Thread: Tell me about what you collect!

Originally Posted by pj

- professional magician's equipment

Cool. I was a semi-pro magician during my three Jr. High School years. I had amassed a huge amount of props and paraphernalia. I even built a bunch of props, such as a dove-from-balloon cage, an Asrah Levitation, a Flying Carpet Levitation, Egyptian Water Box, tons of change bags (which I was selling), a Crystal Casket (6"), a sword through head box, and a bunch of packet effects, etc...

I actually "invented" a trick called "The Invisible String". It was a gimmick used to make your pocket move as if it had string tied to it. You pull your pocket inside-out to perform the trick. I sold a few thousand of those many years ago. Not to mention that I was good friends with several magic prop inventors and builders, including Jim Zachary, who was famous for his dice stacking routines. He invented some special coin boxes and the world-famous Hot Rod (a paddle move trick with a plastic rod having 6 different colored stones. The spectator chooses a number from 1-6 and all 6 stones on each side are shown to have changed to that color.) Those were the days.

I got rid of almost all of that stuff when I got out of magic though. Now I just have a massive video game collection: over 35 different consoles (not counting duplicates or different versions), over 2,300 console games, special test carts and equipment, tons of memorabilia, etc...

Most of that stuff sits in boxes now. I also once owned a small arcade's worth of arcade video games, four pinball machines, coin-op devices and table-top games.

I have 7 Pachinko machines, most of which I've completely dismantled and resurrected from the dead.

I've had other collections in my life but, I've bored you long enough.