Can you give me some advice on the do's and don'ts of long-term storage toy storage, especially with bubble wrap? Will bubble wrap stick to and/or damage my vinyl in storage? Is there a brand I should avoid? I've run out of shelf space and need to put some figures in climate-controlled storage using bubble wrap and cardboard boxes. The majority are soft vinyl and a few are hand paints. Any tips would be appreciated, thanks.
ive been putting my stuff in ziploc bags and then wrapping that in bubble wrap. so far no issues but maybe someone here knows better
All I can add is don't use packing peanuts, I learned the hard way. Put some figures in a box of peanuts and when I pulled them out some time later they had peanuts stuck to them. Some still had 'nut material on them when I pulled the packing peanuts off.
I wouldn't wrap them directly in the bubble wrap. I worry that the cheaper varieties may degrade over time and adhere to the figures. Some of the cheaper bubble wrap feels sticky, for lack of a better word, and that always makes me nervous. I usually keep my stored figures in thick plastic zip bags, which are then wrapped in bubble wrap. For figures with delicate paint (i.e., handpaints), I also wrap them in acid-free tissue paper before putting them into the zip bags (wrapped in bubble wrap) so that the paint/plastic does not contact the bag plastic directly.
