Took some photos for another forum so i might as well post it here.
What are you collecting?
I used to collect Hot Toys figures as well, sold them all off when i started purchasing modular synths, too expensive to do both. Kept like 90% of my other figures though.
edit: need to zoom out a lot.. pictures gets immensely large on here
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Mine is too pathetic to even be displayed I'm kinda lightweight when it comes to this kinda stuff, but to each his own pleasures - and if I were rich, you can bet I'd have a kickass collection
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I dont have any myself. But that is fucking awesome looking vurt!
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I'm a nerd, not a geek
Have never seen star wars (at least any one movie in a whole sitting, seen the whole thing but in pieces when others are watching it) or star trek.
Difference to me anyway:
Nerds are people that are fascinated about math/science and data about it.
Geeks are fascinated about shows/pop culture/movies/media and trivia about it.
A music nerd is obsessed with music theory. A Music geek is obsessed with a genre of music.
In simpsons: Comic book guy is a geek. Professor Frink is a nerd
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I don't have any figures. I did own a couple of the official "Return of the Jedi" figures the same year the movie was released but I obviously played with them and they disappeared (were thrown away by the evil elders) long before they became collectibles. I wonder what my Luke, Han Solo and Speeder would sell for today. No, don't answer.
My first "what would become a collectors item" was a ~15 cm Star Trek Enterprise 1701 (TOS) in metal and a functioning photon torpedoes. Small yellow "pucks" that you put into a slot in the front of the ship and then pulled a flat lever to "charge" it and pressed the lever to fire the photon "puck". I bet that would fetch a pretty penny today.
The only collectables I have (and they're not really collectables anymore) are:
Phantasm 1-4 dvd collection in the amazing Phantasm sphere edition (expensive)
The Evil Dead - first gen Necronomicon edition (the rubber making up the outer cover started falling apart a decade ago)
Two or three Red Dward DVD boxes with models/figures.
LoTR: Two Towers - Minas Tirith statue that had some stuff knocked off when one of my cats collapsed my entire bookshelf.
Event Horizon blabla
Hellraiser Box set in Lament Configuration Box
and some other stuff I've forgotten.
In the end I think Vurt's Balrog is cooler than everything I have put together.
In the end I think Vurt's Balrog is cooler than everything I have put together.
I agree. I don't collect. But I'd put that one in my room in a shelf just for itself.
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-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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Been a while since a got another one, used to be very much into Hot Toys as well, but the quality has gone a bit down the drain the last 5 years or so, and they only have Marvel and Star Wars, it seems
I'm still in the market for some of the older HTs, the 1/4 scale T800 in particular, but the prices are ridiculous.
I don't have the space to display everything, so most of the stuff is kept (mint ) in the box, in the attic. They're incredible dust magnets, so I'll only display them in a proper display cabinet. One day I'll make work of it, but I'm gonna need a bigger house
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
I am into Lego childhood addiction which went out of control! Retro Lego city, not the recent ones... Soon to be handed over to my son who just became 1 year old
I'm not a consoooooooomer so I don't have shit
Just kidding men, I have 6-7 small lego technic cars and boats around, would probably have more if I had the space for it.
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i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
Then I got into legos. Lego's is what made me want to be an architect, took it all 4 years of highschool, and a cross over year of it in 'college'. If you was eligible you could take 1/2 days of last year of high school as college credit courses...so I had two architecture classes final year, but then life went sideways..lol
I would still be into them I suppose. Lego technics is awesome, just so damn expensive. And I got my woodworking and coding that sort of fills that need to 'make' things.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
I don't have any figures. I did own a couple of the official "Return of the Jedi" figures the same year the movie was released but I obviously played with them and they disappeared (were thrown away by the evil elders) long before they became collectibles. I wonder what my Luke, Han Solo and Speeder would sell for today. No, don't answer.
Less than you think. It's the rare figures that are worth a bit, not those, they are too common, the speeder bike every kid got for Christmas..
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Nice collection, I like the custom backdops!
Been a while since a got another one, used to be very much into Hot Toys as well, but the quality has gone a bit down the drain the last 5 years or so, and they only have Marvel and Star Wars, it seems
I'm still in the market for some of the older HTs, the 1/4 scale T800 in particular, but the prices are ridiculous.
I don't have the space to display everything, so most of the stuff is kept (mint ) in the box, in the attic. They're incredible dust magnets, so I'll only display them in a proper display cabinet. One day I'll make work of it, but I'm gonna need a bigger house
It does take up a lot of space. If i had a house i'd do big ass dioramas, probably i would get into Warhammer, it looks so cool when you see those really detailed dioramas that people play on.
I was into He-Man, Star Wars and LEGO as a kid, before that Big Jim dolls and Playmobil. Not sure Playmobil was big outside europe. Big Jim was like the gayest shit ever Not to a kid though, but the name is suspicious haha... We didn't have GI Joe in Sweden, at least i can't recall ever seeing those here, maybe they were after He-Man, in that case i was too old.
I never wanted to quit getting action figures as a kid, but collecting figures was never really a thing, it was something for kids to play with and when you got older (12+ or whatever) the norm was to give it your younger brother or your parents gave it to some younger relative or whatever.
I now have my revenge!
Then I got into legos. Lego's is what made me want to be an architect, took it all 4 years of highschool, and a cross over year of it in 'college'. If you was eligible you could take 1/2 days of last year of high school as college credit courses...so I had two architecture classes final year, but then life went sideways..lol
I would still be into them I suppose. Lego technics is awesome, just so damn expensive. And I got my woodworking and coding that sort of fills that need to 'make' things.
We didn't have GI Joe in Sweden, at least i can't recall ever seeing those here, maybe they were after He-Man, in that case i was too old.
It was the same 80's timeframe for them. But maybe because it was american military 'everything has guns, even some automated guns has its own little guns' and cartoon was laser gun battles galore of US military specialist, it didn't catch on/get picked up everywhere.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
Maybe.
No one ever died in the cartoon. Despite it being the top tier US military vs the top villainous organization, They just spayed the area with 'pew pew' laser rifles everywhere while people took cover or ran heroically to a place. A think a few times jets got shot down, but always made sure to show the pilot eject to safety.
Typical cartoon scene below, sort of like transformers I guess. No one died or got hurt seriously, but a LOT of space lasers pew pew.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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I don't think the series aired here, likely the reason why they didn't think the toys could sell well.
Would not surprise me if they thought the series was too violent for kids because of all that pew-pew and it wasn't possible to air it here, even though it seems like it was really kind of lame.
I don't think Transformers was anything that big here either, i only remember Transformers from the C64 game, not from seeing the toys or series.
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) in the box, in the attic. They're incredible dust magnets, so I'll only display them in a proper display cabinet. One day I'll make work of it, but I'm gonna need a bigger house 
