Many mentioned that they miss the day when their whole collection could fit in a shoe box.
How many are of that number?

I'm also wondering how did you store your Joes as a kid when playtime was over?

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I never knew a day that I could fit my collection in a shoebox. I was always overloaded. I had cars of all sized, Star Wars with the various ships, the Kenner action guys and several of those vehicles, some Micronaught stuff, some various robots, Legos, and that was just the start. I don't know if you call it a lucky childhood or a cursed one since that set me on the path of collecting, but there was never shoeboxes involved unless I used one to make a building or base out of.

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Not only did my Joes all fit into one box, the rest of my toys...Hot Wheels, Transformers, MASK, Starcom, Wheeled Warriors, etc...also all fit into this box. Granted, this box was bigger than a shoebox.

When I started collecting, the only Joes I had were the 2-packs that came on the blue cards, and I did not complete that series, and all those figures and their accessories fit into one shoebox. Those were the days.

I had this really great (at the time) particle board toy box that was designed like an old trunk. I kept all my good stuff in there until it was too full and then the overflow moved into my closet, under my bed, wherever I had space. But man, that toy box... it pretty much held a lot of my favorite memories from childhood playtime.

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Tackle box. Space for figures and a single tray for accessories.

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I stored my figures in an old suitcase. All my vehicles in a cardboard box.

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A suitcase? That's genius! No need to pack them up for vacation because they're already packed.

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As a kid, most of my action figures were in a plastic yellow Fisher-Price Doctor suitcase.
GIJoes, Super-Powers and Marvel Secret Wars.
My favorite Joes were stored in an old 8-track leather carrying case.

In the early days, my Joes could all fit in the APC, but I don't think it fits in a shoe box...

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Depends on whose shoes we're talking about.

Honestly, this post and MacrossMaster talking about it has got me thinking of paring down my collection to a very bare minimum. Seeing Spin Doctor's awesome group

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Made me remember how I used to do that as a kid. Mixing genres was no big deal, and I had less money to work with, so I had to only get what was really gonna knock my socks off. I won't get rid of everything, but I feel a great purge coming in the near future.

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Until the spring loaded launchers in the 90's I kept figures and weapons in one of those cheap 2 gallon ice cream buckets. Then just the figures in the bucket and weapons in a index card box. The vehicles were always on shelves.

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I'm with Jman, I had so much Joe stuff that a shoe box wasn't happening. In one house we had a play room where I left my battles set up and ready to go whenever I felt like diving in. When we moved from there it sucked as I was relegated to the attic. Things were never quite the same for me Joe wise after that. Nothing was ever set up to the same degree as it was generally dark and very unpleasant up there.

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Yeah that's the thing too. Even though I had as much as I did, it didn't mean my family had a lot of money. Plus if you had around 15 Star Wars figure, and X-Wing Fighter, a Tie Fighter, the tv truck from Tonka, 20 or more Hot Wheels, and even just a few other things, you were out of the shoe box. But then with each store trip and more stuff added, it just became more of a cabinet being needed than anything.

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Mine all fit in a "shoebox." Actually a Ski boot box, held about 600 joes.

Put my Joes in a metal Snoopy lunchbox from the 60s. The guns were inside a white plastic box that combs come in at beauty supply shops.

Actually had a real case for my SW figures - the original vinyl one from the first movie.

I had a metal Olive Drab 50 cal ammunition box I use to store my JOEs in.

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