DE: I've got these vintage trading cards

[bjornwilde]

And to round out the topics from the past two days, a great one from aberration :

Sort of inspired by today's DE, but I'm not a tea person so I didn't have much to say on that specifically!:

Do you have any merchandise associated with your characters or the canons they're from? Other objects you associate with them? Have you made any non-RP fanworks (e.g., fanart, vids, fic, other things inspired by them)?

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[shinyhappygoth]

I actually managed to get the ReBoot duvet cover and pillowcase set on eBay. It was years ago, only the second time I'd seen them offered on there, and I haven't seen another since. I doubt most fans know they even made those. They are among my most prized possessions.

Then there are the action figures (I have most of them, a few have eluded me), the exoskeleton suits for the action figures, Bob's car, the playsets, trading cards, colouring book, choose-your-own-adventure books, honest-to-User novelizations of the first four episodes... I've had the most fun with the playsets, because they come with those inch-high mini-figures and of course Bob comes with almost all of them so I ended up with I think four Bobs, and how many identical Bobs does one need, so I ended up doing inch-high repaints, as detailed as possible, occasionally using the point of a needle instead of a paintbrush.

I made a number of ReBoot vids, some of them quite popular (especially You Could Drive a Person Crazy) until my YouTube account was terminated, and I really should find somewhere to put them back up. A little bit of fanart (nothing terribly exciting), a couple of short fanfics and the obligatory not-so-short self-insert. The best of them is probably the ficlet I linked recently regarding keytools. And speaking of keytools, check out my Glitch phone case mod.


As for My Little Pony, I mostly collect the minis of actual show characters. I also have regular-sized figures of major characters, and, er, a couple of castle playsets which I had to get in order to get Cadance and Shining Armor. (I have little interest in the castles themselves, but I do enjoy having small fiddly accessories to paint.) I refuse to attempt a more comprehensive collection or to start collecting anything larger than the normal-sized Princess Celestia, because that way lies madness and lack of storage space.

I made quite good use of my Cadance and Shining Armor figures in one of the wedding reception table centrepieces I made for a friend.