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General Category => Just for fun => Topic started by: Charger on January 22, 2021, 04:47:32 PM
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So what non music related stuff is the Community collecting?
Post pictures here if you have some...
I'll kick things off with my cell phone collection.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50864543856_fe18bba2e6_c.jpg)
I haven't kept nearly all of the phones I've owned but here's a bulk of them...maybe bit more than half...I've sold some, that I have ended up regretting quite a bit actually but also some I've sold just cause they haven't been all that interesting...also back in the day old phones were valuable for trade in for a new one...
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Magnets! I'll have to post pics later, but, yeah, magnets!
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So what non music related stuff is the Community collecting?
Post pictures here if you have some...
I'll kick things off with my cell phone collection.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50864543856_fe18bba2e6_c.jpg)
I haven't kept nearly all of the phones I've owned but here's a bulk of them...maybe bit more than half...I've sold some, that I have ended up regretting quite a bit actually but also some I've sold just cause they haven't been all that interesting...also back in the day old phones were valuable for trade in for a new one...
:o Holy cow! You sure are the opposite of me. I'm currently on my 4th cell phone. I keep using them for as long as they continue to work. The one I use right now is at least 8 years old. It can no longer access the internet. The company said I would have to buy a newer one to do that. I did not bother because I have only used cell phones to talk and text 99% of the time. So why spend the money?
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:o Holy cow! You sure are the opposite of me. I'm currently on my 4th cell phone. I keep using them for as long as they continue to work. The one I use right now is at least 8 years old. It can no longer access the internet. The company said I would have to buy a newer one to do that. I did not bother because I have only used cell phones to talk and text 99% of the time. So why spend the money?
Haha Yeah I was really into cell phones back in the day. When the boring smart phone era started though then I lost interest as they are all the same.
I think that I'm missing about 15-20 models that I've owned... Starting with the old NMT phones and few early GSM's and few later ones.
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Had the one cell phone when I was a teacher that was pretty much just voice because texting is tough with just 12 small buttons...
In 2013, got the Note 3 for work purposes. Got a Note 9 when that one finally passed on in 2018. Signed up for a lease program so I can change each year, currently using a Note 10 from 2019. Decided not to mess with a new phone this year, might just go back to using the one phone until it dies.
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I read the thread title - was not expecting a cell phone collection! That's awesome!
Other than records, I don't really collect specific types of things to any extent. Boring, I know :)
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I have 25 B.C. comic strip paperback books that I purchased during my teenage years. They are in excellent condition. I always took good care of my possessions, even as a young boy.
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Each book contains many of the strips that appeared in daily newspapers over a couple of years. The one on the far left is the first one published, and it contains strips from 1958 and 1959.
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The one on the far right was the last one I bought and it covers 1978. The price on the cover of the first one says 50 cents, and the last one, $1.95
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Nearly every year I read through one and still get some good laughs. :)
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I collect Transformers from all eras but mainly Generation 1. I have approximately 70 of them at the moment.
I also collect books on Star Trek, Doctor Who and Star Wars.
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Oh I like B.C. strips...they haven't appeared here on newspapers in years though.
That's a very cool collection indeed!
I also collect disney comics...will be posting stuff about them later on as well.
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I collect Star Wars figures from the original trilogy sequels as well the vintage collection repo’s from the original trilogy. I also collect Scarface and Mad Max 2 related stuff.
I was collecting original movie posters from Pacino and DeNiro and other gangster films a long time ago which I still have but have dropped off collecting movie posters. I also have Pacino & DeNiro signed items.
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Oh I like B.C. strips...they haven't appeared here on newspapers in years though.
That's a very cool collection indeed!
Thanks! :) The creator of B.C., author/cartoonist Johnny Hart, died in 2007. Because I enjoyed B.C. so much, I also have paperbacks from Mr. Hart's other comic strip, The Wizard of Id.
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^^^
Damn...I like The Wizard too! I had no idea they were done by the same person...also I had no idea he'd passed away.
The wizard is still on some newspapers here. Always a lot of fun.
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I collect DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-Rays as well and I must have about 1000 of them by now.
Like Jack I also collect classic Star War figures if I can find them out in the wild or on clearance.
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I collect DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-Rays as well and I must have about 1000 of them by now.
I didn't know you had a 4k player and 4k television to watch those on.
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Well pretty much all tv's are 4K nowadays...the players on the otherhand are still bit more expensive than normal bluray players...and the discs themselves cost bit more...
I've got a healthy collection of dvd/bluray as well...probably around 500 or so...haven't counted them though as I don't really consider them collectables though...
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I collect DVDs, Blu-rays and 4K Blu-Rays as well and I must have about 1000 of them by now.
I didn't know you had a 4k player and 4k television to watch those on.
I just upgraded to a 1080 gaming monitor and I have my Xbox One X and S that will play 4K discs. Soon I plan on acquiring a 4K TV especially after I get the new Xbox and the PS5. I have been collecting 4K discs if I see them for a good price to build up my collection.
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I would say my most prized possession with respect to collectables are my Batman cards that I collected as a boy during the 1960s. There are 5 series. Series 1, known as the Black Bat set, has a plain white border. Of the 55 cards in this set, I was missing 17, but last year I pick up 5 from a local antique shop. So now I am missing only 12.
(https://i.postimg.cc/YSrrKt3D/Bat1.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Series 2, known as the Red Bat set, has a red line in the border. I have this complete set.
(https://i.postimg.cc/bvmzq4Vy/Bat2.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Series 3, the Blue Bat set, has a blue line in the border. Of this set of 44 cards I am missing 6. I find the artistry in all these sets quite beautiful.
(https://i.postimg.cc/j5CR2vBz/Bat3.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
The last 2 sets were released with production stills and media photographs from the Batman film that is based on the television show. Series 4 is called the Bat Laffs set, because there are jokes and picture puzzles on the back. I have this complete set.
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Series 5, the Riddler Back set, were designed to look like old photo album inserts with each card back featuring a riddle to be solved with a decoder available in each pack. Notice the card in the upper left corner is a nice shot of the rarely seen Bat Boat. I have this complete set.
(https://i.postimg.cc/VvC1Bvfv/Bat5.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
I see these sets selling on ebay for hundreds, and sometimes over a thousand dollars. But this collection means so much to me that I don't think I would ever sell for any price.
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Those are special to look at, even in photos. Thanks for sharing the images, Typhon. :)
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Very cool Typhon. The fact you haven’t completed a couple of sets tells me that it’s probably hard to track down the single cards you need and you don’t want to pay the expensive prices they go for.
Is there one particular set that’s more sought after/collectable than the others?
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I always like seeing that kind of thing, thanks for sharing the pictures Typhon!
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Not a collection - but Typhon's posts prompted me to go looking for something I've managed to keep since my undergrad days. And I found it! Ares magazine from Sept. 1981, with the game - unplayed, none of the chits popped out. I had been a fan of Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat character sine I was probably 10, and happened upon this issue of Ares at a hobby shop when it was released. Now that I think about it some more, I do have a few letters (the old-fashioned, hand-written kind) I exchanged with Harrison, have a bunch of his books (not the magazines as they pre-dated me), and he even sent me a signed advance copy of the last book he had published before he died.
He was instrumental in opening my eyes to linguistics and why Esperanto was cool, yet ultimately doomed. Huh, I guess I do have a non-music related collection of sorts, after all!
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^^^^^^
I had never heard of that. Interesting. :)
Very cool Typhon. The fact you haven’t completed a couple of sets tells me that it’s probably hard to track down the single cards you need and you don’t want to pay the expensive prices they go for.
Is there one particular set that’s more sought after/collectable than the others?
Thanks, and you are correct. Some sellers want absurd amounts.
Probably Series 1 is a bit more valuable, simply because it was first. My personal favorite is Series 3. Here are 3 of my favorite cards from that series. "Jack Frost's Jinx", "Prehistoric Peril", "Frozen By Frost".
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There is a top 10 list of most sought after cards. I understand why some are on the list, but I don't know why other are. For example, the 2nd most sought after is "The Batman", because it is the 1st card of the 1st series. But "Cycling Crusader" is the 4th most sought after card and I have no idea why.
(https://i.postimg.cc/HkHtKQ3m/Bat6.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Currently the number 1 most sought after card is "Holy Rodents" from Series 3. Again I don't know why. I am fortunate enough to have a duplicate of this valuable card.
(https://i.postimg.cc/Dzpd8Rhf/Bat8.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
90% of these I bought from my local convenience store way back when. It is hard to believe they are over 50 years old now. Back then I think I paid around 10 cents for a pack of 5 cards.
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Vyn: I subbed to Ares Magazine, loved it when Howard Chaykin did illustrations, like he did in that issue.
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Finally completed my collection of Batman cards via ebay. :)
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Hey, awesome!
In my non music related collectibles news, I need to remount the magnet boards I had my collection on, as they got too heavy for the Command strips that weren't really on there all that good. Took 3 years for them to fall off, but they did. Now I get to do my original plan and properly hang them with wall mounts. Had to do the Command strips because the missus did not want more holes in the wall, and I can appreciate that. We did an experiment and now know the weight limits of those strips when they're not on properly. :D
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Sweet!
I've been neglecting my Donald Duck collections a bit lately due to money related issues...
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. . . Donald Duck collections . . .
??? Say what?
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:evillaugh:
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. . . Donald Duck collections . . .
??? Say what?
Comics.
I have every single Donald Duck magazine from 1972 to 2012 (52 numbers per year plus extras) and all the Donald Duck pocket books ever released...514 or them plus few dozen of extra numbers plus quite an ammount of other Disney releases over the years. Hard cover books and soft cover books plus albums.
I can take some pics of the collection at some point...but it's a lot of stuff so it doesn't photograph easy.
My biggest desire is to get a full collection of DD magazine (starting from 1952) but that's nearly impossible as those older are rare as hell and cost a fortune...so that's not gonna happen...I'm hoping I could get 1970 and 1971 at some point but even those are hard to find in decent enough condition.
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I was just able to get a Titan class (very large) Transformer of Black Zarak a character from a Japanese Transformer show from years ago. I paid 210 dollars for it but that is a good price. Though I will never sell it is nice to know that it will maintain if not greatly increase in value.