>>10509104>>10509112Ventilation isnt really needed.
You just need to air it out every 6-12 months (just open the box for 15 minutes).
I used to work in a fancy library, complete with death trap rooms that kill people to save old films and books from fires, and they only made us ventilate boxed shit twice a year. You can get by on once a year, because new plastics (1990s+) are designed to be stable.
If you live in some armpit city, stick a few moisture packets in there and swap those out every time you air your toys out.
Sticking your toys in a plastic box is safer than leaving them out. Air is corrosive and you'll see far more damage from this than plasticizers (assuming it's a good plastic and not defective). But even air takes about a decade before you start seeing any damage to the colors of the plastic.
Personally, i keep most of my collection boxed up and because i rotate my displays and even play with my toys, theyre constantly being opened. There are some boxes i don't touch for over a year, those are full of harder plastic (fewer plasticizers) toys, so i don't have to be that anal. However this won't fully save your toys, because sometimes plastic is just complete shit. Lines like Revoltech and Figma have had brand new figures shittiing themselves in less than a year, but they're pretty isolated cases. So in very rare cases like this, you'll have a wet sticky mess that'll be all over your other figures no matter what you do.
Pic of some airtight metal boxes I use. These seperators were bought seperately and you can use them a toy is fragile and transfers paint too easily. Very few toys are this shit though. Even custom painted stuff requires a lot of rough handling and jostling to scrap paint off.
