Are your toys on display?

last SG · 2007-05-16T22:03:01+00:00

I understand. My SO dreams of building a toy display cabinet. Wonder if he is up to paying $1800 for it

choco B SG

Avid toy collectors, I'm curious - do you have special cabinets to display your toys? Special boxes? Where do you display them - living room, study room, etc?

Or are they just festering in boxes in the store room? Laughing

Do share! I'm wondering if it's practical to build simple display cabinets for toys.

And if you had the option of designing display cabinets - how would you do it? Surprised

storywolf SG

Usually toys is of value only if they are kept in their orginial packaging and never open and stored in a non-air-cond room.

Once open - the toy value take a very big drop in value.

Chin Eng SG

My toys are all deboxed and place inside display cabinets. Some of them are in boxes so that I can recycle the display when I feel like it.

I keep them on separate shelving based on the collection or the theme.

My wife's dolls are inside a 8 ft x 7 ft cabinet with the inside back mirrored. Her dolls are also inside two other narrower cupboards in another part of the house. Some (perhaps 20 of them) are not on display cos she has no space.

Personally, I feel that as a toy collector, putting them inside the packaging do not allow you to enjoy them to the fullest, but this is just me.

choco B SG

Interesting!
Where are all the cabinets placed in the house?

Are your wife's cabinets custom-made?

Chin Eng SG

Yup, all at house, of course....

Yup, too wife's main cabinet is custom made. Primary requirement: deeper shelves, mirror backed, top lighting, wood framed glass doors. Each shelf has a dehumidifier pack on it. Placed in a darker part of the hall so that the sun doesn't get to it.

The smaller ones are from Ikea.

choco B SG

How much did you pay for a custom cupboard like that? Surprised

Haha hers custom, yours Ikea cupboard ah Laughing

So they're all placed in the living room?

caleb_chiang SG

Mostly on display... Wink

soulwinner SG

I love pokemons...
But can't find any such toys.. Mr. Green

laoda99 SG

No special cabinets (no money)

wanna play acrylic display for my playmobil dollhouse but too expensive (300+ coming to 400, more expensive than the toys itself)

Dollhouse and dozens of smurfs now lying under computer monitor cover........lots of dust........mebbe situation will improve when I move to my own house

Gordonator SG

true toys lover don't care about their re-sell value. we buy them to play to display them.

i don't care if my toys are valuable or not. toys are meant to be played. not jailed into the box or to make money.

Unidentified SG

Toy display liao alway get dusty , and buying display case seem wasting alot money and space . Any solution to prevent dusty ?

Dont tell me everyday wipe it , i dont have the time Laughing

laoda99 SG

My girlfriend shrink wrapped them using a device and plastic covers bought from Sim Lim Sq basement. I noticed some camera shots are using the same thing for their display set cameras.

You just need to put the toys in the plastic covers, seal the opening with the device, and then use a blow dryer to blow dry. The plastic covers will shrink upon contact with hot air and wrap around the toy.

Icemoon SG

Actually not all toys are meant to be played. Toys like barbies are meant to be displayed.

Barbie boxes emphasize on this point. Their boxes try to expose the doll as much as possible, to the extent the box is a substitute for an actual display case.

Icemoon SG

Unker Eng into diorama or not?

Tell me if you need to borrow my car for diorama photoshoot. Mr. Green

Unidentified SG

cannot la , my toy got wheel got door wan leh

Gordonator SG

my glass cabinet from IKEA. only $99 (+$40 delivery).

DriftingGuy SG

Cute bed Laughing

Gordonator SG

my shelf. Cool

Gordonator SG

my brother's. Laughing

ben1xy SG

Gordan: how much did you pay for Nami? do they have zorro too?

i hae the sephiroth one too!!