[Groop]Collecting Mania!!!!!

[The Craills]

I think Eric is a Private Investigator or something - he always has the
answers to these things and knows so much stuff !

I bet ya kick it at trivia contests huh Eric !

In Awe of the knowledge master . . .
GC

----- Original Message -----
From: "E C" <mightyhero@mail.com>
To: <groop@groo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Groop]Collecting Mania!!!!!


> Hi guys/grrls!
>
> Gary wrote:
> >Tonight they showed a woman who has been
> >collecting Peanuts related items for 35
> >years.  She has over 60,000 items, started
> >an internet Peanuts collectable club and
> >they hold a convention every year in Santa
> >Rosa, CA
>
> That's "BeagleFest".  BeagleFest VII was
> held July 4-7, 2002.
>
> >Then there was a guy who has over 2000
> >Disney Pins.  He trades with a bunch of
> >other folks, a large number of whom all
> >took a Disney Pin Collector cruise
> >together.
>
> This is probably quite common.  Disney
> pin collecting/trading is big at the
> Disney theme parks.
>
> >Anywho, I just thought it was interesting
> >to see there are people out there even
> >worse than me!  (or something like that.)
> >(Where do these people get the time and
> >the money?)
>
> Peanuts and Disney items are readily
> available.  Peanuts licenses out its
> characters, so there are a lot of mer-
> chandise.  Disney gives a lot of at-
> tention to its pins.  They even create
> limited edition pins just for Ebay.
> Their seller name is "disneyauctionears"
> (where "ears" references Mickey Mouse).
>
> If Groo items were as readily available,
> then perhaps, possibly, just maybe some
> people would have collections that rival
> Peanuts collectors' or Disney collectors'
> collections.  Can't imagine who would
> have that, though.
>
> >PS   Mark!  You have mentioned that
> >you have three storage rooms full of
> >comics
>
> There are some people who buy the entire
> rack of new comics.
>
> Neal Adams said he gets all the comics,
> then keeps a trash can with him when he
> sorts them out ...
>
> See you.
>
> Eric
>
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