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masterminicon
I've noticed that some people put their collection in different places.

But I've been wondering, how many of us will admit where we keep them.

I'll start.

Mine are all over my room. On top of my dresser, my boudior, my nightstand, my bookshelf, and my closet. But when I post pics, I'm going to put them all on the dining room table for easier pictures. But to make sure they don't collect dust, I play with them in intervals, just to keep them moving. It's all awsome. There are some that I haven't even taken out of their box for fear that my sister will get ahold of them.
Hot Rod
mine are in a large cabinet in my living room, they used to be in my bedroom closet, but my fiancee said she wanted her shoe space back redface2tf.gif so we bought a couple of cabinets.
masterminicon
Lately I've been thinking about moving mine to a slightly safer location. I'm thinking of asking my parents to get me a shelf exclusively for use for my collection. If they see it as a way to get me to clear up some space in my room, they might. And then I might put it in either the basement, or somewhere else.
Thad_theImpaler
Originally I had them wherever I had the room.... but then I got married, so I had to relegate the collection to the upstairs loft... still more than enough room, just not enough shelving. Still, I liked having Fort Max & Countdown taking up the dining room table making a larger Autobot City...
Transfotaku
Mine's in my bedroom closet. With the right drawers, boxes and shelving, a few feet of closet space can hold over 600 of those suckers. Even Maximus fits. Course, no Cybertron City made out of the cityformers, but such is life. icon_wink.gif

Though my Armada Unicron and 20th Prime are duking it out on the top shelf of my office bookcase.
Squelchthedestron
My minibots are on one shelf, currently numbering 69, all in vehicle mode.

My SCFs, KO Doubledealer and KO MP Convoy are on another shelf alongside a vase from 1968 emblazoned with a picture of Chairman Mao and Lin Biao (got that at the flea market in Quanzhou).

On the third TF shelf are all the other KOs I've got.

Thundercracker, MC Axis Arcee kit, all my minibot backing cards (I open all the minibots I get MOSC, even if rare - for how else can I take the thing apart and look at the stampings inside?) and the few other non-minibot items I haven't sold off, are in a box at my dad's back in Canada.
Big Pimpin Spending Cheese
In a box rumblecry.gif cuz we moving thumbsup1.gif
Wikkid
I've renovated my entire basement and turned it into a "Guys Room". I keep the theater system and guitars and stuff there also. My transformers collection is along a shelf built into the wall high up close to the roof. There's alot of space to be filling.
SolFire
Mine abide in the entertainment room (TV room, whatevah). TV center with TF's all around.
Taz-bot
My TF collection is everywhere in my room. My closet, on a shelf, on some tables, on my TV, and in my computer room.
masterminicon
QUOTE (mBigWebb @ Dec 17 2004, 08:27 PM)
In a box rumblecry.gif cuz we moving thumbsup1.gif

BE CAREFUL DUDE. thumbsup1.gif

And hope you like your new home. thumbsup1.gif
Hotspot17
All mines are either in their original boxes stored away in giant tubberware. I have a couple of energon and alternators out on my desk. I would like to keep them all out but I just hate when they get dusty. I would like to set up a display case for all of them but the dust and discoloring factors.

Anybody got any good suggestions to these problems?
Heat Guy
My collection is on my dresser, the ones I like anyways...
siburke939
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

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She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

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Squelchthedestron
Eventually I'll build climate-controlled display cases...which light affects plastic least? Incandescent, Fluorescent or Halogen?
Banquodrice
I try to keep it all together on a couple of sets of shelves, but it's spilled over onto a chest of drawers and my Brave Max has to sit on another chest facing my bed. God knows where I'm gonna put the ones I get for xmas! I'm also moving soon and am not lookin forward to transporting them all.
masterminicon
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Dec 18 2004, 07:00 PM)
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

ragindemon.gif

She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

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Have them blow Betty Boop to Cybertron and back. TFs outrule BB anyday, and in any form at that. BB is just a freaking cartoon slut as far as I see her. She's drawn in that manner anyhow. So like I said, have them draw out their guns, and let her have it. Spare the missus though.
Sangron
15 by 15 storage then bought a new house so they are in the garage right now. Hopefully into one of the bedrooms after christmas.
SGC Gaiares
Mine are in a closet but i will use a full room for them when i'm finished moving.
Galzamus
Here's the run down.. when my TF empire was in its prime before I left for school.. I had my closet doors removed.. my built in bookshelf was taken over by Beast Wars.. then Armada came out, and they took over a good poriton of freespace on my computer desk. G1 Reissues as well.. then I moved.. all of them got boxed away.. currently, I've got my recent additions hiding out on the top of my closet shelf in my new apartment.. nothin big.. can't wait to get my stuff altogether again so I can finally post some halfway decent pics of my stuff in all of it's splender..
( . Y . )
Rubbermaid tub, like they have been for the past 15 years. Boxes for others, since I ran out of tub space awhile back. I keep all I can displayed, but college students don't come by permanent displays for everything that easily.
Rawhide
Unfortunately, I don't have the shelf space to display all of my 320 TF's. (Unfortunately, cos I think I have be a lot richer if I was to buy a house that's large enough grimlocklaugh.gif )


Some TF's (about 20 G-1) are stored in a box at the attic of my mother's house. They will in time be transported to my own place.

In my own house I have almost all of my G-1 likewise in a box on my attic. Also in a box on my attic are those TF's I bought for repaint/kitbash purpose -- until the time is there.

New TF's get a short display time (a few days) in my living room, before moving on. Other TF's, like the Alternators/Binaltech & MP Prime/Convoy, along with other 'special' TF's (pre-TF, Unicron, a bunch of Primal's, RiD Scourge) are displayed proudly on my bookshelves -- Brave Max doesn't fit, so he's moving around depending on the need for space. They are my "best-of".

Since I live alone in a three-room house (four, counting the attic, which is actually a room), I've designated one room my "hobby/work-room" (initially work, now hobby). Here I display most of my TF. Proudly displayed are my BW line (BW, a single BWneo and the BM Dinobots) and the TF's that I've gathered in my own line (Renewed War). In total over 70 TF.

Lack of shelf space has currently lead some TF's to be temporarily redirected to my bedroom, where they will remain for now.

Basically, every room has TF's in them.

(As soon as I have digital camera -- I've been considering buying one for the last 10 months -- I'll get some pics and post them: could very well be another ten months bumblebeetounge.gif)
Starscream the great
mine are on shelfs at the moment cept for my transformables (not actual tfs) and bt tracks with stand with infront of my tv which also has a pic of my friends which they got me for my bday as well as the transformables but i brought BT tracks
masterminicon
QUOTE (Galzamus Primeblade @ Dec 22 2004, 05:15 AM)
Here's the run down.. when my TF empire was in its prime before I left for school.. I had my closet doors removed.. my built in bookshelf was taken over by Beast Wars.. then Armada came out, and they took over a good poriton of freespace on my computer desk. G1 Reissues as well.. then I moved.. all of them got boxed away.. currently, I've got my recent additions hiding out on the top of my closet shelf in my new apartment.. nothin big.. can't wait to get my stuff altogether again so I can finally post some halfway decent pics of my stuff in all of it's splender..

We'll keep an eye out for it.

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Rodimus VTS
As my collection is not very large at this time they are all on my dresserin a small 1 shelf cabinet that a school was going to discard so my mom brought it home and gave to me. Right now I have MP Optimus Prime, Smokescreen, Sideswipe, Silverstreak, Hound, Tracks, Deadend, andJazz(Miester) all Alternators of course. Then there`s G1 Rodimus, mini Optimus, Ultra Magnus, Scurge, and X-Brawn. My KO Devastator is in a box with my Power master Optimus Prime from G1 original version not TrU rerelease. Then there`s my Alternators Kitbashes of Bumble bee, Prowl, Warpath, and Rodimus Prime which I have displayed with the rest of my Alternators.
Tripredacus
I keep mine in tupperware totes at the moment. I don't really have enough space to display them. I think I might just put the Cars up on the shelf but I am not sure.
Reflector
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Mine are kept in tubs. The tubs are inside a closet. But, Im about to move them to storage. thumbsdown.gif I dont have anymore room.
Path
My entire MISB/MOSC Armada collection is boxed away in my attic. My loose figs on the other hand, G1, Armada doubles, Energon, Alts are currently occuping my shelves above my bed.
Fortress_Maximus
Most in boxes and a few on the bookshelves, too few to even photograph. biggrintf.gif
slippy
small bookshelf on my dresser next to my desk in my room
nothing fancy
masterminicon
I think I'm going to have to move mine, witht the new Cybertron series coming out, I'm gonna run out of room pretty fast. optimuslaugh2.gif
Soundwave.ca
Well my collection is scattered over 3 provinces however the bulk of my collection is still at my parents house back in Calgary. I also have quite a number of them stored at my grandparents cottage in Ontario and I keep some TF's with me wile I am at university in Quebec. Its a long story why I have some stored at my grandparents cottage in Ontario, wile I'm not in school I stay with them at thier place in Toronto as I have a job there so again my collection is scattered all over, but for the most part there stored in rubbermade containers both at my parents place and my grandparents.
autobot1081
Well I keep my Robots in Disguise collection on a shelf above my bed. The rest is in boxes that are in my garage. I have about 9 boexes in the garage and its starting to give my parents headache huffermad.gif but they have to stay there until I am able to buy a house then I will want to make a geek room. With all of my Transformers and my fiancee's Star Wars collection but I have wayy more stuff then she does. optimuslaugh2.gif
Hip-Hoptimus Rime
Well, we just bought a house (yay!), and my collection of almost 350 figs will eventually be on shelves in the finished basement. I used to have them on 4 standing plastic shelves, but I'll probably go with wall-mounted adjustable steel shelves, so I can change the heights around whenever I want to, and so I can keep them well off the floor, as we have a little man coming in Sept. (No not Vern Troyer.)
Cyberscream
My room IS my collection pretty much. optimuslaugh2.gif In other words I just keep all of my collection displayed around my room.
siburke939
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Dec 18 2004, 10:12 PM) *
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

:demon

She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

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update: bought a 3 bedroom house with the missus & i've got my own TF room now clap3.gif
Big Pimpin Spending Cheese
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Aug 30 2008, 05:25 AM) *
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Dec 18 2004, 10:12 PM) *
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

:demon

She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

clap.gif


update: bought a 3 bedroom house with the missus & i've got my own TF room now clap3.gif

I miss my TF room. Now I'm in the basement. post-25-1112148662.gif
JustLOKIPLVY
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Basements aren't so bad.

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Best of luck with a new TF room. thumbsup1.gif
siburke939
QUOTE (Big Pimpin Spending Cheese @ Aug 31 2008, 10:24 PM) *
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Aug 30 2008, 05:25 AM) *
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Dec 18 2004, 10:12 PM) *
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

:demon

She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

clap.gif


update: bought a 3 bedroom house with the missus & i've got my own TF room now clap3.gif

I miss my TF room. Now I'm in the basement. post-25-1112148662.gif

just your TF's or you too?
Big Pimpin Spending Cheese
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Aug 31 2008, 05:49 PM) *
QUOTE (Big Pimpin Spending Cheese @ Aug 31 2008, 10:24 PM) *
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Aug 30 2008, 05:25 AM) *
QUOTE (siburke939 @ Dec 18 2004, 10:12 PM) *
I'm battling with the missus for shelf space in our room. Transformers Vs Betty Boop!

:demon

She does allow my Alts on the window ledge though.

clap.gif


update: bought a 3 bedroom house with the missus & i've got my own TF room now clap3.gif

I miss my TF room. Now I'm in the basement. post-25-1112148662.gif

just your TF's or you too?


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just the TFs
We were renting a 4 bedrooms house & thats when I had my own room the wife had her office & the boy had his own room.
http://forums.TFormers.com/talk/index.php?...t&p=1054038
Well the wife's mom wanted to move to CA so she said we could have the house. It just needs some work. It's a 3 bedroom & they are small. If I can get the basement finished I'll be cool. I have a air purifier & a dehumidifier down there so it doesn't smell or gets to dusty to fast.
siburke939
QUOTE (Big Pimpin Spending Cheese @ Sep 13 2008, 07:12 PM) *
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just the TFs
We were renting a 4 bedrooms house & thats when I had my own room the wife had her office & the boy had his own room.
http://forums.TFormers.com/talk/index.php?...t&p=1054038
Well the wife's mom wanted to move to CA so she said we could have the house. It just needs some work. It's a 3 bedroom & they are small. If I can get the basement finished I'll be cool. I have a air purifier & a dehumidifier down there so it doesn't smell or gets to dusty to fast.


i thought you'd been relegated to the basement ! brawnlaugh.gif



i wish i had a basement - i know i'll be losing the TF room when the missus starts spitting out sprogs icon_sad.gif
xhairs
i have a toy room that has my joes & TF displayed.
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