We all shared tips about storing (and displaying) our current Joe collections.
What about when we were kids?
Sure most of our childhood Joes spent their days on the battlefield, but what did you do with them once it was time for dinner or to go to bed? Did you use the official GI Joe case or something else?

I stored most of my figures in a yellow Fisher-Price Doctor suitcase and my favorites were in a black 8-track carrying case.

_________________

Me: at various Shoeboxes.

_________________

Small tacklebox, with accessories in the divided tray, similar to the one in the pic
.

_________________

Metal Snoopy lunch box, with guns stored in those white plastic containers they sell hair combs in (my mom worked at a hair salon).

I had mine in a vehicle box most of the time with the weapons in a used cigar box my dad had in the garage. Then progressed to having them in popcorn tins...

_________________

I kept my 28 favorite in a Star Wars figure case, the rest were in a shoe box or something. I usually used a cut up box that paper reams come in as either a Joe or Cobra (I would actually cut out a panel write G.I.*JOE on one side and Cobra on the other and flip it around for which ever team's use) base so I'd store the figure case, the rest of the figures box and the limited number of vehicles I had in that base box.

_________________

My Dad brought home a wooden box from work. I think it was a leftover shipping crate. It's about 16" wide, 12" deep, and 12" tall. Together we put a hinged lid on top and handles on each side, I painted that sucker blue inside and out with some leftover paint that Dad also retrieved from work and it handled my whole childhood and I still have here in sight of me now. My whole figure collection fit in that box weapons and all. It traveled with me to my Granny's house, outside, and anywhere else I needed joes. It made a great wrestling ring on top, a cave when laying on its side, or just some nondescript wall to hide behind when the battle raged. Come to think of it, its probably my favorite GI Joe possession.

_________________

As a child, I had my Joes (I had pretty much everything released from 82-87 or 88 but the Flagg and about 5 other vehicles) in a piece of furniture called a "secretary"(basically a set of drawers on the bottom, a roll-top writing desk above the drawers and a 3 shelf glass-door'd cabinet on top). The figures were arranged in the middle shelf by year and when they appeared in the comic (if applicable) with the oldest ones in the back row and newest releases in the front. The top and bottom shelves housed small vehicles (RAM, Silver Mirage, etc.) and Battlefield Accessories. The larger vehicles and the 83 Headquarters were on a long set of display shelves (5 shelves high and about 8' long) with the Defiant Complex sitting opened up in front of the secretary. My Cobras (being a smaller collection as the Joes got far more toys released) were in a 5 shelf bookcase with the figures on the top shelp and the vehicles on the other shelves and my Night Raven and Rattler on the top. My Terror Drome sat on a small end table next to the bookcase. I also had a large plastic shoebox-sized container that held any extra gear (Accessory Pack items, duplicate accessories acquired from friends, non-Joe accessories I used for play that weren't already assigned to specific figures, etc.).

The other side of the room was another set of the large display shelves and housed my "Star Wars" collection.

_________________

Started out in a cardboard box (a tomato box -the sturdy kind), but then graduated to a Rubbermaid tote as the collection grew. No organization whatsoever, so by the time I dumped everything out, re-assembled my playsets, found weapons for everyone, and set up all of my battles, I was bored and would just dump everything back into the tote. Pretty sure that contributed to the collecting "hiatus" I began in '87

_________________

Shelving all on shelving. Still do it the same way to this day.

_________________

Cardboard box, then one year for my birthday i got the GI Joe case, awesome.

_________________

As a kid, I stored them in the Joe APC. Had every seat and foot peg used up but it was nice to have the Joe team together. Cobras got placed in a shoebox then the Terrordrome when I scored one for Christmas.

_________________

Originally, as a kid EVERYTHING was in a box in my closet.

As I got older, I bought 2 figure carrying cases, and used them to sort weapons, 1 for Joes, 1 for Cobra.

Then, figures in a box, and Vehicles on shelves in the closet, and in drawers under my bed.

_________________

On the floor, with everything else.

I don't remember where I kept my action figures, when mom made clean my room. I probably had a drawer or a box, for them.

_________________

All my vehicles sat on shelves, we had a lot of shelving built into our beds in our room when I was a kid and Joes were the only toy I really bought a lot of. All my figures and parts fit into this red box I had. I think it was a box for Matchbox cars. Which ever figures didnt fit in there got stuffed into the Rolling Thunder.