General Marvel Legends

Dek said:
This is extremely eye-opening for me. How do you guys display and pose over a 1,000 figures? I won't keep a figure if it can't be displayed. I assume that's not the same for you guys.
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I display what I can, usually around 100 or so at a time in a rotating fashion, in my current living situation, but I collect for the eventual bigger and better house that I will move to and thus be able to display my whole collection.

The pie-in-the-sky dream is to one day live in a warehouse where I can display all of my comics, movies, toys, records, books and heroclix like a museum, with all of the media face-out instead of spine-out. But seeing as how I have over 6000 comic books alone, that would have to be a huge fucking warehouse. It's just a fanciful dream I've had since I was little, and I have no real desire to actually work hard enough to be able to afford such extravagance.
 
Dek said:
This is extremely eye-opening for me. How do you guys display and pose over a 1,000 figures? I won't keep a figure if it can't be displayed. I assume that's not the same for you guys.
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Oddly enough, I found that I had more room when I actually posed my figures versus just displaying them in vanilla stances. Maybe because the poses opened up room diagonally, or were allowed to sort of bleed into the space of another figure, whereas standing them all arm-to-arm took up space. I got a bunch of those expandable shelf organizers, which definitely helped. Flight stands also clear up a good amount of room; you can still display, like 2-3 figures at the base of it, while having the flying figure above them. And about a year or so ago, I got clever with some Command Strips and hooks and put up most of my flying figures in a way that not only clears room on the shelf, but should still allow me to get my deposit back when I move out. 😅

Like others have said, there's probably no way to have your perfect dream display unless you hit the jackpot, but if you're clever with things, you often find you have a lot more room than you think.
 
All my figures are posed too, using vertical space wisely is the key in my opinion.

I have pretty strict rules too; one in one out, only one random shelf, no Star-Wars, no GI Joe, no more Transformers, no 3 3/4, no 12-inch. It helps keep things focused.

I got rid of all but 4 DC figures to set up a Barbarian shelf and got rid of two shelves of Avengers, widdled down my Hulk figures to just his personalities, and X-Men '97 was absorbed into my 70's/80's X-Men Display (Giant Size on one side with Mutant Massaccre era on the other with the Beyonder having ripped them into two time periods. He doesn't realize Doom is coming up behind him.)

I fond a smaller more focused collection also helps me with patience for collecting. With such strict rules I only get maybe one or two figures a month and then those all come through my POL once or thrice a year.
 
joshsquash729 said:
got a bunch of those expandable shelf organizers
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yep. I know people who have built their house to have display rooms that are off the hook... but actually if you have the land, building a warehouse doesn't have to be that expensive... I guess depending on what you think expensive is... I can get a 30x30 pole barn built for about 30k... way less than a house.
 
TheSameIdiot said:
Once you cross the Rubicon, it's all the same. You just hit a certain threshold where you have too many tchotchkes. Then it's outside of the norm for every other human being.

I fear it, but I also embrace it. That's what we're about here.
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and.. there's a point when you have a lot but not a ton that people look at you like your weird... but then when you hit another mark... people are like daaaaaaaaaaamn thats cooooooooooooool! in other words.. to paraphrase Tropic Thunder... ya gotta go full retard.
 
Gothneo said:
yep. I know people who have built their house to have display rooms that are off the hook... but actually if you have the land, building a warehouse doesn't have to be that expensive... I guess depending on what you think expensive is... I can get a 30x30 pole barn built for about 30k... way less than a house.
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I always thought it could be fun to get one of those little expandable prefab house things that's perhaps a little bigger than just a shed, but smaller than a separate guest house. Put it in the backyard, or if you have a plot of land, there, just for hanging out with the collection. A fully separate nerd cave/retreat.
 
I think if I wasn't in a city, I totally would. I'm someone who enjoys their quiet, alone time far too much, so when I do inevitably move in with the boo, I'm gonna need my own little decompression area. 😅 Might as well decorate it with a bunch of toys!
 
I can't help but chuckle at some of those suggestions for nerd caves in a separate building. I live in a location where it can be well below freezing many weeks of the year and safely over 100 degrees other weeks. So any additional structure would have to be temperature controlled if used for that purpose, or all of that plastic wouldn't survive.

I'm fortunate to have a 1400 sq ft basement that is used almost exclusively for this purpose and not a whole lot else other than a home gym and some storage down there.
 
Reno said:
I can't help but chuckle at some of those suggestions for nerd caves in a separate building. I live in a location where it can be well below freezing many weeks of the year and safely over 100 degrees other weeks. So any additional structure would have to be temperature controlled if used for that purpose, or all of that plastic wouldn't survive.

I'm fortunate to have a 1400 sq ft basement that is used almost exclusively for this purpose and not a whole lot else other than a home gym and some storage down there.
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That's when it comes in handy to have thousands of toys- who needs heating or blankets when you can just bury yourself in plastic? My toys will keep me warm. I don't need the warmth of another human being, only my precious toys.....
 
Reno said:
I live in a location where it can be well below freezing many weeks of the year and safely over 100 degrees other weeks.
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Im at least another 450 miles north of you... so I have the "Well bellow Freezing" issue.... its bellow freezing here now! but not the heat...
many people here build and climate control big shops... but your price is gonna double for that. Of course the bigger the building the more it costs to heat!
 
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