Mixing or Depicting Eras: Display/Play Realistic or Fantasy?

I don’t pic fed, play, or display but if I did I’d keep it real

I try to spit it into a few groups/eras


I have them split like this -
1. WCW/AWA/WCCW shelves.

2. Classic WWF shelves.

3. Modern WWE/NXT shelves.

4. AEW shelf.

5. Other Lines -


Other than that with the exception of my Sting shelf I just try not to put the same wrestler on the same shelf. And if I have to them they are on opposite sides of it.

Mixing eras sounds like chaos.

I display my figs by era, but maybe once a week or so my 4 y/o daughter and I play. We mix everything, even a few princess bride toys have made it into a match. Her current tag champs(she uses the ecw tv and wcw tv titles) are Rey mysterio and Hulk Hogan.

Mine are just displayed. 300ish figures in as best chronological order of attire date as i feel i can get. WCW/NWA seperated. ECW seperated. NXT seperated.

For Mattel WWE, I only have 2 displays

1) Legends of Wrestling, all eras

2) WWE 2010-current, PG/Authority/Roman Empire eras

Mixing, by far.

As a kid, when I first started collecting, the idea of "crossovers" between universes, timelines, & the characters within were always alluring, as it increased the "what if" storytelling, that was especially used in the comic book realm. This is notably possible now with WWE's acquisition of WCW, ECW, & the signing of Legend talents; coupled with other rival wrestling companies creating figures of their talents, to the same size as the leading organization. Being able to do fantasy booking, outside the realm of reality is something that has been enjoyable to me, at all times. =D

I display/keep all my SCSA, Kane, Undertaker, Rock, etc all together no matter the era that their attire is from.

What WCW/NWO figs I have I keep together as well.

I use have them split up based on their era of attire, but it’s just easier to keep all the same wrestlers together.

So, the rare times I do fig photography stuff, I tend to do things I think cool, era be damned. For display of my loose figures, I have a pretty rigid layout that's kind of real era based, but me about my personal life. Let me explain:

So this is my main display right now (At the moment, I don't have real estate for my childhood Hasbro or Jakks figures):

Top Shelf: Wrestlers who I initially became a massive fan of because of their work on the Indies outside of WWE from September 2006 onwards.
Middle Shelf: Versions of wrestlers from any period in my life (and some times even before my time) to September 2006. Why September 2006? That's the month I started college and I still collect but "retired" my fig fed (truth be told more because I didn't have the time than any kind of embarrassment) So basically this shelf is made up of any looks that conceivably had they been made could have been in my fig fed.
Bottom Shelf: Wrestlers I mainly associate with WWE in looks from September 2006 onwards.

Generally, I try to keep factions together and sometimes even companies. For example, on the middle shelf the left hand side is all WWE looks from the Attitude and Ruthless Aggression eras, with DX posed together, Hardyz posed together, etc. The right hand side is early 1990s WWF, WCW, the Kliq, and misc. (SS96 Bret, ECW Cactus). Also, I have no issues displaying the same wrestler on a shelf. I do have one weird exception with Seth Rollins. I was a big fan of Age of the Fall and his work as Tyler Black so I have his first Sheild Elite on my Indies shelf, but his other figures are on the bottom WWE September 2006 and onwards shelf because I associate him so much more with WWE now.



I also have this manically display with hyper-specific shelves:

Top: Jazzwares AEW.
Middle Mattel CM Punks
Bottom: Ultimates style figures from all companies. So Mattels are there, Super 7s, and when I get some Supremes they'll be there as well.