Comments on: Sound Off: What is your inspiration for collecting? http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/ Culture. Art. Collecting. Thu, 23 May 2013 22:20:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Rebecca http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-18697 Rebecca Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:41:12 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-18697 My real collecting started after I found a couple of Star
Trek Galoob figures are the grocery. My friends, and
patients saw them in my office at work, and started to bring more to me as gifts twenty five years ago. Now my collection has expanded to a full room in my home for
all to enjoy.

]]> By: Noel http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14841 Noel Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:16:36 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14841 My inspiration is everything about modern horror: Halloween, Friday the 13, Hellraiser,… and much more horror

]]> By: Noel http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14839 Noel Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:13:35 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14839 I been looking since 2007 for a MICHAEL MYERS PF Figure, also a PENNYWISE PF figure

]]> By: Felipe Parada http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14805 Felipe Parada Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:31:43 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14805 I appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into each on of these models.

]]> By: Mark Kotich http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14803 Mark Kotich Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:01:35 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14803 When my brother and I were younger we use to collect wrestling figures. We played with them more so then we collected them, I suppose.

It is definitely one of my fondest memories. Hearing the call of my mom back from the grocery store with her latest find. My brother and I would run down the stairs both receiving our latest addition to our collection.

After awhile my brother grew tired of collecting and gave it up. With that he also gave me his figures. I however continued to collect, expanding on my interests.

After awhile it became shelves and shelves of figures ranging from wrestling to comic book characters and television and cartoon characters.

I had entered the world of geekdom and I was hooked! Never letting go of it and never allowing my inner child to be locked away. I forever remain nostalgic, and continue to chase and collect these collectibles that still make me happy to this day.

]]> By: Jonathan Nipshank http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14801 Jonathan Nipshank Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:51:42 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14801 The art, the story lines, and the fact that I have an irrational obsessive compulsive spontaneous mind haha.

]]> By: verne glassman http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/2012/12/13/sound-off-what-is-your-inspiration-for-collecting/#comment-14793 verne glassman Fri, 14 Dec 2012 19:57:27 +0000 http://www.sideshowtoy.com/experience/?p=19551#comment-14793 You use the word “Inspiration” and that is the essence of collecting. Life is messy, often unpleasant and beyond our control. When you collect Sideshow figures you are in control of your own mysterious world, a link to the fantasy of films and comics. In the movie “The Maltese Falcon” Humphrey Bogart (This will show how old I am) says when asked the meaning of the statue, responds “The thing that dreams are made of.” Sideshow is the thing that dreams are made of and we are all so very fortunate to be given a key to that other world, our own dream world. Thank you Sideshow.

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