A general discussion of collecting cool things.
A Collection a Day #52 – Cereal mascots from the 1970′s, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Who didn’t love having these guys join them at the breakfast table? (Some of us still do!) They recently did a study that found that kids think cereal tastes better when it comes out of a box with [...]
A Collection a Day #47 – Superman and Batman, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Here’s another “unintended” collection of mine. I’ve been collecting vintage Batman and Superman items and many of the items were produced for both characters. I’m pretty sure I could make a similar collection for Spiderman, but a guy has to [...]
A Collection a Day #38 – More Ace Double Sci-Fi books, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Here are some more recent Ace Doubles. The left half of this photo shows one side of the books, while the right half shows the flip side. I love a good deal, and the buy one, get one [...]
A Collection a Day #36 – Vintage Batman and Robin pinbacks, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Collecting pinbacks, buttons and badges has been a popular hobby for quite a while. Political collectors are probably the biggest fans of buttons, but I’ll take Batman over Nixon any day. Pinbacks are a great item to collect [...]
A Collection a Day #35 – Vintage space toys and games, originally uploaded by Cool and Collected. Space themed toys are something I am always on the lookout for in my travels. Finding them is a rare event, but every now and then I get lucky. If something has a bubble-headed astronaut on it, you [...]
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 [...]
There sure are a lot of big collections up for sale these days. I’m not sure if people just need the money or if they are trying to clear out their basements. I just wish I had some deeper pockets because I would love to get my hands on some of the collections that have [...]
Mike Zarnock is what we would call an ultimate collector. He holds the Guinness World Record for the most Hot Wheels cars in a collection, and even has a Hot Wheels car named after him. There are over 20,000 cars in his collection and he has written eleven books on Hot Wheels. Hot Wheels car [...]
Tom Nathan is a collector of vinyl toys and has amassed the largest collection in Michigan. So, why vinyl? “It’s hip, it’s cool, it’s subversive. It’s sarcastic. It rips on corporate America. It’s a lot of things a lot of people don’t want to say or don’t want to do.” His wife tolerates the collection [...]
And you thought you had a nice collection. Prepare to feel totally inadequate. Rebel Scum forum member, Kneel_Before_Zod, has a Star Wars action figure collection that is surely one of the best we have seen. I would think that half this guy’s day is spent picking up figures that fall off those shelves, usually taking a [...]
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