Show us your dinosaurs!
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Iād probably have way more diecast car models than I do now if it werenāt for Pokemon eating into that budget. Or maybe the space requirement wouldāve stopped me.
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If PokĆ©mon didnāt exist, Iād probably be even deeper into Yugioh. I was an MtG player and not much of a collector.
If we extend this to no TCGs were ever created, I would probably be into comics and video games.
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I wouldnāt say I collect them and I donāt really have to research and spend a lot of time going in depth on them like I do Pokemon although, I have a fair few watches. So I suppose in that sense it is a collection, it certainly doesnāt have that same enjoyment and satisfaction feel to it like I feel with Pokemon.
Iād like a few more cars too but thatās a space issue. Iām thankful that I collect Pokemon cards since they are small enough to store and theoretically never run out of room. Minimal cost to store and maintain is also a huge benefit that I will encounter with more cars here which puts me off also.
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Unfortunately theyāre entombed in boxes underneath boxes. My mom probably has some nice pictures of my shelves on some ancient usb drive. Maybe next year, or the year after that.
In the mean time, the 1:24 Michael Trcic sculptures were the pride of my collection. Unfortunately I didnāt get the more limited bronze versions, at nearly $1000 a piece they were too much for me. Hereās a great picture of the Triceratops polyresin version which is the one I have.
Then out of a truckload of figures, the Mamenchisaurus from Safari ltd was my big chase for almost a decade, I looked for it everywhere. Eventually had to order it on the internet as a teenager, and even there it was exceedingly difficult to find.
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Just like some of the others above, Iāve collected almost my entire life. It started with just pretty pebbles and post stamps when I was 4-5 years old, and expanded from there
Iāve collected post stamps; minerals, gemstones, and fossils; PokĆ©mon TCG cards; Yu-Gi-Oh TCG cards; foreign coins; collectibles from local supermarkets (e.g. Happy Tail plushies; pogs/tazos/flippos; 3D cards; etc.); euro coins; twisty puzzles. I even had some virtual collections, like all TF2 weapons (except for the golden weapons, like the Frying Pan and Saxxy).
So if PokĆ©mon wasnāt a thing, Iād probably still collect either twisty puzzles or Yu-Gi-Oh rarities, the two active collections I had when I started collecting PokĆ©mon again nine years ago. Iāve also thought a few times about collecting MTG cards, even though I never did as a kid/teenager. And collecting Lego would be pretty cool as well (although very expensive Iād imagineā¦) Like maybe one of each type of Lego brick or every Lego figure or something along those lines.
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Quuador
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This is awesome! I used to have a handful of safari ltd dinos as a kid. I think youāve just hooked me on a new niche interest. Thanks for sharing!
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I dont think so. I got back into Pokemon because it was familiar and I had good memories
But collecting was never my forte
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If neither Pokemon nor Yugioh were made I would probably just collect video games and consoles. Itās hard to say exactly what Iād collect because the majority of video games I own are Pokemon games.
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Definitely Yu-Gi-Oh!. There is such potency in the nostalgia I feel for those simple monster-on-background arts from the early sets.
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Monster + psychedelic background is where itās at, baby.
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Easy question for me as I am not only collecting Pokemon (cards). I am also collecting video games, especially from Nintendo and even more especially from the Game Boy era.
Furthermore I also have some small collections of Yu-Gi-Oh, Lego and CDs/Vinyl, not because I am heavy into the collecting aspect of those hobbies but rather because I really enjoy it.
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Video games, but the ācollectionā is more of a side-effect of acquiring and playing games consistently for almost 30 years and not an intentional act of collecting. I kind of just kept nearly every game Iāve ever played and a collection just happened. I have a handful of cool collectorās editions as well like MH4U and Xenoblade Chronicles X (not pictured). This is only my 3DS shelf and gameboy cigar box. Iāve still got my original N64 from when I was a kid and all my games (in a different box). Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, PS2, 3, 4, and games etc. are all still around somewhere just not in a photogenic state 
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Yugioh most likely. Maybe comic books as well.
Hard to know really
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My level of imagination is really low atm. or I canāt simply figure out any other hobby thatās equally interesting as Pokemon. Big maybe for MTG assuming I was born 5-10 years earlier.
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Chaotic all the way
The other things iāve been about as obsessed as pokemon are lego and lotr miniatures. The major thing going for pokemon cards is the amount of storage needed, for lego thereās a lot of gorgeous ones out there but the amount of space they would require (with small kids it also would have to be somewhere higher or in a cabinet) i doubt i would have even remotely as deep passion in collecting them. Lotr miniatures are slightly more space friendly but the time required for assembling and painting them did slow down the collecting aspect a lot, even tho the end result after painting was often very rewarding. Iām very much of a collector and iāve collected a lot of things in my adult life (dragon ball manga, plushes, moomin mugs etc) so i would probably be collecting something anyway but i guess it would change more frequently if pokemon didnāt exist. But pokemon cards really are a perfect collectable.
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In all honesty, probably not. I did not like PokĆ©mon when it came out and thought it was something for the Ā“nerdsĀ“. Then I actually got some cards and a friend got a gameboy with PokĆ©mon Blue, and the rest is history.
I donĀ“t think any other game/collectable has the same raw entertainment-level of PokĆ©mon. It combines so much awesomeness (the TCG is actually fun and easy to play, the caracters (PokĆ©mon) are simple and recognizable, the games are some of the best RPGĀ“s out there). Sometimes you wonder how something got to be as big as it is. Not with PokĆ©mon.
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VGC is also a unique, elaborate and fun game of strategy. So many wins on so many levels
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Yeah, I spend a good amount of time climbing the rankings back in 2016/17. Very addicting.
The only negative thing that could be said about PokĆ©mon is that they may have become a bit lazy when it comes to the video games? It reminds me a bit of that T-shirt with the text; Ā“IĀ“m already the best, so why try harderĀ“. The games are still fun, but I think they could be a lot better. Not so much the TCG though.
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