A general discussion of collecting cool things, such as vintage and modern toys, comic books, ephemera.
The Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) is taking place this weekend, with the highlight of the event being the Captain America: the First Avenger auction by Profiles in History. Profiles in History’s Fong Sam, is a friend of the site and I asked him to send over a few photos of their exhibit booth [...]
This episode begins with Joe visiting mega-collector Desi Dos Santos, who wants to sell one of the props from his extensive collection to raise money to buy a Back to the Future hover board that is coming up for auction. Dos Santos has an amazing collection which includes Deckerd’s blaster gun from Bladerunner, Darth Vader’s helmet, [...]
At the beginning of this episode, we get to meet Joe’s mother, Betty, who brings him a newspaper clipping about the Hollywood Christmas Movieland Museum which is closing in Hinckley, Ohio. Joe and Tracey fly out and find plenty of props from Christmas movies, but they also find an owner who is reluctant to sell. Mark [...]
It was a long wait, but Hollywood Treasure finally returned to the airwaves, and it looked like they took a page from Mike and Frank over on American Pickers. This episode has Joe picking through a shed with dead animals on the floor and a leaky roof above. The shed belongs to Lauren, an artist [...]
Joe revisits the Stan Winston studios, a place he visited last season, and talks with Erich Litoff about selling some items to raise money for the Stan Winston school of character arts. He finds an incredibly creepy Sam Worthington stuntman mask from Terminator. He puts the mask on and he IS Sam Worthington. Freaky-deaky. Joe [...]
Disclaimer: I am a Planet of the Apes nut, so this show got me pretty giddy. Ed Gogin is a big time Planet of the Apes collector in Orange County, CA. Joe and Brian visit Gogin, because they hope to convince him to sell his Lawgiver statue. This is a massive prop that Gogin has [...]
There were some pretty amazing props on this episode of Hollywood Treasure. When I heard that there were going to be Stan Winston props featured, I got excited. Luckily the show did not disappoint. Joe and Jon visit the Stan Winston archive. Check out this shot of the two of them standing between an original [...]
Joe and Jon are on the hunt for the Cowardly Lion’s courage badge from the Wizard of Oz. They visit John Azarian at his New Jersey home (nice spread!) to deliver the Lost in Space space pod he won in the first episode. Azarian has made his fortune in real estate and has amassed an [...]
The Profiles in History crew decide to hold an appraisal clinic in an effort to drum up some new business. It’s basically a Hollywood version of Antiques Roadshow. We get to see some of the items that people bring to the event, such as some Star Trek film from the 60′s (est. $200-300). There are [...]
Joe, Brian, and Tracey take trip to merry old England on a quest to find the original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. They first visit Peter Botright (great name) of Wested Leather. Botright’s business is making leather costumes for Hollywood studios, and he shows the Profiles in History crew Mad Eye Moody’s jacket from Harry Potter, [...]
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