Lazarus 0 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/08/tr...erior_designer/ An unnamed trekkie has coughed up £308,000 for a model of the Starship Enterprise, the Daily Telegraph reports. The 78 inch space vessel, "which made its television debut in 1987 and was also used in the pilot and title sequences of Star Trek: The Next Generation", sold for 20 times the estimated sale price during a Christie's auction of 1,000 lots from CBS Paramount Television Studios. The Telegraph explains: "Hundreds of fans, dressed as characters from the series, packed Christie's main salesroom in Manhattan for the sale while staff donned Trek-style costumes to take telephone bids." The three-day sale, which also saw fans of the cult TV series shell out £214,000 for a model Klingon "Bird of Prey" ship and £104,000 for a space suit worn by Bones in The Tholian Web, generated a total of £3.8m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35538 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/08/tr...erior_designer/ An unnamed trekkie has coughed up £308,000 for a model of the Starship Enterprise, the Daily Telegraph reports. The 78 inch space vessel, "which made its television debut in 1987 and was also used in the pilot and title sequences of Star Trek: The Next Generation", sold for 20 times the estimated sale price during a Christie's auction of 1,000 lots from CBS Paramount Television Studios. The Telegraph explains: "Hundreds of fans, dressed as characters from the series, packed Christie's main salesroom in Manhattan for the sale while staff donned Trek-style costumes to take telephone bids." The three-day sale, which also saw fans of the cult TV series shell out £214,000 for a model Klingon "Bird of Prey" ship and £104,000 for a space suit worn by Bones in The Tholian Web, generated a total of £3.8m Bunch of pricks. I bet the lad that won the auction is treated like a god at his next Dungeons and Dragons meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Then again, he could just be an astute businessman, if that's what he had to pay for it just 20 years after the show was on, what will it be worth when they retire? I wish I had that kind of money spare to speculate with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyluke 1 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Then again, he could just be an astute businessman, if that's what he had to pay for it just 20 years after the show was on, what will it be worth when they retire? I wish I had that kind of money spare to speculate with. I think there are more sound investments than paying 300 grand for a model tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted October 10, 2006 Author Share Posted October 10, 2006 Must admit though if i had that sort of money spare i'd buy similar star wars stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35538 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Must admit though if i had that sort of money spare i'd buy similar star wars stuff. GIMP! Did you see that article last week about people with big DVD collections btw? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35538 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Hey you DVD twits: Pause, review, get a life FINALLY, YOU realized how embarrassing it is. That your shelves and shelves of DVDs are the most expensive way you could possibly tell the world that you're a dork, other than collecting enough Hummel figurines to spell out the words "I'm a dork" on the sidewalk. After conning people for years, studios are reporting lower than expected earnings this year because DVD sales are down. The main reason is because owning DVDs is incredibly stupid. And people start to get wise just about the time they fill a second wall with pure stupid. I know. You're going to tell me that you own every DVD you have because you love to watch those films over and over. Right. You're spending Saturdays savoring the nuances of shoving the jockstrap on the Asian kid's head in "Revenge of the Nerds" for the fourth time. Even if that were true, at $20, you'd have to watch "Revenge of the Nerds" five times to make it more economical than renting it. If you watch any movie more than four times when you're more than 6 years old, you've either got Alzheimer's or are too embarrassed to buy new porn. No, you have a DVD collection for the same reason suburban moms have wicker baskets, decorative blue cobalt and those neat bathroom collections of serotonin reuptake inhibitors. To have something to talk about. To brag. To establish your identity. DVDs have become the new books. No one puts up a bookshelf because they believe that someday they'll have to quickly look something up. That's an awful lot of living room space to devote to the possibility that someday you're going to get in an argument with your spouse about whether the ending of "The Tempest" was stolen from Ovid. If you wanted to eat up wall space on argument avoiders, you'd just put up a huge wipe-board to record how many times a week you've had sex. People claim they have bookshelves because at some point in their lives they're going to sit in a big red leather chair, drink port and reread the classics. Yeah. That explains all those brilliant old people I run into all the time. Those are the people we all agreed can't even handle investing their own Social Security money. The real reason that we have bookcases is to immediately let guests know that we're smarter than them. But in a post-literate culture, people had to turn to DVDs in order to communicate to their dates that they're sexually adventurous in a highbrow way without having to say, "I'm sexually adventurous in a highbrow way." Because that can no longer be accomplished with a well-placed copy of "Tropic of Capricorn," people have to leave out a DVD of "Henry & June." Your manliness might not be noticed with a first edition "A Farewell to Arms," but it won't be missed with a Rambo boxed set. Conveniently, a DVD of "Under the Tuscan Sun" gets across the same thing as a hard copy of "Under the Tuscan Sun." Namely, run. The worst part is that, because they've become the lazy person's gift, I have a small shelf of DVDs. And for some weird reason, everyone is gifting me like they're my grandmother: "Oh, Joel was into 'ALF' and the Who when he was 13, so I better load him up with those DVDs." There's not enough marijuana in the world to get me to sit down to a night of Ann-Margret writhing in baked beans and a midget in an aardvark costume yelling "No problem!" People are willing to waste an awful lot of money to establish their identity. But while books are cheap, DVDs are cutting into people's budgets for actual entertainment. As, it seems from recent circulation numbers, are their L.A. Times subscriptions. I know it's American to try to own everything you can, but trying to materialize experiences is as sad as putting butterflies under glass. Just because you thought a moment was beautiful doesn't mean you have to have to pay to lock it up in your house. That's the kind of thinking that caused problems for the Sultan of Brunei's brother. So, do us all a favor and sell your DVDs on EBay while you can, before movies are digital files you can pull up anytime. You'll still be able to see the butter scene from "Last Tango in Paris" anytime you need to feel OK about your own issues. You just won't need to share that with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Zathras 234 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Query: Why is it camp to go somewhere dressed as a TV character but cool to go somewhere dressed in an Alan Shearer NUFC top? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster 0 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Query: Why is it camp to go somewhere dressed as a TV character but cool to go somewhere dressed in an Alan Shearer NUFC top? Good question. Try going to the next game at SJP dressed as Mr. Spock and find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Query: Why is it camp to go somewhere dressed as a TV character but cool to go somewhere dressed in an Alan Shearer NUFC top? Above the age of 14 I'd say it's just as uncool tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14136 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Query: Why is it camp to go somewhere dressed as a TV character but cool to go somewhere dressed in an Alan Shearer NUFC top? If you turned up with a tuft of fluff atop a balding head and went round with one arm raised in celebration all night, you'd probably get that kind of response too... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 234 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 (edited) Query: Why is it camp to go somewhere dressed as a TV character but cool to go somewhere dressed in an Alan Shearer NUFC top? If you turned up with a tuft of fluff atop a balding head and went round with one arm raised in celebration all night, you'd probably get that kind of response too... I disagree, actually, as 52000 people were given (and many wore) Alan Shearer masks at his testamonial.... Edit: P.S. and people show up at Twins games all the time wearing "Joe Mauer Sideburns" (Look at my avatar) and that's still considered cool. What's the difference? I'm not disagreeing that there is one in practice, but I'm honestly wondering why and what it is. Edited October 10, 2006 by Zathras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35538 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Zath blatantly minces about the streets of Minnesota in Trekkie gear telling people to go forth and prosper tbh. By the way, I don't wear football shirts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14136 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Good point about the masks, but it was a special occasion rather than the norm. The equivalent of wearing your Trek gear at a convention vs. when you nip to the shop for some milk, I suppose, though obviously people still laugh at the former. As to why one is vaguely acceptable and the other isn't, I imagine it's not irrelevant that a Shearer-worshipping mong would likely be happier to plant a fist on you for challenging their sartorial elegance than the average pale-faced Trekkie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 234 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 (edited) Zath blatantly minces about the streets of Minnesota in Trekkie gear telling people to go forth and prosper tbh. By the way, I don't wear football shirts. Babylon 5 tbh. Edit: and I don't "mince." I czardas. Edited October 10, 2006 by Zathras Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 35538 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Are you the hardass that czardases? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathras 234 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Are you the hardass that czardases? aw right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jusoda Kid 1 Posted October 10, 2006 Share Posted October 10, 2006 Mass DVD collecting is for geeks, no getting away from it. mY mates got this dodgy uncle who's got wardrobes full of Videos and DVD's that still have the wrappers on them, buys about 4 a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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