How much 'hobby stuff' have you held onto?

[Dirty Duck]

They're pretty expensive honestly, looked into it when I got evicted and those weren't even London prices. Plus it's a temporary solution-it doesn't help having my stuff scattered about like the body of Dracula. Just gotta streamline my existence at the end of the day.

True, I guess it's just I think sentimentality with some stuff isn't a bad thing at times and the one benefit of our silly little interests that most of us share to some degree is that value tends to accrue with a lot of the types of things we can buy.

It is true but it's also...not true. I've had it drilled into me from a young age ( ) that things grow in value and what it's resulted in mainly is a lot of stuff that I've taken good care of for years that actually hasn't accrued any value that I've carried from place to place. It obviously is true for a fair amount of collectors items in our spheres but a lot of the time it isn't-I think the Smash Guide I mentioned can go for £40 but often goes for £15, and the Hyrule Historia tends to go for <£10.

My brother is the worst for it-he'd have me believe I should hold onto a pack of Oreos because they have Mario on them. He's poisoned by this idea of the return investment. he buys anything and everything even if he has no interest in it and a lot of it is total garbage, ranging from brandless dinosaur toys to Mrs Browns Boys boxsets.

Slightly more on topic but while going through my stuff I'm annoyed to remember my Sonic Mania collectors edition box which was dropped and wrecked by my guardian when moving once. It was wrecked enough that I just threw it out. I have all of the individual items from it but weirdly I found the box one of the coolest parts and just used it to store stuff in. Plus it was a download code collectors edition since Mania didn't get a physical release until the Sonic Mania Plus expansion, so I now have no 'box' for the game whatsoever.

[Suede]

I remember taking my Mega Drive to the skip with my dad with all my games for it too and just leaving them there. I think one of the cables broke for it, so we just dumped it, which still annoys me when I think about it. I wish I had just kept it, at least we could have kept the games. Same goes for my Master System, but I actually don't remember what happened to that, but I really wish I still had both of them as they were two of my favourite consoles ever.

[Bread]

Man, I wish I was a bit of a hoarder. Sometimes I have a nostalgic hankering to whip out some childhood trinkets, but I sadly have nothing. Had a fat stack of Yu-Gi-Oh cards back in the day, as well as some Pokemon cards. Fairly decent collection of Beyblades too.

Lost to time.

[Blueblob]

Have an abundance of Pokemon cards around the place, but mainly newer ones because I started collecting again once I had a salary, whole collection is probably a decent value but worth way more if I got them graded which takes waaaaay too long (have a nice charizard in a glass display block that’s pushing £1000 if graded but feel paranoid about sending it away for about 9 months to have it graded)

Also have an array of various bionicle of varying quality as I got really into bionicle again like 10 years ago but that’s about it for valuable collectors stuff. GameCube games seem to hold value pretty well but don’t see myself parting with the Zelda master collection ever, the one that had 1, 2, Ocarina, Majora’s Mask and a 20 minute demo of Wind Waker before it fully came out. That and my copy of the greatest Kojima game ever made: Boktai. The gba game where you played as a vampire hunter with a solar gun you had to charge with the light sensor on the game pak. Playing in the sun definitely eroded my gameboy screen but man that game was cool

[Dirty Duck]

Have an abundance of Pokemon cards around the place, but mainly newer ones because I started collecting again once I had a salary, whole collection is probably a decent value but worth way more if I got them graded which takes waaaaay too long (have a nice charizard in a glass display block that’s pushing £1000 if graded but feel paranoid about sending it away for about 9 months to have it graded)

Also have an array of various bionicle of varying quality as I got really into bionicle again like 10 years ago but that’s about it for valuable collectors stuff. GameCube games seem to hold value pretty well but don’t see myself parting with the Zelda master collection ever, the one that had 1, 2, Ocarina, Majora’s Mask and a 20 minute demo of Wind Waker before it fully came out. That and my copy of the greatest Kojima game ever made: Boktai. The gba game where you played as a vampire hunter with a solar gun you had to charge with the light sensor on the game pak. Playing in the sun definitely eroded my gameboy screen but man that game was cool

What Bionicle do you have? Love Bionicle. Such a weird and cool IP that Lego just refuse to do anything with for whatever reason. I still have a fair amount of assorted generations of them-none of the canisters though unfortunately. Bohrok probably remain the coolest of the lot honestly with how they could fold into a ball and I always loved the rubber Krana and how it added so much to the play being able to put it on the Toa. I do own one Lewa from the reboot but it just feels a lot less “cool” compared to the old sets.

A legit Boktai cartridge is a real grail item for me as someone who collected Game Boys in their teenage years. That and Ghost Babel.

[Blueblob]

Right? Really wish I held on to my old Matas as they seem to be the real expensive ones to pickup. At this point I have Mata Pohatu, Nuva Kopaka and Tahu along with like 75% of a Takanuva as well as the full Takanuva with bike and Makuta and a Rakshi (that I vividly remember building in the basement one night as a distraction from the tornado going through my town lmao), and a Metru Vakama. Really want to pick up a Lhikan and Mata Nui at some point but they go for silly prices. Full canister wise I have the Kopaka and a sealed visorak canister which I’ve debated opening, but held on to it for so long I probably won’t. I picked up a few of the newer reboot ones and it was fun building them with a friend but agreed, they’re a bit overdesigned and the lore was nowhere near as weirdly expansive and interesting as the original series.

Well if I ever get severe brain damage and decide to sell my Boktai you’ll be the first to know it it’s so unique I can’t imagine wanting to get rid of it. Still feels unreal I picked it up for 5 bucks at a GameStop years and years ago, long before vintage games were seen as collectible.

[Dirty Duck]

I have a few Rahkshi of varying completeness. I also have vivid memories of building some of them but none so dramatic as a tornado, I remember I built a Rahkshi my brother bought me when I stayed at his friend’s flat in London which was the first time I played an Xbox (Munch’s Odysee). I have a Toa Iruini that I quite like, that was a good generation of sets. I bought a job lot off of FaceBook Marketplace in like 2018 and I got three canisterred Toa Inikas including an unopened Nuparu which I sold for like 3x the price of the job lot. I’m not that big on boxed collecting of stuff like that for whatever reason so felt like that was the right thing to do. I’d really like to have a Makuta and a Takanuva. One Sunday in 2019 I watched all 4 Bionicle movies on my own in bed. Didn’t plan to do it but sometimes the universe tells you it’s time to watch 3 films you loved as a kid and the 4th quite different entry you never saw. No ragrets.

[Blueblob]

Oh man the bonk films are kino, my friend and I watch the trilogy every Easter for some reason (because I swear we can’t find the 4th anywhere anymore whereas the full trilogy is on YouTube). Truly Shakespeare’s greatest works. Fourth one was an interesting watch, still not sure to this day why they decided to give Mata Nui spinning nipples throughout the whole film.

Iruini is a great figure as well, marketplace is a goldmine for joblot lego sets, mainly parents clearing out attics and getting rid of stuff. I’m sure I have some of the bionicle trading cards in a dusty binder somewhere as well, such a shame Lego is aware enough of the IP to shut down any fan made content ( there was a massive overhaul mod to make a fully functioning improved version of the ps2 game that got shutdown this week) but not enough to actually make anymore of it.

[Dirty Duck]

Yeah seen a lot of disappointed people on Maskposting re: the game. It just sucks when companies do stuff like that which is so anti-consumer and not even for money making reasons. Like, what have they gained?