Collecting Star Wars Toys

[ruhztee]

I used to collect comics and action figures, mostly McFarlane (Spawn series 1 and up) and Marvel X-Men ones.

I still have all of my comics. The odd thing was that I collected but have only read very few of them. I guess I just like the characters and the artwork. When I moved from the Detroit area about five years ago, I left all of my action figures up there. Just literally left them in my bedroom, because my friend's dad was to clean up some stuff we left behind. My friend was into comics and action figures to, so I'll bet he gave them to him. I wish I should've sold them.

Next collection to get rid of - video games.

[gamevet]

When Star Wars came out, Wonderbread had collector's cards in every loaf. I collected every card they had and then some. I went off to school in Pheonix and left the collection in a tin. My parents moved a couple of years later and I lost the collection. I'm sad to this day about it.


Now, I collect videogames and have aquired quite a large amount of titles over the years.

[Megatron]

I'm a collector of Star Wars, Yu-Gi-Oh and Transformers.

[Scourge]

I bought a ton of the Star Wars stuff that started coming out in 1995 for the '96 rerelease, mostly for my son to have though, as I only kept a couple of figures on their cards. I stopped buying aroun '99. When I was about 13 around 1986 my mother sold all my original SW stuff to a resale shop for $10! I had a lot of stuff too. I'm still not happy about that.

I collect records (vinyl), mostly focusing on New Wave, Post-Punk, European Technopop, '80s English indie stuff, etc. Nothing really noteworthy, tho a couple of rarer items, but this is the music I've loved the longest so I seek it out. Picked up Lene Lovich's first two albums recently, as well as Naked Eyes second album and an Orchestral Manouvers In The Dark Album. I also get some Classic Rock, mostly Zep and Pink Floyd, if I can find it in good condition. Probably pick up some Bowie on vinyl soon.

I also collect Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator of Tarzan) books, mostly paperbacks printed in the '60s and '70s focusing on cover art by Frank Frazetta. I pretty much stay away from the Tarzan books tho. He wrote between the late 1800's and his death in 1950. He's a contemporary of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells and Robert E. Howard (of Conan fame). He wrote mostly escapist Science Fantasy and among his fans were Ray Bradbury, Carl Sagan, Gore Vidal and Brian Aldiss, among plenty of others. I also snatch up other authors' works with Frazetta covers, but I'm a big Edgar Rice Burroughs fan for his series other than Tarzan.

And I've got a pretty good collection of video games, tho I don't collect them just to collect them really. I'm not a completist, in other words, and am plenty happy to find a good, loose copy of something I want to play from the 8/16 bit era, if not before...

--Scourge .