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Post by nucleusofswarm on Nov 26, 2021 23:28:45 GMT
So fair to say, many of us here have collections of one kind or another (movies, shows, comics, novels in the same series or by the same author, toys, magazines etc.), but what was your first? The one that made you want to get more of whatever 'it' is? Perhaps even when you were a kid?
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Post by Whovitt on Nov 26, 2021 23:43:20 GMT
My first collection would have been LEGO Bionicles when I was a kid (around the ages of 6-11). Not just the LEGO sets either, but the various series of novels that were written to detail the lives and backstories of the various figures. I also got all four movies and the two PS2 video games (the second of which I still revisit from time to time). I didn't make a lot of pocket money then so I wasn't able to buy even a fifth of the total LEGO set output (each series came with six or twelve sets, excluding special releases), but I still have every piece of merchandise. It's all boxed up at one or both of my parent's houses though.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 26, 2021 23:44:25 GMT
Late 70's/early 80's. Superfriends/Spiderman and all other DC/Marvel/Warner Brothers cartoons.. 60's Batman tv show, Buck Rogers/Doctor Who/Star Wars/Star Trek/"V" The Series etc..comics as well, just- everything pretty much. I got the official "Tron" and "Halloween III" movie novelisations when I was 7 (I still have them in mint condition)..matchbox cars as well as E.T. and He-Man/Transformers.. There is no "sort of collecting" I am either all in or I don't bother. I still have everything after 40+ years. I converted my backyard garage into my Batcave, it's big enough to fit 4-6 cars in there, I converted it so I have 1/2 the space. I am so old I can still remember seeing C3PO and R2D2 on Sesame Street on it's original tv showing LOLZ.
Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, The Three Investigators, Knight Rider, A-Team, Biggles books too..
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Post by grinch on Nov 26, 2021 23:49:06 GMT
Probably the Target books if truth be told.
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Post by Kestrel on Nov 27, 2021 2:38:08 GMT
I'm not sure. I like to (jokingly?) refer to starships as my ASD fixation (a good excuse to explain away my many, many models) but the route I took to get there went basically from cars to aircraft to spaceships. Little toy cars and planes I was given as a child, so I can't say I actively collected them. But in 3rd grade -- and I still remember this vividly -- I saw a classmate with a toy X-Wing and it blew my mind: I recognized it as an aircraft, but one that looked wildly different to those I knew.
And so began a lifelong infatuation/obsession. Models, toys, display figures, you name it. At one point I even tried sculpting my own spaceships out of clay (which did not turn out well); at another I began building my own kitbashes, breaking, tearing and cutting apart other toys, models and random items (miscellaneous pieces of metal or plastic, often from old gardening supplies) to construct my own original ships. I made starships out of everything -- all the way down to twigs and shards of sycamore bark.
But, erm... I guess that may not be very relatable. It's not my fault! Blame it on the ASD! More appropriately this also led me to the Star Wars movies, and from there to Star Trek, which likewise led to the licensed novels for each. I re,ember especially loving the Timothy Zahn novels.
And at another point (4th grade, I think) I also began accumulating a vast collection of the Goosebumps and Animorphs books, which could be found dirt cheap at some nearby used bookshops.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 27, 2021 8:52:47 GMT
Star wars, He-Man & Transformers figures, i even had the C3PO case store my figures in.
Were i live there was a huge toy store & it was like Christmas everytime i went into that store while my parents sobbed up the corner.
I used collect the book & cassettes of A-Team, Street Hawk & Star Wars, Masters Of The Universe, Transformers plus many others including DC & Marvel which ran about 40 minutes.
Arh love recalling great memories of nostalgia.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 27, 2021 9:36:31 GMT
Star wars, He-Man & Transformers figures, i even had the C3PO case store my figures in. Were i live there was a huge toy store & it was like Christmas everytime i went into that store while my parents sobbed up the corner. I used collect the book & cassettes of A-Team, Street Hawk & Star Wars, Masters Of The Universe, Transformers plus many others including DC & Marvel which ran about 40 minutes. Arh love recalling great memories of nostalgia. You have seen the photo's and videos of my Batcave.. You can lose "days" in there LOLZ..
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 27, 2021 9:44:15 GMT
I was born a hunter and gatherer.
I started walking, this is when I started my collection of rocks, minerals and fossils. I have several shelves in my old room at my parents place.
I even found, unearthed and carried in a wheelbarrow, my very own partial Nothosaurus skeleton in the quarry behind my village.
If there had been any doubts, no, I did not have a lot of friends during my youth. This was how I spend my holidays. Patiently turning over EVERY rock in the quarry. Any more questions?
25 years ago, I started playing Warhammer, and since then, I have collected (and sold) around 12 Warhammer armies. All assembled and painted.
During my youth, I also became a fan of Star Trek, which let to me going to conventions, so then I started collecting autographs.
Since I am a huge fan of the 3 Investigators, I made it a mission while living in NZ to get all the old classic books (some of them 50 years old!) in original English. I am proud to say I got nearly all of them. For a German, this is the "Holy Grail".
I am also quite good at accumulating random "treasures". Not sure anyone would call this "collecting". My mum calls it "piling up trash".
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Post by sherlock on Nov 27, 2021 10:06:51 GMT
Hmm, few possible candidates as the timeline is a bit murky. (My memory sucks)
The first book series I really collected as a kid was The Roman Mysteries. Got every single one of those.
I did also have a small group of Bionicles, though I was entirely ignorant of any lore about them. Just cool looking robot warriors to me.
And then come 2007 entered the Doctor Who figures, which I have kept going on and off over the years.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2021 11:36:09 GMT
Comics... Marvel especially... I had tons of them... The Amazing Spider-Man was my favourite Marvel comic to collect, but I also had a good stack of Roy of the Rovers under my bed too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2021 12:39:29 GMT
Pannini Scottish football stickers, I would think, then Conan Doyle books.
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Post by mark687 on Nov 27, 2021 14:11:52 GMT
Looking back I was Jammy Lucky with it
My next door neighbor gave me all the Star Wars Figures in the Vader Headcase. The Falcon, the long Rebel Transpot Ship from Empire/Jedi and a boxed AT-Tack
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Post by shutupbanks on Nov 27, 2021 14:57:08 GMT
Star Wars action figures (some of which I still have) until I realised that I enjoyed the toys more than the films.
Doctor Who novelisations
Then I went ful book nerd and started collecting long book series, which lasted until I moved out of home then had kids and my collecting days stopped…until the kids grew up and moved out. Now I have a little more disposable income and I'm collecting first editions of some of my favourite books.
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Post by Kestrel on Nov 30, 2021 7:34:07 GMT
I was born a hunter and gatherer. I started walking, this is when I started my collection of rocks, minerals and fossils. I have several shelves in my old room at my parents place. I even found, unearthed and carried in a wheelbarrow, my very own partial Nothosaurus skeleton in the quarry behind my village. That's so cool! And it made me remember: in my childhood home, at one point a construction crew building unearthed a bunch of very large rocks that our neighbors, with whom we shared a long driveway (it was a weird setup) used to arrange in a large flowerbed on the hill next to that driveway. These rocks were about 2m x 1m x 3m, more or less -- big enough I'd crawl on top of them to play. One even had a great crescent-shaped indentation that made a great place to sit. I'd crawl up on top of it with a book and eat pizza while I read. Anyway, this whole part of the continent used to be the ocean, many millions of years ago -- and the rocks were basically hardened sea floor, composed of silt and the various organisms that died and sank to the bottom. So, basically, each rock was a solid mass of fossilized long-extinct sea creatures -- a lot of spirals and cylinders and basic shapes like that. I'd often go out with a hammer and nail and use it to excavate the fossils from the stone. I remember it being difficult, as the fossiles were quite fragile and easy to chip accidentally, but I was also a clumsy kid. I'd go out there for hours and fill up Ziploc bags with tiny fossils, over and over again, and bring them back to my room. In retrospect I don't know why my parents tolerated it: these were essentially bags of ash-grey sand, and they tended to leak. |
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 30, 2021 8:42:50 GMT
I was born a hunter and gatherer. I started walking, this is when I started my collection of rocks, minerals and fossils. I have several shelves in my old room at my parents place. I even found, unearthed and carried in a wheelbarrow, my very own partial Nothosaurus skeleton in the quarry behind my village. That's so cool! And it made me remember: in my childhood home, at one point a construction crew building unearthed a bunch of very large rocks that our neighbors, with whom we shared a long driveway (it was a weird setup) used to arrange in a large flowerbed on the hill next to that driveway. These rocks were about 2m x 1m x 3m, more or less -- big enough I'd crawl on top of them to play. One even had a great crescent-shaped indentation that made a great place to sit. I'd crawl up on top of it with a book and eat pizza while I read. Anyway, this whole part of the continent used to be the ocean, many millions of years ago -- and the rocks were basically hardened sea floor, composed of silt and the various organisms that died and sank to the bottom. So, basically, each rock was a solid mass of fossilized long-extinct sea creatures -- a lot of spirals and cylinders and basic shapes like that. I'd often go out with a hammer and nail and use it to excavate the fossils from the stone. I remember it being difficult, as the fossiles were quite fragile and easy to chip accidentally, but I was also a clumsy kid. I'd go out there for hours and fill up Ziploc bags with tiny fossils, over and over again, and bring them back to my room. In retrospect I don't know why my parents tolerated it: these were essentially bags of ash-grey sand, and they tended to leak. Well, it was educational! Surely your parents appreciated a scientific mind?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2021 9:03:25 GMT
Stamps as a kid
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Post by Timelord007 on Dec 1, 2021 9:03:32 GMT
I got 007 & Doctor Who stamp collections, dunno if they worth ought? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2021 9:07:04 GMT
I got 007 & Doctor Who stamp collections, dunno if they worth ought? Am sure my stamps aren’t but i still have them.When you are young it isnt about money is it ?Its just the joy of collecting. |
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Post by Ela on Dec 1, 2021 18:01:43 GMT
I think my first collecting as a kid was rocks and shells. Later I started collecting postcards, partly cause motels used to give away free postcards as advertising, but I also started buying some. Currently, my most consistent collecting (other than Doctor Who stuff) is fridge magnets.  |
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