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Besides comics what else do you collect?
dubbat138
Posts: 3,200
For me I collect the following.
Pez dispensers,I have close to 400 of them and use them to decorate my X-mas tree every year now.
DVD/Blu Rays,Got my first player back in early 98. And last time I bothered to count my collection I was at around 5000.
Action figures,I use to be a hardcore action figure collector. But over the past 6 years I have slacked off. Mainly cause I don't have the room I use to,to display them.
Pez dispensers,I have close to 400 of them and use them to decorate my X-mas tree every year now.
DVD/Blu Rays,Got my first player back in early 98. And last time I bothered to count my collection I was at around 5000.
Action figures,I use to be a hardcore action figure collector. But over the past 6 years I have slacked off. Mainly cause I don't have the room I use to,to display them.
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JoeSergi Posts: 78
I collect movie soundtracks. I listen to them when I write. Like my comics, I have way too many and not nearly enough. ;-)
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Miraclemet
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then you arent collecting comics right...debt
I am extremely lucky in that I am not in any form of monetary debt currently.
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Zhurrie
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Yixing Teapots - Handmade teapots made with a special type of clay that are used for one tea only for their life and take on a persona of their own.
Vinyl Art Toys - Dunnys, Touma, 1:6 scale stuff, resin, and make custom cast and painted toys.
G.I. Joes - I have all of my originals in NM condition from the early 80's as well as my favorites from newer releases. Most in both MOC and opened.
Books - I love 1st editions of my most beloved books and I love to read.
Tea - I have a huge selection and deal in tea but I have some highly prized Puer teas that are aged like fine wines and that I have been caring for for about 10-15 years. -
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Greg
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Comics are the only thing left for me, I parted with just everything that I was collecting.
Baseball cards stopped when all of the talk about steroids started.
Basketball cards stopped after Sir Charles Barkley retired.
Football cards, action figures, comic trading cards, card games and rpg books all stopped for no reason other than I was running out of room.
Wargame miniatures stopped because I can't paint anymore.
On my weekend walks my route takes me around all twelve of the antique shops in town, and I am very close to hunting down a vintage operable or repairable record player and getting back into vinyl records. -
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On my weekend walks my route takes me around all twelve of the antique shops in town, and I am very close to hunting down a vintage operable or repairable record player and getting back into vinyl records.
Oop, I forgot till your reply, I also collect/restore Pinball machines. Currently on the hunt for a World Cup Soccer '94 and my dream is to own a Medieval Madness.
Vinyl is so nice especially in today's glut of digital music and compression even on CDs... sitting down to some great Jazz, classic rock, or even newer stuff like Sigur Ros on vinyl is a true pleasure. I just helped my dad set up his old rig, a Girard turntable and Harmon Kardon amp and speakers. He had a Roy Buchanan album still in the turntable from when it was used last and it was just sublime. Sadly, though, a lot of newer bands that put out vinyl press the vinyl with the already compressed digital master version so it kind of kills the point... but not all of them do and there is still a lot of great vinyl new and old to be had. -
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John_Steed
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I like that very much since I'm also on the hunt for a record player. Still got around 200 albums - but my record player didn't make it.
On my weekend walks my route takes me around all twelve of the antique shops in town, and I am very close to hunting down a vintage operable or repairable record player and getting back into vinyl records.
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JGala
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LPs (records) - books - little figures - and I'm recollecting the orignal 151 pokemon cards ohhhhh yess >.< -
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batlaw
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Comic book related merch toys and collectables (mainly Batman). Although this has died to almost nothing over the last couple years. Now Im just finishing whatever is left of JLU figures and Im still buying various Batmobiles I happen to find. Working on getting rid of most my other stuff but just too overwhelming. -
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BetaRayBen
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Black t-shirts, maps, concert tickets (even though I rarely get to go out anymore), and Schleich/Papo animals (they're for my kids, honest (okay, partly for my kids!). -
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MikeGallagher
Posts: 547
Criterion collection DVDs
Books about comics history.
Star wars stuff-but I'm getting tired of star wars
Tron stuff
Some trek stuff
70s/80s anime magazines and art books
Used to collect soundtracks
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EarthGBilly
Posts: 362
On purpose?
Original published pages from comics
Commissioned art of my defunct webcomic's lead character
Batman: Black & White Statues
Green Lantern Action Figures
Large Action figures (Hefty or large, things like Marvel Select Juggernaut, that 67 points of articulation figure of Spider-Man from the second movie, Build-a-Figure/Collect 'n Connect, or those "My Size" movie figures that are two and a half feet tall from Spider-Man, Batman Begins, Superman Returns. I have, like, 12 or 14 of those my size figures. It looks like a bizarre army.)
Things that I ended up with a lot of but never actually considered that I was "collecting":
Transformers/Marvel Crossover figures - My family started buying these for me one year. Never asked for them. I mean, they are kinda cool, but don't know what to do with them. I have the first two or three waves.
Superhero bobble heads - Again, the family. I guess it comes from them not quite knowing what to get me... they see a superhero item, and jump at it. It is also the reason I end up with a lot of dollar store crap like Spider-Man pens and Iron Man notebooks.
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Torchsong
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I don't "collect", I "amass" :)
I don't know that I "collect" comics because if I miss an issue it's not the end of the world for me. I used to collect DVDs but then I realized that was a futile pursuit so I stick to just buying maybe 2-3 a year (superhero based, natch).
There's really only one thing the wife and I passionately buy anything we can get our hands on - MST3K merchandise. -
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As a family we have been hitting up Art and Franco for Tiny Titans sketches, and get a Marvel character once in awhile. We have the start of a nice collection going.
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Grimsister
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jewelry
novelty key chains
console games
badges, manga/anime/graphic novels
Doctor Who stuff
pictures (JPEG form mainly)...
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JohnathanConstantine
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Criterion collection DVDs
I agree @MikeGallagher with the Star Wars thing. I love Star Wars & used to collect a whole lot of stuff but that ceased after a while. I kept on with the books & not the figures or merchandise but my book collection has ceased to a degree. I usually go to the library for book. Although I did have to buy the AT-AT toy when I saw it.
Books about comics history.
Star wars stuff-but I'm getting tired of star wars
Tron stuff
Some trek stuff
70s/80s anime magazines and art books
Used to collect soundtracks
Vangelis
I did go a bit insane on the Marvel build-a-figures and went trying to go back and buying all that stuff but it became too costly and after I got the figures that I wanted. -
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I collected practically anything star wars I could until 1999 when the prequel broke me. Way too much useless stuff with the same image over and over.
The novels lost my business post yuzzahn vong.
The comics usually suck. I have zero interest in the old republic nonsense.
I dig the clone wars.
The toys don't do it for me any longer. I had collected only Jedi but that got ridiculous. Then just droids and that was crazy too. Now I occasionally get a figure to add to my death star diorama.
I still get art books and making of books.
I have been moving more towards star trek. But collecting trek is better by far. It's easier to be picky. And poor. Lol -
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LibraryBoy
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I'm a Pez head, too. I used to try and get just about everything, but that got to be too much, so now I just mostly go for superheroes, sci-fi, and other geeky ones (I'm all over the new Presidents series, for instance). I don't have any that are too old, nor any of the ones I had as a kid (why didn't I hold onto that soft-headed Batman dispenser I had back then?!? :(( ), but I do have a bunch of Europe-only sets (Asterix, Super Mario, Tom & Jerry, Mr. Bean) and a few random store-specifc ones (an Austrian supermarket named Zielpunkt, Jack in the Box, FAO Schwartz). I need to get the Geico gecko and Chik-Fil-A cow now! -
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Michael777
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Tons and tons of imported DragonBall and One Piece products are my main obsession and throw in various nerdy merchandise as well but not a specific focus on any of those. If i see a Simpsons toy that looks god ill pick it up but not go out of my way to bid on ebay for it... now if it's buy it now that's a different story... oh, tattoos too I guess. -
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I will definitely take a CFA Cow if you can grab one, @dubbat138, and will gladly reimburse cost and shipping. It'd be much easier than going the eBay route, and we don't have any CFAs out here in Rhode Island (or in New England at all, not that I'm aware of, anyway, though we still get the ads for some reason).
If you want I can grab you a Chik-Fil-A cow this upcoming weekend. I am heading to the coast and always stop at a Chik to eat lunch. The oldest Pez I have is an Spiderman from the late 60s,and a Tweety Bird from around the same time. I have cut way back on the ones I buy now. Mainly cause like you said they put out so much. Plus there is lines I have no interest in like the Nascar ones,Disney Princesses and the Tinkerbell ones. Let me know before next Friday if you still want the CFA Cow. I need to track down Mr Bean. I have also been picking up the various Marvel Klix I find at various dollar stores.
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rebis Posts: 1,820
I've started a meager collection of 1/9 scale model kits. I started buying these to use as props for the custom megos I make. However, It's taken on a life of it's own.
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LOL I have a decent sized collection of those also.