What does everyone collect other than video games?

[Astor Reinhardt | 199]

On 11/2/2019 at 8:17 PM, Ghost Soldier said:

I collect quite a few things including multiple toy lines. I still collect Hot Wheels, MOTU, TMNT, and anything Jurassic Park. I'm also fond of collecting old electronics like boomboxes and computers. I've acquired my first Ford Mustang and have been restoring it. This has lead to searching out Mustang merchandise to spruce up the garage. 

I have some old electronics. Some radios, my mom's old portable brick cell phone, our old video camera...I wish I could find old computers, I just haven't managed to find any.

On 11/2/2019 at 8:41 PM, N64 Gamer said:

Other than video games, I’m really into manga, anime and light novels. I especially like to buy manga from niche titles that aren’t super popular, because I want to support the authors since they don’t earn a whole lot of money either way.

The only niche manga I get is...uh...18+ stuff lol. No seriously. Some of those are low print runs and hard to find. Specifically the stuff I'm into (MxM).

On 11/3/2019 at 12:02 AM, NeXmetal said:

I decided to start collecting Nintendo pens lol

Neat! I didn't know these were a thing!

On 11/3/2019 at 10:11 AM, The Strangest said:

I don’t know if this will be a thing I actively start collecting but I bought some casino chips. I found a booth at an antique store that sold coins and apparently casino chips are a newish subset of coin collecting.

I just like the aesthetic of them I guess, which is odd to me because despite loving Vegas when I went, I didn’t gamble much because after losing $30 I wanted to burn down the casino in frustration.

The one and only time I've been to Vegas was when I was too damn young to do anything but sit in the food area by myself and seethe. That was annoying. Since then I have been to the local Native American casino a few times and have played the slots...I don't wanna touch the other games. I've won and lost...nothing major...but it's extremely addictive and I have an addictive personality so it's dangerous to go there lol.

On 11/3/2019 at 1:18 PM, drxandy said:

I too am an elongated penny collector, hay guys!! Been since childhood, not very serious until I'm in some museum, theme park, etc and then I try to get all the cool ones but never every single design.

Theme park merch: if I find any cool merch at the thrifts from cedar point or really any of the theme parks I've been to I try and snag it up.

Shoes: mainly vans

CDs: collected as a kid, sold off in the 2000s and then started back up. Always looking for music.

Vinyl: mainly from shows I've attended, lots of memories in my collection for sure

Started getting cassettes recently, probably have about 30/40 of em

Those are it, I've dabbled with other things in the past but tried to limit to things I really love.

I've been collecting pressed pennies since I was a kid too. Mostly from WA state places but I have a few from outside the state when me and my parents went on a road trip to visit my dad's family for Thanksgiving one year...

Sadly I know I used to have more of them but I've misplaced them over the years...a few years ago my mom got me a little booklet you can keep them in (and it has spots for smaller/larger pressed coins as well). So whatever I have left, I've stored in there and I keep putting them in there when I get them.

[drxandy | 3,225]

Just now, Astor Reinhardt said:

I've been collecting pressed pennies since I was a kid too. Mostly from WA state places but I have a few from outside the state when me and my parents went on a road trip to visit my dad's family for Thanksgiving one year...

Sadly I know I used to have more of them but I've misplaced them over the years...a few years ago my mom got me a little booklet you can keep them in (and it has spots for smaller/larger pressed coins as well). So whatever I have left, I've stored in there and I keep putting them in there when I get them.

Ooo nice a book! I need to step up my ziplock baggie hahah

[Astor Reinhardt | 199]

2 minutes ago, drxandy said:

Ooo nice a book! I need to step up my ziplock baggie hahah

Officially it's a "coin album". Snapped some low quality pics quickly of it to give you an idea. And to show off the single pressed quarter and dime I own.

[drxandy | 3,225]

1 minute ago, Astor Reinhardt said:

Officially it's a "coin album". Snapped some low quality pics quickly of it to give you an idea. And to show off the single pressed quarter and dime I own.

Oo so organized and shiny, I need to go through and clean mine they're all oxidized quite a bit. I dig it!!

[Quack | 24]

TV Guides, I have 1981-1989 complete, and will have 1980 soon as well.  Found a collector from an older issue and have been in contact for about 5 years now working on a full decade and then decide where to go from there.

Blu-ray's and DVD's still, love my physical media.

[Astor Reinhardt | 199]

1 minute ago, drxandy said:

Oo so organized and shiny, I need to go through and clean mine they're all oxidized quite a bit. I dig it!!

I tried to organize them by area, but the last one I added needs to be near the top with the rest of my WA state ones (I made it at the state fair this year). Several of these are pretty old, and before I got this album I didn't keep them any place special or anything...so idk why mine are all nice looking...guess I was lucky? I do try to find the shiniest pennies I own before I press them however so perhaps that helps?

[Astor Reinhardt | 199]

Just now, Quack said:

TV Guides, I have 1981-1989 complete, and will have 1980 soon as well.  Found a collector from an older issue and have been in contact for about 5 years now working on a full decade and then decide where to go from there.

Blu-ray's and DVD's still, love my physical media.

TV guides huh? Never heard of anyone collecting those. But then again I don't know of anyone who collects vintage Christmas housekeeping magazines from the 1950s like I do...

[Tanooki | 4,931]

I've got a healthy selection of vintage toys/antiques I've picked up and still do at a slower pace in the last year or two.  I'm talking basically toy wise my earliest is late 1920s but much of the bulk is more in the last 40 years if anything because I turned into a  G1 Transformers toy fan in my absence and have around 70 of them right now including a few KOs and one set of 3 still new you can't even find online and the transformerland.com hub online can't even source images to.   I've had more but sold a few otherwise probably would be at/around the 100 mark easily as I had a selection of the minibots but also some micromasters as well.  I made it a point after learning a very early lesson, toy people can be awful asking like $5 or $25 on a tiny piece of plastic, so I buy them complete or forget it if they're not like in some 99 cent pile at a thrift.

Transformers aside though I've got some nice Japanese tin-litho stuff, Marx toys (some rare like a spring powered Mickey Mouse Meteor (deluxe version) train set, Golion, other Shogun Warriors, Machine Robo DX, a few retail/merch pieces, ww2 (etc) weapons/kits, tonka/buddy-l/structo stuff, old battery powered toys, bagatelle, the list goes on.  I keep it rotating a bit so it's not a hoarders hell and I'm currently thinning some a bit.

[Dragonwarrior83 | 16]

On 11/3/2019 at 1:28 PM, Phyrexian Hulk said:

I collect Magic The Gathering & Coins along with video games

I love the old art on the early MTG cards. Library or Alexandria is a personal favorite of mine.

[Tabonga | 2,315]

All sorts of odds and ends:

Chess sets (including combination sets that would have different ames - typically roulette, cribbage, dominoes, cards, dice, chess etc in a small brief case)

bookends

vintage sci fi paperbacks

board games

vintage speakers

cloth maps - fantasy themed from video games and other sources

laserdiscs

and other things........

Here is one of my favorite laserdiscs (from Hong Kong)

 

 

Edited December 15, 2019 by Wandering Tellurian

[Kguillemette | 1,543]

Mario/ nintendo plushies. My son love the bad guys and my daughter loves the good guys. Also, board games. We went through most of the classics and might start bringing in the more challenging ones in a year.

[zombiemicrowave | 42]

Too much. haha.

Comics.  

Action Figures 

The Joker 

Garbage Pail Kids

Vinyl/cassettes/CDs

Comic Art/sketches

In person autographs

Music Memorabilia 

Guitar picks

Concert Shirts

 

[Rooster | 124]

I collect WW2 memorabilia as well, though I haven't added a piece to that collection in years.  If anyone is interested in buying stuff from me, let me know.

[a3quit4s | 4,096]

Bought my first pair of Yeezys after a couple month break the other day. I think I’m up to 6/7 pairs. Still not as expensive as collecting vidya games

Edited December 19, 2019 by a3quit4s

[asmikace | 68]

Use to go out and get vinyl records but like video games I don't have the time for my collection with my work life outside home. I been more focused on Electric guitar stuff when I get the overtime project.

[TylerBarnes | 184]

I collect grudges. People wrong me and I hold on to it forever. 

[ALTQQ | 87]

Apparently japanese cars. I have a 2010 honda civic, 2012 honda cross tour, 1998 suzuki swift and a 1989 Acura integra.

[Brickman | 3,983]

Besides video games I also collect:

- Toys (a bit of everything but have recently started working on the soul of chogokin line)

- Lego

- Vinyl

It can be hard to decide what collection to spend money on at times haha.

[Strange | 1,700]

If money were no object I would be into antique phonographs and other mechanical music boxes. I really like the cylinder phonographs.

Same goes for large mechanical games.

[andrew244 | 26]

I collect way too much stuff lmao. I mainly focus on vintage computer stuff, dead media like OP mentioned, though mainly laserdiscs, vinyl, and VHS copies of films I like. Also older Trivial Pursuit editions, though that's strictly a thrift-store thing (I see one I don't have, I snag it. Still trying to complete a full 1980s release set). One thing that's more focused than the rest is an off-shoot of vintage computers, and that's vintage keyboards. It's an...interesting little hobby, I'll put it at that.

[BazookaJoe | 10]

A little late to this thread, but I'm a big fan of automatic watches and also fountain pens. I think I have way more watches and fountain pens than I do with my gaming collection. 

[nrslam | 474]

Old computers and calculators.  I used to collect coins as a kid but got bored with it.

[BriGuy82 | 765]

If I had a ton of disposable income I could see myself collecting a wide variety of things. Probably comics, cards, and 80s action figures. But the only things I really collect besides anything NES related are PSA10 Don Mattingly cards from the his playing days. I'd like to have all his PSA10 topps tiffany cards. I also collect a little bit of Bo Jackson and Daryl Strawberry cards as well.