Everyone's non-TMNT collections
 

I wonder what everyone collects besides TMNT.

I have a scientific book collection, a mineral collection, and my horse show ribbons.

boring, huh?? :wink:

You beat me to it, I was just thinking of starting this topic :D . Anyways, I have a bunch of old star wars stuff kicking around (mostly micro machines), but right now I collect 1:18 scale die cast model cars (mostly muscle cars and exotics), plus I tend to blow my money on alot of CD's.

LOL.....I guess we were thinking along the same path. :D

Creepy, I was thinking about starting a topic like this too, about two hours ago...

Anyway, I collect action figures, comic books, CDs, DVDs, posters, and.... uh.... dust, if the current state of my room is any indication.

WWII and WWI memorabilia. I have sunk well over $5,000 into my collection.

In my dreams, I have the biggest collection of arcade cabinets in the world, along with tons of ancient Roman memorabilia such as a gladiator helmet and an actual toga...

In reality, nothing.

anything and everything with Squirtle (a pokemon) on it.

over 800 of the TCG cards, over 40 of the plain trading cards
at least 20 plushies
a christmas tree ornament.
a desk organizer
a snap together japanese toy kit
2 books
about 30 on my blue version, one hand raised to level 100.
a cake topper
a few stickers
a folder.... and the list goes on.

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I collect reptiles. :D

Unfortunately, not the living, breathing animals (or maybe that should be fortunately, since I can't even keep a Chia pet alive...) but other stuff like figures, plush animals, and even some clothes (fake prints, not real skin).

Ooh, and catalogues. Especially weapons catalogues, like BudK. And How To Draw books.

hm..honestly not much anymore...(sides the toys ..but cant mention that..heh)

but i do have a hell of a lot of comics and sports cards i used to collect religiously.

Comics, video games and action figures. And lbs.

In addition to my action figure collections, I like to collect the following:

Collector Plates
Books
Toy Soldiers 54mm (1/32 scale)
Coins (19th Century European)
Stamps (Third Reich, Peronist Argentina, Fascist Italy, other historical)

I specifically look for items with a Napoleonic motif.

I collect comics, video games (dont got that much for newer system more of an older one), books (I like scientific too), stuffed monkeys, and some other stuff that are just plain cool (like those dollar or two dollar machines with the chains and cups and thugs and parachute men).

star wars figures(old and new)
video games(not new ones, old ones)
Comics
basketball/football cards
basketball/football jerseys
sports posters, stickets, pennants(sp?), all that stuff
And I keep all my sports illustrateds and ESPN magazines too

Comics of course. I've got a whole crap load of Star Wars stuff that I used to collect. I collect alot of movies too. Uh what else...videogames...it's not really collecting but since so many people mentioned it...Some books, mostly Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance. I used to be hardcore into collecting wrestling stuff. Fake championship belts, figures, clothes, posters, videos, anything with Steve Austin on it. I think I have almost every ppv from 98 to 01. I've got tons of random ppv's and videos from before and after that period. Toronto Maple Leaf stuff. Not much else really.

- comic books (ranging from Usagi Yojimbo, DW TF's, and other odds and ends)
- Breyer Model horses, and other like horse figurines
- normal turtle figurines
- pretty rocks and shells
- select LotR things
- select Transformers things
- some TV Guides that highlight cool things like LotR, Harry Potter, ET, etc.
- freebie novelty things that they pass out at work

Between hubby and I:
- DVDs ...lots of them!
- Books (be it fun to read or related to computers and education)
- CDs
- Korean masks and like Asian decor

:D

Besides TMNT, I collect Amazing and Ultimate Spider-Man.

All I really collect is various action figure lines:
Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles (of course)
Muppet Show
Star Wars
Lord Of The Rings
Ghostbusters
Rudolph And The Island Of Misfit Toys
Jurassic Park
Masters Of The Universe
Harry Potter
GI Joe
Addams Family
Resident Evil
Earthworm Jim
Misc Marvel and DC Comics figures

For me, it's mostly CDs, DVDs, books, and action figures that I think look cool.

I also collect video game and wrestling magazines.

Yeah, I was just waiting for some pictures of my collection. If anyone has cool pics maybe they could post them (I love seeing walls of Star Wars figures)

I've never really been much in collecting. Maybe it's because I'm constantly moving from place to place. I don't even stay in one place long enough to collect dust. Plus, I'd imagine it's a bit hard to drag a collection behind you :)

Though as soon as I settle down somewhere a few years down the line, I'll probably find some obsession to sink a few thousand dollars into :)

If I can dig out all my Star Wars stuff I'll take a pic of them. I went to the comic store a couple days ago and looked at the wall devoted to Star Wars stuff and noticed that things I have are now worth 50 or 60 bucks. Of course I was a kid so I took everything out of the package.

Yeah.. I do that with some of my stuff too. Some things I'll keep aorund a bit in hopes of getting a big resale vlaue out of it later.

And since I also move around every couple of years, a lot of my child hood/college collections stay at my parents house so I don;t have to deal with them. Then my most immediate things go along with me.

I started collecting keychains when I was about 7 and I have a bag of about 180 or 200 of em. I'm starting to collect TMNT stuff, and I guess I collect CD's too.

Is anyone intrested in seeing a pic of my Star Wars collection? Well part of it anyways. I found a bunch of stuff. I'm mostly missing all of my vehicles, X-Wings and such. I've found just about all of my figures though. I've got quite a few still MOC too. I found stuff I didn't even know I had! I know there's still about 2 or 3 more big boxes of stuff, so if anyone is interested in seeing this I might go dig the rest ou later. Also anyone else got a cool collection to show off?

I collect:

dust (unfortunately)
US state coins
BOOKS of all kinds (references, pamphlets, classics, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.) :D
pencils and pens (for no particular reason)
notebooks (don't ask)

Comics
DVD's
Posters
Statues
Video Games

Action Figures
Comics
TMNT stuff
Movies
Posters

I collect
 

Dragons.

Books, statues, posters, drawings, scribbles, stuffys... if its for a big fire breathing lizard, I want it.

Maybe we should have an awards! There can be different sections e.g.
Best Old Skool TMNT collection, Best New TMNT collection, Best Comic Book collection, Best Star Trek/Wars collection, Best Music collection etc. etc. People can post pictures of their collections and then we can vote! It might be cool! Considering there really hasn't been any thing like this before.

I'd wager nobody here comes anywhere near my wrestling collection... I should get an award for that. :P

I bet! Wrestling would be one too! We should try it out! I don't even know where most of my wrestling stuff is anymore. Just my shirts and about 1/4 of my videos.

Most of my walls are covered in wrestling posters, I have close to 100 video tapes, hundreds of wrestling magazines, almost every wrestling video game ever released in America, and tons, tons, TONS of WWF, WCW and WWE action figures from 1985 up til recenty. Right now I'm trying to figure out where to fit the Elimination Chamber playset I bought. :D

I'm pretty sure I would win the "who has the most WWII junk" award.

I used to be the same. I don't know where any of my posters are anymore. I had everyone magazine from 1995 to 2001 but I packed them all away. I never really got any of the figures though. I had a few and the ring, but nothing else.

I pretty much did the same thing with wrestling stuff too, I had a **** load of magazines, a few posters (mosly nWo) and almost all of the WCW action figures ever made. I sold it all on ebay.

I collected a ton of the Hasbro WWF figures from 1990 til 1994. After that I collected mostly WCW stuff because I absolutely HATED Jakks's WWF figures after they took over the license in 1996. WCW's Toy Biz figures from 1998-20001 are probably my favorites ever, and I own the complete set except for The Giant, Stevie Ray, and the Macho Man/Miss Elizabeth two pack (not counting some variant figures I didnt care for... who needs a million different Goldbergs?). After Jakks started doing the RealScan Tech figures in 2000 I started buying WWF figures again, since they were the first Jakks figures to actually look like the wrestlers they represented, and they've been getting better ever since. As far as looks go, the new "Ruthless Aggression" series of figures has some of the most dead-on likenesses I've seen in any wrestling figures.

I don't care for variants, so I usually just try to get one of each character, unless I see a new version I really like, in which case I'll make an exception. Hulk Hogan figures are another exception, as I own almost 30 different Hogan figures.

OK! Here are the categories!
Best:
TMNT -
Old Skool
New (maybe)
Videogames -
Old Skool (pong to SNES/Sega G)
New Skool (psx/64 to next gen)
Other -
Comic Book Collection
Star Trek/Wars Collection
Wrestling Collection
WWII Collection (MATT IS THE WINNER!)
Movie Collection (DVD/VHS)
Random Action Figures

Any other thoughts?

Stuffed Animal Collection could be a category.

yep....I have a very small collection of my alma mater's mascot. :D