# Securing licensed figures: the card, the figure, the variant

> Securing licensed figures: do not crease the packaging, note the variant, avoid sun, take rare cards out of the big stack.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/lizenzfiguren-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

Figures from a large licensed universe, from Star Wars to what came after, follow the rule for [action figures](/artikel/action-figures-ovp-sichern). The card is often the price, the variant the difference, the sun the slow damage. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) this is not its own type of safe, but the same physics.

## What you do differently from playing

Sealed stays sealed. The rare variant goes on the list with the small difference you will still understand in a year: a card, a color, a print. It does not sit in the stack by the door.

## The folder

Line, year, variant, original packaging or loose, proof, photo of the card.


## Häufige Fragen

### All figures separately?

Only the ones whose price you want to prove and replace. The rest as a box.

### Crease the card?

Then the condition is a different one.

### Same cabinet as the watches?

Only if the climate and the sum fit. Cardboard wants it dry and not hot.