Caution: If you call yourself a video game collector, this guy will make you feel very, very inadequate. Honestly, I never saw the allure of holding onto old video game systems but after watching this video, I am sorely nostalgic for all my old consoles. Everything in this collector’s room is gaming-centric, from the furniture [...]
Biz Markie — You got what I neeee-ed!
April 24, 2012 By 3 Comments
Collector Profile: Flywheels rolls out his Transformers collection
April 24, 2012 By 2 Comments
“Flywheels” has been a fan of Transformers since the toys hit shelves in 1984. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, he now lives in the upstate of South Carolina with his wife and our two precious daughters — and about a thousand transforming robots! How did your collection start? What was the first item in your [...]
Collector Profile — Ashley Raburn and his massive Masters of the Universe collection
March 23, 2012 By 5 Comments
Ashley Raburn lives in Tennessee, and works at a local College as an Instructional Technology Specialist. Ashley has been an avid Doctor Who fan his whole life, and runs the website, Life with Fandom, where he talks about pop culture. He’s also involved in a cool new project called “New Monster,” which is a series of [...]
Amazing vintage toy collection video
January 4, 2012 By 3 Comments
Todd Sheffer’s incredible collection of vintage toys and comic books (part 1)
November 30, 2011 By 8 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
