Do You Collect Anything?
polycounter lvl 18
Hello folks! Just wondering what kinda things you nerds collect. Old hard drives, stamps, licence plates, video games? Well here is my current NES collection. One day i will have them all! almost 1/2 way there!!!
So far i have 323 games and counting!
So far i have 323 games and counting!
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I don't collect anything myself, and can't think of a time that I ever did. I guess I'm just weird
As for me...oh yes I collect.
Shot glasses - have about 140 of them, trying to get at least one from every location. (so if anyone wants to send me a present, tee hee!)
Simpsons figures - The Playmates collection. Only missing a few Toyfare exclusives. Thanks to 3D Guy I got most of the Toys R Us exclusives.
Typical girly stuff - Snowman/penguins, ballet stuff, ceramic knick knacks all around.
Everything else I have is pretty random, wouldn't call them collections.
PS. Sundance, Nerd Groupie slept in the room right next to teh room that picture was taken in!!!!
Random Transformers
old school g.i.joes and vehicals
Xevoz
12 inch McFarlane figures or equivalent
Any hot chick figure
Homies
This is my latest addition from My neighbour Totoro...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~tetsuo/wip/totoro-cel-framed.jpg
Nerd Groupie: Haha, you should see our cupboard here at the flat ... we make a point of stealing 6 glasses every time a new theme comes out in the local nightclubs and/or student union ... we have a very large selection at the moment!
Me, I'm slowly collecting guitars
I have 5 at the moment, both electric and acoustic, in various conditions and qualities.
I also used to collect Games Workshop miniatures a few years back, I have quite a lot of Orcs and Goblins, but it became too expensive to continue. I could probably sell what I've got and make a fair bit of cash.
I also collect what KDR collects.
MoP
Nerd Groupie you ever get that Radioactiveman and milhouse one?
PS. Sundance, Nerd Groupie slept in the room right next to teh room that picture was taken in!!!!
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Ya know what? I don't believe I ever did. Dammit. Chalk that up to a future Ebay must have.
And if you want to get technical, I slept in the room the picture was taken in too.
And Mop, that makes me jealous.
ps again, receipt says 10/03/03
Particularly liking the Carvin DC127, and the paint job on that Warlock is cool
A wide variety indeed!
I collect transformers stuff. I have all the binaltech transformers except jazz and tracks (i want the blue version) And every version of optimus prime, I only keep out the original one which I have since I was a kid and masterpiece prime. Also I have transfomrers curtains... wooeee!
receipts from titty bars....
Oh, and I also collect anything Evangelion related and odd lighters.
I'm beginning to collect old computer parts.
I buy shot glasses for my parents whenever I travel. They have a nice collection now. Bought them a Hell shot glass when I went to Hell...Grand Cayman.
/jzero
NG A girl who collects shot glasses, wow that is so cool!
Bearkub I think 1300 counts kub. Sheesh. : )
If I had more room Id collect more stuff.
Like /jzero I have an old retro IBM steel case 8088 with monitor & keyboard.
And I have about 6 old keyboards, I dont know why.
I also have 7 volkswagon bugs that need restored badly. I guess this counts.
1.) All infantry weapons of the nations participating in WW2
2.) U.S,. Infantry long arms since the Civil War
Uniforms
Uniforms of the nations participating in WW2. Missing Japan and Italy.
Modern U.S.
a few Law enforcement items.
Toys
Alot of Dragon 12 Figures, but have since stopped. Can't keep up, and ran out of space.
Xevos toys. Missing the vapire vs. Werewolf set. Toy lines sems to have been discontinued.
All the Incredibles happy Meal toys.
Music
Movie soundtracks.
Books
Coffe table books on uniforms and equipment of WW2
art "How to Draw" books from before the 1960's.
Art Books of various cultures.
Military Non-Fiction, especially frombefore the 1960's.
Shop and gunsmithing manuals from before the 1960's
Scott
and why single out me for that comment?
haven't counted in a while, but i thinks its up around 150 different dispensers.
I also used to collect comics, had about 10,000 of them at one point. But when you've got 20+ long boxes, they just take up too much space. So, I was broke, and decided to make my fortune, selling the bulk of them. The price guides told me that I had over $50,000 worth of comics that I wanted to move. But alas, this was before EBay, and their was a huge comics glut. I got about $300 for them, and there was nothing I could do about it, as I was physically unable to move them any more.
Now I collect nothing, as I realize that I am a bit prone to obsessive/compulsiveness with regards to collections. I still buy a lot of CDs, but just to listen to, not as a fan-collector of imports or anything. I'm planning on buying real-estate instead, with all of the money I'm saving. It's a much better investment than collectibles anyway.
I AM UP TO 324 GAMES NOW! just got Bad News Baseball!
Sundance because you go crazy anytime a female who touches a computer talks.
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This is true
i used to collect comic books and magic cards, but not anymore.
Holy crap Duke.
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$600 bucks in 1986
edit:
Mop, do not partake of that triple funnel of doom! alcohol should be sipped heavily into a drunken stupor. Not guzzled into fuckeduptiness in 5 minutes!
With the addition of more duck tape, the triple-cider-funnel thing with the tap attached to the end actually works, although under tremendous pressure. It actually fires across the room if you're not careful. It will fill a pint glass in under 2 seconds. It used to leak until we patched it up with more duck tape.
Proven "nice" combinations - Apple Sourz, Southern Comfort + Lemonade - we call it a "Cutaway"
Bols Blue, Midori + Lemonade is a rather vibrant green colour and very nice to drink.
Limoncella is a fine drink to enjoy neat.
We will put the triple-cider-cannon thing to use tomorrow night, when it's one of my flatmates' birthdays. Hurrah!
(I'm amazed my typing and spelling is so consistent... must be force of habit.)
MoP
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As you should be! WOW!
And I so want to to party with Mop.
Nerd Groupie: Damn straight you do. And the best thing is, the party isn't until tomorrow night... by which time more people will have arrived bearing more drinks...
We also have a design for a better bar optic, which would mix drinks before you even put them in the glass. That's still up in the air though, the duck-tape and tubing affair with the cider bottles is enough hassle already.
Also not in that photo (for some reason) is a keg.
I will try to get a photo of the full array before everyone gets stuck in tomorrow night (tonight in fact, it's 2:40am).
You may have also noticed the post-it notes on the wall behind the drinks - they read "To Evil" - the salute we always make before drinking! A fine choice, I feel.
Ha!
I have an Action Figure collection from when I was a kid
And a Garage full of Working but obsolete computer equipment
(i hate diet coke, by the way, but when we run out of diet dr pepper, i hit my dad's stash of sodas til the fridge is full again)
i'll get a photo of my shotglass collection soon..
And Vinyls.
used to collect:
*starwars figures (i have a 12inch Wookiee!)
*pen and paper RPG books (have many of the WhiteWolf core rules books and several supplements, Dead Lands, WestEnd Games StarWars Rpg and alot(20 maybe) of the source books for it, a couple WotC StarWars rpg books, DnD 3rd edition, several ADnD second edition books along with half a dozen Ravenloft supplements, a couple Mechwarrior books, Battletech boxed set.)
*comics (mostly X-Men, New Warriors, and TMNT)
*Wizard magazine special edition figures: a couple Witchblade, Buffy, Willow, and a FF8 Bahamut