just thought this owuld be fun to discuss, i started out with american vinyl, the billymon madl being my first, along with the 13 inch 2d gorillaz figure.

then i stumbled here after being in love with koziks ika gilas, and now my collection has only 3 american vinyl figures.

whats the deal with you guys?

I started collecting diecast bandai back in he early 80's

i started out collecting zits in junior high and it was an easy transition to jap vinyl.

I collect boogers. And no John my bloody Escobar variant isn't for sale.

He-Man(80's),Ninja Turtles(80-90's),Gi Joe(90's),Simpsons(2001),Marvel Legends(2001),[expletive deleted](02 or 03),SB(05) and other fight figures in about that order, chronological.

English vinyl - Jarvis and Fowler was my main start. Some American I guess, but hated [expletive deleted] from minute 1.

I did have a keen interest in all things Japanese from forever though, but Oz is a kaiju desert and only had the odd bootleg monster or robot up until I found my way around the internet buying world.

I semi collected horror type toys and things before getting into mostly Jarvis toys and then some other Western stuff for a fairly short period of time, now mostly JP and weird old kids toys.

I went to the SDCC in 05 to buy [expletive deleted]. I got Tim Biskup to sign some figures. As I was walking around I picked up Super 7 issue 9 and then my life changed

I started with Star Wars toys, but as far as vinyl figures Balzac got me started, than I got S7 "Black Issue" (I can't remember the number) and got way more into it all.

I never really "got" western vinyl. The only western vinyl I've ever owned is a red Gamagon.

I kinda started off with Kaiju stuff as a kid, then got into Western Vinyl much later and just recently got back to my roots.

no Western vinyl here.

godzilla toys through my teenage years and then I got into medicom stuff and would buy Japanese toy mags to find out about their newest releases and saw all kinds of other toys I wanted

KAIJU LUVR SINS BURF.

(I have that tattooed on my stomach. Really.)

I have been collecting as far back as I can remember..... It started in the 70's with Famous Monsters magazine, which led into the Aurora monster model kits, Creature Feature trading cards, Star Wars trading cards. Then that progressed into comic books (the first comic I ever bought and collected was Marvel's Godzilla #1), then into Star Wars figures, then primarily back to comics for many years...... I would also buy a toy every once in a while, like Godzilla, Shogun Warriors, Spawn, Tick, Star Wars, Star Trek, Simpsons, etc......

Then I started working in the comic industry and that ruined the comic collecting aspect for me..... I had many bad experiences working for one of the main publishers that created all of those "limited" chromium foil leather canvas lenticular comic book covers.

At this time I was also collecting Bowen busts and had a shelf collapse and it ruined half of my collection. (it looked like a mass suicide on my studio floor with all of the heads and arms laying everywhere..... a very sad day.)

From that moment on I decided I needed to save some space and to collect something that was not so fragile, I decided to collect nothing larger than 5 inches in size and it could not be made of resin. So as a surprise, my wife's brother brought me a few dozen [expletive deleted] from Japan and I was hooked.
Then after a while of collecting [expletive deleted], I did not like the way Toy2R released their product, so I moved totally over to the the Japanese arena. Where the toys are better conceived....... not just a different tampo print on a plastic bear.

I threw out the idea of only collecting toys that were 5 inches, and since my wife is from Japan it became much easier for me to go and buy all of the Godzillas and RealxHeads and Secret Base than it was for me to find any cool Western vinyl here in Colorado.

There is my collecting so far in a nutshell. So, I guess I started with Western "vinyl".... but not really.

Also, I am proud to say that I started buying Super7 at issue #1. That cool logo and photo on the cover caught my eye. I picked it up at one of those silly Comic Conventions I used to have to sit and do signings at, and I have been hooked ever since.

P.S. If anyone is interested in the Playmates Simpson toys.... I got a whole buch I would love to get rid of.

western vinyl. i found it very intriguing but ultimately extremely unsatisfying. Poor production values and stale ideas abound.

i met a few dedicated collectors very early on in this game who introduced me to fight figures and NWOJK. they were a huge influence on me and i've never looked back.

Thats about the same way it happend to me, on the last day of the con in 05 I went back into the con before I caught my train home and bought bothh GF's that S7 had for sale and the S7 secret base issue, and it was all over after that.



PM me and Ill get you my list What did you work on in the comic buisness?

yeah, if we want to go wayy back

it was all about marvel toys, xmen, spiderman, the works.

ive still got this realllly old cyclops figure with light up eyes, i love him. then as i got older i was into mcfarlane figures (blegh) haha, not really spawn though. then i stumbled upon the westers plague of vinyl world, but never had any [expletive deleted], so i guess im clear for that.

I worked on way too many things to list........ highlights are Batman, Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Scud the Disposable Assasin, Grrl Scouts, Vamperilla and getting to do the color art for John Byrne (some Last Galactus prom pieces) and Bernie Wrightson (a short werewolf story for Chaos Comics).

I will PM you about the Simpsons list.

Those titles bring back memmories. I used to read those.

Rob Schrab is planning on finally finishing the LAST issue of Scud. Hopefully, I should have some art contribution in there... a pin-up or cover color..... something.

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I worked on way too many things to list........ highlights are Batman, Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Scud the Disposable Assasin, Grrl Scouts, Vamperilla and getting to do the color art for John Byrne (some Last Galactus prom pieces) and Bernie Wrightson (a short werewolf story for Chaos Comics).[/quote]

Cool,I used to read scud and Grrl Scouts.I was a big fan of Mahfoods until he blew me off at APE,He was too busy talking to some self important blowhard about working for disney to sign some shit for me and take my money to buy some of his books.

never bought too much US stuff unless it was vintage or just plain weird.

I started JP toy collecing with Medicom as a kubrick/be@rbrick collector, and still buy those when I like the releases, but not like I used to. All downhill from there.

Jim Mahfood is a cool guy. I met him back when I was living in Arizona in '96 working for Chaos. He was working on Clerks at the time and he just finished a "Tales from the Vending Mahine" for the Scud guys. From my experience he gets really busy at conventions and has so many things going through his mind. If you ever see him again, give him another chance, he really is a good guy.

I started with Japanese vinyl - Bandai Godzilla toys and the small, tagged Bandai ultramonsters in the late 80's/early 90's. I then got into Bullmarks (but they were expensive and very hard to find pre-internet). Then got into M1, B-Clubs, Marmit and the rest. I bought a lot of Godzilla kaiju but also anything weird and retro I could find. When I started collecting, I lived in Boston and got exposed to japanese vinyl through a small shop called Day Old Antiques (my understanding is that it was one of Coop's sources for vinyl back in the day). With the internet, Jim C. at Club Daikaiju was a major source vinyl, especially M1's.

I started to get into American stuff like Biskup, Baseman, etc. but have sold all of it and am now concentrating only on Japanese vinyl - either vintage stuff I couldn't find or afford pre-internet or the weirdest modern pieces I can find like the Barom 1 monsters by Rainbow.

I also have a sub-specialty interest in vintage Japanese wrestling figures (some are amazingly bizarre) and spacemen-like figures (such as MAT figures).

Japanese die-cast in the 70's as a kid. Japanese super heroes like Kikaider, Go Rangers, Raideen, etc. Moved on to Gundam, Votoms and various mecha...and now days it's more or less all about Japanese vinyl. (But I still manage to still accumulate more Votoms, Getter, etc.)