What do you geek out on , besides toy collecting?

[Wee67]

Well, if you're into vintage fashion, Mikey's got a dickey....but I don't think you want pictures.

THANKS! It's gonna take a team of therapists to help me through the mental image you just conjured for me!!

[shaunaconda]

Collecting NFL…especially Dallas Cowboys TV game broadcast’s. I started recording Cowboys games in 92, and started tape/dvd trading around 20 years ago. I have games going back to the sixties now.

[Brown Bear]

Decorating for Christmas and Halloween with a retro vibe

Writing pop culture books

Old Superman comics

Boxing!!

[J.B.]

I want pictures! I've been getting into early 60s Mod fashion, myself. My ever-increasing gut makes it hard, though.

Well, if you're into vintage fashion, Mikey's got a dickey....but I don't think you want pictures.

[PNGwynne]

I want pictures! I've been getting into early 60s Mod fashion, myself. My ever-increasing gut makes it hard, though.

I have several inexpensive ones in foulard patterns, but my favorite is an Italian silk one that's truly Mod. I'll see about pix.

[Hector]

I don’t collect Megos anymore. I’m into Alien, Predator, and Terminator collectibles now. Anything from statues, props, models, customs, posters, and some Hot Toys. I’m also into trail hiking. Been to many regional parks and a few national parks. Yosemite is my favorite. Love movies of course, all kinds. I’m into good series too. My love for boxing has greatly decreased though, don’t watch it much nowadays. I mean, it’s not dead per say, but seems to be on life support. When YouTuber Jake Paul creates more buzz than pro fighters, that right there tells you something. MMA is now much more popular. But I don’t watch much UFC either. I’m a big Niners fan to the core. Raiders still hold a place in me, even though they moved from my city to Las Vegas, but I prefer the Niners. Golden State fan too. Not a Giants or A’s fan, I don’t follow baseball. Watching some World Cup. GO USA! Mexico doesn’t look great, they will probably fail to go to the next round. My other favorite team is Japan. GO BLUE SAMURAIS! Spain looks awesome, watch out for them. Brazil looks great too. Argentina is coming alive. Portugal is dangerous. Don’t forget England and France. Germany is a shell of its former self though, but at least they made the World Cup unlike Italy, ouch. I also build and paint model kits. Just finished an Alien Big Chap. I have a small art room full of airbrush equipment and tons of airbrush paints. Just finished remodeling my backyard, phew! And to end this post, good food, yeah…self-proclaimed foodie here. Love to cook and love to eat out as well. Cheers!

[Wee67]

Ascots/Day cravats

I want pictures! I've been getting into early 60s Mod fashion, myself. My ever-increasing gut makes it hard, though.

[Wee67]

Vinyl Records
-I don't consider myself a collector, but I do buy 4 or 5 every month and I do prefer to get original releases. Collector-adjacent, maybe?

Movies
-My wife and I go to the movies almost every weekend. Pre-COVID, we might even go twice a weekend.

Soccer
-as a kid I remember the only place I could watch soccer was in highlight form on a PBS show called Soccer Made in Germany. I can't believe I still don't have a Beckenbauer in my collection I even became a Leeds Utd follower after I saw their cool logo on Steve Goalgetter!

Travel
-The bug bit me on my first trip abroad when a kid ran up to his parents speaking French. I was like, "That's so cool, the signs are in French and Dutch. I'm paying with change! This candy bar is in French!" "It's just a Kit Kat." "No, it's LE Kit Kat!"

[KingKickass1983]

Classic WWF wrestling.

I love the old school characters.

Sgt Slaughter being my favorite. Followed by Rick Rude and Jake the Snake.

I dress up as Sarge sometimes for conventions.

[Goblin19]

Movies, classic movies, in particular

Really not much else. I sort of dabble in a lot of things, but nothing too in depth.

[Earth 2 Chris]

American comics up through the early 2000s, particularly comic history
Packaging and licensing art for franchises I love
Universal Monster Films
Hammer Horror Films
Lighted holiday Blow Molds
Vintage Christmas
Vintage Halloween
Star Trek TOS (TV and films)
A Christmas Carol (all adaptations)
Dracula (the orginal novel and how it's reinterpreted)

[rykerw1701]

Star Trek (which makes toy collecting even worse, of course)
American history, particularly Revolutionary War and WW2
Stop Motion animation
Pin-up art
Pro football, go Bills!

[Mr.Marion]

I was a member of DeMolay.

I'm a descendant of the Nicolays, a noble European family. Someone must of lost a war along the way because I've never received any special treatment

[J.B.]

I was turned on to Templar myth by reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

That was a good read. Ironically enough, it was suggested by my future Brother-in-Law, another DeMolay member.

[MRP]

I was a member of DeMolay.

My masters' thesis in medieval history examined the origins of banking institutions in the late ancient/early medieval period through the early modern period to examine what the antecedents of banking families like the Medici were, so a lot of my research delved into the Templars themselves. Of course I was turned on to Templar myth by reading Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco as a senior at university and that piqued my interest in Templar history leading to the shaping of the topic of my thesis. There's a lot of crackpot theories out there about the Templars, which I take with a grain of salt, but they are more fun than a barrel of rolling monks (not monkeys, putting monkeys in a barrel and rolling it down a hill is cruel). But, yeah sometimes, you can encounter some real fringe stuff. The offshoot is, when you read/see something like Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, you can point to all the different books and sources he stole his ideas from and give people something better written on the topic if they are interested.

-M