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Thanks guys, As for the dust issue... i was planning on using bookshelves to display some of my cheaper toys and transformers anyways so at least this looks nicer. All of my important stuff will be inside the Detolfs, so basically all my Macross toys, Mospeada, Transformers Masterpieces and Binaltechs, and other expensive goodies. =] Things to go on the open glass shelves: Star Wars legos, all other transformers generations, Final Fantasy figs, misc stuff i collect

So after trying to put out some of my toys on my small bookcases, i realized i didn't have a lot of space there to display larger stuff so another brilliant idea came to mind! I used the extra glass sides leftover from the detolf cases to make long shelves! All i did was buy wall brackets and shelving brackets and viola... Here's my messy room as a work in progress as i need to sort through all my toys

Add the glass sides, doors, and top pieces! Top bolted together just like the bottom pieces See how small the gap is now between the doors in the front. I can barely stick my finger through whereas i could fit my whole hand into the original frame Now all of my detolfs stacked side by side in pairs Here's a pic after i added all the mending plates to all my detolfs and bolted down the detolfs to the wall using shelf brackets

Finally finished building my display cabinets! Here's pictures of how i put it together I sawed off the edge of the detolf boards before putting them together: I drilled holes and used mending plates, bolts, nuts, and washers to hold the two pieces Here's what the bottom side looks like And now putting in the frame for the Detolf

We're less than 3 weeks away from MW Con 2009!... i'm going to be at Anime Expo this weekend promoting the con if anyone wants to stop by and say hi.. .i'll be at the AnimePunch Booth between rows 500 and 600 in the middle of the hall. Hope to see some of you there

unfortunately due to limited supply, goodies (macross flyers and advertisements) will be given priority to attendees. If there's anything left over, i'll post it up. Hope you can attend some day!

Here's the king of Minmay Guard customs.... the Thunder Hammer Minmay Guard which belongs to Solscud

So i've got some bad news that's out of my control. Effective July 1st, UCLA is raising their parking rates to $10 per day instead of $9. Sorry folks, so i encourage you guys to possibly meet somewhere and carpool! There are other options for parking too, like parking for free around the UCLA apartments and walking about half a mile, or if you plan on staying for a few hours, you can do metered parking for less than $10. I'll see if i can post a map soon of the con location and possible parking areas

hehe... of course! mmmm.... Cake

We don't have anything as exclusive as last year's Mikimoto sketch, but we'll have a regular raffle drawing at the Con this year to give out some cool prizes from our sponsors! And thanks MacrossMan for your appreciation of the organizers. All the funds raised are actually used to support the con and future cons. With everyone's support, hopefully we'll be able to keep these cons going and at little or no cost for MW'ers haha... and i'm hoping to see if we can get some special cosplayers to attend the con this year.

Unfortunately, MacrossMan is right. Due to UCLA's policy, we aren't allowed to sell things on campus BUT we are looking into ways to get around this. We may have "Donation" boxes next to some potential vendors where you can donate money, and receive an item for your donation. Still working out the details of this. However, we usually have some vendors attend, but not a huge amount of kits and vintage stuff for sale. But tons of cool displays for sure!

see this thread for more info: http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...68&hl=tsinc

what are you looking for exactly?

if i'm gonna pay out the ass for this.. i want it BIG... gotta get your money's worth

Nice design EXO. I don't even think we need the location and dates on there. Not really a fan of wearing dated Tshirts, but having the year is okay.

Thanks to EXO, our official Artistic Director of MacrossWorld Convention... haha...

i agree with the Bandai Macross 7 toys.... both the VF-19s and VF-17s are solid toys that a child could play with. Plus they are fairly cheap especially if you find the bootleg versions I found some for $3 at one point

I was thinking this might be possible too, as long as you connect all 3 detolfs at the top and base. However, i don't really see much benefit from making the shelves wider for the extra effort. the shelf size of the 2 detolfs is more than enough space to display any 1 toy, (except maybe the new yamato SDF-1) so i think i'll just have several display cabinets in sets of 2 detolfs each. haha... i'll post up my room pics once i get more displays.

Detolfs usually do a decent job of keeping out dust, even though there are some small gaps in the front to make room for the glass door to swing. I'm hoping to eliminate the gap in my cases and make the doors as flush as possible. If there is any dust... at least it'll be minimal and the toys won't be exposed

And the highest amount i believe that was ever charged for a Con was back in 2005 when they charged a mandatory $20 to purchase a CD from Mari Iijima who was a guest that year. In 2007, Mari also returned and we had different levels of pre-registration fees to cover costs of her attendance. We've also been fortunate in booking free locations each year to keep costs down. Location, Location, Location is always the 1st step to booking a con as you know, so if you can work at getting it for free or low costs, then there's no need to charge registration fees unless you want to profit from it... =P or buy pizza like we used to.... haha

Hi Ruskii, We've had Macross movie/anime showings at the cons before and we've gotten away with using a projector on a 100" screen and high quality videos. This year we're setting it up in a separate room that we can arrange any way we like so costs are minimal. As for the free con, I've been working hard connecting the UCLA Anime Club since they are able to reserve rooms for free for events they host. It is free not only for members of MacrossWolrd, but for anyone who even happens to walk by. We're trying to introduce some new fans to Macross. Of course we'll beefen up security around our Macross displays, but there will always be a core group MW'ers hanging around. As EXO mentioned, parking is the only issue as it's $9/day. There are also metered parking spots if you only plan on staying a few hours, but they charge $3/hour. I'll post a map of UCLA and point out exactly where the con is later. In other good news, we've gotten a few more replies from sponsors that i'll announce once i've confirmed them!

nice display MacrossMan, I thought about getting those custom glass cubes like you have, but they have the same problem the Detolfs have which is the limited space per each cube.... you can only fit 1 valkyrie in fighter mode for each cube/square Sucked for me since fighter mode is my favorite for a lot of valks so i was definitely looking for more horizontal space in my displays... but i like my new solution... i'll post up pics when i shave off the ends and put up all my valks

I never even thought of that. That would be a lot easier than my idea of putting a clear acrylic strip in the front and back to cover the gap... haha... i'll probably shave it down this weekend and see how if i can come up with a good way to latch them together.

this is SOOOO brilliant that i'm sad i didn't think of this before... So as i was sitting in my toy room looking at how i want to set up my display cases... i was debating about investing in an expensive display case with lights and mirrors and sliding glass doors... This would have cost maybe $500 or more for the size i wanted... I even looked at buying raw materials to build one, but after going to Lowe's and doing research, it cost almost $400 in materials so i didn't want to bother... Then i look at my detolfs a couple of days ago and a crazy idea came to me... What if i took out one of the sides of the detolfs and put 2 of them together to create a larger shelf space? and BAM... instant super display case! The bad thing about Detolfs are the limited shelf space because of the square size, but now i can display a LOT more stuff on each shelf... The only bad thing is that there's a gap in the glass doors, but it's better than putting it in a plain bookcase. I may even look into filling that gap somehow.... now onto the pics to describe what i'm talking about! Here's a picture of some TF's in 2 separate Detolfs Now here's my new detolfs with each missing 1 side of glass to create a longer shelf. See the transformers in the middle and the box below Check out how many valks i can display in fighter mode across my 2 detolfs... You could never do that in a single detolf case Close of up the valks on the shelf and there you have it!!! my new display case method!! Instead of spending $500 bucks on 1 display case... i'm going to buy a bajillion Detolfs for $60 each and create these new display cases. I'm probably going to latch the cases together for more stability, but they are pretty stable on their own so far... I'm so excited!

More good news in terms of sponsors! Tokyohunter and ToyHell.com have donated items for this year's con. Thanks for your support of MW Con 2009!