Your display, the Funko way!

[conventiongeek]

No... but looks interesting.

[donofoblivion]

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!

No... but looks interesting.

Yes--interesting and innovative. Could be useful for some projects and spaces. A nice option to consider for part of a collection.

[Vanniek71]

So I asked if anyone had used that shelf before and then I was like DUH, I have a 3D printer and I can use tinker CAD so I came up with my own prototype that has a little lip around it to hold the POP! in place. The back is big enough you can use 2 sided tape to mount it wherever. Going to print one now and see how it works. It may need some angle support added, but Ill know in a few hours!

4" POP! Wall Mount

[Kungfutoys]

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

Nice setup!

[conventiongeek]

So I asked if anyone had used that shelf before and then I was like DUH, I have a 3D printer and I can use tinker CAD so I came up with my own prototype that has a little lip around it to hold the POP! in place. The back is big enough you can use 2 sided tape to mount it wherever. Going to print one now and see how it works. It may need some angle support added, but Ill know in a few hours!

4" POP! Wall Mount

That's creative, nice!

[Vanniek71]

Actually came out good after a few tweaks. I have some non wall damaging sticky tape I am going to use to mount them on the wall. I need to get my 3d printer dialed in though and a new bed for it because this was a 8.5hr print. Should only really take 3-4

[donofoblivion]

Actually came out good after a few tweaks. I have some non wall damaging sticky tape I am going to use to mount them on the wall. I need to get my 3d printer dialed in though and a new bed for it because this was a 8.5hr print. Should only really take 3-4

That's pretty cool. Don't know much about 3D printing, but the idea of using a 3D printer is really an imaginative concept. Very nice

[mactds]

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.

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".

What an amazing collection, display, and the backstory of what went into it. Terribly sorry. Thank you for sharing, and it definitely gives me some additional ideas for displays.

[chincoteague1]

Actually came out good after a few tweaks. I have some non wall damaging sticky tape I am going to use to mount them on the wall. I need to get my 3d printer dialed in though and a new bed for it because this was a 8.5hr print. Should only really take 3-4

I like your concept very much.

[edorice]

Looks great.

[RoytotheOiOi]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

[conventiongeek]

Great idea.... but at 8 5 hours of printing, you will have a whole display in a few weeks....

[donofoblivion]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

Nice! Very space conscious. Custom shelves? Everything fits so neat and perfectly. Nice look!

[donofoblivion]

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.

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".

What an amazing collection, display, and the backstory of what went into it. Terribly sorry. Thank you for sharing, and it definitely gives me some additional ideas for displays.

Thanks, Trevor.

[chincoteague1]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

This photo is amazing. Congratulations.

[Afrofreddy]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

This is the type of setup I want when I purchase my house this looks amazing and about the same size collection I have to

[RoytotheOiOi]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

Nice! Very space conscious. Custom shelves? Everything fits so neat and perfectly. Nice look!

Thanks! I just bought a bunch of 1x4's from Lowe's and some angles for cabinets and screwed them to the studs with space for rows of 3 so that way I can re-arrange a bit easier when I want to.

[RoytotheOiOi]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

This is the type of setup I want when I purchase my house this looks amazing and about the same size collection I have to

Yeah, we just bought a new house and I was finally able to display all of them in one of the rooms. Most have been in storage the past few months.

[conventiongeek]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

Wow, that's a lot of Pops!

[MagicCarpetRyde]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

Very nice set up.

[MagicCarpetRyde]

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

I really like Supernatural. Great pops

[conventiongeek]

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

I really like Supernatural. Great pops

Funny thing is the "black eyes" means they are all possesed! LOL Crowley has the red eyes... where is the yellow eyed demon?

[MagicCarpetRyde]

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

I really like Supernatural. Great pops

Funny thing is the "black eyes" means they are all possesed! LOL Crowley has the red eyes... where is the yellow eyed demon?

I am surprised that they never made him. He was the main villain for the first couple seasons

[conventiongeek]

I really like Supernatural. Great pops

Funny thing is the "black eyes" means they are all possesed! LOL Crowley has the red eyes... where is the yellow eyed demon?

I am surprised that they never made him. He was the main villain for the first couple seasons

So here I am going to sound like a bad fan, did they make a John Winchester?

[MagicCarpetRyde]

Funny thing is the "black eyes" means they are all possesed! LOL Crowley has the red eyes... where is the yellow eyed demon?

I am surprised that they never made him. He was the main villain for the first couple seasons

So here I am going to sound like a bad fan, did they make a John Winchester?

That is a very good question. I am going to say no. I stopped collecting this line years ago

[MagicCarpetRyde]

Funny thing is the "black eyes" means they are all possesed! LOL Crowley has the red eyes... where is the yellow eyed demon?

I am surprised that they never made him. He was the main villain for the first couple seasons

So here I am going to sound like a bad fan, did they make a John Winchester?

They made a whole bunch of characters in the Minis. But for some reason the pops were just San, Dean, Crowley, Castiel,
Bobby and Charlie

[conventiongeek]

I am surprised that they never made him. He was the main villain for the first couple seasons

So here I am going to sound like a bad fan, did they make a John Winchester?

They made a whole bunch of characters in the Minis. But for some reason the pops were just San, Dean, Crowley, Castiel,
Bobby and Charlie

Well, that just unfair now isn't it. The shows been on for 13 years now, the longest running series of it's kind. Hope they branch out some and get some of the key characters throughout the years

[BenLo]

My Overwatch display so far - minus a couple recent additions

The overwatch display looks really good.

[muskratboi]

Hope this image works...here is my setup I completed yesterday. My Pop! wall of about 500.

Nice setup! I am in the middle of re-organizing my wall, been debating if i should put shelves up. Looks very clean!

[MagicCarpetRyde]

So here I am going to sound like a bad fan, did they make a John Winchester?

They made a whole bunch of characters in the Minis. But for some reason the pops were just San, Dean, Crowley, Castiel,
Bobby and Charlie

Well, that just unfair now isn't it. The shows been on for 13 years now, the longest running series of it's kind. Hope they branch out some and get some of the key characters throughout the years

That is kind of why I stopped collecting this line. I had so many albeit cool variants of these characters but I would have liked to see more

[InternationalPopper]

I love the Funko family here on the forms I also love to see everyones displays, its giving me a lot of great ideas! Im still waiting for the Funko camel!

-International Popper

[Universalman]

New to the boards, all these displays look fantastic! Can't wait to see them all!

[Vanniek71]

Great idea.... but at 8 5 hours of printing, you will have a whole display in a few weeks....

Once I get the design and the printer dialed in I can do 3-4 a day while I'm off doing other things.

[jkcohen626]

Always love catching up on this thread! SO many shelving ideas and amazing collections!

[conventiongeek]

Great idea.... but at 8 5 hours of printing, you will have a whole display in a few weeks....

Once I get the design and the printer dialed in I can do 3-4 a day while I'm off doing other things.

If you don't mind me asking, it is cost effective? It's definitely a cool tactic. Can be done unsupervised, but hopefully worth it in the end.

[dawninlatin]

I use shelves made for picture frames from Ikea. They're the perfect width for a pop in a soft pop protector. Stack them three high. Two shelves next to each other hold 57 pops.

[anime23]

So i had a Dorbz in a plastic pop protector (the thinner kind not pop stacks) left the light on, on my desk and the dorbz apparently too close under it. All I have to say is thank god for that protector. It warped the plastic but the dorbz and the box were just fine. Never again.. I am not used to this desk the light is attached to it, but since I haven't used it a lot before I didn't even think about it. So mad at myself but It could have been worse.

[Kungfutoys]

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).

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".

Hi Don, The set up looks amazing! So many great protos.

[Vanniek71]

Great idea.... but at 8 5 hours of printing, you will have a whole display in a few weeks....

Once I get the design and the printer dialed in I can do 3-4 a day while I'm off doing other things.

If you don't mind me asking, it is cost effective? It's definitely a cool tactic. Can be done unsupervised, but hopefully worth it in the end.

Filament is $9.99 a roll when I grab it on sale, with a roll of filament I can probably print 10-15 of these, so they are relatively cheap.

I will probably come up with shelving as that's easier to toss up when my collection goes large, but for now these are fun. Maybe I can make a 10 display array for my favorites at the time and rotate them.

[mactds]

I love the Michael's baseball bat display cases, and I seem to keep getting more. This is my wall of 6 cases, which allows for my favorite 66 pops themed up for Star Wars, Freddys, Disney, Movies, Movie 2, and Super Heroes. They're has been a lot of rearranging over weeks and months, but I'm pretty happy with it, and it will probably stay like this for awhile, and wanted to share this point in time