Cool and Collected - collecting pop culture memories and memorabilia
A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
Here I go again… I had some insulation foam laying around, and Ithought I could put it to good use. The base is 2″ thick foam board cut to a 2′ square. Liquid Nails was used to glue down pieces of pink 1″ foam board, to make the contours of a hill. Once the glue [...]
Baseball has never really held any importance in my life–I only played sandlot versions of it as a kid, I’ve never been to a pro game–but for whatever reason, I have always enjoyed baseball movies. Kevin Costner has three that I enjoy–For Love of the Game, Bull Durham, and of course, Field of Dreams. Of the three, Field [...]
I used to be a die hard used book store “picker.” I would go to five or six book stores a few of times a week, and usually come home with something interesting–and sometimes even valuable–to add to my collection. Sadly, those days are gone, since the barcode scanners moved in. Nowadays, all the unique [...]
Gentle Giant just announced this Sucker Punch Colossal Samurai with Minigun Statue, the latest statue in their 18″ line for the movie. I wasn’t all that impressed with the movie, but I would absolutely shoot some zombie nazis to get my hands one of these guys… You can have those two girls on the side, [...]
The fine folks at Dark Hall Mansion have been putting out some pretty amazing prints lately. Remember Tom Whalen’s Great Pumpkin posters and those Snoopy posters by Laurent Durieux? Well, they have raised the bar even higher with this week’s release of officially licensed GIGANTOR prints by Laurent Durieux… “Gigantor: The Lab” Standard Edition of 150, 18 [...]
UnderScoopFire is a website dedicated to children of the 80′s and it also offers up one of my favorite weekly podcasts. Last week, the USF crew was talking about the upcoming Village Gate Toy Show in Rochester, New York and I asked Howie Decker if he’d mind sending along some photos of the show. Well, much to my [...]
Mike Bartley, a friend of Cool & Collected sent in this great recap from his visit to last Weekend’s Steel City Con. I got to go to another STEEL CITY CON on Saturday, March 3. This is important because it is one day when my wife forgets all about my “out of the ordinary” interests [...]
The other day I showed off Mondo’s Beneath the Planet of the Apes poster, and now, for your viewing enjoyment is the other POTA poster I was able to score… It’s hard for me to express exactly how excited I was to see the Planet of the Apes poster series when Mondo announced them. All [...]
The latest league topic was posted on Monday and I’ve been hearing an awful lot of crickets so far, so I thought I had better kick this thing into high gear. We were presented with 16 movie studs and had to determine who would survive a battle royale between the biggest badasses of them all. [...]
My latest Mondo posters recently arrived and I thought I would show some detailed photos which would explain why I get so excited over their prints. Last month, Mondo released a set of six Planet of the Apes posters, something I have been dreaming of for a long time. I grabbed a Conquest poster on [...]
