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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

...I collect toys. Star Trek and Star Wars have filled an entire drawer in my room, and I've got a bunch of stuff in my dorm as well.

I've decided that I'll invest in a First Contact Geordi La Forge, or a Han Solo in stormtrooper getup at $5 a pop, and then, in twenty years, they'll be able to pay off my student loans...

OR, maybe its because when I was little, my brothers broke most of my toys, or claimed them for their own, and this is just an excuse to preserve the toys I have...

Oh well. Anyone else collect?

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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :

Confess? Is collecting toys a bad and/or childish thing then? Not according to me. I don't collect things myself though. I build things.

Posted by CaptSershek on :

I, too, am a collector. I collect Prerecorded Trek tapes, toys, and I know of a few costumers who make Trek costumes for me (high quality stuff, no polyester I), as well as books. I have been collecting for about 20 years so I have a decent collection of stuff.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I collect the books - I have every Pocket "Star Trek" book ever written (except the voyager ones) and almost every old Bantam one.

I have at least one of every Star Trek starship model AMT/Ertl makes, including a number of kitbashed ones. I will keep buying them as long as they keep making new ones.

My father has almost the entire First-Run sets of all the Star Wars action figures, a complete Jabba's Palace and Ewok villiage, and a bunch of other toys (most of which USED to be my toys, but he bought them.)

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

I have Trek toys and books, but I buy them because I like them, not because I want to complete a collection or sell them 20 years later.

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

hmmmmm... Do I want to get into this. I'll miss something.

I collect some things. I do it more by impulse, instead of in some orginzed manner. The earliest thing I have is a picture of Spock playing 3d chess, it's not autographed. I have all the books by James Blish, aloto Bantum books, atono tng books, some Voyager, some DS9. When First Contact came out, the local Citgo station had some promo posters, I mangaed two from the gas pumps, and one small one from inside on a display. I have bumperstickers, "My other car is a bird of prey" "He's dead Jim", some others. One plate(More of a brain fart than an impulse)"The Best of Both Worlds" A couple of models. one of 1701 and two of 1701-D. Some cards for the game game, though I've never played the game. did I mention the T-shirts. One hand pantied(By someone else)with a Kliongon symbol on the front, and Qa,pla on the back, along with comets and stars and stuff, others, you get the idea, it's a sanity thing.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Oh yeah, I have the starter pack of the TNG cards, too. It was a free gift from the Star Trek credit card, which my mom signe up when we went to the Experience so she could get one of those free Borg sports bottles.

I also want to get some of those Dominion and DS9 cards, too.

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

I confess, I only have a couple of books, a telephone, a poster with a cutaway of the Enterprise-D, and ST:FC and STVI.

I confess, I am not a collector, I am not a true Star Trek Fan.......

*cries*

Oh well, it's not something I can do about it. My mom is totally irritated by my Star Trek stuff, she burned two of my favourite books (Star Trek TNG Compendum, and ST:TNG Technical manual, to which I am still bitter at her to this very day). She thinks Star Trek is nothing more than a money making sham, as "they make money off of you."

So? She likes to collect Chinese antiques. Can it be the same thing too?

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Except Temptation

[This message was edited by Tahna Los on March 14, 1999.]

Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

What does it matter what she thinks? Besides, if nobody makes money off of anybody, how is anybody going to make a living?

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

I hail your wisdom Ziyal.

BTW Tahna, I know how you feel. My mom hates me for my ST obsession. I'm always watching it, if not on television, then it's on video. My sisters even have a go at me occasionally. She's never destroyed anything, although she has threatened to on more than one occasion.

Even my dad who got me into trek gets a little pissed off at me at times. Well, it's his fault for getting me into trek in the first place

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Posted by Xentrick (Member # 64) on :

I don't have any toys left, but now I really wish I still had the wooden phaser my craftsman Dad hand-made for me back about 1975.

Instead, I've got a variety of SF-related books, technical manuals, "Making Of," "The Art Of," etc, for Trek, Wars, a couple of SF movies, and 20-30[?] rule books and supplements for role-playing games {RPG's}---Shadow Run, Cyberpunk, Traveller, Gurps Space, etc.

No, I don't play, but I just have to get those books!

Plus a couple of art books: Rodney Mathews, two from Wayne Douglas Barlowe, three from Dougle Dixon.

Anyone else?

[This message was edited by Xentrick on March 14, 1999.]

Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

BURNED a book?? BURNED A BOOK??

*gets that 'psychotic librarian' look*

CALL OUT THE DEATH SQUADS!

If my parents ever did something like that to me, they'd be thanking whatever Gods they believe in (I don't ask) if I let them escape with their lives.

Fortunately, my folks now understand that Star Trek is my primary stress-eliminator -- the thing that keeps me from going after them with an axe -- so they let it alone.

Destroying my stuff would be tantamount to an act of war, and I've always belived in a Scorched Earth policy. Deterrence through bigger and better threats. (Burn my books? Pfah! I Burn your car, your house, and your business, and tell the neighborhood about them dirty movies you THINK you have hidden in the closet!)

Although that might be going a bit far...

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Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

*sneaks into First of Two's parent's closet*

*runs*

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

Forgot to mention the first season of TNG on video tape. A stoneware copy of a china cup, used in ST6 dinner with the Klingons.

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

Some fiction books, some non-fiction books, some tapes, some models, that's it. No I'm not really collecting things, but rather knowledge on Star Trek.

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Posted by The Excalibur (Member # 34) on :

Worf's head mug, Quark's head mug.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Ya wanna know why she burned my book? Cuz I had a C in Drafting in High School. We had the hardest, meanest teacher in our school, and the average was below 50% (that's right, more than half the people failed the course). But no, my mom couldn't accept that explanation for a course which was literally impossible to get an A on (actually, the highest mark was a B).

My mom says her actions were TOTALLY reasonable, because Star Trek had polluted my brain, and cost me that A in that course. I refuse to listen to my mom anymore in the sense that she sets unreasonable rules upon me, and not upon my brother.

I can't wait to move out, so I can buy as many Star Trek stuff as I want.

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Except Temptation

Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :

Hmm. I have a ton of books from the Original Series line (mostly my mother's). I have the TNG Technical Manual, First Edition Encyclopedia, Chronology, Worlds of the Federation, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, parts of the Starfleet Technical Manual (20th Anniversary Edition), a magazine with Star Trek stuff in it, a plaque on my wall with a picture of Data and Brent Spiner's autograph, a beeping commbadge from Voyager, and a myriad of itty bitty things. I've tried building models, but, ahem, it never worked right.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Tahna: Start watching a few trash tv shows. Your mother obviously doesn't seem to be aware that there are worse things on television. Show her.

Posted by Orion Syndicate (Member # 25) on :

Tahna, my mother is quite similar as far as the dual standards go. She treats my brother a lot better. This has improved though anyway since I left to come to uni, although DON'T take this as a rallying cry to move out. It's just the elder brother should be more mature than little brother thing. "you're the eldest, give him what he wants". I hated him for that, and boy did he know how to milk the situation. He had a brain tumour a couple of years earlier and was operated on, so he knew he could get away with murder. If he wanted something and I refused, he'd start crying, yes he would. Then on comes mum and gives me a bollocking.

Anyway the point of all this is that it's just the way it is and you've just got to learn to accept it. It worked for me anyway.

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Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :

Ziyal: Actually I know a lot of people who think that Star Trek is trash and prefer "realistic" hospital and police series.