Day: August 13, 2006

Mini Mag Stands and Displays for Action Figures

It’s a problem all of us run into eventually — one day you wake up and that small 100-200 action figure collection has bloomed to 600 or 700 figures. Okay, maybe I’m the only one with that problem. Anyway, how the heck do you display all these action figures without spending more on display cases than on the actual figures (which is very easy to do)?

Mini Mag Stands are an interesting solution. These are round bases with pegs designed for 3 & 3/4″ Star Wars action figures. The bases themselves are magnetic, giving a lot of options for displaying them.

WholesaleCases.Com sells similar bases that are non-magnetic.

I just wish they’d come out with something like this for larger action figures, like the Marvel Legends series, etc.

Comic Book Reading Software

I wish there were a comic book reading program for Windows as slick as Comic Book Lover which, alas, is strictly OS X.

For Windows users, the choices boil down to Comical, CDDisplay, or PyComicsViewer (which requires Python to be installed).

For the most part, I use CDDIsplay which is great for what it does, but once you’ve got 20,000-30,000 comics on your hard drive, organizing and managing them becomes a major issue.

Comic Book Lover solves that problem by creating an iTunes-like interface for tracking comic books and attaching metadata to help organize them,

Once you’ve got the metadata about the comics entered, then Comic Book Lover lets you create lists and smart lists of different comic books. Show me all of my Avenger’s comics in which Vision appears. Or compile lists, of say, all Identity Crisis-related books.

Somebody please create something halfway as usable as this for Windows.