Post by xavion2004 on Mar 7, 2015 21:42:42 GMT -5
For those of you who put your figures in bins, is this just until you have room to display them?
That was the plan for years. Once the kids grew up and moved out, I was going to turn one of the bedrooms into a hobby/display room.
Now that they're actually growing up and moving out, I'm finding that I have very little desire to actually display my figures. The latest arrivals usually spend a week or two on my nightstand before going into the bins, but that's about it. I enjoy having them, I pull the bins out all the time and go through them, and that seems to be enough for me.
I haven't completely figured it out yet, but I think it could be a couple of things.
One is that I did have a couple of IKEA Detolf cabinets with figures in them at one point, and maintaining even that small of a display was a pain the ass. With three kids and their friends rampaging through the house (as kids do), figures were constantly sliding out of position and/or falling over, even with stands. Also, glass or no glass, the shelves and figures still got dust on them, so I had to deal with that as well.
Another thing is that I don't particularly want to share my collection with our houseguests, and that's for a lot of the same reasons that I don't want to discuss wrestling with people who aren't wrestling fans. I remeber when one of my friends asked "What's up with the guy in the sheep mask?", and I said, "I can't explain it to you without it sounding completely ridiculous, because without the context of watchimg the shows and following the storylines, it actually IS completely ridiculous. That's the beauty of it."
Maybe I'll change my mind about all of this someday and put a display up, but right now, the bin thing just works for me.