"I have the set with Peter, Aslan, White Witch, Otmin, Oreius and the Dwarf. At least I assume the Centaur is General Oreius instead of a random one. You should post a picture of your pvc's UncleEd.......or at least whatever ones can fit in the picture"
I'm going to photograph them all as soon as I get a camera card. I'll post my favorites in this thread if anyone wants to see them.
"PVCs are a generally low-cost hobby compared to other collectibles."
I'm keeping track this year but the last time I kept track of every Disney type thing I bought was in 1998 and it was around 1,000.00. I haven't kept track since then. And what I keep track of is anything that's a luxary like after Christmas sale decorations or a DVD or something like that. My 1998 list included Happy Meals too because of the toys. I don't really get that stuff anymore though. But I think about 1,000 a year on extra things is somewhat reasonable, and that's with all extra things. This month I'm at 150.00 with all of my purches but I had to but Cinderella 3 yesterday before it's gone and my Ratatoullie clearanced items are in there too. That's not typical for me but I used to get that stuff when it first came out when we had a Disney Store so I think I actually saved money.
"But when you have 2000 of them, that's... uh, a whole different story. "
My dream would be to have an attic or basement area just for my collections. I'm not into the typical sportsy things a lot of guys are but I'd love to have a basement theater where I could screen DVDs and have all the figures and action figures on display. I'm a book writer/artist so I'd need an office too. (I have 2 novels in print, 2 more on the way, a few children's books coming and this fall there's a Christmas comic book series starting up based on my first novel. So PVCs and figures come with the territory.) That's all I ask, my wife can have the rest of the house. You think that's too unrealistic to dream for?
I have found that a lot of women don't take animatiion or comic books seriously as a career. I have a degree in animation but since the hand drawn field shut down when I graduated there weren't many animation options for me so I've been doing books. I've had people tell me it's not a real career and I'm just wasting my time and need a realistic fallback. But I've been doing okay so far and feel it can only go up from here. Any other artists out there run into people like this?
"Thankfully, my collections didn't have to "hit the road" when we got married. In my case, it was a change of perspective, of priorities. Before I met my wife, collectibles were all I spent my disposable income on.
My wife also collected vintage Cabbage Patch, Care Bears, Barbie, and Elvis memorabilia. So it wasn't any big deal to her back then that I had a lot of stuff. "
I'm glad there are female collectors out there. More hope for understanding women! he he...
"And looking back over everything I used to collect, I discovered that I didn't have as much attachment to them as I thought I did. It's been fairly easy for me to gradually sell them off. And I've given quite a bit of stuff away as gifts to fellow collectors too whom I've befriended over the years, or have traded for other stuff I'm still looking for. "
I'm sure I could sell off the things I've acquired as an adult but the things I've had from childhood will be VERY hard for me to ever pass up because there's a lot of warm memories associated with them. Just handling them over again takes me back decades. It's amazing and I'd hate to lose that.
"And on the DA PVCs, send me a PM with your email and I'll get a photo for you later this week. I'd suggest deleting your email from the boards as you might get spammed from it by those software programs that spammers use to "spider" message boards to harvest email addresses."
I'm unable to send PMs and was told they reached their limit here on the people who can send them. Go to
www.edmccray.com and email me through there.