I bought a bunch of the acid-free/crystal clear Clear Bags of varying sizes after a discussion about this here a few years ago, and at EC's recommendation. I've got several dozen plastic bins of shoebox size with 10-20 figures in each, all in their own little bags. They haven't been stored that way for long but so far so good - I really like having the accessories with the figure instead of floating around getting mixed up.
One day I want slide out storage drawers sitting directly underneath my display shelves. The majority of things displayed, with easy access to storage for extra figures + accessories. I'm picturing the drawers they keep miscellaneous screws and bolts in at Lowe's, or fancy museum drawers for artifacts.
ClearBags calls their polypropylene "acid-free" which I cringe a bit at. For 95% of purposes I suppose they're right since they don't become acidic for decades, but they do eventually become acidic. I really don't know of anything better for action figures though since they're very clear and flexible enough to store anything you'd want for an action figure. Polypropylene is particularly nice because it's clearer than polyethylene which is slightly cloudy, so it's about 80% to 90% translucent instead of being completely transparent like polypropylene.
Thanks, I've been using "acid free" scrapbook cases from Michaels for storage for figures. They stack and I don't lay figures on top each other to avoid paint rubbing or sticking. But they're getting to take up too much space, so filing figures vertically in baggies and putting them in boxes like wine bottles I've found to store easier, and the boxes don't need to be very tall like a wine box is. My main concern is the figures I really like and would loath opening up later only to find out they'd been affected by the plastic. Thankfully the McFarlane figures from the early 2000s weren't favorites of mine or anything. I just wanted to make sure I'm getting the right ones. Thanks!
Supposedly it's been "leaked" by a few toy reviewer folks on IG that the Maximum Spiderman figure is looking at $72.99 with a May 1st release. May be poppycock, but that price strikes me as beyond absurd, at least to me. $50 didn't seem justified to me, but not out of the realm of possibility for Hasbro to ask for it.
I always braced for the worst, but that would be the high end of my expectations. These accessories, when you think about it, really aren't show stoppers. Nothing that makes you go, "Woah! That's sweet!" They're piddly. And there's a lot of them.
When they sit down and think about what they are going to price an all-new sculpt with a little bit more "piddly" than what is typically offered, and they are considering going with an off-the-wall price like what is mentioned, they must have some data on the buy-at-any-cost crowd, right? They must think there's enough of them to warrant a price so mercenary.
Anyway, I won't get too ahead of myself.
(EDIT: Lat couple of time I post I get a "Word Press Database" error and a bunch of techno gibberish that I don't understand. Are we about to say goodbye again?)
One day I want slide out storage drawers sitting directly underneath my display shelves. The majority of things displayed, with easy access to storage for extra figures + accessories. I'm picturing the drawers they keep miscellaneous screws and bolts in at Lowe's, or fancy museum drawers for artifacts.
I've been wanting something like that for years. I mean you're essentially describing dressers like we all use for clothes, but I want something where each drawer is an independent unit you can pull out with a top.
I've worked out ULine metal shelves with dimensions that fit the plastic boxes I use from Sterilite to achieve that, but I haven't pulled the trigger. I'd prefer that the shelves have sides to hide what's inside because metal shelves with plastic boxes looks like a garage or machine shop, but I can't find that so I haven't bought them yet. Every few months I look at the boxes my kids have strewn around my room and think that I really need to go ahead and buy those shelves, but I'm not 100% in love with the open sides so I never do it and settle for the worse option of having them out in the open and often all over the place. The particular thing I love about the Uline shelves is they can stack up to my 10-foot ceilings if I want them to, and all of the figures I currently own or would ever buy would fit in one corner in my man cave; it just wouldn't look ideal. Something that looks like furniture would be ideal.
In one of the old forums we had a thread about storage, and one of you--probably JTMarsh--suggested a scrapbooking unit that matches what I just described with contained shelving and independent boxes. The one you're using is just too small for my 500 to 1000 figures. Action figure collectors need bigger boxes than scrapbookers need, and I haven't found a larger unit yet. If you curate your collection down to a few hundred figures then those should be perfect, but I like to let it grow so everyone around me thinks I'm halfway down the road to becoming a hoarder. 😜
Such a tangent. I need to re-start the storage thread we had going a few years ago; if anyone has seen one in another Fwoosh forum please do share where it's at. Here's my current storage semi-organized chaos as of this morning:
I always braced for the worst, but that would be the high end of my expectations. These accessories, when you think about it, really aren't show stoppers. Nothing that makes you go, "Woah! That's sweet!" They're piddly. And there's a lot of them.
I'd call all of them piddly except that Spidey sense effect that snaps on top of the head. That's more in the above-average range, but not quite at the "show-stopper" level. I've never seen that before, and it appears to look and function way better than buying a Can of Beams Spidey sense effect and Blu-tacking it to the back of his head. The web effects are a bit disappointing because I can imagine far cooler ones, but I may be overlooking some things about them that I'll realize once we have him. Right now I far prefer those web effects they made a few years ago that slide over a figure's body to make them look webbed up, or the one that fits over a face to make it look like Spidey blinded them.
My one reservation is I'm concerned about how gappy it looks between the effect and the head. We'll see once he's in hand.
I've almost broken a few of those myself mistakenly thinking I had knew which way the hinge was oriented if the ball is well-hidden in the forearm and hand sculpt as we'd all prefer, but I've NEVER had my kids break a Legends figure's wrist.
Sheesh...the Gods heard me say this and decided to smite me for my arrogance. A few hours after I posted this my daughter dropped Ironheart from a height of one foot into the heavily padded Secret Lab gaming chair she was sitting in, and her wrist broke off at the peg. 😯 At first I thought she was lying and she dropped her onto our hardwood floor while standing up, but my son who loves to rat her out confirmed that it was a minor fall. 😆
One day I want slide out storage drawers sitting directly underneath my display shelves. The majority of things displayed, with easy access to storage for extra figures + accessories. I'm picturing the drawers they keep miscellaneous screws and bolts in at Lowe's, or fancy museum drawers for artifacts.
I've been wanting something like that for years. I mean you're essentially describing dressers like we all use for clothes, but I want something where each drawer is an independent unit you can pull out with a top.
I've worked out ULine metal shelves with dimensions that fit the plastic boxes I use from Sterilite to achieve that, but I haven't pulled the trigger. I'd prefer that the shelves have sides to hide what's inside because metal shelves with plastic boxes looks like a garage or machine shop, but I can't find that so I haven't bought them yet. Every few months I look at the boxes my kids have strewn around my room and think that I really need to go ahead and buy those shelves, but I'm not 100% in love with the open sides so I never do it and settle for the worse option of having them out in the open and often all over the place. The particular thing I love about the Uline shelves is they can stack up to my 10-foot ceilings if I want them to, and all of the figures I currently own or would ever buy would fit in one corner in my man cave; it just wouldn't look ideal. Something that looks like furniture would be ideal.
In one of the old forums we had a thread about storage, and one of you--probably JTMarsh--suggested a scrapbooking unit that matches what I just described with contained shelving and independent boxes. The one you're using is just too small for my 500 to 1000 figures. Action figure collectors need bigger boxes than scrapbookers need, and I haven't found a larger unit yet. If you curate your collection down to a few hundred figures then those should be perfect, but I like to let it grow so everyone around me thinks I'm halfway down the road to becoming a hoarder. 😜
Such a tangent. I need to re-start the storage thread we had going a few years ago; if anyone has seen one in another Fwoosh forum please do share where it's at. Here's my current storage semi-organized chaos as of this morning:
I'm down for a new storage thread if you want to move this conversation there.
I also looked into the scrapbooking drawer thing that was suggested, but like you I've got way too much for that to make sense. I currently have a small closet that is basically stacked floor to ceiling with storage boxes. Not ideal as I can't get to anything easily, but I'm trying to be intentional about what I buy/build so that it lasts long term and I don't end up redoing it all in a few years. You described exactly what I'd ideally have, with drawers for figures individually or matching the exact dimensions of the boxes inside. Ultimately I think it's something that will have to be custom built to match the space, which is why I've always imagined doing it as part of a display space as well. Currently I just don't have enough house to be dedicating that much real estate to figures.
@jtmarsh is that the rumored CAD price from several pages back? Looks similar. That would be an absurd price point, if true, but I thought Phoenix at 50 bucks was pretty ridiculous and I think it sold out so what do I know?
$72 would be insane. Those are MAFEX prices.
Supposedly it's been "leaked" by a few toy reviewer folks on IG that the Maximum Spiderman figure is looking at $72.99 with a May 1st release. May be poppycock, but that price strikes me as beyond absurd, at least to me. $50 didn't seem justified to me, but not out of the realm of possibility for Hasbro to ask for it.
This was found in the GameStop Canada system. Price may still be adjusted - it has happened before.
@yojoebro82 "Showstopping" in my mind for $70+ would have to be something like fitted clothes and swappable parts included to literally change the figure from Spidey to Civvies Peter Parker! Buy that's pretty unlikely, unless they charge $100 for it lol.
@jtmarsh is that the rumored CAD price from several pages back? Looks similar. That would be an absurd price point, if true, but I thought Phoenix at 50 bucks was pretty ridiculous and I think it sold out so what do I know?
It's possible it was Canadian, but the stuff I saw didn't specify so I default to believe it's American dollars. However, there's nothing to say it's not in fact Canadian. $50 American is a little bit more reasonable than $72 obviously, but even still, it's mostly accessories. I didn't hear anything revolutionary about the sculpt that made my ears perk up. I know people liked the all new Astonishing Wolverine sculpt but I wasn't that impressed by what was new, and they removed the boot swivel, so I didn't even bother purchasing doubles of him. Even then I wouldn't consider that even a $35 figure.
Increasingly I'm thinking I'll just skip this Spidey as I'm not a big Spiderman guy, and I have at least half a dozen already to fill that slot. I don't own a Hulk, but I think if they made a neon green one styled after the Marvel Super Heroes game, I'd have to buy that one, but that would probably be the only one. I think he was styled after Gary Frank's art.
As for my scrapbooking cases/trays, I tend to favor them because they're stackable and rigid enough not to warp easily. I put a single "layer" of figures in them side by side and that's it. I loathe the idea of rebuying figures I already own because one got messed up, so the only figures I plan to store in baggies are the ones where nothing's thin, flexible, and hanging off the figure. Characters I care about like Wolverine with lots of dangly plastic like his claws and mask, I don't want to warp because they went in a tote and were slowly bent/crushed under the weight of other figures over months/years. It's nitpicky, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Figures like the the Supreme A.I.M. Scientist that I got for $7 on sale, who's basically just a brick of hard plastic, I don't so much care about so he can get bagged and put in a tote.
$73 USD would be absolutely absurd for this and Hasbro would deserve any blowback that they received due to that pricing. I'm still expecting $50 or slightly less. I'm still hoping for under $40. The $73 was surely Canadian.
It was Canadian. Is this thing on?
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