Doing some searching tonight, and this post made me curious as to the age old debate of leaving your toys bagged or freed, when you adopt them and display them. I'm just about to finally (well sort of, as soon as I clear coat the redwood risers) put my toys in display cases, but I can't quite bring myself to unbag some of my toys . These are mainly MIB Butas. I have no intention of selling them (these are NOT for sale!), since I've never sold any toys here, but I feel that, for some of the really "old" ones, it's like breaking a piece of history, to break the plastic cocoons. If you'd care to share your opinions and/or photos of how you display your bagged goodies, I'm all curiosity. *This is not meant to start a topic of negative feelings or advertise toys for sale. I'm just interested in how you display unopened toys (yes or no), so please don't pelt me with tomatoes
As it stands, I only have three toys still sealed on display: Obake Dog black prototype, Zip Face Dog white First Contact, and the first painted Secret Base Skull Brain. Both of the aforementioned Dogs can be seen in my collection shots!
I personally don't display anything unopened, it just throws the display off for me. Then again, I only have a couple still unopened (aka diy GID Kumon for future painting). It could change if I find some ilu ilu robots in the future
Thumbtack them to the wall, to the right of the most relevant shelf, in this order: Big Lips; Dome Head; Bright Girl. OR do what I would do ---- DIG IN!!!
I would just double bag them and then pin them to the wall using a binder clip. If you have a lot you could make a nice grid or something as one idea.
I open my toys like a door in a burning building. Quick fast and in a hurry! ...but for items in abundance, I am tempted to keep one MIB--but I never bother to buy.
^^^ So funny G! Hmmm... well this is definitely making me think! Keep the ideas rolling in please, and if you have pics, please post. Wouldn't it be nice to have a "Toy Store" display? Perhaps a nicely painted peg board, replacing the backing board of an IKEA cabinet, and then insert peg-board short rods onto the board, add a mini-binder clip to the top center of each bag, and then hang them from each rod (i.e. like rows of bagged toys hanging from a metal rod at the "dime store"). The setup which is still encased in a display case, would for the most part still keep the baggies clean, and since they are dangling from a binder clip, you could circulate which ones display forward, if you wanted to "stack" them horizontally on the peg-board rod, or use/cut short rods to hold a single toy... You can devote an entire case to bagged toys, or half a case, or ??? Sorta appeals to my OCD-ness as well. (yes I am a nerd! ) Gotta go find my carpenter friend! (he's suppose to stop by and finish a fir "cat house" today )
Before I started collecting sofubi, this was my display type! I kept almost everything in it's box. It was really fun, but after a while I felt like I didn't actually "own" it. When I got into this hobby it was so great because they're just bagged, so I got to open everything and header cards didn't take up much space.
Hmmm... you have a point there. That's part of my dilemma, they would look "better" unbagged, but the OCD-ness in me and the fact that they are sorta neat in their original baggies (I'm a sucker for original packaging) preserves the historical aspect--just like thosed bagged vintage toys on JYA. I suppose if the baggies got really old, yellowish, and dirty, that would make me want to unbag them, but then again, I'll be dead by then!
Well first, middle, and lastly--they are yours to display in whatever way makes you happiest. I just don't have the strength!