Because I do, and in the living room at that!
Side note: Jav, you know about COPPA, the FCC, and YouTube? Since you "play with toys," you need to know how that affects your channel.
They're on display all over the house. I only wish I had more shelves...quite a few are still in boxes due to lack of space.
Appleseed said:Side note: Jav, you know about COPPA, the FCC, and YouTube? Since you "play with toys," you need to know how that affects your channel.
Yeah, it's kind or a no man's land right now. My whole channel is set to "Not for kids" since it's playing with real cars and the miniatures are "adult collectibles", but I also don't have any violating content on my channel. I have to be super careful about not breaking that though, because as you pointed out my whole schtick is playing with toys basically. I've had to do numerous things from YouTube to stay online.
slowbird said:They're on display all over the house. I only wish I had more shelves...quite a few are still in boxes due to lack of space.
Me, too. I love my IKEA display case, but it sucks for cars in general. I wish they made a light-up knick-knack shelf thing that would be suitable for die-casts.
semi-related: some of the ornaments on my christmas tree are cars I bought just for the purpose:
When I get a new house, I intend to have a room dedicated to nothing but Legos; currently I have them all over my office, but I have several things (like my Lego trains) that I can't setup just because they'd be in the way.
I have several of my die-cast cars on display too (mostly Mercedes, go figure), but have plenty more I'd love to bring out.
Growing up in Germany in a small rural village, farming was big, and so was our desire to be farmers and drive tractors; SIKU makes excellent die-cast tractors and other farm implements that I'd love to put out on display again too.
I've been trying to find a way to display my son's Millennium Falcon Lego in his room, it's just so large I have no idea how to. It's the big one 7500+ peices and nearly 3 feet long.
I used to have my Hot Wheels and other models sitting out where I could see them and occasionally zoom them around, but them I got a couple of nephews. Now we have "their" Hot Wheels and "Uncle Keith's" Hot Wheels, and the latter are not where they can cause temptation.
I have some of the more interesting/recent Lego sets I have on 'display' in what we usually refer to as my office- though my computer has been sitting on the end of the dining room table we don't use for the last 3 months or so. Some of the smaller things, like the BTTF DeLorean set, are in what remains of my IKEA display cases (used to have a LARGE anime figure collection- have trimmed that down a lot, and would have done so more but I'm lazy and don't have the time to list things to sell). The two BIG sets- the Space Shuttle and Saturn V- are respectively on top of a display case and sitting on top of one of my bookshelves.
I have a lego Mini and Caterham on a shelf in my office.
My dining room has become the Car Room, the living room is becoming the Star Wars room. Pics at 11...
I display my Gundam models, which is arguably way nerdier. I've got like 6 or 7 of them.
Oh right, another good place for Hot Wheels is across the top of your computer monitor, if it's flat enough. I just have some loops of clear tape under them to hold them down.
NickD said:I display my Gundam models, which is arguably way nerdier. I've got like 6 or 7 of them.
I have one of those!
Javelin said:NickD said:I display my Gundam models, which is arguably way nerdier. I've got like 6 or 7 of them.
I have one of those!
I have a bunch. Mostly 1/100 scale Master Grades (Destiny Gundam, Aile Strike Gundam, Buster Gundam, Gundam Dynames, Gundam 00 Raiser, Gundam 00 Quanta, RX-0 Gundam 01 Unicorn, with a Barbatos preordered) as well as a High-Grade 1/144 A-Z Gundam (Amazon Japan exclusive!) and a Real Grade 1/144 Red Frame Astray
In reply to slowbird :
I have one each of the different types of Hot Wheels DMC-12's sitting on the shelf of my sit/stand desk here at work- they're also held in place with loops of clear tape. I'd take a picture of them, but I'm not allowed to in the office.
Also I have like half a dozen Lego helicopters sitting on top of my cubicle's upper storage bins (I work for a helicopter company). Technically I'm in violation of the company's policy regarding clean desks that states you can't have anything on top of the bins, but a) I'm located remotely in a contractor's office where nobody ever checks me for compliance on things like that anyway and b) I've yet to have a higher-up from the company visit the office and not have a huge grin when they see them and comment favorably on them...
In reply to NickD :
I never got into Gunpla, but at one point had a pretty ridiculous Nendoroid collection. eastsideTim and I however have a friend from college that, at least at one point, had a collection of figures and Gunpla that was both epic and frightening. His old apartment had shelves EVERYWHERE that were covered with them, with boxes of ones he'd not put together or found space for piled on the guest bed (when I crashed at his place once on my way through there I had to sleep on the couch...). We're talking like over a THOUSAND total. I've not been by his place in like a decade though so don't know if it's gotten better or worse since...
I do at work. Unfortunately we are going to be moving offices in 18 months or so and will loose most of my display space.
They’re “displayed” in the basement in my old carrying cases from the late 60’s and early 70’s. That and cardboard boxes with layers of cardboard between them.
I haven’t had a corporate office job since ‘98 excluding a short stint in 2010. I could never fill my cube with my personal stuff.
In reply to Ashyukun (Robert) :
Yeah, I'm not that bad. I only buy them one at a time and build them as soon as I get them. I also don't buy them for the sake of buying them all, I only buy the kits that I really like, hence why mine are largely restricted to kits from the Gundam SEED series and Gundam 00 series.
In reply to NickD :
Yeah, he went WAY overboard, I've not seen his place in like a decade to know if he's pared it down or gotten even more. I had like 4 IKEA display cases full of figures at one point, now that's down to about 1.5 cases of just my favorite ones in a corner of my office/cat's room. We had a couple of friends in college that were REALLY into Gunpla, though the other one was not into quantity but was really into painting and detailing them as realistically as possible. Unfortunately I've not heard from him in even longer since his wife decided that all of his friends from college were 'toxic' and forced him to cut ties with us on threat of leaving him...
In reply to Javelin :
I need to find/make a wall shelf like that without dividers so I can cram as many cars inside. Does it have a front cover? Cars gather a lot of dust.
Opened Hot Wheels are in a shoe box and I swap them out for the desk every now and then. New acquisitions stay in the package and pinned to a cork board so they're on display and easy to dust. 1/43 scale cars stay in their display boxes, also going to make a covered a shelf for them.
Since Gunpla was mentioned, I also have a few and keep them on a shelf in the dining room. Living room is car themed, dining room is movies and TV so I've got posters and other models there. Conversations can turn easily towards that field there.
In reply to NickD :
Can we see them? I know next to nothing about gunpla besides that I love the models. I have one built and one unbuilt. I don't even know what series they are from. I'll grab pics tonight.
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