What Sorts of Collections Do You Have?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 4:35 pm

Indeed. I got my first girlfriend at age 14. But I was picking myself up during that year in my life. I was coming off a year of terrible depression, the worst I ever had. Age 14 for me was a huge gain in my life.

*looks at my topic getting horribly off course....*
Maybe I should have said no SPAM.....

Ah well, its all good. SPAM AWAY!

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 7:56 pm

Let's get this back on track.

Here's a pic of part of my collection of Star Wars figures.

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:02 pm

@HLD....wow, quite the Star Wars fiend

.....do you read the expanded univers books?

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:07 pm

Some of them. I like most of Zahn's stuff, and I like the New Jedi Order. A lot of the EU is crap; wait for our friend Kayless to show up and he'll unload on the EU.

I've tried to stay away from the new figures, but I'm a sucker for Jedi action figures. I had some more figures on other shelves, but I'm in the process of re-arranging "my" room so they've been taken down and are awaiting a new display area.

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:11 pm

Heh, I'm into Stackpole and the X-Wing Series, but it's true, in some wierd way the EU doesn't have the same feeling as the original.

You could form a museum with those figures.....I know I could spend hours staring and tinkering with them :

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:13 pm

Yeah, HLD, that is quite an impressive collection.

I dunno why, but I just love that huge mobile attacker of Hoth. I can stare at that thing for minutes for some reason....

The Z · Post by **The Z** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:19 pm

It's kind of funny how Jabba seems to be more prominent then the walkers

and larger too

Kayless · Post by **Kayless** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:44 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave
A lot of the EU is crap; wait for our friend Kayless to show up and he'll unload on the EU.

Don't get me started.

I hate the EU with a passion mankind has never before seen. Nothing could ever persuade me to read any more of that dung. I’d rather have my genitals devoured by a rabid shrew while Roseanne does a striptease to John Tesh music in front of me.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:55 pm

sorry for the spam and run...but well...is this really a wise question to be asking in SYM......?

So what does everyone else have for collections?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 10:00 pm

Why whatever do you mean, DW?

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 11:41 pm

nice thread tyb.

HLD, cool collection of the star wars. I've gave all of my stuff, to my little cousins back in the mid eighties. what a huge mistake, they destroyed all of it. I still have my Millenium Falcon and my Death Star. They're still in excellent condition and probably have had them since 1978. I have my original Darth Vader and Han Solo, also just as old.

I'm a collection junky and have bounced around with so many things. allow me to elaborate.

Movie Collection: About 400 VHS tapes and 60 DVD's
CD's: Close to 1000.
Books: Too numerous to count
Video Games: Nintendo Entertainment system, SNES, N64, Sega system, Xbox, six computer (one is a server) and hundred of games
Magic the Gathering: About 30,000 cards
Sports Cards: Too numerous to count, all sports included.

I've also collect rather nonchalantly, hats, stamps, coins, matchbooks, and an impressive 5 gallon pail of lint (just kidding although after reading this, I'm guessing nothing would surprise any of you).

By the way, this entire list is not boasting in any way. My SO finds it all sick yet endearing and I view the whole thing as a curse. Yeah, I'm a tad obsessive compulsive.

One final collection, a few thousands posts at GameBanshee.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 1:37 am

I'm in the process of starting to collect rare and cult style movies on DVD. Looking for the 1922 version of Nosferatu, well not really looking. Just too lazy to import it.

I have a few guitars, thats kind of a collection, since you can only play one at a time, and I badly want a fourth one.

My assortment of CD's is slowly becoming a collection, at the moment I have an unhealthy average of getting two albums per week.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 8:00 am

Most of my Star Wars figures are the Power of the Force collection which was released around the time of the original trilogy special edition re-releases. I picked up a few of the TPM series figures, but not many, and of the AOTC figures, I have only gone out of my way to pick up the Jedi knight figures (Yoda, Mace Windu, Anakin, et al), but I am getting some of the new figures of original trilogy characters. Many of my old Star Wars figures were destroyed/broken as a result of over-use or they "disappeared" when my mother "cleaned up" my room after I went to college.

I'm don't really actively collect anything else, and even as a collector, I'm not a very good one; as you can see, I've taken all of my figures out of their original packaging (which I still have boxed up, by the way), a big no-no to the people who are into collecting as an investment or a hobby.

Like our friend Flanders, I accumulate junk, ranging from old computer equipment to books to nick-nacks and other stuff I can't bear to throw away. It drives my wife nuts. She's not into storing material things, especially if they have no value or aren't useful. However, she has a fairly substantial stockpile of Longaberger baskets which are scattered throughout the house, but she's not one of the die-hard Longaberger cult members.

Jaesha · Post by **Jaesha** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 9:57 am

Originally posted by Ned Flanders
nice thread tyb.

HLD, cool collection of the star wars. I've gave all of my stuff, to my little cousins back in the mid eighties. what a huge mistake, they destroyed all of it. I still have my Millenium Falcon and my Death Star. They're still in excellent condition and probably have had them since 1978. I have my original Darth Vader and Han Solo, also just as old.

I'm a collection junky and have bounced around with so many things. allow me to elaborate.

Movie Collection: About 400 VHS tapes and 60 DVD's
CD's: Close to 1000.
Books: Too numerous to count
Video Games: Nintendo Entertainment system, SNES, N64, Sega system, Xbox, six computer (one is a server) and hundred of games
Magic the Gathering: About 30,000 cards
Sports Cards: Too numerous to count, all sports included.

I've also collect rather nonchalantly, hats, stamps, coins, matchbooks, and an impressive 5 gallon pail of lint (just kidding although after reading this, I'm guessing nothing would surprise any of you).

By the way, this entire list is not boasting in any way. My SO finds it all sick yet endearing and I view the whole thing as a curse. Yeah, I'm a tad obsessive compulsive.

One final collection, a few thousands posts at GameBanshee.

Wow, Ned, that´s quite an accomplishment!
I used to have a large collection of magic cards, but that seems to do it...

Bloodmist · Post by **Bloodmist** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 10:02 am

Originally posted by Jaesha
Wow, Ned, that´s quite an accomplishment!
I used to have a large collection of magic cards, but that seems to do it...

As i said i have some too. But my collection seems to stagger in front of Ned's.

seraphshattered · Post by **seraphshattered** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 1:47 pm

collections...

i have a horrible need to collect music cds.
i have over 600.
it frightens me sometimes.

i also collect a little bit of anime...still waiting to actually
*own* fruits basket. and the nadesico movie. and a non-
chinese-import version of the cowboy bebop movie.

and i want the nadesico collectible dolls, which are available nowhere anymore.

is that so wrong? *sigh*

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 2:04 pm

Originally posted by Ned Flanders

Magic the Gathering: About 30,000 cards

Wow...can I have them?

I have reformed my love for magic, although at the moment my collection is about, maybe 800 cards

I feel like an unusually healthy and well balanced person. I only own about 100 CDS, maybe 100 or 150 books, as I say, somewhere between 500 and 1000 magic cards, from when I collected Warhammer, I do not have an astonishing number of models (maybe 600, 800), but due to my former constant and fiendishly detailed chopping up and changing of miniatures I have a massive massive collection of chopped up bits, spare arms, guns, oil tanks and other pieces which will no doubt (not) be useful one day

.
I suppose I have a pretty big collection of skecth books

, though I use them, I don't just buy em for fun

I can't think of anything else.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 2:07 pm

CD's, I have over 200 now and it does increase by about 8 a month.

Computer Games, loads and loads of games or pretty much every genre, most of the good PC games of the last few years.l

Books, not a huge collection, though I do manage to fill one book case and 4 shelves...that expands at a rate of 3 a month I think.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Sun Sep 29, 2002 2:34 pm

Warhammer Fantasy and 40k (Table top gaming miniatures, for those who don't know). For Fantasy, I have approx. a 100, 000 point High Elf Army, dating back a few editions. (Thats about 10, 000 models, give or take, all painted by myself). I also have an 80,000 point Imperial Gaurd Elysian Drop Troop Army (For the real buffs, while the IG is a tank army made of humans, the Elysian troop army is nothing but infantry at 6 points a model. Do the math

) all painted, and modified by myself. Suffice it to say, I'm a big hit at Grand Tournaments, and Gamesday events put on by Gamesworkshop.