One of the down sides to amassing a large collection of toys as most of you know is space. Late last year I gave up my man cave downstairs in our home in order to help my wife's in home business. I consolidated all of those items/furniture along with my toy collection into the 2nd largest room in the house. When I started to move everything I thought this would be perfect. I'd have more room to display my toy collection and more storage space. And then came the part where I actually started moving everything. I took more and more of my Transformers out of their boxes to display. I only keep the foreign packaging these days, but in my old set up I had worked in a lot of the vintage Japanese G1 boxes into my set up. I didn't have that luxury any longer so off to the closet they went. This is where I ran into trouble.
The closet is actually pretty big, but you can't tell from this picture! In addition to all of the boxes there is also a full size book shelf that I worked in as well as my CD rack and several spill over comic boxes. I don't have it in me to toss these boxes out or to even break them down so they'd be more compact.
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| Top shelf, left - my Optimus Prime / Convoy collection |
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| U.S. & Japanese G1 Transformers |
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| Stacked and packed! |
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| Top shelf, right - mostly Japanese G1 Destron boxes (including Darkwings giftset, Dinoforce, Breastforce & Beastformers) |
I have really enjoyed blogging about toys since I started this blog a few years ago, but even more so recently. That said I've got some great things in store for this year, but don't expect to see a lot of the vintage packaging. I'm not about to go in the closet and tear it apart just to grab one box. I hate that I may have to use stock images in future reviews, but as you can see I've had to work each box in this closet as it were a Tetris piece!
