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One big difference between the two is that when a steelbook is released you can't take for granted that you will have ~2 years to pick it up. Most releases are made available for pre-order, meaning that some popular titles are gone before the day they're released. This also attracts resellers. Though interestingly in various communities I've only ever seen the term 'scalpers' and never 'resellers'.
Of course I do have every book by some authors and every album by many bands. But that's just because I'm a fan.
• LEGO!!
• Disney Bluray (including Pixar, Star Wars, Ghibli, Muppets, Marvel)
• Bluray in general, always with digital copy if included
• Disney Pins
• Henson/Muppets Everything
• Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli Toys & Tees & Everything
• Pop Culture Tees and other Movie/Cartoon memorabilia (posters, lunchboxes, glasses, etc.), mostly 80's stuff
• Hasbro Star Wars (though it's on the back burner) & Everything Else
• MOTUC (back burner)
• Doctor Who Action Figures & DVD's (mostly classic)
• NECA Gremlins Action Figures
• ReAction Figures
• Hot Wheels & Matchbox Cars
• Build-A-Bear stuffed Animals
• 80's Cabbage Patch Kids & Care Bears
• Most Cartoon/Movie Stuffed Animals, mostly Disney & 80's
• G.I. Joe 3 ¾ Action Figures
• Ghostbusters Actuon Figures
• Jim Shore Disney sculptures
• Nintendo... everything
• Dr. Seuss & Stephen King books, along with just about every classic book; children's & otherwise
• and more I can't think of cuz they're also on the back burner for now. :D
Graphic Novels
Everything SW from Dark Horse back in the 80's right through to Marvel now, which ironically includes the marvel reprints of their own back catalog from the 70's
A fair chunk of DC stuff, almost everything Bat related and a fair bit more
An equity fair chunk of Marvel stuff, love Dan Abnetts run beginning back in 2006
Posters
a real mix of film posters, no real focus, which doesn't help, which probably means I'm the only person with a Breakfast at Tiffanys UK quad hanging in the same room as a Bladerunner half sheet :)
Films
No focus at all, If I want to watch it I buy it, my wife hoped the dawn of the streaming age would mean a reduction in disks, but I can't seem to break the library mentality.
Books
probably the ones my wife dislikes the most due to the space they take up, but with three kids as well I'm forever buying books, crime, fantasy/adventure, historical drama. Oddly not a big si-fi reader. I'm a real character fan so if I fall in love with the character I have to read everything within that world, mainly stick with big series in that respect.
Tsum Tsum's
one for the kids really, but since I pay the bills it counts. Hundreds of those furry little buggers everywhere.
I have a large collection of weights, dumbells, barbells, resistance bands, boxing gloves, speed bags, double end bags, heavy bags, mitts and other workout accessories.
I am on hiatus with my sportscard collection. Collecting 1971-present for baseball. Football is 1978-present. Hockey I collect all New York Islanders team sets. I also started collecting recent Bowman sets and have purchased a set each year for my five year old just in car he gets into cards himself.
Honestly, I'm trying not to collect anything anymore. No space and is become a little overwhelming. Money cam be used to pay off my mortgage. Since purchasing in Nov. 2010, I'm on schedule top be paI'd off in Feb. 2020.
I once collected Hallmark ornaments and Buzz Lightyears. Trying to limit and focus the 'stuff' footprint. Maybe watching too much American Pickers has started to sink in.
Loads of graphic novels (Marvel, DC/Vertigo, Image, Humanoids, IDW, Dark Horse etc)
Recently, those Hot Wheels Star Wars vehicles (OT 4-6 only)
Every Now! album (some on CD, some vinyl, all now digital)
Specific Blu-ray titles (Marvel, Bond, other sci-fi)
And credit cards.
Below is a photo of my display of robot toys such as the Soul of Chogokin, Macross, Godaikin, Microman, Ultraman vehicles, diecast robots, Sentai Force (aka Power Rangers), Gundam toys, G1 Transformers, Neo Beast Wars, Transformers 2000, HCM etc.
Also had other misc toys like Playmobil, Anime/Video game figurines, Masked Rider diecast figures, Gundam model kits, Tomy train system, couple of Barbie dolls, Thomas & Friends diecast toys, Wall-E etc.
Nowadays the action figure collection is relatively stable, only gaining the occasional new acquisition of special merit. Lego aside my collecting hobby at the moment is the Eaglemoss Star Trek model starships collection - big Trekkie here - which has been pretty good for the most part.
Pop Vinyl figures also helped cure me, I acquired a few of these, but soon realised that I don't really enjoy them for more than a casual glance and once they started doing figures for really random stuff that there can't be much market for I realised how little I was interested in them any more.
Interesting to see people listing DVDs, CDs and books. I used to have a ton of books but realised I never reread any so got rid of everything I'd already read except a handful of favourites, some signed, some that I think would be nice to hand down to kids some day.
Earlier this year I threw out the majority of my CD cases. It was so liberating- I'm old fashioned enough that I can't rely on just digital copies but I realised that I had no need for the CD cases so bought a couple of the larger CD wallets and transferred them into those, again with the exception of a few sentimental keepers.
I know that me and the wife have a lot of DVDs but I'd never consider them a collection. We do have all the (UK list) Disney Animated Classics and feature length Pixar films on either Blu ray or DVD which is probably the only section of our DVDs I'd consider anything like a collection.
Any of your ornaments VW orientated?
Original comic strip art
Books by Eric Sloane
Vintage books illustrated by N. C. Wyeth (Scribner's 1st editions of classics like Treasure Island, The Deer Slayer,)
Original soda pop metal advertising signs and thermometers (Coca-Cola, Mountain Dew, Squirt, Hires Root beer)
Original Marine Corps recruiting posters
Books. Mainly sci if, fantasy and old school Russian
But I do collect Transformers (official and 3rd party). The stuff that's been coming out in the last few years has been smashing the nostalgia buttons, but really I've been collecting ever since I discovered ebay so many years ago.
My house is so full of plastic...
Vintage Star Wars (Kenner 1978-1985): My biggest non-Lego collection. Basically complete as far as I'm concerned. Since 2005 I've added or upgraded about a dozen items. Of the items I don't have they are either too rare, too expensive, or I'm not interested in.
Modern Star Wars (Hasbro 1995-present): When the modern line started in 1995 I had no good way of buying vintage Star Wars, so I started collecting these instead. From 1995-2003 I was quite the completist, acquiring nearly everything released. In the fall of 2003 I stopped actively building the collection . A year early I realized I was more interested in vintage Star Wars and only buying the modern stuff out of habit. Additionally Hasbro had some quality control issues and I simply needed to be spending less money. Since 2003 I've picked a few figures that truly interest me
GI Joe RAH (1982-1994): More of an active area of collecting. I have periods where I'm more actively looking for stuff than others. I'm mostly focused on figures rather than vehicles or playsets. I don't have the room or the interest in many of them. Also I already have most of what I really want. Currently I'm working on completing my incompletes.
Transformers (G1 1984-1985): This is something that I dabble in, but am hardly active. My interest is in the first two years of the line and limited to only a few of those figures. Price spikes from the movies and general lack of knowledge have kept me out of this area.
MOTU and TMNT: Childhood toys only. Every once in while I look at picking up a few more of these or completing incomplete figures or playsets (Castle Grayskull), but never do.
Coins: Just pocket change, nothing rare. Mostly US, but when I travel I try to get a full set of current coins from my spare change.
Boy Scout stuff: Mostly patches, but a few neckerchiefs and some books. I've been active with Scouting for a long time. I'm not much of a collector here, it's more something to do while act certain actives. Over time I'm built up a reasonable collection.
1/43 racing cars in Martini livery
1/43 Le Mans winning race cars
Board wargames
Dragon pre-painted 1/72 military vehicles
Wings of Glory WWI aircraft
Thoroughbred Miniatures 1/600 American Civil War warships/ironclads
1/72 scale kits of the various marks of the FW 190 aircraft
Music by the Moody Blues
Pens - I like a nice pen!
Oh, and torches. I'm a sucker for a cool looking torch (flashlight for those overseas)
I get that they do very little in the games they're compatible with, and there are better figurines for the likes of the Mario and Zelda characters, but the fact that some of these characters are not likely to get any other kind of figurine (lookin' at you Palutena, Ness, Lucas, and Captain Falcon) they're a godsend.
Right here lately though been Wondering why people (like me)have this obsessive need to collect trinkets.
EDIT: also surprised some wise ass hasn't said paychecks or money :P
I have stopped getting movies and getting into LEGO a bit more, because, realistically speaking, LEGO has a way better resale value than movies (since, you know, media changes a lot).