There’s a little bit of everything in this video–Six Million Dollar Man, Batman, GI Joe–you name it, it’s in this collection. Wow.
Todd Sheffer’s incredible collection of vintage toys and comic books (part 1)
November 30, 2011 By 7 Comments
About a year ago, Todd Sheffer and I started chatting via email about collecting after he submitted his Collector Profile to the site. Todd works at Hake’s Americana, where he is surrounded by rare pop culture collectibles every day, and he invited me to come see his collection while I was in York for the [...]
Collector Profile — Calvin’s Canadian Cave of Cool
October 24, 2011 By 8 Comments
Calvin lives in a cave in the high Tundra where he splits his time between blogging, monitoring the nepharious schemes of the Cephalopod Menance, and praising the beauty in all the things designed around him, be they made of skin and bones or PVC. How did your collection start? What was the first item in [...]
Collector Profile: Adam Pratt and his pop culture candy containers
October 13, 2011 By 3 Comments
Adam Pratt is a full time artist living just outside of Hartford, CT. His art usually involves customizing toys, and casting his own unique resin figures. Growing up in the 80′s really cemented his love for pop culture, and he has amassed a sweet collection of candy containers, many of which are based on pop culture characters and [...]
Calling upon the Star Wars community: Vintage Star Wars collection for sale
June 7, 2011 By 10 Comments
Barb Crews, the collectibles expert at About.com recently put me in touch with a nice woman named Anita, who is feeling a little overwhelmed. Anita’s daughter, Maureen, was a Star Wars fan and collector all her life, and had amassed a large Star Wars collection over the years. Unfortunately, Maureen had a disability which made [...]
Star Trek Collector: Steve Kelley
May 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Manspace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory
April 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
I took the kids to the library the other day, and for some reason they had a table displaying all kinds of manly books, but this is the one that caught my eye… Now, I don’t know about you but if a book has a large leg lamp from A Christmas Story, I’m going to [...]
Collector Profile: Katy Haile collects Rainbow Brite (and He-Man!)
April 5, 2011 By 8 Comments
Katy Haile lives in Lake Wylie, SC, and has been creating websites since 1997, and still runs her favorite one – RainbowBrite.net. Okay, now I typically limit the collections on Cool & Collected to the more male-oriented audience, but Katy has a pretty sweet collection of Masters of the Universe figures lumped in among all [...]
How to Shoot an Awesome Video of Your Collection
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In all the exhaustive research I conduct for this site — and by research, I mean wasting time drooling over other people’s stuff — I have seen plenty of YouTube videos showing off people’s collections of everything from action figures to vintage toys. I recently came across the following video thanks to a tip from [...]
Harry Potter’s Biggest Fan
November 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here we have the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. Enjoy…
