We have lots of nerdy stuff… but the following are pretty much the highest ranking items:
I have the complete Star Trek TNG trading cards sets, the original ones with the burgundy border and the ones with the blue borders plus the foreign language and hologram cards… that’s pretty nerdy. :o
Mr. Geeks nerdy possessions are his Geiger counters: one that measures up to 50 rem and the ionizing radiation Geiger counter that measures up to 500 rem :eek:
A piece of filmstrip from the “Lord of the Rings” movies that was handed out to folks who watched all three back to back to back when ROTK was released.
I can’t decide on if it’s this enormous TV (note the Monty Python DVD collection, the Fraggle Rock season one, and the Digital Matte Painting art books);
Or it’s this DVD and book selection (note the Star Wars and Special Effects collections, the Simpsons season DVDs, the Ray Harryhausen DVDs, the complete Terry Pratchett set);
Or if it’s this collection of figurines I keep above my enormous TV (note the out-of-shot Harry Potter Hogwarts lego castle);
Or maybe it’s something else. Like my Danger Mouse DVDs, my Strontium Dog figurine, my Terrahawks Complete DVD Set, my History of Matte Painting books, my Homestar Runner figurine set and T-Shirt, or my anecdote of visiting Revenge of the Sith at Fox Studios and getting to stand on the Blockade Runner set.
Not sure I personally own anything myself, but the breakfast discussion this morning between my wife and son over the distinctions between spontoons and halberds suggested to me that some of the Am Rev War reenactment gear in our house might qualify.
My Brian Rust 78rpm record discographies, Jazz Records 1897-1942 and American Dance Bands 1917-1942. Four hefty, well-thumbed, clothbound volumes of teeny typescript, plus a decade and a half of crabbed, cramped, chicken-scratch annotations by yrs trly.
I have…[ul][]The computer I hand-built out of chips and wires in third year of electronics school (it worked only for as long as it toook to be marked);[]My grandfather’s antique electronics books (Audel’s New Electric Library in 12 volumes (missing Vol. 11), and the Radio-Electronics Course, all 1930’s tech–if you want to know the wiring diagram for a 1930 Packard 4-cylinder automobile, I’m your man);[]three ZX81s, one in an inproved case with a real keyboard and the 64k memory expansion;[]a 23-inch widescreen HD LCD monitor on my computer, which just replaced 2 CRTs;walls of books, mostly about SF, computers, and cartooning. Some of them are in Esperanto.[/ul]
I have various things. I have autographed pics of a couple Star Trek actors. A stuffed “Fluffy” from Harry Potter, a stuffed killer bunny from Monty Python, a Klingon Bear, a few stuffed Looney Toons (Marvin Martian and his Dog are my favorite set) and numerous Wile E Coyote figures (wonder why?), and a stuffed Swedish Chef (the Muppet one, not an actual Swedish Chef that I had stuffed). I have some jewelry, the B5 emblem, Bajoran earring, and a Klingon emblem. I have lots of little knick knacks. I have a few signed books (Pratchett and Anthony).
The nerdiest thing though has to be an original script for the Star Trek:Generations movie with the original Kirk death scene. I won it at a premiere party for one of the ST series. I never win anything but I won that. I was popular for a while after when everyone had to come over and read how Kirk really died.
I’ve got a partially built model based on the television series, and a model based on the first film- mint in box.
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I’m not sure either of the above actually count as I bought them with the intent to resell. Most of my nerdy Trek items are actually unsold inventory.
My NCC-1701 D with light up nacelles and main deflector, and sounds is not rare or especially nerdy. However, IMO it gets extra points as it is hanging from my living room ceiling.