My name is Travis Conger and I'm a collector. I collect Comics, Star Wars items mainly and other Exclusive Merchandise as well.
For my first post I'd like to take a look at what got me started in collecting things. I would have to say it was my dad, big time, and my mom also had her own influence as well. As far back as I can remember he was collecting something and he collected a lot of different things. I remember growing up he had a lot of Iron things. There was an Iron Black Cat, an Iron Kettle, a Wood Burning Iron Stove and of all things an Iron. The Iron had a handle that bent down to a triangle piece of Iron. You used it by placing it on the stove and once it got hot you ironed with it. He also had strangely twisted glass bottles filled with colored liquid, soda cans with promotions on them like the Jackson 5 Tour and the Superbowl history, and many other things. Now I know this sounds like a lot of stuff but he didn't have a ton of each thing and the house wasn't cluttered up with all this stuff but he did have several of each kind of item and he kept them by the fireplace in our family room or in the garage. It wasn't until he got a passion for collecting sports cards that it actually took over a bedroom in our home. My mom collected bells and refrigerator magnets.
So, seeing this and now looking back it was in my blood to collect. I would have to say that the first thing I knowingly collected was Star Wars Figures. And by that I mean that I probably had several comics by this time but I wasn't necessarily collecting them, I just didn't throw them away when I was done reading them. One Christmas my parents got me a big collection of figures and accessories they were the original 12 figures that were available (Darth Vader, Obi Wan, Luke, Leia, C3PO, R2D2, Han, Stormtrooper, Death Squad Commander, Greedo, Jawa, and Tuskin Raider) along with the stand to display them on, the Death Star Play Station, a TIE Fighter and the Landspeeder. (I still have all of that today with exception of the TIE Fighter.) When they started coming out with other figures I had to have more and I didn't want to trade any away I wanted to keep them and collect them all. Now at that time I wanted to collect them all to play with them but I was knowingly collecting them. I then began collecting comics as well and then turned to GI Joes, Hot Wheels, Baseball Cards and some other things. Over the years though it would end up that I would stick with Comics and Star Wars as my two main collections. Currently I have a YouTube channel where I am showing my different collections. Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/user/RazielCage1 Check it out and see what you think. I don't have everything up but I'm working on it slowly. Here's a picture of me at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2010 pretending to be a Star Wars Figure. Now how do I add that to my collection?
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