How do you display minifigs?

andhe

Been realising that I'll never be able to display all my cmf collection so began thinking about just choosing my favourite fig from each series.

I then moved on to wondering if anyone has ever made a display of all The Lego Movie master builders?

I've had a Google but the term master builder throws up a lot of real world stuff so just wondered if anyone knew of such a display or build?

http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Master_Builders_(The_LEGO_Movie)

absolut3

Any one know what's up with Ikea Ribba shadow boxes?  Are they phasing those out?  Can't find them in the local Ikea any more and don't seem to be available online either.

spaceinvader1979

finally I did my lego the movie frame...the back pice it's cut by laser so I can put the original base that comes with every minifig.
hope you like it...
now I'm working into a big one to put 110 minifigs

dmcc0

absolut3 said:

Any one know what's up with Ikea Ribba shadow boxes?  Are they phasing those out?  Can't find them in the local Ikea any more and don't seem to be available online either.

This was mentioned a while ago in this forum. Seems they are changing them from glass to acrylic fronts. Probably just taking a while to get the new style in.

Addicted2Oxygen

Experimenting with the mayka brick tape to display minifigures. Like it so far. Need to see how far I can build out so I can add figs that stick out too far at the back or have mini legs. 

JooTog

TLNM display case + custom labels.
Left #30428 Green Ninja Mech Dragon at the office.

bluedragon

Not making these properly stackable was a bit silly...

bluedragon

Heavy weights on top!

Fodder

Version 1.0

MaffyD

Thought I'd share this from Brothers Brick:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitreolum/37578868601/in/dateposted/

Game_on

Wow, thats pretty awesome!

I just have a generic case display case that I place figures in. 

JooTog

MaffyD said:

Thought I'd share this from Brothers Brick:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/vitreolum/37578868601/in/dateposted/

That looks awesome, but probably expensive compared with a customized IKEA frame... still, will use as inspiration to give it a try later this year (it will not look anywhere near as good).

datsunrobbie

Finished setting up CMF series 15, 16 and 17 in a Ninjago Play and Display case last night. Risers are a combination of Duplo and System bricks.

samiam391

Does anyone have any familiarity with sfdisplay cases?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186DX4C8/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?th=1

I was considering purchasing a few for some displays, but was curious about the quality and/or if anyone had cheaper alternatives?

Looking to display about 1,000 figures in a frame/shelf method.

FowlerBricks

Just got some brick tape to attach minifig plates onto walls and such.

Mynatt

Was scrolling through Kickstarter and here’s a light case to display figures. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/921985298/mini-figure-display-case

SumoLego

They appear to be a tad short of their $50k goal...

DeeC2_Josh

samiam391 said:

Does anyone have any familiarity with sfdisplay cases?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186DX4C8/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?th=1

I was considering purchasing a few for some displays, but was curious about the quality and/or if anyone had cheaper alternatives?

Looking to display about 1,000 figures in a frame/shelf method.

I picked up the 180 capacity one about a month ago and I am extremely pleased with it. The quality is spot on and the UV protection was a big selling point for me. It can handle any minifigure that I own, even Marge Simpson and that crazy blue hair. I personally think it's worth the hundred dollars but remember that you'll have to get a lot of plates to get those minifigures standing in a straight line.

TheFew

I'm after some advice... i have the below shelves half way up my stairs. I may use them for Lego display and i was thinking of getting a perspex sheet cut to size to cover the shelves to stop dust ingress.

The thing that i am not sure about is how to secure the perspex. I want it to be secure, but also easy to access if need be.

The best idea i have had so far is to put a little triangle of metal in each corner secured by a wood screw or nail.. but this is a naff idea. Anyone got any better ideas?

Thanks

Phonegal

You could mount cabinet magnets in the corners and put four metal tabs in the corners of the plastic so it sits in the lipped edge and would hold it in place.

samiam391

DeeC2_Josh said:

samiam391 said:

Does anyone have any familiarity with sfdisplay cases?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0186DX4C8/ref=sspa_dk_detail_2?th=1

I was considering purchasing a few for some displays, but was curious about the quality and/or if anyone had cheaper alternatives?

Looking to display about 1,000 figures in a frame/shelf method.

I picked up the 180 capacity one about a month ago and I am extremely pleased with it. The quality is spot on and the UV protection was a big selling point for me. It can handle any minifigure that I own, even Marge Simpson and that crazy blue hair. I personally think it's worth the hundred dollars but remember that you'll have to get a lot of plates to get those minifigures standing in a straight line.

@DeeC2_Josh- Thanks for the feedback. What plates did you go with? CMF plates or just 2x"xx" plates?

560Heliport

I haven't tried this- might do so tonight: Get some of the block tape, stick it on the wall, put minifigs on it with the backs of their legs onto the studs on the tape. The thickness of the tape might allow for the head and hair/hat/helmet so the figure doesn't have to be bent over. Assuming the tape is removable, of course!

TheFew

Phonegal said:

You could mount cabinet magnets in the corners and put four metal tabs in the corners of the plastic so it sits in the lipped edge and would hold it in place.

Thanks. That's not too shabby an idea. Did you have any particular type of magnet in mind?

Phonegal

I don’t know what your local diy hardware store carries in stock but they have here in the u.s. the magnet is encased in plastic and can screw at a 90 degree angle to the magnet and you could get in white to match your casing. 

TheFew

@Phonegal thanks they do have similar ones in my local store. I can probably also get the metal tabs that are self adhesive to save putting holes in the perspex.

Brixfan02

Here's my Star Wars minifigs (depressingly few) displayed on top of a chest of drawers 

Brixfan02

And a really blurry picture of my marvel super heroes minifigs above the Star Wars ones on a shelf. The stands are self built out of lego pieces.

Brixfan02

Back of the stand. It's really flimsy, so I don't touch it much. It almost completely fell apart when I turned it around.

Brixfan02

All my marvel figs are displayed on top of ugly red bricks. I know some of you purists would not stand for that, but hey, I don't have very much lego and you gotta do what you gotta do

dmcc0

^nice collection. Must be a nightmare to dust though!

Brixfan02

It's fairly new. Haven't dusted it yet. Most of my sets are pretty dusty. It shouldn't cause long term damage, right?

datsunrobbie

Duplo blocks come in very handy for making risers for displays like you are making. Regular 2x2 or 2x4 System bricks fit on top of the Duplo (Ugly red bricks probably fit on top too). Before I got the Ninjago Play and Display cases most of my minifigure displays were on "bleachers" made this way, and I used the same technique to make risers in those display cases.

DeeC2_Josh

@samiam391 I put 28 minifigs per shelf so it's 4x112 per shelf. The 4x width plates fit perfectly in there so the shelves stay straight but you could do 2x or 1x if you wanted but it probably would be shifty. 

dmcc0

OK, I thought the CMF Medusa was a bitch to fit in a ribba frame. How the hell do I display that new Batman CMF holding a bloody dolphin!?!

Legopants

This is how I've started to display my licensed CMFs. "FiguCase" - deep frames with a slide-in perspex front. Quite expensive but pretty cool. Also included with each frame is a wall-mounting fixture - unfortunately I haven't got any free wall space in the man-cave at the moment :-S

FowlerBricks

Brixfan02 said:

Here's my Star Wars minifigs (depressingly few) displayed on top of a chest of drawers 

You call that depressingly few? Mine would be...um...nearly nothing then. I've got around 20 or so. :D

Brixfan02

Ah, I've been watching too much jangbricks and brickvault then. Their collections are huge

Fauch

I guess star wars collectors have depressingly few SW minifigs as long as they don't own them all.

Fizyx

Fauch said:

I guess star wars collectors have depressingly few SW minifigs as long as they don't own them all.

If you can't make your own army of stormtroopers, why even bother? :P

Brixfan02

I only have 4 regular imperial stormtroopers, but I have a first order one, two sand troopers and six snowtroopers. oh! And four shadow troopers, two old, two new.

Recce

For Star Wars I've got 1/3 out of the 900+ unique Star Wars minifigures ever released. 

PisceanPet

Custom made extra deep box frame so there is room for all the extras and accessories, and fitted with Conservation Glass to protect from fading.  I'm a picture framer so I made it for myself!  Also supplied bespoke sizes to customers for Christmas to house their Simpson sets etc.

Random mixture of CMFs in this picture but it now has series 15, 16 & 17 in it and the 18 Disney CMFs are in their own smaller frame.

dmcc0

Recce said:

For Star Wars I've got 1/3 out of the 900+ unique Star Wars minifigures ever released. 

According to the Brickset Database I have exactly 200 of 980 Star Wars minifigs.  Although I don't think the 980 includes any of the latest wave so there's probably 1000+ by now 

Fauch

1 stormtrooper, 2 deathtroopers, 1 at-at driver. nice army. and probably a dozen or more rebels against them.

SumoLego

Fauch said:

1 stormtrooper, 2 deathtroopers, 1 at-at driver. nice army. and probably a dozen or more rebels against them.

Too many for an Assault on Hoth.  You should furlough atleast three on them.

Recce

dmcc0 said:

Recce said:

For Star Wars I've got 1/3 out of the 900+ unique Star Wars minifigures ever released. 

According to the Brickset Database I have exactly 200 of 980 Star Wars minifigs.  Although I don't think the 980 includes any of the latest wave so there's probably 1000+ by now 

Indeed, I used to have a higher ratio back in 2015, but stopped buying most of the sets for past 2 years hence without any growth at all. 

As now had limited space at home, my buying will be slowed down tremendously, so I foresee the ratio gap will continue to get wider and wider indefinitely, unless TLG at some point in the future stop producing Star Wars sets. :) 

samiam391

For those of you who have complete or close to complete Star Wars minifigure collections of several hundred figures, how do you display them?

Do you do it by #?
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&catString=65&sortBy=I&sortAsc=A&catType=M

Or by item name?
https://www.bricklink.com/catalogList.asp?pg=1&catString=65&sortBy=I&sortAsc=A&catType=M&v=1

I like the idea of doing it by name better, but that would mean every time I got a new figure I'd have to move every figure to make room for a new version of Han Solo every 6 months.

SumoLego

Definitely by number.  23 Han Solos in a row would make for a somewhat monotonous display.

Bumblepants

SumoLego said:

Definitely by number.  23 Han Solos in a row would make for a somewhat monotonous display.

Yeah but one of those Hans will be wearing Hoth gear so it won't be boring at all!

SumoLego

(I'm sure there are five or six.  But who's counting?)