A general discussion of collecting cool things.
I was a fan of Pawn Stars long before tonight’s episode, but now I will be glued to the tube whenever a new show airs, hoping they feature something as great as they did tonight. Rick and Chumlee visit the home of Will, who has a serious Transformers habit. It looks like this guy has [...]
A Collection a Day #32 – TMNT characters, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. To go along with yesterday’s collection are a few of the supporting characters from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. How can you not love these guys, with names like Krang, General Traag, Genghis Frog, and Napoleon Bonafrog? I have collected [...]
A Collection a Day #31 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TMNT, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. If you are a child of the 80′s there’s a pretty good chance you had some of these green guys in your toy box. Some of us still have one or two, as you can see in the [...]
Every week I find myself in strange places, mostly frequented by old ladies with knitted handbags. Why you may ask? Well, it’s not because of their sweet perfume or blue tinged hairdos. It’s because I go where I can find old stuff, and antique stores, flea markets, and yard sales are where that stuff is [...]
A demo copy of NBA 2Ball, a Playstation video game, recently sold for over $700 on eBay. The folks at multiplayergames.com interviewed the winning bidder who had some pretty interesting reasoning behind his seemingly outrageous purchase… “Now everyone has heard of Babe Ruth, but a Honus Wagner baseball card is many times more valuable than a [...]
You want to know why I love going to yard sales? Check this out: I found a ziploc bag filled with Star Wars Lego minifigs, complete with guns and light sabers. There is a General Grievous, Boba Fett, C3PO, R2D2, and yes, that is Jabba the Hutt in the back row. Forty six minifigs found in [...]
Who doesn’t like free stuff? Who doesn’t like free comic books? Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, so head out to your local comic book shop and get a freebie, and while you’re there, why not actually pay for a few comics? I took my kids to this event last year and we had a [...]
Is there a better way to down a few dozen Red Bulls while playing a World of Warcraft marathon session than with these sweet new steins? Me thinks not. Taverncraft, a subsidiary of 3 Point Entertainment LLC, today announced it has begun shipping the latest additions to their celebrated line-up of steins based on Blizzard [...]
The good folks at Weta Workshop are up to their old tricks. Check out this monument to Halo’s Master Chief–a fully-functioning XBox 360 that has been modified ever so slightly. The proceeds from the sales of these consoles is going to a good cause, so crack open those piggy banks! Specially designed and built for [...]
Hurry on over to Sideshow Collectibles to pre-order your very own Iron Man Mark IV 12-inch Figure from the Iron Man 2 movie. The movie-accurate Mark IV collectible is highly detailed and fully deployed, specially crafted based on the image of Robert Downey Jr. as the iconic character Mark IV in the movie, highlighting the [...]
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