Geeky Collections

Jaded

@Jaded I used to have one of the original Batman (Keaton) movie display stands, but that was back when I was in high school and had no idea about 'collections' like that. Sadly it is long gone.

Yeah, the Batman movie posters were pretty popular and hard to get because most movie theater managers looked at an adolescent cross-eyed when asked for their posters. Strangely though the one from Batman Forever was the hardest to get the cinema to let go of because they were supposed to get shipped back.

@Auspice said in Geeky Collections:

@Alamias said in Geeky Collections:

@Jaded I used to have one of the original Batman (Keaton) movie display stands, but that was back when I was in high school and had no idea about 'collections' like that. Sadly it is long gone.

I'm in a similar boat.
My father gave me an original theater use poster for Empire Strikes Back when I was about 15 but I didn't know well enough how to care for it and it got damaged when I moved out.

Sad for both the poster and it being the only time my father ever picked out a suitable gift for me. (My mother only became okay at it once I was an adult.)

Star Wars posters are the heart of my collection, I think I have about 40 different kinds of Star Wars posters; all the movie posters certainly but also posters that were only available through cereal giveaways, restaurants, and other unique sources.

Star Wars is my primary geek collection. I have knickknacks, action figures, LEGO sets, posters, books, comics, lightsaber hilt replicas, t-shirts, bedsheets, adventure toys, board games - I mean for a long time if it had Star Wars anything on it, I bought it.

I just wish my tiny apartment let me put it all on display instead of being in 45 boxes in a closet.

TheOnceler

No easy way to share an image of six gigs of Walt Disney World area loops.

TiredEwok

@TheOnceler

Disney loops? As in music/movies?

TheOnceler

@TiredEwok said in Geeky Collections:

@TheOnceler

Disney loops? As in music/movies?

The background music they play in different areas of the Disney theme parks and hotels. I've been collecting MP3s for a decade now.

Scissors

Well if we are sharing our geeky collections....

View of the top shelf

Better view of the bottom shelves

Auspice

@Scissors

what no Dengar?!

Scissors

@Auspice He's being super elusive. I have been looking for him for a year now!

TiredEwok

@TheOnceler

Oh neat! Where do you find the music?

TheOnceler

@TiredEwok said in Geeky Collections:

@TheOnceler

Oh neat! Where do you find the music?

There are other collectors, so sometimes you can find boards where you can share. For a while someone actually ran a Tumblr where she posted new ones every few weeks. Back in the day I'd find them on eDonkey. Some of them were actually released by Disney themselves in CDs, though those are mostly the parades, shows (specifically fireworks shows) and some ride music, though some of the hotels used to sell print-on-demand CDs of their loops, and those are all pretty great. And then for the dedicated you actually go to the park and decide that rather than ride rides or see a parade you're going to sit by a speaker in Tomorrowland for an hour and record the music that plays.

Ominous

Does my home bar stocked with 30+ bottles of booze count as a geeky collection?

TiredEwok

@Ominous

Sure! Show us!

Ominous

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From right to left - bourbon (14 bottles), rye & scotch (1 each), rum (4 bottles), gin (8 bottles), tequila (1 bottle), vodka (2 bottles & 1 Everclear), brandy (1 bottle & 1 Pisco), liqueurs (8 bottles), flavorings (13 items).

TiredEwok

@Ominous

Now I really want a drink! Nice collection!

Alamias

Oh are we doing bars as well?

TiredEwok

@Alamias

I think any kind of collection works for this thread. Anything we geek over, etc... yeah! Nice bar setup!

JinShei

Pratchett (ignore the figurines, they are inherited and I'm struggling to work out what to do with them - they may join some other things in a box):

Bobble heads (daughter's - she has around 50 all over the house)

Momiji - more across the house