Hello and welcome to my collectables web site. On this site you will find pictures and reviews of dungeons and dragons products, action figures (Star Wars, Britains, DC Direct), Airfix (especially Eagles), fast food toys and monster toys.  

I'm never really sure what to put on these index pages. I'll put some news on it I guess: updates etc. The only other thing I can think of that is worth doing is a "Why collect" rant. Check this out below the news section.

This site is updated at least every week (in my dreams!), so it is well worth checking back. I will get into the habit of noting what the updates are in the "news" section below. 

You can contact me by clicking here. 

I have also started a blog where I'll waffle about my life as a grown-up geek with kids and hopefully point my like minded site visitors in the direction of some cool stuff. You can get to the blog by clicking in the menu bar at the top or by clicking the blogger logo below:

Most of the items described on these pages are rated with from 1 to 5 stars with 1 being the worst (did I really pay money for that!) and 5 being the best (sell your loved ones into slavery in exchange for this!)

NEWS

• 26th July 2005: Added some RPG links and some new pictures to the "Lost Toys" section. Big thanks to Dominic McChesney and Andrew Wertheim who sent me the pictures of "Shoot a Spook".
• 15th January 2005: Added a few new pictures to the "Airfix" section. Some catalogues and a some napoleonic 1/72 scale soldiers. The dates are back as well. . . I guess I am optimistic that I will be updating this site again!
• Fixed a lot of broken links. Everything (hopefully) is now back in working order!
• Looks like the redesign never came to much. . . .
• I'm thinking that maybe a slight redesign may be just the thing to get my interest back again. . . . .
• Well, the dates are gone. It was kind of a bleak reminder that I didn't really have time to update very often. The site has been live for almost two years and in that time my life has changed a great deal, mainly because my wife and I had another child, Ben. Time is now rather short and so I have finally accepted that updates are going to get rarer and rarer. I'll do a few over the next week or so and that will be it for a while. Keep the emails coming though. I'm always happy to hear from other collectors.
• Whoops-No updates in a while. Combination of 'flu and redesigning the pages. Hope you all like the new look.
• 18th October 2001    Added some Universal Monsters Beanies to the "Monsters" section and some Britains lead figures to the "Action Figures" section. Not a lot of purchasing going on at the moment. My wife is expecting another baby (our 2nd) so finances are a bit tight. 
• 4th October 2001    So much for updating weekly. . . Anyway, I've added a load of new Airfix Eagle toys. Check them out. 
• Although hardly a site attracting much traffic, I thought it was still worth noting my sympathy for those touched by the tragic events of September 11th in New York. I like collecting toys, but it is at times like this that you realize what is really important to you. . . 
• 4 September 2001    Added the Simpsons 2000 range from Burger King.  
• 5th July 2001        Lots more updates over the last few weeks. We bought a digital camera a couple of weeks ago, so image quality should improve. I've also managed to get a few more Airfix Eagles sets-you can find these in the "Airfix" section. 
• 13th June 2001    Lots of updates to the site. Mainly under "Fast Food" and "Airfix", though there are some others. 
• 29th May 2001    Added some images and descriptions to the "Fast Food" section. 
• 27th May 2001  Actually, I changed my mind about this. . . The site goes live tonight. . . maybe! My first aim is to complete the "Lost Toys" section. 
• 14th April 2001    A lot of this site is under construction, but I think there is enough good content to make it worth uploading. 

WHY COLLECT STUFF???

Good question. I have been a long time collector of comic books and dungeons and dragons games, although I know find myself having most of the titles I want and spending increasingly less money adding to these collections. Maybe it was something to do with turning 30 last year, but I started to get a fondness for old toys (70s & 80s), particularly those I could remember from my childhood. Over the course of a few months I gradually began to buy a few things, and branched out a little finding a passion for Universal Monster movies, fast food toys, action figures and memorabilia from events of my childhood (football matches, new magazines). Of course, this is a lot of stuff I could potentially be buying and this cast some doubt over my strategy. I remember asking one of the owners of the Hamilton Toy Collection (a museum of toys in Calendar in Scotland-definitely worth a visit-they have the best collection of toys, from teddy bears, to toy soldiers to sci-fi - there is also an attached shop which has some nice stock) how he decided what to buy - you could never hope to own everything. He said to me, "Just buy things that you like", and this has been my guiding principle in slowly building a collection of toys. I don't own a lot of anything, but what I do own, I really like. I guess the main limiting factor for my collection is space. I would love to be able to keep all of my collections somewhere where I could easily access them and where I could enjoy them, unfortunately storage space in our home is a premium and things are scattered across various cupboards, wardrobes and the loft. My ambition is to own a house large enough so that I could devote a room to my collections, but I think that is some way off. I am not sure if I actually answered my question there. . . I guess I collect things because it gives me something interesting to spend my salary on, for the nostalgia, and I guess because a big part of me never really grew up.

I mainly look on eBay for things or travel up to the Hamilton Toy Collection. I also sell a lot of old games on eBay (mainly to raise funds to buy other toys!). I dig these up at charity stores and car boot sales. The main things I pursue here are Games Workshop games which have become very collectable and not too hard to track down (yet).

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