Weird Collections
 

I thought I'd start a thread for the bizarre things that we collect, not exactly sure why though...

I try to collect screener copies of movies, thing that flat say "Promotional Use Only. DO NOT SALE" right on them. My wife and I have a few records like that was well. I love the irony of owning something that I was told couldn't be resold. It's a small collection, and many of the titles are not movies I'd seek out (recently bought the Patrick Stewart Couldn't Even Save This Movie, Masterminds for $1.25) but it's the "forbidden fruit" aspect that gets me. :D

What about you? What oddities do you collect?

I don't have any weird collections, but I do have a screener copy of Secret of the Ooze.

That is awesome! If you ever wanna get rid of it...

I have a pretty huge amount of Christmas related VHS tapes and DVD's. I try to watch them all during December, but I have so many that I have to skip a few each year lol.

Every paper from when I was Highschool.

I have a large collection of finger/toenails. Most of which I've produced myself!

Not sure if anything is weird?
But other than figures and comics:
Laser Disc
Vinyl (records)
Stickers

Any piece of promo with good/inspirational design. Like, clothing hang tags, post cards, promo cards/posters/fliers, boxes, etc.

Odd things that could come to later use for crafts. I'm a hoarder of small junk.

I don't have any weird collections unless stuffed animals count

I like to collect certain things, but besides the usual coins/video games/sports cards/vinyl records, I also have:

-Over 600 National Geograpic magazines from 1918 to 2008
-Over 600 TV Guide issues from 1968 to 1991
-Every Britannica encyclopedia yearbook from 1942 to 2005, plus 1940
-Some pogs that I haven't purchased since 1996
-A few recorded tapes of the '80s game show "Press Your Luck"
-Several vintage college yearbooks from the 1970s
-A few 8-track tapes

And to the original poster that said "Promotional Only. Do not sale", as similar case exists for collecting music as well (though I often prefer for 45 singles, the stock copy as many promo 45's have only the A side on both sides.

Some of mine no so much weird but perhaps a weird combination
-coca cola
- cameras
- penny collection
- watches
- M.A.S.K.
- Centurions </----- awesome
- Transformers
- Pogs
- 3D puzzles
- Legos
- ez bake oven
- Lite Brite
- Xmen Cards
- Baseball Cards
- Hotwheels
- Spawn Figures
- N64 I have every game ever made

Ohh also forgot my animal skull heads... Im learning to do exploded skulls and mounts

I think I need to stop collecting so much crap most of it gets listed , wrapped, and stored away.

My wife has a Who LP that was Promotional Use Only. :D

Here's most of my stuff, I have some more down stairs.

My book case
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...5/IMG_1119.jpg

My Chicago shelf
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...5/IMG_1122.jpg

My dresser
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...5/IMG_1121.jpg

DC comics/TV show case plus random shelf
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...5/IMG_1120.jpg

Normally my baseball shelf
http://i727.photobucket.com/albums/w...5/IMG_1124.jpg

I like to collect CDs with video game music on them, even though I haven't acquired any since 2007. There was that Zelda symphony CD that came with The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword however, but that's just Zelda music in orchestral form.

I have a large movie ticket stub collection. I have them as far back as "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey". And yeah, I even have "TMNT 2: Secret of the Ooze".

Cookbooks, the older the better-- and the best are ones that were put together as a fundraiser for a local cause or church, etc:
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/9237/cookbook.jpg
And if it has a miscellaneous section, all the better-- have one with a war-time section with recipes for coffee substitutes/ration-stretching that use toasted cornmeal or burnt brown sugar.

Also helps that these tend to be plentiful in thrift stores for about a buck each.

I don't think anything mentioned in this thread is particularly weird. There's some truly weird collections on youtube however, some dude who collects diapers and another who collects radioactive material. Yep.

my collection of leatherface dolls always gets a strange look when someone enters my office for the first time...
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6073/6...91453483_m.jpg

!!!! TURTLE DILDOS !!!!




Juuuuust kidding.... I collect nothing weird, I only buy music on vinyl or tape that isn't available on CD.

I do have moogle, cactuar and tonberry plush toys.

And I don't collect Carl Barks' Disney comics anymore since I bought a collection that includes them all.

I collect old VHS Tapes with cartoons and horror flicks (flick is a word to describe a movie right?) :)

Through out the years, I had so many different kinds of collections, they come and gone, some stay, few are making a comeback though. Here is a list of the collections I had through out the years, enjoy!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (now it's slowly building :tsmile:up again, mostly in comic book forms)
Pokemon (still got those magna comic books though, and bunch of binders of old Pokemon Cards, and some old video games)
Beanie Babies (it stopped now once again)
Garfield
Pluto
Yoshi
Sonic the Hedgehog (now in just comic book forms also)
Digimon
Power Ranger
Slug Bug Cars (still around)
Hotwheel Cars (sadly, no matter how hard I try to collect them, I keep losing interest on them)
Dragons (still around)
Seals n Sea Lions (my most widespread, popular collection, still going strong though)
Coins (slow now, but might build again, goody)
Comic Books (recent new addition of new kinds of collections, some of my past favorites are now in comic book forms like TMNT, Pokemon, Sonic the Hedgehog, to name a few)
Books (Animals, Harry Potter, Novel, Warrior Cats, and so on!)
Video Games (had different kinds of video games: Sega, Playstation, Gamecube, GBA and GBA SP, NDS, NDS Lite, Wii, and also NDS XL too! right now, just NDS XL and Wii only)
Star Wars (mostly Jar Jar Binks, when he was 1 of my favorite characters back then
Stuffed Animals (outgrew them, got tired of them overcrowding my room, and other reasons, so I had to get rid of them)
Transformers (I tried to go back, but oy peer pressure and other reasons made me quit)
Owl (I did try out for lil bit, but never worked out cuz, my other collections took over, and it just died out anyway)
Velociraptors and Komodo Dragons (again I tried but, no room and others collections once again took over, made them extinct ya know)
KeyChains (still doing good, got lotta of them anyway)

I love the Leatherface collection, mystery color!!! :D

thanks man :) not many people seem to enjoy Texas Chainsaw Massacre the way i do... i am really hoping that there will be some new ones when TCM 3-D comes out :)

Not exactly weird, but I have a fairly decent Futurama collection. These are the Toynami action figures I have:

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...e/futfigs1.png

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...e/futfigs2.png

I also have some of the MAC figures, the I-men, alot of the comics (I'm trying to get all of the comics) and the seasons on DVD. Unfortunately I haven't got them out on display, they're still all boxed up as I moved house recently, I got a picture of my Toynami ones before I packed them away.

very nice dude!

Thanks, I like the look of your Leatherface collection too 8)


I'll throw up some pics of my Terminator collection too, which is my second main collection after Futurama.

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ne/neca-t2.jpg

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ne/neca-t1.jpg

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...e/mcf-t2-b.jpg

http://i1207.photobucket.com/albums/...ne/t3-figs.jpg

not weird bau i have these from extreme dinosaurs

I used to love watching the Simpsons and Futurama before also :tgrin:

that's a lot of MOC Terminator! i did not have the restraint to keep my Leatherface figures in the package, though i saved the boxes for some of the older ones (like the "talking" plush)... even though they are worth less out of the package... i love being able to display them my way- thanks for the leatherface ♥

I have a Hess truck for every year since I was born. True story.

I've recently started collecting comic books thanks to the DC reboot, but that's not really weird. I did used to collect Japanese manga, but I don't have room for them all anymore. I think I have over 500 volumes. I've read maybe 10 of them. :(

a bit of this...
 

A bit of this and a bit of that. Non-sport cards, comics, toys, video games, books, movie posters, manga, coins, and anything else that catches my eye. I'm still trying to organize everything. :ohwell:

Looks like a big collection! Orginization is my problem too, I have this perfect layout in my head of how I want all my collectables set up, but mine are all packed away in boxes right now.

Cool to see that someone else collects the Hess Trucks.

Hey Villain, do u have any Kenner Terminator Figures? The ones u have are awesome and I love the Futurama Figures! Futurama is awesome! Can't wait til the new season

Sadly I don't. I looked into maybe starting to collect them, but the prices I saw on ebay scared me off for the size and type of figures they are.

And thank you 8) I adore Futurama and can't wait till the new season either. I know the last season had it's critics for not being as good as it used to be but I still enjoyed it.

For sure :tcool:

I don't think it's too weird, but I collect skate decks. Most of them are brand new, but I never get rid of the ones I break while skating. I've been skateboarding for nearly twenty years now, so I have a good bunch of them.

Absolutely in love with history and collect items that appeal to me, mostly millitaria.

Highlights would be an Australian light horse Flask 100% intact with its leather strap and weaving dated 1914. Could not believe someone sold it at a garage sale for a mere $2... it was almost shameful.

Also almost have a complete RAAF WWII pilots uniform... only now need the jacket (also the most expensive part) which I missed out on one at a swapmeet only by a minute. Shattered.

An unused 1939 Polish Gas mask complete with instructions. If you know your basic history you could see the dark sense of humour in it. Funnier still is they manufactured the cannister peg a millimetre too large so it would have been completely useless on the battlefield not that it would have got that much use within a month.

Most random piece took me years to identify. Had a US Air force helmet missing a face plate of some sort with deteriorating latex lining and a really old mic and cabling. Wasn't until I saw some weird article on early space exploration I saw one of the first US Astronauts wearing a white one.... mine is green. After further research I found they were also used for high altitude aircraft and that a few were sold to the public before the air force decided it was a bad idea (back in the 60's) and recalled them. Mine does not match the descriptions of the ones sold and also the fact it showed up in the wrong country further adds to the mystery.

I have tons of this kind of stuff. I used to collect a lot of German militaria but sold it all off and started collecting Japanese a couple of years ago.

i collect magnets from places/states/countries i've been. probably getting close to 125 by now. tied to that...i also collect states in kinda sorta way. i've been to 42 of the 50 states. and by that driving through doesnt count. in order for a state to count, i need to do something of substance or spend at lease 48 hours there.

for a while i collected soil from the places i've been. i have volcanic ash from Mt. St. Hellens in WA, sand from the Oregon Dunes, sand/ash from Crator Lake OR, Tombstone AZ, Grand Canyon AZ, the Jersey shore NJ, Arches National Park UT, Bryce Canyon UT, Redwood Forest CA, Yellow Stone Park WY, Seattle WA, Plymouth MA, a piece of meteorite from the crator in AZ, beach sand from Pensacola FL, Garden of the Gods CO, and a bunch of other places.