Storage Cases and Opening Greenlight

A question to my loyal readers (and YouTube followers) - when you open a die cast car, what do you do with it then. Do you have space to display everything you open, or do you have to use some kind of container for the cars that don't fit in a display?

Due to my recent Greenlight arrivals, I needed to make some changes on how I was displaying the cars that were not on display as I was running out of room.

When I started collecting, I picked up two Matchbox 40 car collector tins at Kmart on clearance (in early 2011, New Zealand Kmarts stopped selling Matchbox), and they have been ok. They didn't really stack at all and some larger cars didn't fit in the compartments.

I recently moved over to another case sold at Kmart, a generic 8 compartment storage case for anything. They just happen to fit "most" 1/64 die cast cars and it allows me to stack the cars on top of each other for roughly 16 cars per compartment, for a total of 128 cars per storage case. There are some exceptions, that don't fit well, which does reduce overall capacity.

With the recent arrivals, I am now using 6 storage cases for my collection
1 - Hot Wheels and Matchbox that I opened before implementing the front and rear painted details rule
1 - Hot Wheels and Matchbox that have front and rear painted details, along with Hot Wheels Retro Entertainment
1 - Misc Hot Wheels
1 - Misc Other Brands, including M2 and Maisto
1 - Greenlight Racing and Police Cars
1 - Greenlight "Everything Else"

With a decent amount of space left over in each case for more purchases over the coming year.

With the recent purchases of Greenlight from Toyworld, along with recent arrivals from the USA, it was time to OPEN all of these Greenlight cars and put some into a display rotation (while the rest joined the others in storage).

The resulting waste from opening all these cars, my only complaint with Greenlight is the amount of wasted plastic that has to go to the dump/landfill.

Sadly, shortly after opening these cars I dropped one ... and it broke
Bringing my number of broken Greenlights to four :-(