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Post by Dinotoyforum on Feb 11, 2008 23:07:50 GMT
At the moment, I split 'em up by type
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Post by piltdown on Feb 11, 2008 23:24:50 GMT
Ditto, except for the WwDs and Papos
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Post by itstwentybelow on Feb 11, 2008 23:55:38 GMT
I like to organize them by line, myself.
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Post by nobs on Feb 12, 2008 1:19:01 GMT
Gotta go with Company
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Post by tomhet on Feb 12, 2008 4:16:19 GMT
Since I don't have a nice display for them, I really can't organize them. I just try to protect my faves from dust and such.
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Post by EmperorDinobot on Feb 12, 2008 4:54:04 GMT
Well. At the current moment, all my dinosaurs are mixed together. While they don't look eye-pleasing this way, I can always call my home Jurassic Park and fool everyone. But when I lived in a house, my dinosaur were still in between. All my JP and JP scaled dinosaurs (articulated dinosaurs as well, as the ToySmith Styracosaurus and Talon) were on the JP shelves (Can be seen here: dinotoyforum.proboards100.com/index.cgi?board=collections&action=display&thread=15&page=2 ) And those were mixed. Of course, they were sorted by family. The Stegosaurs would be with the stegosaurs, the ceratopians would be in one place, coelophysioids and basal tetanurans in one side, and raptors to the other end. My Carnegies were sorted by era. Permian Triassic were the 2nd lowest level and accompanied by Jurassic, 3rd level had Cretaceous dinosaurs mixed by era and place (I'd put the Carnotaurus next to the Saltasaurus...Baryonyx next to Iguanodon...), 4th level was 65 MYA (Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Deinosuchus, Tyrannosaurus, Parasaurolophus), and lowest and top level had misc. dinos. The rest of the 500 or so dinosaurs were in boxes, in the yard, or hidden in plain sight, or disguised as Transformers, Zoids, or plush animals. Once we buy a new house, they're gonna follow a similar pattern. But all 700 of them will make an appearance.
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Feb 12, 2008 12:53:34 GMT
[quote author=emperordinobot board=toys thread=45 post=422 time=1202792044 My Carnegies were sorted by era. [/quote]
Oh, I forgot to include this option in the poll!
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Post by wheezy on Mar 27, 2008 5:39:01 GMT
As far as scale models go i prefer them organized by line. I do have a few oddballs though, which were organized by species. I am currently planning a terrarium style setup for the papo dinos when i get them.
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Post by richard on Apr 11, 2008 2:43:58 GMT
It depends, if you have a big collection it is better by line, but if yours is small and growing(like mine) it is better by type
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Post by sbell on Apr 11, 2008 3:59:55 GMT
It depends, if you have a big collection it is better by line, but if yours is small and growing(like mine) it is better by type If you've seen my post with my display, you'll know I don't believe that's true--I would rather be able to display, side by side, all of my Baryonyx figures (as an example--I have lots of them) rather than divide them into series (it helps make clear which ones are the best). And I'm a taxonomist at heart. Of course, I suppose it depends on what you define as a "big" collection--I would at the very least define mine as "diverse".
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Post by richard on Apr 13, 2008 20:18:57 GMT
I suppose it depends on what you define as a "big" collection--I would at the very least define mine as "diverse". that's an excellent point!
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Post by bokisaurus on Jul 30, 2008 3:21:35 GMT
Don't have the space to display them at the moment, but the few I have out are displayed by type.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jul 30, 2008 7:12:29 GMT
Depends...I'd like to build dios for all mine..but the JP figures are hogging the space..lol
The sauropods look nice together...the hadrosaurs generally do as well...the Therapods though tend to stay in their series areas....I guess I just stick something where ever it fits/looks good...my comp area right now is surrounded by my newest purchases...lol
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Post by sid on Jul 30, 2008 12:27:45 GMT
Actually they are placed this way: - on the two central shelves of my wardrobe there are all the Schleich,Papo,Bullyland,Fame Master,and most of the Safari dinos...On the top shelf there are the Carnosaurs,marine reptiles,prehistoric mammals,the mighty Dino-Riders Brontosaurus,the Invictas and the Spinosaurids;on the lower shelf the Sauropods are on the left,along with the Stegosauruses,the Pachys,the Hadrosauruses,the Ankylosaurids,two Safari Allosaurus;in the center there are the T.rexes and on the right all the Ceratopsians,the Dromeosaurids,the Iguanodons,the Oviraptors,the feathered critters and in the background all the flying reptiles. Then,we have the big Safari Sauropods between the mirror and the window,the JP toys in the big box near my desk, in the left shelves of my wardrobe all the modern animals figures,along with various action figures from videogames,movies and cartoons...Oh,and then,under my desk,there is another box with all the marine animals from Safari,Papo and Schleich
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Post by brad on Jul 30, 2008 17:14:39 GMT
Mine are displayed completely randomly, mainly on the bookcase in front of my collection of dinosaur books (yes, I have to move the dinosaurs aside to read the books). I don't display every dinosaur I own, some of them are in a toybox and they get swapped around sometimes.
If I was to put any thought into it, I'd make the displays based on animals that actually lived together, influenced by Randy Knol's site. It gets tricky, though, because it seems the toy companies rarely expect you to do this. We get lots of characteristic Judithian/Dinosaur Park Formation herbivores like Parasaurolophus, Euoplocephalus, Styracosaurus, etc., but no Gorgosaurus or Daspletosaurus to hunt them. I guess most people compromise on the stratigraphy and just make generic "Late Cretaceous" scenes.
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Post by therizinosaurus on Jul 30, 2008 17:20:50 GMT
here's how mine are displayed: I have a Carnegie display mountain that I put many of my carnegies on. I also have a large shelf that I break up like this: Bottom-large dinosaurs, sauropods, theropods (Carnegie and schleich) next- sea creatures (Carnegie, scheich), Battat boxes, and bullyland triassic next- mammals (bully, safari) and sauropods (battat diplo, carnegie brachio next- battats, carnegies next- battats next- dinotales, mini carnegies, pv marine reptiles then the next 4 shelves are carnegies
so I do it by size, brand, and type
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jul 30, 2008 21:56:51 GMT
I really like my sauropods just above head height so you have to look up at them.. ;D
Anyone hang parts of their collection ? My Pteros have to hung flying in squadrons...and the marine reptiles are hung in swimming position from my ceiling...lol
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Post by Dinotoyforum on Jul 30, 2008 22:56:24 GMT
hanging pterosaurs reminds me - The swimming invictas came with a stand, I liked to stick the stand onto the back of the animal, and stick the base of the stand to the underside of a shelf. That looked really cool.
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Post by Blade-of-the-Moon on Jul 30, 2008 23:23:57 GMT
That's a neat idea..never thought of that. Anything in a swimming and flying position just looks out of place laying on a shelf I think.
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Post by stoneage on Jul 31, 2008 0:01:13 GMT
Dis you glue your Invictas to the stands upsied down.
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