They say if you have three of something, you have a collection. Well, crud. I guess I have a gumball machine collection now. (Seriously spellcheck, you don’t like “gumball” but want me to write about “gumboils” instead? That would be an entirely different article.) I didn’t mean for this happen, it’s just that when I am presented with […]
Collection Update: May 2015
There’s nothing I love more than looking through other people’s collections. Things have certainly moved around since the last time I took you on a tour of my own cave. After the Great Flood of 2015 (not really), I decided to rearrange the shelves and focus more on the heroes in my collection, which is where pretty much all […]
That moment when insurance sounds like a good idea…
I was settling in to finally watch Godzilla the other night, when I heard an unfamiliar sound — splat, splat, splat. My cave is always filled with strange new sights, but rarely strange new sounds, so I went to investigate and found one of the ceiling lights had water dripping from it. Let me tell […]
Collecting 101: Tips for maintaining your passion for collecting
Lately, my collecting interests have been shifting. This isn’t anything new, my areas of interest have always been a work in process. I have shelves and boxes full of awesome 80’s toys, but they’ve started to lose a little luster for me. Don’t get me wrong, I still love the stuff, but if I’m searching […]
Collector Profile: Tokyo Toy Guy’s fantastic Batman collection
If you are a Batman collector, odds are that you’re familiar with the Tokyo Toy Guy’s documentaries. Yuji has travelled the world to document other collectors and museums focusing on Batman memorabilia, so I thought it would be fun to take a tour of the Toy Guy’s own collection… How did your collection start? What was the first item […]
Collector Profile: Take a tour of Jonathan’s Harvey Mercheum
Jonathan is a serious collector of Harvey Comics memorabilia, with an emphasis on Richie Rich items, and he offered to take us on a tour of his collection… How did your collection start? What was the first item in your collection? The items I would consider the first in my merchandise collection were given to […]