What Do You Collect?
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In light of the fact that I am slowly getting into collecting - very slowly due to lack of space and/or funds! - I thought I'd ask what people like to collect.
Thanks to my recent delving into LootCrate, I've decided that I am going to get into collecting Funko stuff. I got their Dorbz Power Armor figure in my first Lootcrate and it sealed my fate! I wanted to get into collecting Pop!s and stuff for a while but the Dorbz really sold me on them. I came across a little extra money thanks to a lost-and-found Amazon gift card and got the Voltron Pop! for around $9. So... yes. The slippery slope. I start down it.
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Slang, current and out-dated, plus their origins if at all possible.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
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Spores, molds, and fungus.
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Chinese board wargames.
Wind instruments.
Hard liquors.
Tea paraphernalia.
Teas.
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Stories, whenever possible. (Hokey as fuck? Yes, but still true.)
Vintage and antique precious metal threads and embellishments for embroidery.
Ball jointed dolls (on major long-term hiatus because so, so very broke these days).
Seashells/fossil coral/pebbles/weird stuff that washes up on the beach. (Mostly found, very few bought.)
Unfinished game wikis. (No comment.)
Costume and fashion history books.
Blue and green nail polish.
Bizarre and/or obscure jobs. (Usually ends up circling back to #1 on the list.) -
Movie Marketing and Release Posters
Hardcopy Books
Legos
Starwars Dolls
Unique and Rare Starwars Paraphenelia
Vintage G1&2 Transformers
Vintage G1&2 GI Joes
Robotech/Macross Mecha
Petite Stuffed Animals
Shotglasses -
Just bad memories.
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Firearms and animal skulls, specifically those able to be arted up by my brother.
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Heroclix. Fallout stuff. My girlfriend is the real collector, she does vinyl and cassettes, plus Pops! and dorbz.
ETA @Apu apparently there is a vibrant Funko culture, my local Comic shop just had a swap meet last weekend with a couple dozen people.
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Yeah, Funko has quite a following from what I understand/have seen evidenced via YouTube. I am not sure if it's the figures that draw the fan base or if it is the particular fandoms the company represents being popular or if it is a case of both, but there are a lot of people who collect, etc!
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Roleplaying games.
Reference books for role playing game design.
Steam games I won't play.
Decks of playing cards.
Tarot decks.ETA: I don't collect per se, but I am the repository for name plates of people I know who have left companies I am at. The name plate graveyard.
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Big one first
Comic Books.
Roleplaying games especially odd small press ones that show up on the used shelf at the local game store if i haven't heard of it and it is under $15 I guarantee I will go home with it.
Wrestling stuff, mostly magazines but also other items.
And while I don't really call it a collection since I mainly got them when I was working at a factory and allowed to listen to head phones on the job, so spent 40 hours a week listening to music. I have a metric crap ton of CDs, mostly punk and ska, with some other stuff thrown in. -
Shot glasses.
I don't know how it happened - I haven't even been a drinker for years now. But I have eleventy billion of them, and it's gotten to the point where people just give them to me 'because I know you collect them'. I do have a couple of really neat ones, but like...what was I /thinking/? Ten years ago I displayed them and so on. Now they're just dusty up in a cabinet out of the way somewhere, because...shot glasses.
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Audio drama podcasts.
(Welcome to Nightvale/Alice Isn't Dead/Within the Wires, Our Fair City, Ars Paradoxica, and because it's about storytelling I'll include The Myths & Legends Podcast which you absolutely must listen to, go now, go go.)
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Funko Pop! is the new Beanie Babies. Only its using popular franchises so more likely to stick around longer.
I collect pins & buttons. I love my pins and buttons, got some that are nearly as old as I am!
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Pokémon, I'm a trainer. I catch them in pokeballs and take them to gyms. I will be the best trainer there ever was ... oh wait, that's from the show, its not me.
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Mud code
Metal miniatures
Board wargames (english)
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Dust -
Stories.
“It is better to live doing the things that you like. It is foolish to live within this dream of a world seeing unpleasantness and doing only things that you do not like.” -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo.
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Transmogs, apparently.
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Sunglasses. Used to be nametags.
