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Maintaining Your Collection

Learn how to clean dirty figures, keep new figures in new condition, insure your collection and bring a beat up vintage figure back to life. Learn what tools to use and not use to keep your figures looking their best.

Action Figure Repair: Reshaping Bent Plastic

Action Figure Repair: Reshaping Bent Plastic

That Figure Needs a Bath!

How to safely clean your action figures with simple household items.

Collection Protection

How to find the right insurance, policies and appraisals for your prized collection.

How to Care for Your Action Figure Collection

Taking care of your action figures is just as important as which figures you collect. The proper care will help your collection look great and maintain their collectible value for years to come.

Cleaning Your Figures from Head to Toe

This article from McFarlane Figures goes into the steps to keeping your figures nice and sparkling. It deals with dust, stains and even how to wash the figure's hair.

Advice for Figure Storage

Keeping figures in great shape depends a lot on how you store them. This article gives some helpful tips on what to do with figure not currently on display.

Step by Step Action Figure Cleaning

Following these step-by-step directions will greatly help your grungy, old figures shine like new. Includes pictures for clearer instruction.

Keep Track of Your Collection

Visual Pack Rat is a software program specifically designed for collector to help you build a database of what's in your collection. No more rooting through cardboard boxes in the garage!

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