What's worthy of display?

[Omegatron]

So like a lot of people I have way more Transformers than I have space to display them all. I also have a wife so the "take over a room and fill it with toys and nothing else" approach does not work.

What this means is that I have my favorites on display (in my case G1 and Masterpiece) and I try to bring out a few other lines or specific figures from time to time.

What I want to know is:

1) How do you decide what's on display and what's not?
2) How often do you change your displays?
3) Do any of you have a temporary display space where you change what's on display on a regular basis and do you find that helpful?

Thanks!

[Supernova]

A few years ago, we had a large entertainment unit in our rec room, and I had the one small displace cubby that I could put a few figures in. I just rotated stuff in and out of there whenever I felt like it. I'd go from the FP/ROTF Combaticons (the space was too short for Bruticus), or I'd have Classics Prime and a couple of the '84 deluxes, or even Powermaster Prime and G1 Megatron with the big ol' scope emplacement set up. It was fun to just have that little taste of my hobby that I could cycle through when the mood struck me.

Now that the unit is gone (it was huge and not a great use of space in our small place), I just have a small shelf that I can stand a couple of figures up in my "workshop". It's less fun, and definitely less visible but I still do more or less the same thing. Right now, I have Uni 2.0 Prowl flanked by Leader Magnus and CW Defensor in a "Law and Order" theme.

The nice thing about either setup is that it gives me a chance to appreciate small bites of my collection, instead of a larger display that may end up being more static.

[Rodimus Prime1]

my new motto is If I can't display it, it goes. Otherwise I wouldn't stop buying

Whats the point of storing it away? (IMO)as I know some don't like to sell (hoarders ) may as well keep the money in the bank


I do like your #3 idea though.

[Sun Swipe Prime]

Everything gets displayed. I live in a house made of MISB transformers. Never been touched... I mean the toys. Not me. I've been touched lots. In fact I touched mysel... Err never mind. Please don't judge me.


But seriously, I display my favourites and I rotate stuff out when I change up my displays. I find that bringing stuff out of storage feels almost like buying new toys. You get to rediscover all the cool stuff about them.

[jjwankenobi]

I only display the stuff I want to see that makes me happy.

Sounds elementary, but who is the display for in the end?

Me.

So Hasbro MP-10 versus Apollyon makes me giddy? Displayed.

Bayverse Jetwing Optimus versus Leader Class HFTD Starscream? Made me indifferent, so sold.

I believe "worthy" is subjective.

[Darth Cylon]

I am so jealous of someone who has a wife for display.

[CAF]

I display my Masterpiece and some NECA stuff in glass cabinets. I have random stuff that floats around the house. My coffee table has different transformers on it at any given time because they beat a rubiks cube anyday. All my pull string lights have a resident Spider-Man hanging from them.
But the workshop downstairs... ohhh the work area. What a glorious mess

[predahank]

for me g1s, mp, 3p. Things get rotated once they fall out of favour.
But to answer the thread question, display what makes you happy be it a dollar store transformer or an afa graded sealed fort max

[QuadESL63]

I display whatever I like in a spare room and it comes down to a few reasons such as rarity, sentimental values, aestheticity, etc. And for some of the TFs that have different adaptations/incarnations I grouped them together, e.g. I have a display of all the Grimlocks in my collection. I seldomly rotated stuffs around, and I usually did it after I got something new and I need the space.

I was a hoarder but I have tried to get rid of my stuffs for the last couple of years mostly @ TFCons, etc. It is a hard thing to do but I can't keep all the stuffs forever.

[Rev]

MP and a few large G1 right now. I'd like to get all my G1 out but it feels cluttered.

Older pic.