Your display, the Funko way!

[chincoteague1]

Congratulations Exodus 989. All of your displays are fantastic.

[FunkoMeansFun]

My Mortal Kombat set display - definitely need more releases of these guys!

The middle character is my favorite .

[CaliCollectibles]

My Mortal Kombat set display - definitely need more releases of these guys!

That Goro looks great OOB! Set looks great, nicely done.

[CaliCollectibles]

My Overwatch display so far - minus a couple recent additions

This makes me want to collect this set.. must.. resist..

[PhoenixForce]

My Series 1-2-3 Disney (Missing Mike, Zurg, Peter Pan), Christmas & Simpsons




Rock & Movies


Starwars


Halo & Cerial crew


DC Universe


Marvel (Missing Loki)


These are my Chase & SDCC's


Some Random Funko's My gf picked up for me


Thanks for looking

VERY COOL

[Gooker1]

My Mortal Kombat set display - definitely need more releases of these guys!

The middle character is my favorite .

Those are definitely nice! I still dislike Goro b/c he was hard as hell in the arcade for me.

[Kiners_funatic]

Spoiler: show

Just keep in mind too that in addition to trying to come up with creative display options, another alternative is rotating the Pops! on display in your collection. Obviously with that option, not all Pops! (etc.) are on display and readily visible at the same time; but it does allow one to have a dynamic and expanded collection in spite of space restrictions. Like many funatics, I absolutely love collecting, but we all know that people with space limitations (or for whatever reason) have collected Pops!/Funko products and been able to let go of parts of their collections when necessary to raise funds in times of need. So I say even if you can't display all the items in your collection (who can, frankly) keep collecting, store until you get an idea of what you want to do, rotate if you can, and liquidate parts when you need to.

Now with all that having been said, I do have at least one space-optimizing display consideration to offer. Like many of you, my collection only continues to get bigger, and I too have been considering different ways to show pieces of my collection. Below are some follow-up pics for one of my "display rooms":





Although the space is coming along nicely, it's not very big and I've still got a bit of work left before it is completed. One will notice that all my Bestas to the right do not have doors on them...and some of the items in those slots will need to be moved around for optimal display and effect. All of this (of course) can get quite expensive, but the end result (I think) warrants the time, money, frustration, patience that many of us put in. And of course, all this while trying to stay on top of ongoing Pop/Funko offerings...to say the least, we have to pace ourselves and go after what is most important to us at any given time.

The big area of interest (and my suggestion) is on the left part of the room:





Anything at all can function as a "display box". Part of the left wall contains jewelry boxes that I found on sale at Target (the white boxes with Funko Spidermen and Black Widow in them). These actually were kind of expensive (because they came in sets of 3 different boxes, and I only needed one from each set (so that's pretty expensive and inefficient); but them being on sale made it easier for me to swallow; I just found uses for the other boxes that I had left over from the sets. The point is that if you can find something similar and that is relatively inexpensive, even jewelry boxes (or whatever) with big enough slots could serve as Funko Pop! or displays for whatever. I think these look pretty nice. I went ahead with them in part because I felt that if one considers the time/effort/finances/know-how that would be involved in making something similar, I didn't think I would be saving much (if anything).

Hopefully, this suggestion might prove useful to you or others. Other than flush niches, I can't imagine anything more space-conserving than something like this, and I think this would work well for any size room...and even small slots. You could create displays at virtually any height.

Of course, I know that some items might not fit into a "jewelry box", so then you have to get a little versatile and creative. The Venompool arrangement that I have on that wall, for instance, is too big and wide for one of those jewelry box openings; so I simply got an old shadow box I had laying around, painted it black, and put together a Deadpool-Venom/Venompool set-up. Originally (by the way), I was going to hang a bunch of jewelry boxes together in columns rows (I might still do this elsewhere)--but I decided against it here and went with mixing up the display items instead. The bottom line is that these and other pics and suggestions throughout this thread will hopefully help those interested in using what works best for them, and coming up with their own display ideas that they might share with the rest of us. Believe me, we're all looking for new and different creative ways to display these ever-larger growing collections that we feel reflects who we are, our preferences, and experiences.

(Oops--I forgot to post a more close-up pic of the Venompool shadowbox when I 1st posted; here it is now):


For me, this is another part of the real fun of collecting Funko products--figuring out how to display my collection. Cost restrictions are not always bad; they force us to come up with new, creative and innovative, and practical ideas. And then once things are done, sharing and conversing with others about yours and their collections is a wonderful social outlet. I think that was "Carol" (hope I'm right) in the "Making Fun" video that said something to the effect that this hobby "makes me happy". I know that's how I feel. So I keep collecting. I'll figure out the displays eventually.

I hope something in here helps you with your future display considerations, Tonchap...and maybe others too. I think you could get a good number of jewelry box-like depth displays in that 20x20 space you mentioned. At any rate, keep having fun, my friend. Happy collecting everyone!

[donofoblivion]

Spoiler: show

Just keep in mind too that in addition to trying to come up with creative display options, another alternative is rotating the Pops! on display in your collection. Obviously with that option, not all Pops! (etc.) are on display and readily visible at the same time; but it does allow one to have a dynamic and expanded collection in spite of space restrictions. Like many funatics, I absolutely love collecting, but we all know that people with space limitations (or for whatever reason) have collected Pops!/Funko products and been able to let go of parts of their collections when necessary to raise funds in times of need. So I say even if you can't display all the items in your collection (who can, frankly) keep collecting, store until you get an idea of what you want to do, rotate if you can, and liquidate parts when you need to.

Now with all that having been said, I do have at least one space-optimizing display consideration to offer. Like many of you, my collection only continues to get bigger, and I too have been considering different ways to show pieces of my collection. Below are some follow-up pics for one of my "display rooms":





Although the space is coming along nicely, it's not very big and I've still got a bit of work left before it is completed. One will notice that all my Bestas to the right do not have doors on them...and some of the items in those slots will need to be moved around for optimal display and effect. All of this (of course) can get quite expensive, but the end result (I think) warrants the time, money, frustration, patience that many of us put in. And of course, all this while trying to stay on top of ongoing Pop/Funko offerings...to say the least, we have to pace ourselves and go after what is most important to us at any given time.

The big area of interest (and my suggestion) is on the left part of the room:





Anything at all can function as a "display box". Part of the left wall contains jewelry boxes that I found on sale at Target (the white boxes with Funko Spidermen and Black Widow in them). These actually were kind of expensive (because they came in sets of 3 different boxes, and I only needed one from each set (so that's pretty expensive and inefficient); but them being on sale made it easier for me to swallow; I just found uses for the other boxes that I had left over from the sets. The point is that if you can find something similar and that is relatively inexpensive, even jewelry boxes (or whatever) with big enough slots could serve as Funko Pop! or displays for whatever. I think these look pretty nice. I went ahead with them in part because I felt that if one considers the time/effort/finances/know-how that would be involved in making something similar, I didn't think I would be saving much (if anything).

Hopefully, this suggestion might prove useful to you or others. Other than flush niches, I can't imagine anything more space-conserving than something like this, and I think this would work well for any size room...and even small slots. You could create displays at virtually any height.

Of course, I know that some items might not fit into a "jewelry box", so then you have to get a little versatile and creative. The Venompool arrangement that I have on that wall, for instance, is too big and wide for one of those jewelry box openings; so I simply got an old shadow box I had laying around, painted it black, and put together a Deadpool-Venom/Venompool set-up. Originally (by the way), I was going to hang a bunch of jewelry boxes together in columns rows (I might still do this elsewhere)--but I decided against it here and went with mixing up the display items instead. The bottom line is that these and other pics and suggestions throughout this thread will hopefully help those interested in using what works best for them, and coming up with their own display ideas that they might share with the rest of us. Believe me, we're all looking for new and different creative ways to display these ever-larger growing collections that we feel reflects who we are, our preferences, and experiences.

(Oops--I forgot to post a more close-up pic of the Venompool shadowbox when I 1st posted; here it is now):


For me, this is another part of the real fun of collecting Funko products--figuring out how to display my collection. Cost restrictions are not always bad; they force us to come up with new, creative and innovative, and practical ideas. And then once things are done, sharing and conversing with others about yours and their collections is a wonderful social outlet. I think that was "Carol" (hope I'm right) in the "Making Fun" video that said something to the effect that this hobby "makes me happy". I know that's how I feel. So I keep collecting. I'll figure out the displays eventually.

I hope something in here helps you with your future display considerations, Tonchap...and maybe others too. I think you could get a good number of jewelry box-like depth displays in that 20x20 space you mentioned. At any rate, keep having fun, my friend. Happy collecting everyone!

Amazing collection and thank you for sharing your tips! The more I collect the less space I have for display and I was thinking what to do especially for clean look. I do move around pops, but I didn't think about rotation system...! But my question is, where do you keep the rest of your pop collection? I'd love to see your pop/collection storage if it's possible

LOL--funny you should mention that . I'm cleaning, putting up displays, and storing away boxes and Pops! even as we speak (or write, actually). I use different "systems" for display and storage in attempt to optimize them both. I think someone in the "Spring Cleaning" thread mentioned flattening boxes or stacking them inside themselves (I use these mainly with putting away some shipping and storage boxes that I want to keep, but certainly some OOB Pop! collectors have described flattening their Pop! boxes and storing the inserts separately--which could be good for condensing them into a space or transporting but seems like it would be a headache to keep up with which inserts go where; I'm sure that they must label them). Me personally, other than for traveling I prefer to keep everything intact; so what is important to me (generally speaking) is lightening the loads that I put away as much as possible. This means getting as many things on display as I can. That's where I really try to innovate.

I do have a climate-controlled, leased storage unit (which I would need anyway for my kids' college stuff), and this helps a lot. But even here, my biggest storage problem has to do with the size of some of the boxes for the sculptures I collect as well (some are really big). That actually is my biggest storage issue. I will post some additional pics showing some display and storage ideas and strategies I am currently working on. These won't be finished, but it'll be good to get some other opinions, and maybe some of what I'm doing will help some funatics with ideas.

I appreciate your comment(s).

[YamiJV]

I need to find a way to display my stuff. Kinda hard

[Lobstercrossing]

My Mortal Kombat set display - definitely need more releases of these guys!

The middle character is my favorite .

Those are definitely nice! I still dislike Goro b/c he was hard as hell in the arcade for me.

Goro, Kintaro, Motaro.. choose your destiny

[FunkoMeansFun]

My Series 1-2-3 Disney (Missing Mike, Zurg, Peter Pan), Christmas & Simpsons




Rock & Movies


Starwars


Halo & Cerial crew


DC Universe


Marvel (Missing Loki)


These are my Chase & SDCC's


Some Random Funko's My gf picked up for me


Thanks for looking

Wow, what a nice display. Good job! .

[thejosh2010]

Wowza, some great looking displays!!

[Theshowman619]

here is my collection. this years funko funkdays will mark my 2 year anniversary of collecting. i collect numbered pops, pop rides, numbered dorbz, and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered, dont have it, i want it

[Theshowman619]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

[Gooker1]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

That's a clean looking setup!

[Theshowman619]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

That's a clean looking setup!

Thanks!! I’ve added a few since that pic. Looking forward to the sdcc numbered stuff

[thejosh2010]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

Looks so neat and clean Great job putting it all together!!

[Theshowman619]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

Looks so neat and clean Great job putting it all together!!

Thank you sir!!

[conventiongeek]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

That a nice clean display! Looks great! I think the set up is almost as important as the Funko's in it!

[VaderForPrez]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

Wow! Very nice and organized looks amazing congrats on hitting the 2 year mark too

[chincoteague1]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

I love the way you framed and displayed last years Funday's place-mats and the Making Fun poster in with your collection.

[Theshowman619]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

I love the way you framed and displayed last years Funday's place-mats and the Making Fun poster in with your collection.

Thanks!! Appreciate it!!

[donofoblivion]

Spoiler: show

Just keep in mind too that in addition to trying to come up with creative display options, another alternative is rotating the Pops! on display in your collection. Obviously with that option, not all Pops! (etc.) are on display and readily visible at the same time; but it does allow one to have a dynamic and expanded collection in spite of space restrictions. Like many funatics, I absolutely love collecting, but we all know that people with space limitations (or for whatever reason) have collected Pops!/Funko products and been able to let go of parts of their collections when necessary to raise funds in times of need. So I say even if you can't display all the items in your collection (who can, frankly) keep collecting, store until you get an idea of what you want to do, rotate if you can, and liquidate parts when you need to.

Now with all that having been said, I do have at least one space-optimizing display consideration to offer. Like many of you, my collection only continues to get bigger, and I too have been considering different ways to show pieces of my collection. Below are some follow-up pics for one of my "display rooms":





Although the space is coming along nicely, it's not very big and I've still got a bit of work left before it is completed. One will notice that all my Bestas to the right do not have doors on them...and some of the items in those slots will need to be moved around for optimal display and effect. All of this (of course) can get quite expensive, but the end result (I think) warrants the time, money, frustration, patience that many of us put in. And of course, all this while trying to stay on top of ongoing Pop/Funko offerings...to say the least, we have to pace ourselves and go after what is most important to us at any given time.

The big area of interest (and my suggestion) is on the left part of the room:





Anything at all can function as a "display box". Part of the left wall contains jewelry boxes that I found on sale at Target (the white boxes with Funko Spidermen and Black Widow in them). These actually were kind of expensive (because they came in sets of 3 different boxes, and I only needed one from each set (so that's pretty expensive and inefficient); but them being on sale made it easier for me to swallow; I just found uses for the other boxes that I had left over from the sets. The point is that if you can find something similar and that is relatively inexpensive, even jewelry boxes (or whatever) with big enough slots could serve as Funko Pop! or displays for whatever. I think these look pretty nice. I went ahead with them in part because I felt that if one considers the time/effort/finances/know-how that would be involved in making something similar, I didn't think I would be saving much (if anything).

Hopefully, this suggestion might prove useful to you or others. Other than flush niches, I can't imagine anything more space-conserving than something like this, and I think this would work well for any size room...and even small slots. You could create displays at virtually any height.

Of course, I know that some items might not fit into a "jewelry box", so then you have to get a little versatile and creative. The Venompool arrangement that I have on that wall, for instance, is too big and wide for one of those jewelry box openings; so I simply got an old shadow box I had laying around, painted it black, and put together a Deadpool-Venom/Venompool set-up. Originally (by the way), I was going to hang a bunch of jewelry boxes together in columns rows (I might still do this elsewhere)--but I decided against it here and went with mixing up the display items instead. The bottom line is that these and other pics and suggestions throughout this thread will hopefully help those interested in using what works best for them, and coming up with their own display ideas that they might share with the rest of us. Believe me, we're all looking for new and different creative ways to display these ever-larger growing collections that we feel reflects who we are, our preferences, and experiences.

(Oops--I forgot to post a more close-up pic of the Venompool shadowbox when I 1st posted; here it is now):


For me, this is another part of the real fun of collecting Funko products--figuring out how to display my collection. Cost restrictions are not always bad; they force us to come up with new, creative and innovative, and practical ideas. And then once things are done, sharing and conversing with others about yours and their collections is a wonderful social outlet. I think that was "Carol" (hope I'm right) in the "Making Fun" video that said something to the effect that this hobby "makes me happy". I know that's how I feel. So I keep collecting. I'll figure out the displays eventually.

I hope something in here helps you with your future display considerations, Tonchap...and maybe others too. I think you could get a good number of jewelry box-like depth displays in that 20x20 space you mentioned. At any rate, keep having fun, my friend. Happy collecting everyone!

Amazing collection and thank you for sharing your tips! The more I collect the less space I have for display and I was thinking what to do especially for clean look. I do move around pops, but I didn't think about rotation system...! But my question is, where do you keep the rest of your pop collection...?

Spoiler: show

LOL--funny you should mention that . I'm cleaning, putting up displays, and storing away boxes and Pops! even as we speak (or write, actually). I use different "systems" for display and storage in attempt to optimize them both. I think someone in the "Spring Cleaning" thread mentioned flattening boxes or stacking them inside themselves (I use these mainly with putting away some shipping and storage boxes that I want to keep, but certainly some OOB Pop! collectors have described flattening their Pop! boxes and storing the inserts separately--which could be good for condensing them into a space or transporting but seems like it would be a headache to keep up with which inserts go where; I'm sure that they must label them). Me personally, other than for traveling I prefer to keep everything intact; so what is important to me (generally speaking) is lightening the loads that I put away as much as possible. This means getting as many things on display as I can. That's where I really try to innovate.

I do have a climate-controlled, leased storage unit (which I would need anyway for my kids' college stuff), and this helps a lot. But even here, my biggest storage problem has to do with the size of some of the boxes for the sculptures I collect as well (some are really big). That actually is my biggest storage issue. I will post some additional pics showing some display and storage ideas and strategies I am currently working on. These won't be finished, but it'll be good to get some other opinions, and maybe some of what I'm doing will help some funatics with ideas.

I appreciate your comment(s).

Once again, thanks for your comments--and your question is a very good one. This response is very personal for me, but I thought I'd go ahead and share it with the community.

I do have more display options than some. About 10 years ago, my fiancée and I made plans to build a house--a rather large one where we would display art that we loved or even that we created ourselves, and our various collectibles and mementos. Enter Funko.

I'm not looking for any sympathy here...just giving you all some background to the story.

My fiancée died of misdiagnosed uterine cancer before the house was completed. She never saw it. After that, I realize it now, I went into a bit of depression for about 4 years. I only worked, ate, and slept. It's been 10 years since her untimely demise. The truth is that I am still recovering. My children are adults now; they are generally away in school or doing whatever it is that young people do. I have 3 daughters and one son, the latter of whom is autistic. He is very friendly, highly functional, and a gifted artist. He will always be with me. The house has a number of large rooms. As the kids are generally away, I have a lot of potential to express myself.

One of the very special areas is a garage unit that is attached to the house but has been converted into an additional bedroom. This is the area of the home that I have maintained specifically in the memory of my fiancée. It has her bed in it, with her linens on it. The house has a notable Tuscan flair; so some of the décor is rustic or simple. I recently found these unfinished, unfortunately expensive large planter boxes that I thought might work well as displays. So I modified the divided boxes and then stacked them vertically. I found that I could get 2 to 3 Pops!, protos, and/or boxes into a cubicle, without the space seeming crowded. This is one of the set-ups that is helping me to get a lot of my collection out of storage boxes and off the floor. Getting as many up on display as I can is an important goal for me. Based on the nature of this hobby--sure, some things do have to be put away. Hopefully I can share more on that at a later date. Right now, I am focused heavily on my displays.

I call my fiancée's room the "Princess" or Fairy Tale Room. Here are some pics:













































As you will hopefully be able to appreciate, the slots of each cube are large enough that I can often display a common or prototype (out-of-box pieces [OOB] ) with a specialty item or in-box pieces. This way, I can collect and display different versions of a given item that complement one another. Sometimes I will mix non-identical items--like the silly rabbit, dodo, and leprechaun cereal icon combination, or the Wizard of Oz Pops! that you see in the pictures.

These "display boxes" are nothing more than unstained, natural-colored wood that I chose to go ahead and buy because I didn't want to spend the time or effort to do the work. There are some others in the house that I am experimenting painting or staining. The point here is that anyone with reasonable carpentry skills could probably do these at a fraction of the cost of what I paid for them. They are not fancy at all. Here is a pic of a single planter box that I am toying with elsewhere.




I have more pics, suggestions, examples from my collection on the way. This area and pics was what I had readily available. There are about 180 Pops! and boxes on that display so far--and since all the spaces are not filled and some are singlet, I guestimate that when I'm finished well over 200 items will be displayed (I counted boxes with 2 or 3 Pops! in them as "1 Pop!"). I don't think the area looks too busy. There is another horizontally positioned series of 3 planters/displays under the window in the 1st picture (the light coming thru the window makes these hard to see). That area, I suppose, will contain another 100-plus Pops! I think it is possible to display Pops! in such a way that they don't necessarily take over the entire room--but regardless of how we choose to display, optimizing our spaces will take some creativity and imagination.

Then again, sometimes we do just have to make hard choices on which items and how many we can collect. I didn't know I was going to get this much into this when I started. Still, I'm glad that I went ahead and just collected what I liked at the time; doing so has allowed me to complement this room that means so much to me. That's what I meant in earlier comments when I said the house means a lot to me. I think the room is tastefully done in memory of my fiancée, and I can't imagine going back and trying to collect a lot of these. I'm getting a lot of this stuff out of storage and putting it out, which I think is a sign that I am moving on. But this one area of the house, I have chosen to preserve...this fairy tale.

Long post and story (yet again), but I hope it encourages some funatics and possibly gives some additional ideas. Collecting is a labor of love for me.

More pics and rooms coming up in the future. Thanks for "listening".

[VaderForPrez]

Spoiler: show

Amazing collection and thank you for sharing your tips! The more I collect the less space I have for display and I was thinking what to do especially for clean look. I do move around pops, but I didn't think about rotation system...! But my question is, where do you keep the rest of your pop collection...?

Spoiler: show

LOL--funny you should mention that . I'm cleaning, putting up displays, and storing away boxes and Pops! even as we speak (or write, actually). I use different "systems" for display and storage in attempt to optimize them both. I think someone in the "Spring Cleaning" thread mentioned flattening boxes or stacking them inside themselves (I use these mainly with putting away some shipping and storage boxes that I want to keep, but certainly some OOB Pop! collectors have described flattening their Pop! boxes and storing the inserts separately--which could be good for condensing them into a space or transporting but seems like it would be a headache to keep up with which inserts go where; I'm sure that they must label them). Me personally, other than for traveling I prefer to keep everything intact; so what is important to me (generally speaking) is lightening the loads that I put away as much as possible. This means getting as many things on display as I can. That's where I really try to innovate.

I do have a climate-controlled, leased storage unit (which I would need anyway for my kids' college stuff), and this helps a lot. But even here, my biggest storage problem has to do with the size of some of the boxes for the sculptures I collect as well (some are really big). That actually is my biggest storage issue. I will post some additional pics showing some display and storage ideas and strategies I am currently working on. These won't be finished, but it'll be good to get some other opinions, and maybe some of what I'm doing will help some funatics with ideas.

I appreciate your comment(s).

Spoiler: show

Once again, thanks for your comments--and your question is a very good one. This response is very personal for me, but I thought I'd go ahead and share it with the community.

I do have more display options than some. About 10 years ago, my fiancée and I made plans to build a house--a rather large one where we would display art that we loved or even that we created ourselves, and our various collectibles and mementos. Enter Funko.

I'm not looking for any sympathy here...just giving you all some background to the story.

My fiancée died of misdiagnosed uterine cancer before the house was completed. She never saw it. After that, I realize it now, I went into a bit of depression for about 4 years. I only worked, ate, and slept. It's been 10 years since her untimely demise. The truth is that I am still recovering. My children are adults now; they are generally away in school or doing whatever it is that young people do. I have 3 daughters and one son, the latter of whom is autistic. He is very friendly, highly functional, and a gifted artist. He will always be with me. The house has a number of large rooms. As the kids are generally away, I have a lot of potential to express myself.

One of the very special areas is a garage unit that is attached to the house but has been converted into an additional bedroom. This is the area of the home that I have maintained specifically in the memory of my fiancée. It has her bed in it, with her linens on it. The house has a notable Tuscan flair; so some of the décor is rustic or simple. I recently found these unfinished, unfortunately expensive large planter boxes that I thought might work well as displays. So I modified the divided boxes and then stacked them vertically. I found that I could get 2 to 3 Pops!, protos, and/or boxes into a cubicle, without the space seeming crowded. This is one of the set-ups that is helping me to get a lot of my collection out of storage boxes and off the floor. Getting as many up on display is an important goal for me. Based on the nature of this hobby--sure, somethings do have to put away. Hopefully I can share more on that at a later date. Right now, I am focused heavily on my displays.

I call my fiancée's room the "Princess" or Fairy Tale Room. Here are some pics:













































As you will hopefully be able to appreciate, the slots of each cube are large enough that I can often display a common or prototype (out-of-box pieces [OOB] ) with a specialty items or in-box pieces. This way, I can collect and display different versions of a given item that complement one another. Sometimes I will mix non-identical items--like the silly rabbit, dodo, and leprechaun cereal icon combination, or the Wizard of Oz Pops! the you see in the pictures.

These "display boxes" are nothing more than unstained, natural-colored wood that I chose to go ahead and buy because I didn't want to spend the time or effort to do the work. There are some others in the house that I am experimenting painting or staining. The point here is that anyone with reasonable carpentry skills could probably do these at a fraction of the cost of what I paid for them. They are not fancy at all. Here is a pic of a single planter box that I am toying with elsewhere.




I have more pics, suggestions, examples from my collection on the way. This area and pics was what I had readily available. There are about 180 Pops! and boxes on that display so far--and since all the spaces are not filled and some are singlet, I guestimate that when I'm finished well over 200 items will displayed (I counted boxes with 2 or 3 Pops! in them as "1 Pop!"). I don't think the area looks too busy. There is another horizontally positioned series of 3 planters/displays under the window in the 1st picture (the light coming thru the window makes these hard to see). That area, I suppose, will contain another 100-plus Pops! I think it is possible to display Pops! in such a way that they don't necessarily take over the entire room--but regardless of how we choose to display, optimizing our spaces will take some creativity and imagination.

Then again, sometimes we do just have to make hard choices on which items and how many we can collect. I didn't know I was going to get this much into this when I started. Still, I'm glad that I went ahead and just collected what I liked at the time; doing so has allowed me to complement this room that means so much to me. That's what I meant in earlier comments when I said the house means a lot to me. I think the room is tastefully done in memory of my fiancée, and I can't imagine going back and trying to collect a lot of these. I'm getting a lot of this stuff out of storage and putting it out, which I think is a sign that I am moving on. But this one area of the house, I have chosen to preserve...this fairy tale.

Long post and story (yet again), but I hope it encourages some funatics and possibly gives some additional ideas. Collecting is a labor of love for me.

More pics and rooms coming up in the future. Thanks for "listening".

Thank you for sharing this story, I am sorry about what happened.I know it might be kinda of tough and couldn’t have imagined what you have gone through but glad you have kept the dream alive and continued collecting and starting working on all those amazing displays! Great to see you have displayed and preserved that room like you have and dubbed it the fairy tale room. Would love to see more pictures once you complete some more work!

[Kiners_funatic]

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Once again, thanks for your comments--and your question is a very good one. This response is very personal for me, but I thought I'd go ahead and share it with the community.

I do have more display options than some. About 10 years ago, my fiancée and I made plans to build a house--a rather large one where we would display art that we loved or even that we created ourselves, and our various collectibles and mementos. Enter Funko.

I'm not looking for any sympathy here...just giving you all some background to the story.

My fiancée died of misdiagnosed uterine cancer before the house was completed. She never saw it. After that, I realize it now, I went into a bit of depression for about 4 years. I only worked, ate, and slept. It's been 10 years since her untimely demise. The truth is that I am still recovering. My children are adults now; they are generally away in school or doing whatever it is that young people do. I have 3 daughters and one son, the latter of whom is autistic. He is very friendly, highly functional, and a gifted artist. He will always be with me. The house has a number of large rooms. As the kids are generally away, I have a lot of potential to express myself.

One of the very special areas is a garage unit that is attached to the house but has been converted into an additional bedroom. This is the area of the home that I have maintained specifically in the memory of my fiancée. It has her bed in it, with her linens on it. The house has a notable Tuscan flair; so some of the décor is rustic or simple. I recently found these unfinished, unfortunately expensive large planter boxes that I thought might work well as displays. So I modified the divided boxes and then stacked them vertically. I found that I could get 2 to 3 Pops!, protos, and/or boxes into a cubicle, without the space seeming crowded. This is one of the set-ups that is helping me to get a lot of my collection out of storage boxes and off the floor. Getting as many up on display is an important goal for me. Based on the nature of this hobby--sure, somethings do have to put away. Hopefully I can share more on that at a later date. Right now, I am focused heavily on my displays.

I call my fiancée's room the "Princess" or Fairy Tale Room. Here are some pics:













































As you will hopefully be able to appreciate, the slots of each cube are large enough that I can often display a common or prototype (out-of-box pieces [OOB] ) with a specialty items or in-box pieces. This way, I can collect and display different versions of a given item that complement one another. Sometimes I will mix non-identical items--like the silly rabbit, dodo, and leprechaun cereal icon combination, or the Wizard of Oz Pops! the you see in the pictures.

These "display boxes" are nothing more than unstained, natural-colored wood that I chose to go ahead and buy because I didn't want to spend the time or effort to do the work. There are some others in the house that I am experimenting painting or staining. The point here is that anyone with reasonable carpentry skills could probably do these at a fraction of the cost of what I paid for them. They are not fancy at all. Here is a pic of a single planter box that I am toying with elsewhere.




I have more pics, suggestions, examples from my collection on the way. This area and pics was what I had readily available. There are about 180 Pops! and boxes on that display so far--and since all the spaces are not filled and some are singlet, I guestimate that when I'm finished well over 200 items will displayed (I counted boxes with 2 or 3 Pops! in them as "1 Pop!"). I don't think the area looks too busy. There is another horizontally positioned series of 3 planters/displays under the window in the 1st picture (the light coming thru the window makes these hard to see). That area, I suppose, will contain another 100-plus Pops! I think it is possible to display Pops! in such a way that they don't necessarily take over the entire room--but regardless of how we choose to display, optimizing our spaces will take some creativity and imagination.

Then again, sometimes we do just have to make hard choices on which items and how many we can collect. I didn't know I was going to get this much into this when I started. Still, I'm glad that I went ahead and just collected what I liked at the time; doing so has allowed me to complement this room that means so much to me. That's what I meant in earlier comments when I said the house means a lot to me. I think the room is tastefully done in memory of my fiancée, and I can't imagine going back and trying to collect a lot of these. I'm getting a lot of this stuff out of storage and putting it out, which I think is a sign that I am moving on. But this one area of the house, I have chosen to preserve...this fairy tale.

Long post and story (yet again), but I hope it encourages some funatics and possibly gives some additional ideas. Collecting is a labor of love for me.

More pics and rooms coming up in the future. Thanks for "listening".

[donofoblivion]

Thank you for sharing this story....

...once I get shelves I'll post some too hopefully be able to make you and others smile!

Thanks

[Stitch626]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

It looks beautiful! I love how you framed the placemats from Fundays. Very very nicely done

[conventiongeek]

My Supernatural set, recently added the FBI pair not pictured but almost complete - now to just be able to find the bloodied..

Love Supernatural... been on forever it seems... good luck completing that set!

[Gooker1]

OMG...all the protos. Love that massive setup and collection @donofoblivion!!!

[Vanniek71]

Just got addicted myself, collection is small but its growing daily!

[SuMo]

Just got addicted myself, collection is small but its growing daily!

If you blink, then you end up with 500+.

[chincoteague1]

Just got addicted myself, collection is small but its growing daily!

Congratulations. They look great.

[Vanniek71]

Just got addicted myself, collection is small but its growing daily!

If you blink, then you end up with 500+.

I’m finding that out already 2 more showed up today and I’m hitting Walgreens shortly

[SneakersAndPops]

Wow I’m getting some sick ideas for shelves just seeing everyone’s!

[donofoblivion]

OMG...all the protos. Love that massive setup and collection @donofoblivion!!!

Thank you!

Just got addicted myself, collection is small but its growing daily!

If you blink, then you end up with 500+.

So true.

I’m finding that out already 2 more showed up today and I’m hitting Walgreens shortly

LOL!

(Love that Old Man Logan, by the way)

Wow I’m getting some sick ideas for shelves just seeing everyone’s!

Look forward to pics when you're ready

[acciofunko]

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Amazing collection and thank you for sharing your tips! The more I collect the less space I have for display and I was thinking what to do especially for clean look. I do move around pops, but I didn't think about rotation system...! But my question is, where do you keep the rest of your pop collection...?

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LOL--funny you should mention that . I'm cleaning, putting up displays, and storing away boxes and Pops! even as we speak (or write, actually). I use different "systems" for display and storage in attempt to optimize them both. I think someone in the "Spring Cleaning" thread mentioned flattening boxes or stacking them inside themselves (I use these mainly with putting away some shipping and storage boxes that I want to keep, but certainly some OOB Pop! collectors have described flattening their Pop! boxes and storing the inserts separately--which could be good for condensing them into a space or transporting but seems like it would be a headache to keep up with which inserts go where; I'm sure that they must label them). Me personally, other than for traveling I prefer to keep everything intact; so what is important to me (generally speaking) is lightening the loads that I put away as much as possible. This means getting as many things on display as I can. That's where I really try to innovate.

I do have a climate-controlled, leased storage unit (which I would need anyway for my kids' college stuff), and this helps a lot. But even here, my biggest storage problem has to do with the size of some of the boxes for the sculptures I collect as well (some are really big). That actually is my biggest storage issue. I will post some additional pics showing some display and storage ideas and strategies I am currently working on. These won't be finished, but it'll be good to get some other opinions, and maybe some of what I'm doing will help some funatics with ideas.

I appreciate your comment(s).

Once again, thanks for your comments--and your question is a very good one. This response is very personal for me, but I thought I'd go ahead and share it with the community.

I do have more display options than some. About 10 years ago, my fiancée and I made plans to build a house--a rather large one where we would display art that we loved or even that we created ourselves, and our various collectibles and mementos. Enter Funko.

I'm not looking for any sympathy here...just giving you all some background to the story.

My fiancée died of misdiagnosed uterine cancer before the house was completed. She never saw it. After that, I realize it now, I went into a bit of depression for about 4 years. I only worked, ate, and slept. It's been 10 years since her untimely demise. The truth is that I am still recovering. My children are adults now; they are generally away in school or doing whatever it is that young people do. I have 3 daughters and one son, the latter of whom is autistic. He is very friendly, highly functional, and a gifted artist. He will always be with me. The house has a number of large rooms. As the kids are generally away, I have a lot of potential to express myself.

One of the very special areas is a garage unit that is attached to the house but has been converted into an additional bedroom. This is the area of the home that I have maintained specifically in the memory of my fiancée. It has her bed in it, with her linens on it. The house has a notable Tuscan flair; so some of the décor is rustic or simple. I recently found these unfinished, unfortunately expensive large planter boxes that I thought might work well as displays. So I modified the divided boxes and then stacked them vertically. I found that I could get 2 to 3 Pops!, protos, and/or boxes into a cubicle, without the space seeming crowded. This is one of the set-ups that is helping me to get a lot of my collection out of storage boxes and off the floor. Getting as many up on display as I can is an important goal for me. Based on the nature of this hobby--sure, some things do have to be put away. Hopefully I can share more on that at a later date. Right now, I am focused heavily on my displays.

I call my fiancée's room the "Princess" or Fairy Tale Room. Here are some pics:













































As you will hopefully be able to appreciate, the slots of each cube are large enough that I can often display a common or prototype (out-of-box pieces [OOB] ) with a specialty item or in-box pieces. This way, I can collect and display different versions of a given item that complement one another. Sometimes I will mix non-identical items--like the silly rabbit, dodo, and leprechaun cereal icon combination, or the Wizard of Oz Pops! that you see in the pictures.

These "display boxes" are nothing more than unstained, natural-colored wood that I chose to go ahead and buy because I didn't want to spend the time or effort to do the work. There are some others in the house that I am experimenting painting or staining. The point here is that anyone with reasonable carpentry skills could probably do these at a fraction of the cost of what I paid for them. They are not fancy at all. Here is a pic of a single planter box that I am toying with elsewhere.




I have more pics, suggestions, examples from my collection on the way. This area and pics was what I had readily available. There are about 180 Pops! and boxes on that display so far--and since all the spaces are not filled and some are singlet, I guestimate that when I'm finished well over 200 items will be displayed (I counted boxes with 2 or 3 Pops! in them as "1 Pop!"). I don't think the area looks too busy. There is another horizontally positioned series of 3 planters/displays under the window in the 1st picture (the light coming thru the window makes these hard to see). That area, I suppose, will contain another 100-plus Pops! I think it is possible to display Pops! in such a way that they don't necessarily take over the entire room--but regardless of how we choose to display, optimizing our spaces will take some creativity and imagination.

Then again, sometimes we do just have to make hard choices on which items and how many we can collect. I didn't know I was going to get this much into this when I started. Still, I'm glad that I went ahead and just collected what I liked at the time; doing so has allowed me to complement this room that means so much to me. That's what I meant in earlier comments when I said the house means a lot to me. I think the room is tastefully done in memory of my fiancée, and I can't imagine going back and trying to collect a lot of these. I'm getting a lot of this stuff out of storage and putting it out, which I think is a sign that I am moving on. But this one area of the house, I have chosen to preserve...this fairy tale.

Long post and story (yet again), but I hope it encourages some funatics and possibly gives some additional ideas. Collecting is a labor of love for me.

More pics and rooms coming up in the future. Thanks for "listening".

So sorry for your loss.. Your fiance's room is beautiful - love the display!

[donofoblivion]

So sorry for your loss.. Your fiance's room is beautiful - love the display!

Thank you very much! And thank you to anyone else out there who feels similar sentiment. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be a part of this Community. Thanks!

[OUTSIDER31]

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[conventiongeek]

here is my collection. this years funko fundays will mark my 2 year anniversary in collecting. i collect numbered pops and pop rides, numbered dorbz and dorbz ridez. if it is numbered and i dont have it, i want it

I like that you know what you want and what to collect. Numbered editions are a good choice. For me i collect Convention Exclusives, mainly Star Wars and Marvel... but dabble in a few others from time to time. The numbered editions are definitely more special.

[Vanniek71]

Has anyone tried these out?

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1766258

As of my last post my collection has gone from 2 to 15 LOL I need a display solution!