuff will have to remain packed away. i just like how much cleaner the clamshells look and how they match, im kind of a perfectionist.

heres a pic of the finished product unstocked. i was gonna take in progress construction pics but i forgot. the next one i will though
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0022.JPG
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0026.JPG

lets go to the stock rooms and see what we can dig out
theres probably like 60 cases in this closet
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0024.JPG
probably around 40 or so in this one
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0025.JPG

i also have a third stock area but the pictures wouldnt come out right. probably around 50 or so cases in that closet.

looks like the stock boy found some goodies
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0001.JPG

http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0096.JPG
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0097.JPG
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0098.JPG
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0099.JPG
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/classicaaron/IMG_0100.JPG


this is only the first of what will be a total of four. gonna have one in each corner of the toy room. the next one has to be designated for baseball figures though since i have a couple hundred in storage. the other will be half basketball half hockey and the last one will go towards movie and music figures. im going for the whole toy store look. i figure im usually happiest in a toy store so why not bring the store home.

Wow, that is a ton of figures!!! Nice display. Always thought living in a toy store would be cool. [img]smile.gif[/img]

that is a FUCKING SHITLOAD of figures! [img]eek.gif[/img]

and I love that display idea! Wonder if it would be possible to make a taller one, that could even rotate! [img]wink.gif[/img] Or even just building that same idea over/around like, a column... if I had one in my house [img]tongue.gif[/img]

i have two columns and it would work awesome but it would get in the way of the walking areas for me so i couldnt do it. and i thought about the spinning thing as well but im not smart enough to engineer that

You can rotate that base classic ?

nope, i cant figure out how to build that into it, any ideas

I'll be back, let me go to the chinnesse restaurant [img]tongue.gif[/img]

looking good!

i should mention in the end it ended up holding 92 figures so its pretty space saving

Looks more like 72 to me....of course some packages like the NECA ones take less space.

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Originally posted by MM4:
Looks more like 72 to me....of course some packages like the NECA ones take less space.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I figured the same thing from the first pic which has 3 figs per peg. Then I realized that most of the other sides have 4 per peg.

i only have one row of neca. but most pegs fit four and some fit 3 because those have the larger clamshells. i planned on it fitting 98 but that didnt work. 6 pegs per side times four sides times 4 figures per peg was 98. so i guess all but six pegs fit 4. although 3 pegs arent completely full and can still fit 5 more on but thats counted into the 92

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ August 18, 2005 10:45 PM: Message edited by: classic ]</font>

damn! it looks so small, though! [img]eek.gif[/img]

Not to sure on how to do a rotating one so well myself [img]tongue.gif[/img] maybe there's some semi pre-made turntable-esque stuff though....

all you really need is a base to hold the upper part in, and some sort of rolling device


...you could make a circluar clot in a bottom SOLID base, and line up some wheels (like ones for moveable furniture, you coudl probably get 'em at a hardware store) as long at they fit snug, and are even with the slot s othat they'd roll around in it... It might work!

Im betting bonedust has a WAY better solution, and makes me look like a dumbass [img]wink.gif[/img] (Im not saying Im not, though!) [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Toymank:
damn! it looks so small, though! [img]eek.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">thats why i love it. its only 35"x35" and is 36" high but you can really stack the figures on

Well executed, classic! However, it does come off looking like an EB Games outlet. [img]wink.gif[/img]

thanks, well i do want it to look like a store, i guess eb is close enough to tru [img]smile.gif[/img]

O_O

...well. Maybe I don't have too many figures hoarded after all. Thanks for putting that in perspective for me, man.

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Now put some small glass shelves on the top of that rack with some open box sets or such. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

let us know when you decide to start taking this hobby seriously [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Clean up in isle 7....

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Originally posted by Axis Bold as B?im?n:
Now put some small glass shelves on the top of that rack with some open box sets or such. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Good Idea!! Then it'll have a comic book shop feel to it... [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

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Originally posted by Munky Brewster:
let us know when you decide to start taking this hobby seriously [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">hahahaha, will do

I don't like the way your Star Wars figs are shoved in the back... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]

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good god. it's bringing back gamestop flashbacks.

cool display, though. one idea for getting it to rotate..perhaps you could get one of those heavy-duty Lazy Susan things and find a way to attach it to the base? they make those things pretty big..my mom has one in the cabinet that's huge.