The X-Files (you know, I'm not even ashamed..)
This is my first post, but I felt the geekiness of my collection deserved some public acknowledgement..

I used to be an X Files fan.
I have every episode on video. I used to tape them all off the tv, I have some episodes from BBC2 dating back to about 1995. I had similarly obsessed freinds in America who used to send me the new episodes (in crappy NTSC format) as soon as they were shown (pre-broadband days obviously!). I bought a new video player that could play both PAL and NTSC so I could watch them. Course the picture quality was awful so I'd have to tape a new PAL version when they were shown over here.
I've also bought all the seasons in the box sets, and I have all the single videos (from before I could afford the box sets). I have three different versions of the movie (British release, American release, rental release) all on video.
Recently I've started getting the DVD box sets too as they've been on sale in HMV..

I have the action figures from the movie (full set inc boxes) and I bought a T-2000 action figure from Terminator 2 so I could have a John Doggett when he joined.. I have an old video display from MVC with full-size cardboard cut outs of season 5 Mulder and Scully. I had about six different (some official, some not) t-shirts and two hats (one that just had the X on, one that was like Max Fenig's hat..).

I used to buy all the sci-fi magazines, back in the day they always used to have X-Files covers, SFX, Cult Times, X Pose, and I used to get them sent over from America too, like if TV guide had them on the cover. My favourite was when Gillian Anderson was on the cover of Curve (gay lady magazine in the US.. she may be married to a man but I'm still convinced..). I had signed photos of Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny.
I had all the posters, official ones and video or other release ones from MVC and Our Price including a "trust no one" poster with the flying saucer. My room was literally covered in posters, including the celing. I also had a plaster alien head. That wasn't official but he used to wear the X hat so it looked like it.

I never went to an X-Files convention, but I did go to a Stargate SG-1 convention because Don S Davis (General Hammond/Scully's dad) was there.. I got my picture taken with him.

I could go on, but it would be best to leave it at that before anyone at work sees what I'm writing about and never talks to me again...
(niftyshellsuit, Wed 17 Jan 2007, 14:29, Reply)