I’m a longtime geek, so I’ve got several most prized geeky possessions:
Several pieces of original art from the *Shadowrun *RPG, including the cover painting from Super Tuesday and the watercolor of Lofwyr by Jim Nelson that appeared in the Tir Tairngire sourcebook.
Two *Shadowrun *limited edition hardcover rulebooks (one for 3rd Edition and one for 4th–only 1000 of each were made), the 4th edition one inscribed specifically for me since I wrote a section and two short stories for it.
A collection of laminated *Shadowrun *press badges that were given out at various Gen Cons as promos.
Two plush Cthulhus, one bigger and plaid and one Beanie Baby sized that lives in my car.
A set of plush skulls (similar to fuzzy dice but skulls) that hang in the same car.
My Battlestar Galactica Cylon and Viper fighters (I have no idea where they are anymore, but I’ve got them somewhere–they were the ones that shot little red missiles and were quickly recalled because dumb children were shooting them down each other’s throats).
Not sure if it counts as geeky, but my industrial CD and concert T-shirt collection.
Probably my current favorite geeky possession right now, though, isn’t a possession at all, unless virtual stuff counts: it’s a very rare Spectral Tiger mount, ridden by my World of Warcraft blood elf mage. You get these by buying WoW trading cards, and they average one per 12 boxes. I bought mine on Ebay and it was worth every penny I paid for it.
sci-fi geek: I have a Lucas ILM Crew T-Shirt for The Phantom Menace (Worn 3 times, for the first showings of Episodes 1-3).
tech geek: I have one of the original FuckedCompany tshirts, plus an autographed card from Pud - from back in the tech days when that website was watched and tracked.
fantasy geek: ADD 1st edition books, repaired with duct tape. I played at Gen Con under the 3.5 rules with a character name of Thack Oh. The old guys got the joke. However, I still have original dice (with the corners rounded off) and some real lead minis of the LOTR in a Chivas bag.
“Izzy” Gelfand’s autograph, for my then-boyfriend, a math grad student. He was tickled pink.
Mercury 7 astronaut Alan Shepard’s autograph, for my father. (I should keep a few of these for myself!)
A 12" “Wake Up” EP by XTC, with autographs of Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding and the boy’s pupils inked in by Andy.
A miniature arcade-style Pac-Man game that *kind of * works. (The game’s chip is okay, but the battery housing/electrical contact is corroded and rusted out, so it only blinks on and off now, although when I bought it it still played okay.)
A Monty Python *Holy Grail * catapult set and the Trojan Rabbit. (“Fetchez-moi la vache!”) I actually tested out the catapult by hurling the sheep, cows, and geese across my kitchen.
A miniature wind-up, walking Robby the Robot, from Forbidden Planet.
A roughly 8"-tall figurine of Marvin the Martian.
A wind-up penny-car of the McDonalds Hamburglar, from the 80’s.
An almost-life-sized photographic stand-up of The Three Stooges.
The “wooden box” limited edition of The Wicker Man.
I have several Force FX lightabers. I even bought two Darth Maul’s to make the lightstaff. When it’s put together and I stand one end on the floor the other end is only a few inches from the ceiling so I can’t really play with like I want to. I still need to get the new yoda one.
The Highlander the series replica sword. I’ll be getting a Heroe’s Kensei sword replica sometime early next year.
A TARDIS usb hub with the flashing blue light on top and the soundeffects like h.sapiens has.
Oh–I forgot a couple on my list (The Scrivener’s post reminded me):
a drumhead signed personally to me by all the members of The Alan Parsons Project (except Eric Woolfson, since they’d already parted ways)
Copies of all four Eric Woolfson/APP musicals on CD: (*Freudiana *(both the relatively common “white” English and the very rare “black” German editions), *Gaudi *(both versions), *Gambler *(CD was only sold at the theatre shop during the run–I had to call Germany to get it) and Poe.
I have about twenty years of Analog Magazine, missing only a few issues. Let me know which ones you’re missing, and maybe we can work something out.
One geeky thing that I retrieved from the garage this week was an “Expert Builder” Lego set that my parents gave me when I was thirteen, before Lego started calling them “Technics”. http://www.lugnet.com/img.cgi?pause/technic/tech8845.jpg
Along with my large collections of comic books and Hot Wheels cars, I have small collections of old calculators (including an HP 41C, and a Sharp QT-8D that I use routinely) and old PC games (including Zork I and Rogue). I keep a 5¼" floppy drive in my computer, but it’s just for show; modern motherboards don’t support them anymore.
I also have a Tick (animated series) action figure and commemorative spoon. And the antenna “darts” from a Tick-themed Jack in the Box kid’s meal dart game.
Oh, and an Intellivision console with speech add-on and many cartridges.
All four of Stewart Cowley’s Terran Trade Authority handbooks in almost perfect condition.
A set of the original Star Trek, USS Enterprise blueprints.
A handbill flyer from the 1925 silent film The Lost World. My grandfather worked at a theater in the silent movie days and had this in his possession still stamped with the admission price, 15 cents.
I have the complete Wild Cards series, including the graphic novels. I’m not really happy with the latest books coming out in hardcover (they’re supposed to be pulpy, damnit). The prize of that set is the mint-condition Black Trump - it sat on the shelf in a very small (and very crowded) SF&F bookstore for twelve years before I found it.
Right now I’m trying to decide whether I want to get GURPS Wild Cards sourcebooks, or the Green Ronin books when they come out next year. There are new novels in the pipe, and I will definitely have to get those.
I have a Zorkmid. I spoke with a watchsmith recently and he said that, if I can get it split for him, he can fit it into the face and back of a watch, something like the Corum coin watches, except thicker (it won’t have that ultra-thin Corum movement). The drawback is that this watch will set me back about $5000-6000.
If I am ever obscenely rich, though, it will be the most wonderfully geeky fine watch ever made. =D
You’re not alone. Splinter In the Mind’s Eye got me through a long boring summer of traction for a broken leg when I was 11. That and the Heavy Metal Graphic version of Alien.
I was a little disappointed when The Empire Strikes Back bore no resemblance to SIME.
Gee, I wish I still had the 8" action figures of Captain Kirk and Spock my brother and I had as kids. We were stupid kids, we played with them.
I have all those, too. Too bad no one warned Alan Dean Foster not to write about Luke and Leia having the hots for each other, eh?
I also have some of the Star Trek Log Books from the cartoon that aired way back when. I always thought it was a pity that M’Ress had to be a cartoon character, though I suppose these days they could render her in CGI.
But possibly the geekiest thing I actually have lying about is a stuffed tribble.
Lots and lots of Blues/music geek stuff piling up in the corner, but that’s not so much interest here that I’ve seen. Buncha signed records, liquor bottles, photos, etc.
A nice relic I have here in direct view is a plastic ear (from a set of Sensory anatomy teaching apparatus) signed by David Lynch circa Blue Velvet days. I’m a Lynch geek, I guess. After his talk here in Chapel Hill, I told him that his work was the best example of modern fairy tales. He lit up, and said, “You get it, not many people see that!”, and signed my proffered plastic ear. Love it, and keep it at hand for a smile.
My two favorite “geek” possessions are related, because I got them on the same trip. When I planned a vacation a few years back, I went to GateCon in Vancouver.
I managed to buy a T-shirt signed by Amanda Tapping, and a picture of her giving me a hug (It was a charity auction), and the actual back up crystal skull prop from Stargate SG1 won in the raffle.
Then, there is the complete set of X-files comics. Or my old Infocom games with boxes, with Wishbringer stone and “Don’t Panic!” buttons, or my MST3K DVD’s.
I fly my geek flag high!
Lola (who still has, and wears, Bloom County T-shirts)
After reading this thread, my “Nightmare Before Christmas” shot glass and my Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots CD autographed by the Flaming Lips feels hardly worth mentioning.
(goes off to sulk in a corner with her Ryo-Ohki plushie)
I have a moderate sized Lego collection, including the large Tantive IV set (although it’s not currently assembled). I used to have a bunch of second hand mecha models from various anime series, but most of them started falling apart before too long so I got rid of them. I’m looking to get some high quality new ones.
I still need to get the new yoda one.
