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[dankingery]

i collect the blade of the immortal trade paper backs.

i've also got several knives.

i also collect union pencil clips and stickers.

i wouldn't say i collect books or comics. if i like something, then i get it and read it, but the pile of crap i have could never be called a collection. maybe an obstruction.

[Reccoom Kaboom]

Things I still collect:
Dallas and seattle music, records, Eric Powell, Frank Millar, Mike Mignola trade paperbacks as well as related merch, Blade of the immortal and Walking dead trades, Vodka that keeps dissapearing, and time lost on the 360.

Things I used to collect and intend to keep:
Cartridge video games and systems, H.P.Lovecraft books and merch

[SaltLakeToyJunkee]

I am a sucker for different types of trading cards. A couple years back I started buying football cards again. But also have movie trading cards such as: TMNT, Ghostbusters, Alf, Gormiti, Battle/Laser Beasts, Harry and the Hendersons. Have a ton of 90's baseball and football cards.

[asator]

I have a nice collection of these as well. Just to throw some odd versions your way...perhaps you will get something new added to your want list.

1 The Drizzt series in comic style.
2 There are alot of FR mini books as well...they have 100 or so pages within the book.
3 If you ever played D&D (I had for many years) 1 Accessory topped all others for players to get posession of. The Forgotten Realms Atlas. If you don't have this, you should try to pick it up. It is cool to read or just look up certain locations like Eliminster's Tower in Shadowdale.
4 Other roleplaying books for Forgotten Realms make a good companion to have with the novels. Examples Monster Manuels, Gods and Deighties.
5 Perhaps the hardest to collect...the short stories that appeared in the Dragon and Dungeon magazines.
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I have the 3 movies, the choose yor adventure video, and am working on the cartoon series. 1 Soundtrack, 2 old Mattel electronic games. (1 Board, 1 LCD handheld), Miniatures everywhere, custom miniaturs I paint and assemble myself, Dragons from many different things (D&D of course), a couple of video games, Neverwinter Nights 1 Complete Collection being my fav. All the trading cards from the early 90's. The old Trading Card indivual package display box! Lots and lots of little vovelties from lighters to pens to dice bags and calenders etc.

Sorry all but D&D gets me excited. I guess I figure there is treasure around somewhere.

However my favorite item is my first notebook from my first serious party that lasted a couple of years. I had about 3 different parties that had some longitivity.

I have the first 2 of the Drizzt comics but havent bothered to get any more. Yet. I was surprised at how good they are and how well they sum up the story without missing too much.

I dont have any of the mini-books but I do have a TON of 1st and 2nd Ed. Forgotten Realms moduals and box sets. I have both 1st and 2nd Ed. Campaign Box Sets, 1st Ed. "Waterdeep and the North", 2nd Ed. "Forgotten Realms Atlas", "Menzoberranzan" Box Set, "Curse of the Azure Bonds", "Elminster's Ecologies", "Forgotten Realms Adventures".... I could go on and on. I have too many to list really.

My wife hates it, hahah. She says, "You dont even PLAY 2nd Edition anymore, why do you keep getting the sourcebooks?" And I say, "It helps me understand the Forgotten Realms world more for when I read the novels." To which she replies, "How much can one person know about a place that DOESNT EVEN EXSIST?!"

Seriously though, when I worked at Half Price Books people would bring in old D&D stuff and my bosses would just let me take it home because it wouldnt sell. I ended up with TONS of old adventures and source books. A bunch of really neat 1st Ed. stuff. No OD&D Box Sets or "Chainmail" though.

Sometimes the box sets would be missing the clear hex things for the maps but they were really all the same anyway and I already have a ton of them so whatev. But yeah, the Forgotten Realms Atlas and the Dragonlance Atlas are two of my favorite sourcebooks. Another cool one, or two really since they released a newer updated one, is "The Art of Dragonlance" books. It basically contains all the artwork that was created for the DL novels and sourcebooks. The older one has the first and second printings cover versions and the newer one has all the newest covers. Boy can Matt Stawicki and Todd Lockwood paint some amazing scenes. Those guys are f'n talented.

Maybe I should start a D&D/Forgotten Realms/Dragonlance thread.

Edited by asator, 05 October 2009 - 10:54 PM.

[TheOrgg]

there's a reason I'm opening a store, lol.

To get things you want at half price and write them off as losses on your taxes?

[transformersontheshelf]

there's a reason I'm opening a store, lol.

To get things you want at half price and write them off as losses on your taxes?

Pshhhhh, no.........

maybe

yeah.....


But more so because it's my main hobby is collecting/selling/trading toys and games. I was working at my local comic shop for a little over 2 years, a year of wich I was Asst. Manager before they closed down. I love the hobby and have never been more happy at a job.

[WhiteLeo]

Drizzt Do'Urden is a bastard!

Yeah, what do you exspect from a guy who names his blades Twinkle and Icingdeath! Give me Wulfgar any day of the week. I love his hammer Aegis-fang!!!!

Back to the topic,
Other than toys, Magic Cards, Coins and Paper Money and a lot of dust!

[asator]

Drizzt Do'Urden is a bastard!

Yeah, what do you exspect from a guy who names his blades Twinkle and Icingdeath! Give me Wulfgar any day of the week. I love his hammer Aegis-fang!!!!

Na, gimme Atremis Entreri's vampiric dagger and Charon's Claw.

[Universal Ruler Supreme]

Human Waste. No, I literally have a giant vat of the stuff under my house. Well....I did have a giant Vat of it. Things were getting a little clogged around here, so I had to get rid of my collection...sadly with the economy like it is I had to pay someone to take the Sh#....stuff. But that's okay, It's not a very expensive hobby, just takes a lot of grunt work, so I've already started back building my collection again.

[Ghost Lion]

Doctor Who novels, comic books, and Cleveland Browns Autographs on mini helmets and 8X10s.

[bigburty]

So I received an item in the post today, completely unrelated to figures/toys, and it got me thinking - what else do you guys out there collect that has nothing to do with toys?

I've been collecting, buying & selling collectibles and small antiques as a hobby for several years now. My father-in-law has been an antiques and collectibles dealer for many years, and seeing of all his items around his house sparked my interest.

Below is a small selection of the vast variety of things I have, featuring a few of my favourite items:


An Austrian 'cold-painted' bronze Bulldog. I wanted a figure like this for quite some time and was delighted to finally bag one at an antiques fair.


A sixpence wireless savings bank from the late 40's/early 60's. The idea was that people would save up £1 worth of sixpences and use them to pay their wireless (radio) licence fee.


A Beswick penguin family. It took me quite a while to assembly the entire family and they are quite uncommon in this condition and as a complete set. Beswick prices have dropped of late unfortunely.


A silver plate Mickey Mouse money box. A 50p charity shop find. Hard to date, but a cool, very heavy item.


My collection of enamel boxes and bonbonnieres. One in particular (white with Santa on lid) was only available from the gift shop at the Smithsonian, Washington DC, yet popped up at an antique fair a couple miles from my house.


A small selection of my vinatge tie clips and cufflinks. People don't seem to wear either very much nowadays, but I really like them and the tie clips have a practical use in my line of work.

[Sixthwizard]

debt haha....

[TanRnet]

Apart from toys just old tv shows on dvd or blu ray if available.

[fkro6784]

Lots of random and interesting stuff you've collected there! Very cool. 

 

Aside from toys, I've collected a huge amount of music—especially vinyl records. I've spent a lot of time hunting down really obscure records, both LPs and singles. It's kind of tapered off in recent years though because I just don't have the space, time and money to actively collect both records and toys.

[ironmask]

Haha, I spent most of my life, up to now, collecting injuries. Now I seem to be growing a collection of various joint braces, haha

[Sixthwizard]

Steelbook and regler o'l blu rays besides my debt, wife's evil looks and bad attitudes.  haha

[Sixthwizard]

Haha, I spent most of my life, up to now, collecting injuries. Now I seem to be growing a collection of various joint braces, haha

I have broken 7 bones and was hit by a car when I was 4.  unrelated to topic......

[plasticfiend]

I have a shit ton of stamps. I'm not sure that you could say I'm avid collector... But somehow I end up buying more and more.

That and I like to hoard copper coins lol...


PF

Oh and I used to collect comics... But I don't really buy Anything new anymore.


Pf

[jkaris]

A few foreign currencies (coins and bills). Nothing major, but I grab one whenever I can.

Garbage Pail Kids, Baseball Cards, Comics. All of which I am no longer actively collecting.

[bachamn]

I have a storage container full of maps, bags, and other papers I've collected while travelling. Eventually I could make one bad-ass scrapbook but I have no desire to scrapbook, so it'll probably stay in the box for a while. I also collect natural materials of all kinds and make it a habit to at least bring back a stone anytime I travel somewhere else in the world (this was a lot easier to do before airlines started charging for checked luggage). I also have a wooden candy dish full of snail shells so I always pick those up when I find them whole. 

 

What else? Mushroom statues, tanuki sculptures, antique netsuke and other Japanese implements/trinkets. Think that's about it.

Edited by bachamn, 10 October 2014 - 11:52 AM.

[ironmask]

Instead of scrap booking your maps, you should frame them (even do composite pieces, multiple maps in each frame). That would be a killer display piece.

[plasticfiend]

Great idea!

[Jeremy0477]

Pocket knives and firearms currently. Years ago I had a pretty large sports card collection. Oh and one point for no reason at all I started collecting business cards. That got out of control quickly, because of course people give them away

[SubwayRats]

Use to get lots of music cd's (pre-live on my own days) lol. Now just casual purchases. And I use to buy pulp books (pre marriage days) I do collect HC and trdpbk's of comic series I enjoy. I sell all the single issues. Oh and debt just like the rest of us. Oh boy.

[Rubberhammer]

I have a fairly decent collection of native american artifacts, the vast majority of which I have found in the creeks, and rivers here where I live.

Also, a decent collection of animal skulls that I either found in the woods, or took from animals that I have hunted.