New here and I am loving seeing all these collections displayed. Wanted to share some photos of my vintage loose figure display. 37 of these are originals from my childhood and the rest I collected through the 90’s and 00’s. Is my loose collection complete? Never. No blue Snaggletooth, but I’m not ready to shell out that kind of money. And I don’t plan on getting into variations as that seems to be a long road/rabbit hole and might make the display too cluttered, although I’ve seen other displays on here with variations that look great. I also have a few figures with the wrong color weapon and there’s my own attempt in the 90’s at a repro snowtrooper cape and maybe those will be corrected eventually, but overall I’m OK with what I have right now.
I have had these displayed in various cases over the years and always in production order, but recently I thought I’d try something different and organize them by order of first appearance (roughly) and grouped by scene/location. It always bugged me having the POTF grouped together with figures from all three movies and various scenes. So, for now this is what I’ve come up with.
These are wood barrister cases that I acquired years ago. Not perfect, but I’ve tried to make the best of what I had available. The bottom one originally had a solid wood front, but I modified that one and added glass to match the others. I also added the LED lights and had glass shelves cut to fit. I used dental wrought wire to fashion a holder/stand for the C-3PO bag and a stand for the carbonite block. The white background is just poster board. I had thought of using some other nicer material, but I’m holding off on that because I’m not sure I’m 100% OK with the cases.
Ideally, I’d maybe like to have one case with two rows of the SW figures, another case with three rows for ESB and then a third case with four rows for ROTJ and maybe all at roughly eye level along the wall. Although that might make for odd aesthetics going from 2-3-4 row cases on the wall. And thinner cases too as these barrister cases are pretty deep. The figures on the top row of the lower case especially are difficult to see and the front rows don’t get enough light. And I couldn’t move the light more forward as then the doors wouldn’t open properly. I might try to make some custom cases eventually, but not sure if I’m that ambitious.
As far as the labeling goes, I made the custom labels years ago, scanning old card backs to get the logos and some design elements (long before those images were readily available online) and then made a template from there to mimic the packaging labels. That way anyone could quickly see correct names and which ones came from which line. For the background images (I did those recently) I took screenshots of actual images from the movies (Harmy’s De-Specialized Blu-rays). That was kind of fun to try to find iconic images that I thought best represented various scenes. I then added scene names and movie logos. Most of them I had to lighten a bit as they were too dark when I printed them. This will continue to be a work in progress, but it’s at a point now where I felt OK sharing it. Enjoy, and thanks again for sharing all the other collection displays.
I have had these displayed in various cases over the years and always in production order, but recently I thought I’d try something different and organize them by order of first appearance (roughly) and grouped by scene/location. It always bugged me having the POTF grouped together with figures from all three movies and various scenes. So, for now this is what I’ve come up with.
These are wood barrister cases that I acquired years ago. Not perfect, but I’ve tried to make the best of what I had available. The bottom one originally had a solid wood front, but I modified that one and added glass to match the others. I also added the LED lights and had glass shelves cut to fit. I used dental wrought wire to fashion a holder/stand for the C-3PO bag and a stand for the carbonite block. The white background is just poster board. I had thought of using some other nicer material, but I’m holding off on that because I’m not sure I’m 100% OK with the cases.
Ideally, I’d maybe like to have one case with two rows of the SW figures, another case with three rows for ESB and then a third case with four rows for ROTJ and maybe all at roughly eye level along the wall. Although that might make for odd aesthetics going from 2-3-4 row cases on the wall. And thinner cases too as these barrister cases are pretty deep. The figures on the top row of the lower case especially are difficult to see and the front rows don’t get enough light. And I couldn’t move the light more forward as then the doors wouldn’t open properly. I might try to make some custom cases eventually, but not sure if I’m that ambitious.
As far as the labeling goes, I made the custom labels years ago, scanning old card backs to get the logos and some design elements (long before those images were readily available online) and then made a template from there to mimic the packaging labels. That way anyone could quickly see correct names and which ones came from which line. For the background images (I did those recently) I took screenshots of actual images from the movies (Harmy’s De-Specialized Blu-rays). That was kind of fun to try to find iconic images that I thought best represented various scenes. I then added scene names and movie logos. Most of them I had to lighten a bit as they were too dark when I printed them. This will continue to be a work in progress, but it’s at a point now where I felt OK sharing it. Enjoy, and thanks again for sharing all the other collection displays.
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