Whats you fave Stephen King Novel? Mine is "The Green Mile" I seen the film, so I'll have to read the book...

In your expert opinion Speedie, what is better the book or the film~?

My wife and I collect a few things:

Statues:

Gnomes (Enseco)
Bald Eagles
Hummingbirds
"Dancing" teapots

Paintings:

Robert Lyn Nelson ( 2 originals, 6 lithos)
Bev Doolittle (4 originals, 10 lithos)

We also raise snakes (some say collect), which is a BIG part of our moving to a new home, so we can expand our breeding area. Our forte is colurbrids, my favorite being the Alterna (Grey-banded Kingsnakes), and my wifes favorites being the elephea (Cornsnakes), although we do also have a couple of Green Tree Pythons, a Burmese Python, Yellow Anaconda, 2 false Water Cobras, and a Mangrove snake. (We have applied for our permits to raise "HOT" snakes.....Coral snakes, Adders, etc.)

As of now, our "collection" count is 50..........we hope to be up to 150 by the end of summer.....and with luck, our hatchlings next year should bring the count up to around 3-400!

.....this doesn't count the many large lizards and (poison) Dart-frogs that also make up our repltile/amphibian "collection".

<span style="font-family:Optima">Well I collect Old coins.....I have about 200, My oldest and most prized dates back to 1820. I also collect Magazines, i have heaps of them!! </span>

I collect football cards. I have roughly 75,000 right now dating back to 1971. Gotta have a nest egg!

I collect many things like pokemon cards(when they
were popular, digimon cards, sea shells, rocks,
yu-gi-oh cards, hockey cards, baseball cards,
games for ps1 and 2, some football cards and cd's
of every kind.

I kind of collect G.I. Joes, i get a few every now and then, but i only get ones that i think are cool. About year to 10 months ago i got into collecting millitary battle rifles, i have 6, i think that pretty good since i have been doing it a fairly short time and i am only 15. I have a pretty nice collection of DVDs too, probably 50 or 60, but i only buy the movies that i like.

I collect old crochet books from about 1960 to the 14th century. I like crocheting the old patterns from way back then.

Just picked up Carpentier's Player's Forsythe Champ Car in 1/18th scale from the `99 season at a toy and collectables show last weekend. It was originally marked at $125 marked down to $85 and I talked him down to $75. The wife wasn't too happy with that but seeing as how they don't make them any more (at least that is what the booth owner said) I thought it was a good find. Looks pretty sweet sitting on the fireplace mantel now.

Well I use to collect Hockey cards but now I just collect movies, "McFarlane" hockey figures, and my video games

Dont want to see this thread go so rather then editing my orginal post on page 1 i'll make a new one. I have now started collecting figurines, got a few anime ones, but mostly spawn. Have also got my dvd, games and cd collections, but as Rex said on page one, there not really collections cos there always in use, where as a collection should really be looked at not used in any real sense.

I've collecting some things for a long time like..


-G.I. Joes
- Hockey cards
-those little hockey cups



..and one more but i didn't really collect them i just have a lot of them, comics, i have like 32 boxes with 200 in each box and there not just new ones i have the first superman, spiderman, greenlatern and so on

Apart from debts that I don't like to collect to many of, I collect swords. I don't have a huge collection but enough to have a collection of sorts.

So far my collection consists of :
2 sabres complete with scabards
1 claymore (awesome weapon)
1 short sword
2 fijian wooden swords and club
1 japanese wasisaki (sp?)
1 Japanese Katana that I keep at arms reach near my bed :cunning:

I also have my swords I use for fencing including
2 fencing sabres
2 fencing epees
1 foil and a stack of spare blades
2 Kendo shinites (bamboo swords) when I used to do Kendo (probably didn't need to explain that
2 kendo shinites (bamboo swords)
)

I think thats about it :rules:

I COLLECT SOUL'S!!!!!

Aye, laddy. That is truly an awesome weapon, doubly so in skilled hands. Knowing you, I trust it's a true Claymore, and not a bastardized cutlass like the blade that passes for a Claymore to the British Army.

I like swords, too* but, alas. All that I can legally own these days are pocketknives. Recently though, I was able to acquire a very cool little three-blade number with real bone handles.




*Ya pagan bastard :woot:

I probably collect the most pointless thing out there..........fortunes from fortune cookies. I have about 70 different ones and about 150 all together.

WB,
your on the mark there. My Claymore is roughly over 4 foot long from tip to hilt. It's only a replica but steel is steel and it's an impressive weapon all the same. I think traditionally they were used mainly for ceramonial occassions but I have no doubt they were used on the battlefield. Definatly ideal for bringing down a knight on a horse if you've left your spear at home

Owning swords aren't illegal here in Oz (yet) but I did have a couple of weapons seized by customs in the early 90's when returning from a 6 month trip in Africa which include a Somalian Sword Stick and an ornate dagger. I asked if the blades could be removed as my main interest was in the hilt/s and scabbard/s but buerocracy has little to do with common sense ie, how are the weapons dangerous if they don't have any blades.

One sword I would really like to add to the collection is a rapier unk:" class="inlineimg" /> What it lacks in brute strength, it makes up for easily in speed and agility

Old coins and die cast models

In earlier post I mentioned I was collecting mags

So far I have got
over 200 playstation mags
51 issuses of Real Robots
12 Issues of Air Combat
17 issues of Catherine Cookson

costing me well over £500

I must update my what I collect post. I have since API has been shut down, started collecting game consoles, not every game for each console, just select few. Also I've been collecting DVDs, and game guides. Yes, still football cards as well.