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Light is the real enemy
PVC holds pigment well in shade and poorly in sunlight. The first casualty is always white — hair, coats, the moulded cloud or smoke under a flying pose — which drifts towards cream over a season on a sunny sill and never comes back. Reds follow.
An interior wall solves it completely and costs nothing. If the only shelf you have faces a window, a glass door with any UV rating buys you years, and even a sheer curtain helps more than it looks like it should.
Bases, heat and the summer lean
Prize bases clip rather than screw, and the clip is only as stiff as the plastic is cool. A figure that looks subtly wrong after a hot month is almost always just leaning. Lift it off the base, leave it lying flat somewhere cool for a day, and clip it back — it usually returns.
The mid-air lines need more care because the base is carrying the whole sculpt on one effect part. Keep those away from the edge of a shelf and away from anything that gets opened near them.
Dust, and what not to clean with
A soft dry brush, worked from the top down. A makeup brush is ideal; a toothbrush is not. Get the dust off before it packs into the recesses of hair and cloth, because once it is in there, getting it out risks more than leaving it.
Household sprays lift tampo printing, and tampo printing is how faces, eyes and insignia are applied. It does not go back on. If something genuinely needs wet cleaning, water on a cotton bud, nowhere near a printed area, dried immediately.
Keep the box
Prize packaging is engineered to survive a crane dropping it from height, which makes it better protection than anything you would improvise later. Flat-pack the carton and keep the clamshell. If you ever move, sell or simply want the shelf back for a season, you will be glad of it.
Arranging a shelf
Height bands do the work. Put the tall display pieces at the back or on their own shelf where nothing has to be reached past them, and group the small desk formats at the front where their detail is actually visible. Figures from the same line sit together naturally because the format already matched them — same base style, same finish, same scale.