This weeks Arrivals, Orders and Anime

Greetings all, this weeks round up is a bit more discreet then the last weekend. I am awaiting on 2 orders from sellers I am not too familiar with and as a result I am a little apprehensive. I will keep a open mind however as situations are variable across the board. This week 2 [...]

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1 Ordered, 1 Shipped and 2 arrived! New Toys!!

Good news! new toys have arrived today in the form of Queen’s Blade, Queen’s Gate and High School of the Dead. The figures arrived from Toyslogic (US) and my regular ebay store Wolala1971 (probably the best Ebay Anime figure store I have ever shopped with), these two suppliers have been a staple for me since [...]

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Display Cabinet Figures (Finally!)

As promised from over the bank holiday weekend, here are the photos of my newly installed cabinets. These are the Detolf range from Ikea (a popular and cost effective choice for starters), and are the stock cabinets with no lights installed (yet). Figure wise, a big box arrived this morning and fingers crossed I will [...]

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Bank Holiday Anime Figure Madness!!

With the Easter Bank holiday coming to a end I can finally relax (a little), my display cabinet project is complete (pictures up end of the week) and to celebrate the buying, building and inevitable repainting of whole room which followed I made a “few” purchases (not that I have the space to store them [...]

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The Display Cabinet Solution Pt II

Happy Easter all and what a busy one its turning out to be! The display cabinets have now been built and as a strange turn of events I even re-painted my room! The figures will start to go into the cabinets tomorrow and possibly Monday, once this is done photos of the new setup will [...]

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The Display Cabinet Solution

In a follow up to yesterdays post, I have narrowed my options in regards to display cabinets. In a perfect world, I would have the space, time and finances to set up a retail/museum set-up. In reality however paying upwards of £600 for a medium sized display cabinet is unrealistic for now for my needs.

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“To Open or Not to Open that is the Question”

Every toy/figure collector knows the pain of making that decision…should I or shouldn’t open that box. We spend hours and $/£ every month to satisfy our craving for cool collectibles and its get to a point where just looking at them through a plastic pane becomes too much. As a collector there are two questions [...]

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