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.
Well, I had fun on Saturday morning… I always search Craigslist for nearby yard sales and this week one particular listing caught my eye. It mentioned lots of video game swag. Well, I love swag! So, I targeted that house first, and I’m glad I did. The seller was a really nice guy who used [...]
The good folks over at Bungie are auctioning some incredible items from the Halo franchise, to raise money for “Child’s Play,” a charity that enables the gamer community to make a positive difference in the lives of children and young adults, primarily through donations of toys and games to childrens’ hospitals around the world as [...]
Microsoft announced this week that they will re-release the original Halo: Combat Evolved game with all new shiny graphics made for the XBox 360. They also announced plans for a whole new trilogy of Halo games. The internet fanboys immediately started whining and moaning about why they couldn’t just let a dead horse lay, but [...]
Remember the incredible ad campaign Microsoft ran to promote the release of Halo 3? Profiles in History, the auction house featured on my current favorite TV show, Hollywood Treasure, will be auctioning off pieces of the diorama this weekend. I hate to see this huge diorama broken up and pieced out, but I sure wouldn’t mind [...]
I used to watch the Flintstones everyday after school. Those were the days where we had six channels, so whichever channel was showing cartoons, was the one we watched. I’m not sure if I was a kid today and had 256 other channels to surf, that I would stop on the Flintstones, but you never [...]
A Collection a Day #20 – Halo’s Master Chief, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. One day I was thinking how much time I spend playing Halo (and still do) and it dawned on me that this Master Chief guy could very well be a serious collectible of tomorrow. What other entertainment franchise has a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Yahoo recently had an article that listed the rarest video games. Number five on that list was the Atari 2600′s Air Raid. The game has a distinctive blue handle that made it easy to rip out of the console and throw against the wall, which is why it’s so rare. Kidding. A copy of this [...]
