These are collectables?

[NextExit]

Did I miss something?  I'll collect guns, coins, maybe even paintings, but these??

 

$1900 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tom-Hanks-Rare-Authentic-Hand-Signed-Forrest-Gump-Laserdisc-Movie-Photo-PROOF-/360928699278?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item540906e38e

$2000 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Macaulay-Culkin-Rare-Hand-Signed-Framed-Home-Alone-Laserdisc-Movie-Film-Candid-/371247716098?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5670169702

 

:squint:

 

[btq96r]

Only if someone buys them.

 

I liked Forest Gump a lot and think Tom Hanks is a great actor, but I'm not paying any money for his signature.

[TrickyNicky]

Short answer, no not really. The autographs are, but those seem like some pretty ambitious prices in my ignorant opinion for 2 guys still cranking out signatures.

[NextExit]

Same seller on both.  I like those comments about "rare" signatures from these guys. :P

[seez52]

using the word "rare" in any ad is always a dead give away, you'd better watch your wallet

[luvmyberetta]

Some laser discs are going way up in value as collectables, but those prices are completely ridiculous! I would expect those to be in the $200-$300 range because of the expense of having them framed. The discs are probably worth about half that to a collector.

[Jonnin]

anything signed by someone famous has some value to someone.   What that value is?  Its hard to say.   Its also an investment ... someday he will be dead and it will be worth more.   It also depends on how many he signed.   You can still get, what is it, Picasso paintings for like $50 or something because he made like 1000000000000 of them. 

[NoBanStan]

Heck yeah these are valuable! The'll go nicely with my Jean Luc Picard plate

 

*smashes buy now furiously*

[btq96r]

Keep sharing links, and we'll need a QVC forum set up.  :rofl:

[hipower]

I refuse to show any of you guys some of the things I've "collected" over my glorious past. lol

I don't want to be laughed out of town.

[TrickyNicky]

I refuse to show any of you guys some of the things I've "collected" over my glorious past. lol

I don't want to be laughed out of town.

 

 

I used to pick the quartz out of the asphalt at school in elementary school and collect it. When my parents sold the house we lived in years later I found out they still had a small bucket of them in the garage.

 

Doesn't get a whole lot weirder than that lol.

[hipower]

One of my quirks involved comics. Mom and Dad just shook their heads at me and my strangeness. "I just don't know where he gets it" was a common refrain about me.

Did it from age 10 to 19 or so. Moved. School. The usual things. Then we, parents, myself and wife to be , were in the old garage on hot summer afternoon helping move some boxes.

I found an old boot box and thought it looked familiar. Panic stricken that this was being thrown in the trash, I grabbed it and ran to the table to open it. I screamed like a little girl given a new pony.

All three of them looked at me like I was a little "touched" as the country folk called it.

I was bouncing around, almost dancing, looking pretty silly I guess.

But inside were the first 66 issues of the Marvel "X-Men." All neatly sealed in comic bags. Completely intact! I was just in utter amazement.

I'd been told that all my comics had been thrown out, never to be seen again.

I was a total waste the rest of the day. They just put up with me and kindly didn't say too much about it to neighbors and family afterwards.

I lovingly protected those thru all the intervening years...and until the 2010 Floods kept them warm, safe and dry. Sob...

And that's just one of the saner bits in my "collecting adventures."

[luvmyberetta]

I collect Star Wars. I have a box of Star Wars comics from the late '70s & early '80s along with figures & read along books with records. The strangest are probably my lightsabers. I have some of the small scale Master Replica lightsabers, but I've also built some full size replicas from scratch using 70 year old camera flashes & parts they used in the original movies. (Yeah, I'm a nerd) I also like to collect metal fighter jet models, my favorite being the F14 Tomcats. Oh, yeah, I also collect guns. That's the one that bugs my wife the most. It would bug her even more if she actually knew how many I really have. :rofl:

[hipower]

I collect Star Wars. I have a box of Star Wars comics from the late '70s & early '80s along with figures & read along books with records. The strangest are probably my lightsabers. I have some of the small scale Master Replica lightsabers, but I've also built some full size replicas from scratch using 70 year old camera flashes & parts they used in the original movies. (Yeah, I'm a nerd) I also like to collect metal fighter jet models, my favorite being the F14 Tomcats. Oh, yeah, I also collect guns. That's the one that bugs my wife the most. It would bug her even more if she actually knew how many I really have. :rofl:

Yes. I can see how that might give her a bit of consternation. lol

[NRA]

kinda gay IMO

[hipower]

kinda gay IMO

 

What item?

[ironsniper1]

I collect Star Wars. I have a box of Star Wars comics from the late '70s & early '80s along with figures & read along books with records. The strangest are probably my lightsabers. I have some of the small scale Master Replica lightsabers, but I've also built some full size replicas from scratch using 70 year old camera flashes & parts they used in the original movies. (Yeah, I'm a nerd) I also like to collect metal fighter jet models, my favorite being the F14 Tomcats. Oh, yeah, I also collect guns. That's the one that bugs my wife the most. It would bug her even more if she actually knew how many I really have. :rofl:

thats something I've been wanting to do for a long time is build a lightsaber that way but have never had the time or funds to do so


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[Guest Broomhead]

I've never been a collector of much myself, unless you count collecting hobbies. I played with all my toys (I'm kicking myself over some of them now). I can even remember a tall basket of comics that sat in our bathroom for use as reading material when I was really young (pre-'88ish). Looking back there were some really good ones, X-Men, Iron Man, Justice League, Conan, Thor, Hulk, etc, all of which were very early one, even the first appearance of Iron Fist. Most were bought before I was born in 1980. They all got shredded thanks to that basket. Last year I stumbled into two boxes filled with my old GI Joe Action figures and vehicles, some Transformers, Ninja Turtles, an original Talkboy from the Home Alone movie, and a few worthless comics. None of the Transformers, Turtles, or Joe vehicles were completely intact so I trashed them. However I did keep the Joe action figures and all of the accessories, the Talkboy and the comics. Maybe they'll be worth something one day.

My dad, on the other hand, had the entire Green Hornet series of comics and about a hundred baseball cards that would've been worth some REAL dough. Very, very sadly, his dad (a very bad man) got mad at him for something petty and threw all of the Green Hornet books in the fire just to spite my dad. His mom, thinking she was helping my dad keep his baseball card collection together, GLUED them all into a photo album. 30 years later, it turns out the glue completely ruined the backs of all the cards making them completely and utterly worthless. He tried to have them appraised once and the appraiser nearly cried. There were some cards worth hundreds of dollars, if only the backs hadn't been destroyed. The cards were mint except for the backs. That was before baseball card collecting bottomed out too.

After I'd learned about all of that, I promised myself that if any of my kids ever started a collection of anything, I would do my utmost to ensure it stayed intact, in the best possible condition, and to help them further their collection.

[hipower]

I've never been a collector of much myself, unless you count collecting hobbies. I played with all my toys (I'm kicking myself over some of them now). I can even remember a tall basket of comics that sat in our bathroom for use as reading material when I was really young (pre-'88ish). Looking back there were some really good ones, X-Men, Iron Man, Justice League, Conan, Thor, Hulk, etc, all of which were very early one, even the first appearance of Iron Fist. Most were bought before I was born in 1980. They all got shredded thanks to that basket. Last year I stumbled into two boxes filled with my old GI Joe Action figures and vehicles, some Transformers, Ninja Turtles, an original Talkboy from the Home Alone movie, and a few worthless comics. None of the Transformers, Turtles, or Joe vehicles were completely intact so I trashed them. However I did keep the Joe action figures and all of the accessories, the Talkboy and the comics. Maybe they'll be worth something one day.

My dad, on the other hand, had the entire Green Hornet series of comics and about a hundred baseball cards that would've been worth some REAL dough. Very, very sadly, his dad (a very bad man) got mad at him for something petty and threw all of the Green Hornet books in the fire just to spite my dad. His mom, thinking she was helping my dad keep his baseball card collection together, GLUED them all into a photo album. 30 years later, it turns out the glue completely ruined the backs of all the cards making them completely and utterly worthless. He tried to have them appraised once and the appraiser nearly cried. There were some cards worth hundreds of dollars, if only the backs hadn't been destroyed. The cards were mint except for the backs. That was before baseball card collecting bottomed out too.

After I'd learned about all of that, I promised myself that if any of my kids ever started a collection of anything, I would do my utmost to ensure it stayed intact, in the best possible condition, and to help them further their collection.

 

Yes, lots of this do not survive life.

 

But I've learned one thing in all my years of accumulating stuff. Do it only if you like it and want to have fun with it.

 

The days of big payoffs for things are few and far between now. Production numbers in the millions on items assure there will be many available to us later in life.

 

Yes...there are exceptions to this as well. But I stand by it. Don't get into "collecting" if you are doing it for big money.

 

Very likely the only big money will be what you spend on getting your stuff.

[A.J. Holst]

I knew I should has bought a laserdisk player along with my betamax.

Speaking of collectibles, my wife has a medium sized battalion of nib barbies Edited February 16, 2015 by Gotthegoods