What is... The coolest thing you THINK you own?
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1st edition 1st printing of Terry Brooks' The Sword of Shannara.
Pretty good nick, only minor wear, tears and yellowing. Colour foldout illustration and dust jacket present and intact.
$2.50 from Bookfest, one of the biggest second hand book sales, at least in the southern hemisphere.
I also got a copy of Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, a lesser known but really good book that I struggled to find prior to that.
A copy of Risk from the seventies apparently before they made all the pieces look like infantry, cavalry and cannons (they're just little triangular shapes for single units and star shapes for groups of 10).
And other stuff, I like to collect rare and interesting things.
Pretty good nick, only minor wear, tears and yellowing. Colour foldout illustration and dust jacket present and intact.
$2.50 from Bookfest, one of the biggest second hand book sales, at least in the southern hemisphere.
I also got a copy of Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides, a lesser known but really good book that I struggled to find prior to that.
A copy of Risk from the seventies apparently before they made all the pieces look like infantry, cavalry and cannons (they're just little triangular shapes for single units and star shapes for groups of 10).
And other stuff, I like to collect rare and interesting things.
SUPER SUPER SUPER jealous. Also, Greatest .Gif ever.Andy Shandy said:I have this replica House ball that I got for my birthday a couple of years ago.
It is good to play with like House does.
I baseball bat that once belonged to a Norfolk Tides player (Minor League farm team for the Baltimore Orioles, former farm team for the New York Mets), though I can't remember who he was, that my uncle gave me.
I also have a copy of a blueprint for the final monster in the movie 'Virus' signed by the director and one of the stars along with a Polaroid picture taken on the set (both displayed together in the frame). My uncle had done some work on the set and brought home the blueprint and a handful of Polaroids. I got a photocopy of it and he kept the original.
I also have a copy of a blueprint for the final monster in the movie 'Virus' signed by the director and one of the stars along with a Polaroid picture taken on the set (both displayed together in the frame). My uncle had done some work on the set and brought home the blueprint and a handful of Polaroids. I got a photocopy of it and he kept the original.
Well not much:
Meet my WE Tech G39C gbbr. It fires 6 mm plastic bbs at 400 feet a second propelled by a propane/silicone mix called Green Gas. It has blowback for recoil simulation, a functional bolt catch, IdZ stock and top rail, red dot scope, vertical fore grip, and tac light. When it hits you, it hurts, as I've heard from people that I've shot. Disclaimer time: shooting people IS WHAT IT'S FOR! I play airsoft, a sport where being shot with small plastic balls comes with the territory so no foul here.
Meet my WE Tech G39C gbbr. It fires 6 mm plastic bbs at 400 feet a second propelled by a propane/silicone mix called Green Gas. It has blowback for recoil simulation, a functional bolt catch, IdZ stock and top rail, red dot scope, vertical fore grip, and tac light. When it hits you, it hurts, as I've heard from people that I've shot. Disclaimer time: shooting people IS WHAT IT'S FOR! I play airsoft, a sport where being shot with small plastic balls comes with the territory so no foul here.
Looks like Native American Slenderman to me, which I find amusing. Doesn't it kinda look like it?Robert Marrs said:The coolest things I own is this handmade native american doll. Its a Navajo doll that my great grandmother gave me.[http://s1339.photobucket.com/user/Robert_Marrs/media/1901435_700224926686793_323637639_n_zps155d57fa.jpg.html]
Well from a sentimental standpoint the coolest thing I own is a banged up old shinai (Bamboo wooden sword) held together by wood glue and duct tape as much as anything else, when I was in highschool me and my best friend would sword fight with those things weekly and we would swing hard enough to give eachother blisters, bruises, and even break a few fingers. On the last day before we both went off to college we had one last sword fight with a crowd of people watching and by the end of it my glasses were broken, I had a huge gash on right arm, he had a black eye, and his sword was shattered into so many pieces we couldn't put it back together again, we saw it as a fitting event for our last day together and while we burned the remains of his sword in the camp fire that night I decided I would keep mine forever as a testament to that day.
A close second is a decorational bokken (Hardwood sword) I bought from a different, much older friend, when he was leaving for college.
From a collectors point of view I have one of the old 80 gigabyte PS3'S capable of playing PS2 titles which was the first console I ever actually bought at store value near when it came out and the first I was able to afford on my own money.
from a functional point of view I have microsofts surface pro tablet which is basically a graphic art tablet with wacom tech that runs windows 8 and functions as a low end laptop on the side, it's become my go-to travel computer as well the thing I do most of my art on now days.
from a 'that's neat' point of view I've got a camera mounted under water capable R.O.V. I built during my freshman year of highschool during a summer program where I got to go to college for a month. I don't really use it all that much but I used to go down to the docks with friends and we would look around at some of the stuff that had accumulated down there, one of the rotors is kinda broken now though so it veers hardcore to the right but still it's kind of neat.
A close second is a decorational bokken (Hardwood sword) I bought from a different, much older friend, when he was leaving for college.
From a collectors point of view I have one of the old 80 gigabyte PS3'S capable of playing PS2 titles which was the first console I ever actually bought at store value near when it came out and the first I was able to afford on my own money.
from a functional point of view I have microsofts surface pro tablet which is basically a graphic art tablet with wacom tech that runs windows 8 and functions as a low end laptop on the side, it's become my go-to travel computer as well the thing I do most of my art on now days.
from a 'that's neat' point of view I've got a camera mounted under water capable R.O.V. I built during my freshman year of highschool during a summer program where I got to go to college for a month. I don't really use it all that much but I used to go down to the docks with friends and we would look around at some of the stuff that had accumulated down there, one of the rotors is kinda broken now though so it veers hardcore to the right but still it's kind of neat.
I have a sword of Altair replica, it goes with the costume I also have.
Apart from that I have a few autographs, one from Littlekuriboh and a 'Caboosisms' poster signed by three of the Rooster Teeth crew.
Apart from that I have a few autographs, one from Littlekuriboh and a 'Caboosisms' poster signed by three of the Rooster Teeth crew.
I used to have a ridiculously large comic/manga collection, of about five hundred. I read pretty much all of them. I think I still have it somewhere; and I have nothing to do with the upcoming holiday (paticularly worrying as there is no food and I'm too lazy to get some) so I suppose I can do that... whatever you'd call that.
Well...just for sheer eclectic novelty's sake? Vintage tank wrench...and by tank, I mean 'roll across the battlefield, crush things, shoot people' tank. This is the sort of thing that TF2's Engineer would smile on, an open-ended wrench that's clearly seen better days, yet still does its job in fixing things and doubles as a convenient way to break things.
In a more pop-culture sense, I have one of the somewhat uncommon Joyride Studios cold-cast Battlemech models, specifically the Dragon's Fury Jupiter. They occasionally pop up for sale on eBay and usually go for far more than I paid for mine. I regret not picking up the Mad Cat or ForestryMech when they were available. Joyride doesn't even acknowledge they exist, which is too bad. I thought it was neat, anyway.
In a more pop-culture sense, I have one of the somewhat uncommon Joyride Studios cold-cast Battlemech models, specifically the Dragon's Fury Jupiter. They occasionally pop up for sale on eBay and usually go for far more than I paid for mine. I regret not picking up the Mad Cat or ForestryMech when they were available. Joyride doesn't even acknowledge they exist, which is too bad. I thought it was neat, anyway.
Daaaang, of all the items thus far mentioned in this thread, of that I am most envious.fletch_talon said:
When he came to my city's video game and anime convention 3 years ago I trawled through the boxes at my local game shop and dug out a Beaver Warrior and a Celtic Guardian for him to sign. I don't even play Yu-Gi-Oh but they still have pride of place on the back page of my Magic: The Gathering folder, along with an Ancient Mew card from the first Pokemon movie xDTizzytheTormentor said:
This is a tough call. Since I've started going to conventions over the last few years I've accumulated a decent collection of cool things signed by rad people and of awesome artwork from awesome artists.
Left picture: Jubilee by X-Factor cover artist David Yardin. Right pictures: Jubilee and Legion by TMNT cover artist Jon Sommariva
A Gollum commission my girlfriend got for me for my last birthday from illustrator Doug Holgate.
4 original animation cels from Martian Successor Nadesico framed together, with accompanying original pencil drawings by the animators. Also, since this photo was taken I've managed to get it signed by Spike Spencer who voiced Akito in the English dub.
Other contenders of which I'm lacking photos to hand include my Luke Skywalker ForceFX Lightsaber, my copy of the novel 'The Courtship of Princess Leia' that I got signed by Carrie Fisher and my copy of my favourite novel 'Magician' that I got signed by the author, Raymond E. Feist.
Sometimes it is frustrating to own this thing because there are other Avenger toys just as good and I can't afford them right now. Those things are freakin' expensive and sometimes I want to have all of them.Sgt. Sykes said:
I just have an empire of cool shit.
Ancestral short sword, pieces of the Berlin wall, pretty damn solid game collection, a fairly massive geeky as hell library, my badass Jeep...
Honestly, I don't spend money on anything unless it's basically the best/coolest version of whatever it is.
I will skip 1000 "decent" versions of something waiting for a truly great version...and then I will own the fuck out of that great one.
A great example is not having any MegaMan action figures my whole life despite opportunities and desire to have some because I wasn't satisfied with the sculpts and/or engineering. Then the D-Arts MegaMan series came out....and I own literally all of them...because they're god damn amazing.
So yea, basically I just have tons of cool stuff.
But honestly I don't really care about stuff. I more just own stuff because I CAN, and it's a way to get the stuff that my mind is filled with into the physical world where I can see it.
My coolest thing....
Uh....
....
My PC?
I obviously don't -own- them by any means, but the coolest things I have are my closest friends. They're pretty much the only thing that really means anything to me.
*shrug*
Ancestral short sword, pieces of the Berlin wall, pretty damn solid game collection, a fairly massive geeky as hell library, my badass Jeep...
Honestly, I don't spend money on anything unless it's basically the best/coolest version of whatever it is.
I will skip 1000 "decent" versions of something waiting for a truly great version...and then I will own the fuck out of that great one.
A great example is not having any MegaMan action figures my whole life despite opportunities and desire to have some because I wasn't satisfied with the sculpts and/or engineering. Then the D-Arts MegaMan series came out....and I own literally all of them...because they're god damn amazing.
So yea, basically I just have tons of cool stuff.
But honestly I don't really care about stuff. I more just own stuff because I CAN, and it's a way to get the stuff that my mind is filled with into the physical world where I can see it.
My coolest thing....
Uh....
....
My PC?
I obviously don't -own- them by any means, but the coolest things I have are my closest friends. They're pretty much the only thing that really means anything to me.
*shrug*
Hmm. Well I've got some cool autographed things. (Adam West as Batman, YES!) Maybe the coolest and rarest entertainment related thing I've got though is a presskit for Army of Darkness, which I bought from always controversial B-film reviewer Joe Bob Briggs on ebay. I've also got a 43 year old German lobby card depicting one of my favorite scenes in Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
Thank you so much for the advise! I had been worried about the proper way to preserve it. I know a framer nearby that has "Museum Quality" glass, so I'll make to to ask if that's a marketing term, or if its actually blocking out the UV light. Something like acid free laminate is a term I haven't even heard of before.WWmelb said: