Don't Do It, Girl!
Feb. 9th, 2011 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanProducers for the “Oprah Winfrey Show” are looking for someone with “the ultimate” collection of Princess Leia merch/memorabilia, as reported on TFN and Club Jade, to feature on the program. I have no idea what the show is going to be about, but I have read rumors/speculation that Carrie Fisher and mom Debbie Reynolds are slated to appear on a future episode of the show. Maybe this collectors’ search is part of that episode, maybe it isn’t.
But I can’t think of anything more potentially awkward and embarrassing than to have the real person who played the focus of your collection drop by your house to see it. I may as well package up every non-PG-rated fic I’ve written and send them off to everybody who played those characters, CC: George Lucas.
Even if I didn’t mind sharing my collection of stuff in the way Elvis fanboy Nicholas Cage didn’t find anything peculiar about marrying Lisa Marie Presley, I would be greatly concerned about being portrayed as a weirdo, a freak, an obsessive nut, or even a stalker and that there is something creepy or unsettling about my collection.
I do have a large Star Wars collection, with a variety of stuff. But like many collectors not named Steve Sansweet with a big warehouse to store everything, there are certain items or characters that I’ll favor. A good friend of mine will buy anything with Han, Chewie, or the Millennium Falcon. I knew a collector back East whose collection focuses entirely on ROTJ Luke. He has a website and, yes, he did show pictures of his collection to Mark Hamill. I know of another guy who only collects sandtroopers and another who likes Jawas and Tusken Raiders. I love anything with Anakin, so long as the piece doesn’t really suck or it’s not too big or too expensive. I know another collector on the East Coast who collects anything having to do with female characters; I also favor Padme, Leia, Ahsoka, Asajj Ventress, etc.. There’s a woman collector whose focus is on Padme stuff. She worked for Official Pix.
But most of the Corn Nuts-munching couch potatoes out there watching Oprah don’t understand that about Star Wars collecting and I doubt the show’s producers would either. There’s a reason why I’m very wary of dealing with the lamestream media when it comes to fandom.
But I can’t think of anything more potentially awkward and embarrassing than to have the real person who played the focus of your collection drop by your house to see it. I may as well package up every non-PG-rated fic I’ve written and send them off to everybody who played those characters, CC: George Lucas.
Even if I didn’t mind sharing my collection of stuff in the way Elvis fanboy Nicholas Cage didn’t find anything peculiar about marrying Lisa Marie Presley, I would be greatly concerned about being portrayed as a weirdo, a freak, an obsessive nut, or even a stalker and that there is something creepy or unsettling about my collection.
I do have a large Star Wars collection, with a variety of stuff. But like many collectors not named Steve Sansweet with a big warehouse to store everything, there are certain items or characters that I’ll favor. A good friend of mine will buy anything with Han, Chewie, or the Millennium Falcon. I knew a collector back East whose collection focuses entirely on ROTJ Luke. He has a website and, yes, he did show pictures of his collection to Mark Hamill. I know of another guy who only collects sandtroopers and another who likes Jawas and Tusken Raiders. I love anything with Anakin, so long as the piece doesn’t really suck or it’s not too big or too expensive. I know another collector on the East Coast who collects anything having to do with female characters; I also favor Padme, Leia, Ahsoka, Asajj Ventress, etc.. There’s a woman collector whose focus is on Padme stuff. She worked for Official Pix.
But most of the Corn Nuts-munching couch potatoes out there watching Oprah don’t understand that about Star Wars collecting and I doubt the show’s producers would either. There’s a reason why I’m very wary of dealing with the lamestream media when it comes to fandom.
