As promised last week, I’m doing the second part of my look at some of my collection. Last time we checked out the main Toy Room, this time we’re looking at some of the other displays, closets, and places where I’ve managed to tuck toys around the house. Some of today’s tour will venture more into the realm of collectibles, but it’s still stuff that I review here fairly regularly. Apologies in advance for some of the pictures, but in some cases I had to really wing it and some of these shots came out really shitty. Let’s start with some closets! I have a couple of walk in closets that serve as mini Toy Rooms. Right now these are part storage and part display. They’re sizeable, but it’s tough to really get a wide shot because there’s only so much room to back up. So here’s the first one…

To the right in this closet is where all of my Titan Class Transformers live, and I’m kind of glad I don’t have any interest in the Cybertron Metroplex, because I’m out of room for Titans. There are also some Combiners and other miscellaneous Bots. I’d like to have these in the Toy Room, but to be honest, I’m just grateful to have a shelf anywhere that’s big enough for them all. There are a few of these I still haven’t reviewed on the site, and that’s because it’s a real pain in the ass to cobble together a backdrop and lighting to deal with their size. Maybe one day I will get the time.

Above the Titans shelf is a mix of Hasbro and Takara boxes. The Unite Warriors boxes have the Takara Aerialbots and Combaticons in them. Rey’s Speeder and the Snowspeeder are both in their boxes, and so is Masterpiece Grimlock. The two Star Wars helmet boxes are empty, we’ll see those on display later. Under the Titans is a little Voltron action, including the Classic Playmates release, Super7’s Ultimate(ly disappointing) Voltron, and Toynami’s excellent Plastipiece Voltron Gift SEt. The boxes have some Marvel Universe, Funko Pops, the first waves of Vitruvian Hacks, and parts for a DIY Dungeon Display that I’ve been working on for Mythic Legions. Get used to seeing these Banker Boxes, as we’ll be seeing a lot more!

On the left side of the Closet is some ordered chaos. I tried to keep the Transformers theme going a bit with my boxed Masterpiece figures along with some third party sets (Feral Rex and Warbotron). The corner has some more boxed Combiners, some Titans Return Leader Class figures, a boxed GI JOE ROCC, and some Fwoosh Ninjas.

Lots of randomness in the lower shelves! Some NECA, some newer Vitruvian HACKS, some RED Transformers, and some TBLeague 1:12 Scale figures. Also some RoboCop from NECA and HIYA and about six Banker Boxes of containing my Masters of the Universe Classics. There’s a lot of fine tuning I’d like to do in here when I get a chance, but I still like coming in here every now and then, as it gives off a half display room, half toy store vibe. Let’s check out the second Toy Closet.

The left side of this Closet is dominated by my Doctor Who collection. It’s mostly Classic Who with my NuWho figures in the Banker Boxes in the corner. I’d like to get it all out on display, but just what’s here takes up so much space. Overall I’m pretty happy with it. I have a lot of boxed sets to open, and I’d like to start reviewing some of them. I might make a push for that next month.

More Doctor Who up top. Some boxed Big Chief Sixth-Scale figures, the 11th Doctor’s Console Room Playset and a few of those Time Zone playsets for the 3 3/4-inch figures. My boxed Sideshow Sixth-Scale GI JOE figures are up in the corner as are the empty boxes for Hot Toys Thanos and the Tarken/Vader set.

The middle back wall has a lot of my boxed Eaglemoss ships, as well as a bunch of carded ReAction figures. I can see Alien, Robotech, and Evil Dead in there. Also, the Zica Toys Sectaurs.

To the right is MOTUC Castle Grayskull with Green Granamyr and the Talon Fighter. Eventually, I’d like to extend this shelf outward to the back of the closet and display more MOTU Classics stuff here.

Under Grayskull is what I lovingly refer to as The Tombs. These are Sixth-Scale figures which no longer have original boxes. I keep them in these plastic cases with bubblewrap. These are mostly Sideshow and Hot Toys, but there’s also some TBLeague and other stuff mixed in. I have some display space open and I need to go through and decide which ones to put out. Above Grayskull are Sixth-Scale boxes, some contain figures, others are empty and the figures are on display. Well, those are the Toy Closets, let’s have a look at the Vintage Display Case.

This is repurposed china cabinet which houses some of the toys I had as a kid. A small portion of these collections are my originals, while the rest is what I’ve managed to build back up over the years. The right side is all Kenner MASK and I’m only missing Gator to have all the first series vehicles. I’m going to try to hunt a nice one down before the end of the year.

The center is all Kenner Star Wars, with a few modern pieces, like the TIE Fighter and the Jabba the Hutt wall. A majority of the figures are complete, but a few are missing some weapons. I only need a handful of figures to complete my pre Power of the Force collection. I haven’t bought any in a while, and I really need to just wrap this collection up.

The left side of the case has my LJN Advanced Dungeons & Dragons collection with most of the original figures, but none of the later and scarcer ones. I have loved these figures since I was a kid and I’m looking forward to the McFarlane versions. Below that is my very modest collection of four Wheeled Warriors. This is another line I’d like to complete someday but they are getting pricey! The bottom has some TRON figures and vehicles. The original movie figures are NECA’s reissues. I lost my originals a while back. The Light Cycles are all Spinmaster’s TRON LEGACY releases. Let’s head on over to what I call the Comic Office…

Because it’s mostly Comic Book themed! This office is something of a dream come true for me. It’s something I always wanted to set up and I’m very pleased with how it came out. This is where I pay bills, read emails, and catalog and back and board my comic books. The Zenescope short boxes under the desk are the bulk of my Zenescope floppies. I’ve been a fan for a while and I’d say I am pretty damn close to a complete collection of books, though obviously not variants because that would be ridiculous!

To the right of the desk I have my J. Scott Campbell Fairytale Fantasy statues that Sideshow released along with some of the corresponding prints. Red Riding Hood and Tink are both Exclusives and came with the metal art cards and Alice is actually signed on the mushroom by Mr. Campbell. The Little Mermaid is the second issue recolor, because I hadn’t decided to collect these yet when the original came out and now that one is way too pricey for me. The Red Riding Hood print is also signed by Campbell.

To the right of those is a little Zenescope corner. I have the three bishoujo-style figures that Zenescope released as Kickstarters, as well as three of the Sixth-Scale figures (Robyn Hood, Liesel Van Helsing, and Mercy Dante) they licensed out to Phicen. Sadly, I’m missing Keres, which was the fourth and final release. Below these are a bunch of the limited metal character lunchboxes. I have six, but haven’t kept up with the last few releases.

Behind the desk are some trades and boarded floppies. Most of the ones displayed on top are signed of limited. Yeah, I have a lot of signed J. Scott Campbell variants!

To the left of that is my little Marvel/DC action figure corner, which was shown in the pictures for the Haslab Galactus unboxing on Wednesday. Some people might be surprised that this is all that I have on display of Marvel Legends, but there are just too many to put out, so I settle for a little smattering of X-Men and Fantastic Four. I have to pull the Terrax BAF out to put on the table with the other Heralds.

The bookcases to the left of that are dominated by some Premium Format statues. The Batman Returns Catwoman was my first and I actually one that in one of Sideshow’s giveaways. Beside her is Domino on her Days of Future Cash slot machine. There’s a Covergirls of the DC Universe Catwoman between them. Eventually I will hang that graded Catwoman #1 up top and between them. Below them are some crowdfunded comics, including my Kamen America books, some Lady Death and Hellwitch books, and some art books. To the left is the Abby Chase Premium Format along with a signed Danger Girl print behind her. She is the Exclusive with the metal art card. And beside that is the Spider-Man and Mary Jane maquette based on J. Scott Campbell’s cover. Below those are some Danger Girl and Campbell art books and a random Power Girl Bishoujo from Kotobukiya.

Above these are Kotobukiya’s ArtFX Justice League and Avengers. And all the way up top I have some Marvel Legends boxed sets and a bunch of Diamond Select Gallery Statues. I had a lot more of these at one point, but I let some go before I last moved.

The little closet here contains all my loose Marvel Legends figures as well as my DC Universe Classics collection. Yup, more Banker Boxes! I really love these for holding bagged figures, as they’re big enough to hold a lot, but not so big that they get too heavy to move. I just wouldn’t recommend them for storing figures in a garage or attic. These boxes are fairly well organized so when I need a figure for a comparison shot in a review I can usually put my hands on it in a reasonable amount of time.

Across from the closet I have one last bookcase with some more statues and a couple of Hasbro’s Marvel helmets up top. The top shelf has my only Bowen Statue, 1970’s Ms. Marvel with a signed variant cover by J. Scott Campbell. Next to that is a Sheena statue by Dynamite Comics, based on the Campbell cover, which is signed and graded. The Dynamite Comic statues are not very good, and I’ll probably put this one away eventually. If Sideshow did Sheena as a Premium Format, I’d be all over that! The next shelf down are three DC Statues. Adam Hughes DC Designer Wonder Woman, Frank Cho Wonder Woman, and Bombshells Harley Quinn. Next down is a DST Spider-Man which I haven’t put up top yet, the Mezco One:12 Christopher Reeve Superman, and below that are the boxes for the three Zenescope Bishoujos.

Phew! And before leaving, here’s the Premium Format Dejah Thoris, who sits on the corner of my desk and distracts me from doing any work. We’re going to finish up in the TV Room, but we’ll make a detour on the way to…

Another closet and more Banker Boxes! This is mostly NECA with a little Star Wars and Transformers thrown in. Again, all the figures are bagged with their accessories and pretty well organized. The only storage I’m not showing are the seven or eight totes in the garage, which have a smattering of LEGO sets, Transformers, Star Wars and Star Trek stuff.

The back of the TV Room houses most of the Sixth-Scale figures that I have on display and this is in the middle of being reworked on the bottom two shelves. Mostly Hot Toys/Sideshow Star Wars here with a little Marvel and some Hasbro helmets up top. I’m hoping to do a little work on this area this weekend. I’d like to fill those empty shelves and get out the Hot Toys Bruce Banner to put in front of The Hulk.

And that wraps up this trip into my own personal madness. I do still have the Game Room, which contains some toys, and I may eventually do a look at that in a couple of weeks. As for now, I’ll be back to regular reviews next week, starting with a look at the three Heralds of HasLab Galactus on Marvel Monday!

Howdy, folks! Instead of a review today, I decided to kick off a little tour of some of my collection, starting with the Toy Room of the house. Next week I’ll follow it up by checking out the Toy Closets, some other display spots, and my Comic Book themed office. In an unusual burst of motivation and energy I spent a lot of time last week getting this Toy Room in good order, and I thought it would be a good idea to shoot some pictures before it got out of hand again. So let’s start with three main shots!

This is basically the view walking in and then turning around twice to the left. Jake Cat is in the picture because that’s one of his favorite windows to look out of and so he’s there a lot. He is very respectful of the toys in the room, which is great, but I do lose some prime display space in the area where he sits. He owns it, and it’s off limits to me and my toys. Oh well! This room is admittedly a pretty eclectic display, although it does focus on four of the toy lines that are most important to me and I am actively collecting: Transformers, Star Wars, G.I. JOE, and ThunderCats. It’s also already facing its share of growing pains and will likely get overhauled again in the future. Let’s just start to the right of the door and work our way around!

G.I. JOE! I absolutely love that Hasbro’s Real American Hero has made a return in such a big way. Classified started out pretty OK and has grown into being absolutely amazing! I’m also quite addicted to Super7’s ReAction line. G.I. JOE used to just be in the first book case, but between ReAction and Classified, JOE needed more room! I had Mythic Legions displayed beside it, but I was never happy with that display. It wasn’t enough space and there were a lot of avalanches. As a result, Mythic Legions has been sidelined until I can work out something else to do The Four Horsemen’s magnificent figures the justice they deserve. I have a halfway decent 25th Anniversary JOE collection and some vehicles, but they aren’t on display now. We may see some of those next week. When Super7’s Ultimate JOEs start shipping, I’ll have to figure something out. They may go on the shelves in front of the carded ReAction line. Ideally, the table top that the other cases are standing on will be for the HasLab HISS, but there’s a good chance Super7’s ThunderCats may take this space over and the Thunder Tank will go there. We’ll see! I’ve been using NECA stands for the Classified JOEs and they seem to work pretty well. I only see one Trooper that’s tipped back, but so far no avalanches! Some of the Troopers and BATs may need to get put away as I get more individual characters.

Next up is Masters of the Universe Origins, and boy has this line taken off like crazy! I was originally going to use this space to display my MOTU Classics collection, but it wouldn’t have been enough room, and I kind of preferred having Origins there since it’s an ongoing collection that I can keep adding to. Origins is such a fantastic line, and since I never had the vintage toys as a kid, getting these is like experiencing the next best thing! I keep some empty vehicle boxes in the big Grayskull box and there’s some boxed Mythic Legions figures under the desk. I use the drawers for bags of accessories, figure stands, and the like. I promised myself I wouldn’t collect the Masterverse figures, but in the end I compromised and I’m allowing myself to collect the Princess of Power figures only. And speaking of which, I absolutely love the artwork on that Matty She-Ra figure box and one day I may even get around to giving that figure a proper review.

Sandwiched between the G.I. JOE and MOTU Origins is this case of Transformers and it is already bursting at the seams. Lately, I tend to sell off past Transformers that get better releases, so much of this case is populated with modern figures. There’s mostly mostly movie stuff on top, Decepticons below that, Autobots below that, and then it gets more random. Bad Cube’s Insecticons are in there, a vintage Transformers figure case full of various CHUG. Above it all are some carded Super7 ReAction, and I’ve already run out of room to hang the new additions. I think my Transformers purchases have finally started to slow down, but we’ll see some more of this collection next week in one of the Toy Closets!

Inside the closet is more toys! I use the center shelves for my Playmobil PlaymoSpace collection. I was introduced to these toys when I was living in France for a while and I fell in love with them. I can’t even express how much nostalgia I get from these! I also have some more modern pirate sets, as well as some knights and cowboys. When you collect Playmobil, you inevitably end up with bins and bins of parts, and there’s some of that in here too. There are just a few more items I need for the PlaymoSpace collection to be complete!

The rest of this closet is just a mix of all sorts of stuff. To the left I have a bunch of boxed Figmas, my collection of Sailor Moon Figuarts and a few Prize Figures. I don’t really collect any of these lines anymore, and I really should sell some of them off, but I can’t bring myself to do it just yet. These are excellent figures, but I just don’t watch a lot of Anime any more. Oh yeah, and there’s a few random carded Indiana Jones figures tucked in there too.

On the right side, I have some NECA Quarter-Scale figures. There’s 89 and 66 Batman, Iron Man and Cap from The Avengers, and Deadpool. Another line I don’t really collect anymore, but I can’t bring myself to part with these. I actually have Homecoming Spider-Man sharing Cap’s box too! Up top is Mattel’s 66 Batmobile with some of the figures, and one of my boxed MOTU Classics Wind Raiders.

Below that is more randomness! Warpo’s Big Cthulhu, the OTC Falcon, all the Lost Exo Realm Not-Dinobots are in here, some Rebels vehicles. I can see the main gun of the G.I.JOE Grizzly and the bow of the Hydrofoil peaking out too!

Top shelf is even more randomness! Some boxed Indiana Jones vehicles, a Boglin, and some Star Wars LEGO sets, which I built and returned to the box. I generally disassemble these and put them in baggies with the instructions and add them to one of the LEGO totes. Eventually I will build them again!

Moving on to the left is a case of Star Wars Black Series with some carded Rogue One Vintage Collection hanging above. I got out most of the figures from A New Hope up top and a lot of Empire Strikes Back. The re-issues of the Rogue One Black Series figures in boxes with the Rebels Black Series in front, and then some Endor figures, Luke and Landspeeder, Sandtrooper and Dewback, and some assorted boxed figures. There’s some more Star Wars randomness shoved in the corner. Other than the top two shelves, I’m not totally satisfied with this display, and I may try to work on it some more next week, but not sure what else to do with it.

Above the closet wall I have some boxed Vintage Collection toys. The first four ships, Poe’s X-Wing, Luke’s X-Wing, TIE Fighter, and Slave-1, haven’t been opened yet. I know these aren’t meant to be disassembled and returned to the boxes, so I’ve been putting off doing that. The Haslab Razor Crest box is empty, and the last four. AT=ST Walker, Tatooine Skiff, Jabba Palace, and Rogue One Hover Tank, have been opened but the toys are back in the boxes for now.

Moving to the left of the Star Wars Black case, Hasbro’s giant AT-AT, and under Jake Cat’s perch is some more Star Wars Black, some carded Vintage Collection, and some boxed and carded Black Series. I have a little Jabba Palace set up going on, and boy do I wish someone would sell a custom throne for him. Also, it’s such a shame that Hasbro hasn’t given us more of Jabba’s crew in Black Series. Hidden behind some of the carded figures on the bottom shelf are Jada’s Back to the Future DeLoreans and KITT from Knight Rider. I have to find some place to display those. To the left of that are some boxed Transformers reissues, along with the SDCC Soundwave and Blaster, and Hasbro’s Masterpiece Prime.

That brings us to the Mandalorian Corner! I have nearly all the Vintage Collection Mando releases hung on the wall and the Haslab Razor Crest with some loose figures around it. Below that is just randomness. There’s the boxed Troop Transport, the Commemorative Series Powermaster Optimus Prime (Probably my FAVORITE Transformers item in my collection), and the TIE Striker from Rogue One, which is a pretty underrated Hasbro ship if you ask me! I still haven’t done a review of the Razor Crest and I’m not sure if I ever will. It’s just too difficult to photograph, but maybe someday.

Before moving on to the left, the table in the center of the room has some of the larger Star Wars ships including the BMF Falcon, the Target Exclusive Imperial Shuttle, a Snowspeeder, and I think that’s the Jango Fett Slave-1 from the Clone Wars Ultimate Battle Pack. Under the table are three boxes of loose Black Series and a box of modern 3 3/4-inch Star Wars.

The final case in the room is under a wall of carded Super7 ReAction TMNT and ThunderCats figures. These are the only Turtles in my collection, as I sold off all other TMNT toys a while ago because space was getting tight. I have a rule about re-buying things I sell off, but I still wanted some TMNT represented and the card art on these is so good I couldn’t resist. Below those I have Super7’s ThunderCats Ultimates spread out, along with a vintage Sky Cutter for Jackalman to ride in. The Ultimate Cats are possibly my favorite toy line right now, and after so many false starts from Matty and Ban Dai, having these is like a dream come true. Obviously Wily Kit and Kat are from Matty’s line.

The right case is mostly more ThunderCats. I have some of the figures and the boxed Thunder Tank from Ban Dai’s 2011 line. I absolutely adore the 2011 cartoon reboot. The animation was gorgeous and while it took some bold departures, it still paid respects to the original and I wish it had gone a little longer. I would love to see Super7 do a wave of the 2011 figures, but I doubt that’s in the cards. Also on this shelf are Funko’s Savage World style ThunderCats and some of Ban Dai’s Classic Cat efforts. Eventually this shelf will be rotated out for something else. On the bottom is a complete set of Mezco’s Mega ThunderCats. Well, complete non-exclusive releases at least. And there are some Filmation-carded Flash Gordon figures from NECA because… why not?

The case to the left is a crazy mix of randomness. There’s the re-issue Real Ghostbusters with the Ecto-1. I have Slimer and Mr. Staypuft carded, as well as a set of the guys carded too, but they don’t fit there. Next is Jem and the Holograms. Probably the strangest thing to see in my collection, because… yeah they’re dolls! I happened upon a bunch of these at an Estate Sale and bought everything they had. It took me a while and some research to piece together the original Holograms and Misfits along with Jem and Jem as Jessica Benton. Or should that be the other way around. Most of these are complete, and I still have more stuff to go through. I’m trying to piece together Shana and I may eventually buy Clash and Video. I’ve also had my eye on the Rockin’ Roadster, but that’s a big step! Finally, the bottom shelf has a modern custom of Buck Rogers starfighter (to replace my old Mego one) and some Buck Rogers figures along with a couple boxed NECA Flash Gordon figures.

And that brings us to the end of the room! I’m not sure if I’ll get to everything else in Part 2, but I’ll see how that goes next Friday. There will be a lot of pictures of boxes, but also some goodies that I have displayed here and there! See ya back here on Monday when I will be wrapping up the Armadillo Wave of Marvel Legends!