EDIT: Nov. 24, 2008

I got sick of having my cases crowding up my home office so I moved them into the basement. Now they are in line w/ each other and arranged in chronological order. I started w/ figures from '84 in the top left-hand corner and went down year by year, one year for each shelf, then across starting at the top.

In the small display case, I still have Brave Max and the mini-cons, but instead of having the hodge-podge of random figures that I like but don't have a better place to put, on the bottom 2 shelves, I now have my SWTFs.

FYI, I do have 3 plastic storage bins filled w/ rejected figures. I decided to thin out the herd a bit (I know it is hard to tell), and put the lesser figs into storage. I am in need of another case and will probably get one sometime this next spring.

Anyway, w/o further ado:


Case #1 (from the side b/c the chaise lounge is in the way): G1-'84 through Beast Machines


Case #2: Robots in Disguise through Animated


Case #3: Brave Max, Minicons and SWTFs


Let me know what you think of hte new set-up.

Here is the first case, mainly Beast Era TF's, plus my Binaltech/Alternators and some G1. In other words, a little bit o'everything.

Here is my Optimus/Megatron shelf (minus my WST Optimus and Megatron and my MP Op)

nice setup you got there

The Binalterators and G1 shelf.

Grimlock is not floating above Meister, and Tracks didn't suddenly get a lot taller than the others. I had to get some risers for a few of the bots so that not all the Binalteratros were the same height, and so I could see them all.

The case lit up at night.

It is kinda hard to capture exactly how this looks, but I rather like it.

Now on to case #2.

I like this one mainly b/c I can fit Brave Max in it. I think he fits in there pretty well. Surrounding him are a few of the G1 mini-cars, a whole bunch of Minicons, and of course, some WST for scale.

I personally love how all the little ones look compared to Brave Max.

Close up of Brave Max and all his little friends

My complete Jetfire in a semi-custom case that seems to work very well.

EDIT: Common sense has won out and I have moved Jetfire away from the nasty, damaging rays of the sun.

And finally (for now), my Unicron spotlighted all by himself.

This is my favorite picture. I think that big, bad chaos-bringer Unicron looks absolutely awesome in that light.

damn nice lighting on the shelfs! lovely stuff too

nice collection, it's nice how you have the set up in the cabinets.

I love it.

now thats a sweet set up. very adult, with all of the lighting, yet setrile enoungh not to be confused witht the neverland ranch. very cool.

Man your jetfire is getting attacked, putting him next to the window like that will expose him to a ton of UV.

Oh yes, I have thought about that, and now I have actually decided that it is not worth displaying him if it means that he will turn yellow.

I might as well keep him out of sight and protected until I get a more permanent situation, then I can proudly display my nice white, complete Jetfire.

I would leave those blinds shut on that window, even your nice case might be getting some unfriendly UV. It's always best to try and keep any collectible from direct sunlight.

You could angle the box and then put black plastic peices on two sides. So then he would be protected.

i like the pic of fort max with all the micro/mini bots all over the place! it almost looks like fort max is in a hanger and all the mini bots are repairing him.. or gonna deploy fort max onto a planet... er... *this is just my imagination going nuts* good stuff! like the lights inside the storage areas!

Are those custom cases or how much did you get them for?

Nope, both cases came from a store.

I bought the barrister's bookcase at Walmart about 5-6 yrs ago, and I bought the other one from K-mart a few years after that.

The barrister's bookcase I bought for $80 and the stereo cabinet I bought for $70. I have looked at both stores for another cabinet, and unfortunately neither carries anything like that anymore, but I am sure you can find something like that if you look around.

The Brave Max case is actually just a stereo cabinet that I saw and thought would fit Brave Max (it is nice to be right). The shelves around him came w/ the cabinet, which I then just measured and cut to fit him.

Both cases are set up w/ undercabinet lights I got from Walmart. All the lights in both cases and the spotlight are connected w/ extension cords to one main surge protector, so all I have to do is flip one switch on the back of the bookcase and all the lights in both cabinets light up.

on your r.i.d. prime is the ladder on the side, if so how did you do that. mine the ladder is in the middle of his back

If you look right above the lights on Prime's back, you will see another hinge that allows you to rotate the ladder off to the side. It is on the gray section that is right behind Prime's head.

First you have to turn the entire gray section at that hinge so that the ladder is facing toward Prime's right, then turn the ladder itself at its base so that it is turned to the back.

If you need pictures to see what I am talking about PM me and let me know, happy to help out.

Like the cabinets keeps DIRT OUT!

Here is the second batch of pictures. I think these are much better quality.

They include close-ups of the shelves so you can actually see what TFs I have, plus a few requested close-ups of the Brave Max shelf.

Also, the top shelf of the bookcase has been rearranged after I got a brand new, nice BT Ravage in the mail yesterday (now I just have to be patient and wait for my BT Overdrive so I can rearrange again).

FYI, this is not my complete collection unfortunately. I have had to take out some of the weirder, less interesting TFs to make room for the better ones. I have one other small box that has a bunch of the Beast Wars/Machines and a few RID TFs.

Anyway, here are the new pictures.

Enjoy

Some G1, w/ a couple of Binalternators thrown in (Alt Sideswipe, BT Deadeand (which I highly recommend)).

The Primes (minus the MP Prime and G1 Prime, which are above)

The Megs

(minus the G1 Megs, which is also above, plus a not in too good condition G1 Galvatron, which I had to sacrifice for space)

What would be a complete collection of Beast Machines, if I could fit all of them on one shelf (which I have done, but it is really crowded).

(plus of course the Primal Prime, Bulkhead and RID Scourge, which I just really like those three, so they bumped out some of the crappy BM)

The rest of the BMs are currently living in the above mentioned box.

I really like how the RID Scourge's eyes light up

(sorry to hear about Barry Stigler, the voice of RID Scourge, he was a very talented man)

The first half of the Beast Wars TF.

The only character from the show that I am missing is Scorponok, otherwise I have a complete of show characters, plus some of the cooler ones I think.

Oh and for those that notice, I am missing the front part of Rattrap's gun, but that along w/ some other very nice parts are coming from robotmostertoys.com (a very useful site, and no I am not affilitated w/ them in any way).

The other half of the BW TF.

Now on to the good stuff.

Brave Max and the G1 mini-bots, RID Spychangers, many minicons, and most of the WST

A downward shot

There are a bunch of minicons and spychanger stuck on the shelves behind Brave Max, so you can't really see them, but they are there.

The WST minus an Ultra Magnus which I also have coming

Oh and I love this one for the scale (for you Tekyuinajar)

(posting these pictures has really made me want to order a bunch of stuff the last few days. Not sure if that is good or bad, but I know I am having fun)

One big upwards shot for scale.

Man I love how these WST look compared to Brave Max!!!

Top part w/ the minicons

The shelf right below Brave Max

Mainly RID along w/ some Armada and Energon (didn't really like those lines)

G1 Prime's complete trailer is hiding in the back

The bottom shelf of the cabinet

I put the bigger bots here for the most part

There is a Cheetor, Omega Sentinal scrunched down in there, a Cryotech, plus a bunch of the combiners, including an almost complete Devastator (minus the one little waist plate... oh so close to complete)

The barrister's bookcase

The other cabinet along w/ Unicron on top w/ his spotlight,
but minus a complete Jetfire in his own seperate case.

I had it on that window ledge, but due to a couple of comments and finally caving in to common sense, I moved him away from that nasty window

And lastly, the Chaos Bringer, Unicron, all by himself under a spotlight,
where this long awaited masterpiece deserves to be.

That is it, I hope everyone enjoys my collection

God damnit.........thats it, the next book case i get is going to have lights in it. your collection looks ten times better due to the lighting.

The black display case is nice... did you get it at Ikea?

Nope, I actually got it at K-Mart about 3-4 years ago, a little after whenever it was that Brave Max came out.

I was looking for something that would fit him, and I saw this stereo cabinet that looked like it might work, and obviously it did.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything like it anywhere in a while, but I am sure you could find something if you looked.

I really like the cases you have, especially the one for Brave Max! Those minicons look great around him, gives you a great idea of the scale if they were real.

Nice set up you got there, the cases for the tf's arealso great. The WST around FM really show just how big he really is!

You should have a Unicron in bot mode next to himself in planet mode.

Great collection otherwise...

What are the measurements for the black case?

I thought about getting an Energon Unicron to put next to the Armada Uni, but that seems like it would take away from the uniqueness of him.

Also, I don't mind getting repaints, but I try not to get repeats of a character (except for Warpath, love those little tanks).

The approximate measurements are:

47'' H x 20'' W x 15'' D

these are not exact, but they are close enough to give you an idea.

thanks i had to turn that thing like 10x but i got it