By popular demand... Gemini-Phoenix's 'Treasure!'

I have the second release of the standard Millennium Falcon, which I have since rebuilt. I have also rebuilt a standard Tie Fighter, B Wing, and Boba Fett's Slave I, which now sit on the empty top glass shelf seen in the pics above. I also have a n Arc 170 and an early Mindstorms R2-D2

I'm not a particular fan of that Sandcrawler. I wouldn't mind an X Wing, and I quite like the Collector's Series Tie Fighter too. The Collector's Falcon is also amazing, although at £350 it's a little out of my range. I would have liked the Collector's Death Star II as well, but that has since been discontinued

i was in florida last month and in the lego shop at downtown disney they had the deathstar built up in a display case . they had 1 for sale but the box was all damaged . i was going to buy it but i didnt have any room in my cases to bring it back as my cases were full of timberland boots etc .

Lately my buying habits have shifted more towards buying more Dvd's and X360 CE's rather games. I seem to be going through a phase where all I seem to be buying at the moment is X360 CE's or Dvd Steelbook's - Neither of which come cheap!

I'm finding I have to keep dedicating more and more space towards Dvd's, and my Steelbook's especially. It won't be long until I will have to review how I store things, and find a way to fit in as much as possible whilst still keeping it structured. I've already had to neglect my Mega Drive ccollection from the room, and I really don't want to have to remove anything else in order to keep it looking smart

Most of the current-gen consoles have dedicated space allocated for expansion, including PS2 games, so there's enough space for plenty more PS2, PS3, X360, Wii, DS, and PSP games to come, which should see me well into the future. I only hope this generation lasts longer than previous generations.

I haven't really been on eBay lately either, and my want list is ever growing. Thankfully, the PS3 has hardly any games worth buying for it, and there's only about a dozen more Wii games that interest me right now, as good Wii games come like once a month... I'll most probably play catch-up sometime after Xmas


Looking back, this time last year I barely had any X360, DS, or PSP games, and no PS3 games whatsoever. I haven't really bought any PSP games for a while, and there's very few I actually want to be honest. Same goes for PS3. There's about another 20 DS games I want, and the X360 has the longest list of wanted games as there's just so many good games for it - (Shame about the faulty hardware...)

Looking forward, i'm not sure which way my collection is going to grow. I have a huge backlog of PS2 games to obtain, as well as games like Guitar Hero Aerosmith, Rock Band, and Guitar Hero World Tour (Which I have put off buying simply because they take up so much space!). I am hoping to catch up on the few DS and PSP games I want, as well as seek out the few X360 LE's and CE's that i've unfortunately missed out on.

With the Xmas season upon us already, I have entered it in quite a good position, having already gotten most of the 'Big' X360 CE's under my belt so to speak, with only a few more left to get hold of before things quieten down after the new year...

Out of curiosity: Why would you collect DVD's? I have to admit I got some steelbooks myself (had to grab iron man) but there are 3 points that keep me immune from the urge to collect:

1.: DVDs are all over the place..you can get them everywhere and they throw them after you now that bluray is coming (not for a while though but still all the retailers are hyperventilating).

2. There are as good as no rare DVDs. At the moment there are more steelbooks being produced than regular DVD-cases. That's because some marketing-brain found that the only way to stop the vast decrease of pricelevel is to reproduce every last f*cking flick that has already been released a hundred times in a hundred different cases and boxes in steelboks..another bitchslap to the customers is, that in order to keep the prices competitive while keeping producion expenses at a low rate, there's absolutely nothing inside the tin but the DVD..no manuals, flyers whatsoever, which leads to point

3. There will never be any value growth on DVDs..they will go down the same road as MCs, Laserdiscs, Minidiscs etc.

..so I wanted to know your personal reasons for collecting

yea collecting sealed DVDs is a bit pointless to me, I do have a DVD collection but of movies I've actually watched.

striker wrote:yea collecting sealed DVDs is a bit pointless to me, I do have a DVD collection but of movies I've actually watched.

It's not so much collecting, but rather buying and never having enough time to spare, thus they stay sealed by default. Although I will admit the Steelbook's are a bit of a guilty pleasure and do have their collectable appeal

part one wrote:Out of curiosity: Why would you collect DVD's? I have to admit I got some steelbooks myself (had to grab iron man) but there are 3 points that keep me immune from the urge to collect:

1.: DVDs are all over the place..you can get them everywhere and they throw them after you now that bluray is coming (not for a while though but still all the retailers are hyperventilating).

Why would anyone collect games? Or used stamps for that matter? Dvd's are as good as anything else.

Yes, they are everywhere, but then so are games. So are newspapers and bottles of Coca Cola. Most of the Dvd's I own are not your usual standard vanilla one-disc Amaray cased standard editions though, and many are first print versions.

part one wrote:2. There are as good as no rare DVDs. At the moment there are more steelbooks being produced than regular DVD-cases. That's because some marketing-brain found that the only way to stop the vast decrease of pricelevel is to reproduce every last f*cking flick that has already been released a hundred times in a hundred different cases and boxes in steelboks..another bitchslap to the customers is, that in order to keep the prices competitive while keeping producion expenses at a low rate, there's absolutely nothing inside the tin but the DVD..no manuals, flyers whatsoever, which leads to point

Collector's would beg to differ. There are plenty of rare Dvd's available, albeit mostly Collector's Edition's, but they're there. And at last count, there were roughly 130-140 Steelbook Dvd's available for the UK, so they're not really all that common. Plus there is a huge Steelbook collector's community, and some are very collectable and sought after!

part one wrote:3. There will never be any value growth on DVDs..they will go down the same road as MCs, Laserdiscs, Minidiscs etc.

..so I wanted to know your personal reasons for collecting

I will agree with you there to some point. I believe the market isn't ready for Blu-Ray so soon after Dvd, and yes Blu-Ray will be a specialist medium much like Mini Disc's. Dvd appeals to the masses, and the majority of people are content with the medium just like they are content with Cd's. Blu-Ray's cost a lot to produce, and a lot of people don't want to abandon their entire Dvd libraries and switch.

My personal reasons... Is not for financial gain, but predominantly because I like the packaging of many Collector's Edition's and first print releases, and despise standard Amaray cases. A vast majority of my collection is made up of DigiPak's, slipcases, and box-set's. Steelbook's being the only Dvd's I purposefully 'collect'

nice displays! make me want to design some also!

What impresses me the most is the fact that you have a huge collection, but don't do it for financial gain. It's very hard to find people who collect purely for enjoyment, without being motivated by money.

I try not to get preoccupied with the $$$ myself. Whenever I do sell stuff, it's usually to free up space or cash to buy something else.

Obviously I am always aware of things such as rarity; Demand; Value etc, but I collect purely for the enjoyment of collecting, and not to make a profit sometime in the future. The thrill is in the hunt, not the capture so they say.

I have always said that I would not sell any of my collection, and if I did then I would sell it as a whole to another collector who I know would expand on it rather than split it for profitable gain. If I do sell anything it's usually because I can spare it (Ie, I have a duplicate copy in better condition) or simply because it doesn't meet my standards and would rather sell an item to someone else who might appreciate it more or make better use of it. I know there are collector's here who buy sealed NES / SNES games as an investment with the sole intention of selling them on at some point at a higher price. That is not why I collect, but if the value of certain items does increase then that's just a bonus.

I also wouldn't consider my collection 'Huge'! Compared to some classic collections seen on ASSEMbler or DP, mine is miniscule! In comparison though, mine is just a random selection of games I like, rather than an entire set of this or entire set of that (With the exception of my N-Gage and Dreamcast games which I did start to collect with the aim of a complete set). I have various sub-collections simply because they are games I like and it's just coincidence that inevitably they form a sub-set, but I wouldn't actively seek out duplicate copies or different versions from other regions to expand the sub-collection, although that would be nice given the time

In some instances, certain games are playable via various forms of emulation (Ie, DS games), but I will still seek out and buy the games for the console because I enjoy the collecting more than the actual playing. If anything, emulation has forced me to seek out more games as I have played some that I enjoyed and want to add it to my collection! So a plus point there in favour of emulation actually doing some good to the industry!