How did you display your Transformers
as a child and how does it differ from the way that you display your Transformers now?
I first started displaying my Transformers in 1985. As a kid I sorted my Transformers according to faction, so Autobots on one side and Decepticons on the other, then by "teams" or sub-groups. So Autobot Cars, Mini-Vehicles, Jets, Cassettes, Dinobots, Insecticons etc. And it didn't matter what year the toy came from, they were all lumped together by sub-group. e.g. Autobot Cars from 1984-88 were all lumped together; for 1987-88, the Targetmasters and Powermasters were classified as "Cars" to me. Similarly for the Decepticon Jets. All Pretenders were lumped together too, so the 1988 large Pretenders, the 1989 small Pretenders, Classic Pretenders, Pretender Monsters etc. - all lumped together. I continued doing this all the way through the 80s and early 90s.
By the mid-90s I was rapidly running out of space in my childhood bedroom, and so I started abandoning the idea of sorting my toys out so methodically for display. I basically just shoved toys wherever I could fit them. Space was a premium and I just didn't have the luxury to be choosy... but I refused to put them in storage, but looking back it was a real mess. Here's what 1/3 of my collection looked like at the time:
There was a very brief period when I moved out of home as a uni student and had a place to my own. It was there that I put different Transformers (and other toy lines) in different rooms. e.g. BW in the lounge room, G1 in one bedroom, G2 in the bathroom etc. Then I moved back home, although my parents gave me a spare room which was converted into my study and thus I split my collection up between that room and my old bedroom and thus reverted back more towards how I'd displayed my toys as a kid.
By the 2000s I'd moved out of home and was renting, initially with flatmates/housemates, then later on my own. The size and style of display varied depending on where I was living, but just as an example here's what my room looked like in 2005:
I
tried to sort them out with some semblance of order, but honestly ended up just shoving toys wherever I could fit them.
It was when my wife and I first moved into our first place together that I had a fully dedicated Transformers room. I decided that this room would be for nothing but Transformers, with all other collectibles being displayed in the garage. This is when I started displaying my Transformers in the way that I display them now - by series and faction.
It started off looking like this just after moving in in 2007...
...to looking like this when we moved out a year ago...
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
How did you display your Transformers as a child and how does it differ from the way that you display your Transformers now?
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And packing the toys up was relatively easy too, just put them back on their home shelves. 
So yeah, the main reason why I display my TFs instead of having them in boxes is really because having them in boxes would be a major hassle as I would have to go and bloody rummage for individual toys. 
