[ravagebeak1000]

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Originally Posted by DaiShan1984

Thanks!

It's been a long time, but I believe I got all of my cereal box display cases off of eBay for roughly $12-15 a piece, which seems to be what they are going for today. Do a search for "Acrylic Cereal Display" and you'll get a bunch of hits. The brand I got was BallQube. I'm pretty sure they are all BallQube even though not all auctions specify the name.

Also, the retail store "The Container Store" has them for $18 each.

Also, these things go together oddly. They split vertically into two pieces and "kinda" slide together. Not the best design ever but they stay together and with a few pieces of perfectly cut Scotch tape at the top & bottom seam, it's all good and protected from dust (or grease for crappy kitchens like mine)

As for the Star Wars & Super Powers cases...the acrylic round cases and soft rectangular cases you see I got, for the most part, from a company that no longer exists. They weren't the manufacturer though, just a retailer. For the remaining ones I needed I looked no further than The Earth. The site might look a bit old but I've been buying from them for years. Probably the oldest collectible supply website still around:

Storage Cases For <br> Loose Action Figures

That link goes directly to their loose figure case offerings.

Neither case type has pegs and I don't use any museum type sticky on anything. Not a fan of the stuff as it would likely degrade over time and the last thing I want is to come home to a vintage toy that's taken a nose dive off a shelf and broke because that stuff lost it's stickyness.

For the soft shells, everything is pretty snug. They are mainly designed for vintage figures and you rarely have a problem getting them looking forward. I used those for my Super Powers because space in those IKEA Detolf cases was at a premium and as you can see in the photos, the round cases have extra unused space width-wise.

The cases have hang tabs on top to pin them to walls (see my G.I. Joe wall display) but in that case I needed them vertical. Unfortunately those soft cases are not designed for that. They will stand, but they will lean forward and look horrible, plus are easily knocked over.

What I did to fix that was buy some Legos on eBay and design my own "holder" base for each figure. The bases are no wider than the soft cases so I don't lose display room, but they fit snuggly in there in an upright fashion. Once I knew the exact kind of Legos I needed for each base, I just bought the specific pieces in bulk on eBay. There are a bunch of Lego eBay vendors that sell individual, specific bricks.

I used the round cases for my Star Wars because I thankfully had the room to utilize the better case. They are hard acryilc and stackable. If I could, I'd put every figure in those things. Now you could be careful and get figures to stand upright in there and hope to not knock them over, but I just bought figure stands (also on The Earth) for everything.

One thing to note. Get the CLEAR ProTech stands, NOT the Black. Maybe it's just me and the climate shifts I go through in NYC, but over time I've had multiple pegs snap off inside figure's feet from the black stands. I don't seem to have that problem (so far anyway) with the clear.

I hope all of this helps.

Thats great thanks so much for the info. I actually forgot my most important question. Where did you get the acrylic steps risers?? I have been looking for a cheap affordable place to get them in bulk for years and they are always around $50+++ for the larger steps.