I am looking forward to the return of Toy Hunter tonight. I enjoyed the pilot and really went into fantasy mode imagining myself being just like toy collector Jordan Hembrough. Turning my hobby into a business and going on the hunt for vintage toys. I was also excited that there is actually a series that relates to us toy collectors, but wait! Another one comes.
I just happened to read over at Cool and Collected of a new show that premiered yesterday on SYFY called Collection Intervention. For me it was Hoarders meets Hollywood Treasures meets Comic Book Men. Basically, Elyse Luray goes around the country giving collectors tips on managing, displaying, and selling their toy and other pop culture collections. I really enjoyed the show. If you happened to catch it tell me what thought of it. If you didn't, you can read about the show below...
via press release:
SYFY PREMIERES COLLECTION INTERVENTION TUESDAY,
AUGUST 14 AT 10PM ET/PT
NEW SERIES FOLLOWS THE MEMORABILIA-OBSESSED TRYING TO
TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR OVERSIZED POP-CULTURE COLLECTIONS
NEW YORK – July 25, 2012 – In Syfy’s newest reality series, Collection Intervention, premiering Tuesday, August 14 at 10PM (ET/PT), former Head of Special Collections at Christie’s Elyse Luray helps couples, families and individuals whose pop-culture memorabilia collections – from Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica to Catwoman and Barbie – have become damaging obsessions, creating financial strife and a huge strain on their lives.
In each of the six hour-long episodes, Elyse will create a strategy that helps these collectors curate and showcase their collection by assessing where the true value lies and then allow them to decide what’s worth keeping and what they can sell. These massive collections include dining rooms stuffed with 30,000 comic books, a garage filled to the rafters with Catwoman memorabilia, and an almost uninhabitable house filled with Transformers. For each collector, parting with some of their collection may free up some much needed space in their home, provide a cash windfall to get out of debt, or even just allow a couple to become more focused on their relationship.
In the premiere episode titled “A Disturbance in the Force,” what started out as a single room dedicated to Star Wars has grown to take over the entire Concord, California home of Garet and Consetta. When Elyse quickly realizes the Star Wars collection has intense emotional meaning to Consetta, she fears that Consetta may not be able to part with a single item. If Elyse is going to help this couple take back their house, she’s going to have to use The Force to break through to them.
Also in the episode, disgruntled Los Angeles housewife Lolly calls Elyse to see if she can help her husband Mark let go of some of his extensive Catwoman collection so they can start to pay some bills. When Elyse sees the collection, which has overtaken their garage, she is stunned by the poor manner in which Mark has stored the collectibles he says he loves. Nonetheless, to save their relationship and pay down their debt, Elyse helps Mark identify what in his collection is truly important to him while pushing him to let go of what is not.
Collection Intervention is produced by High Noon Entertainment with executive producers Pam Healey, Jim Berger and Elizabeth Grizzle Voorhees.
Syfy is a media destination for imagination-based entertainment. With year round acclaimed original series, events, blockbuster movies, classic science fiction and fantasy programming, a dynamic Web site (www.Syfy.com), and a portfolio of adjacent business (Syfy Ventures), Syfy is a passport to limitless possibilities. Originally launched in 1992 as SCI FI Channel, and currently in more than 98 million homes, Syfy is a network of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. (Syfy. Imagine greater.)
About the author: John Sholtz is an avid toy collector and the interim editor of the Batcave Toy Room due to the abrupt death of Bruce Wayne. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter at, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin.
Looking forward to Toy Hunter but passed on the other show.
ReplyDeleteMe too, but I recommend at least checking out Collection Intervention and giving it a chance.
DeleteI hate not knowing about cool shows like this one. I can only hope to catch a repeat or hope that it's on On Demand at some point.
ReplyDeleteCheck Hulu, but it is on the SYFY Channel on Wednesdays at 10:00.
DeleteIt was on On Demand, so I got to see it before I watched Toy Hunters. Loved it. Scary though. I hope I never wind up like that.
DeleteVery Cool Mike. I am glad you had a chance to check it out and you liked it as much as I did. Sometimes I feel like that. Whenever I purge the toy room, I sometimes have a shortness of breath. ;-)
DeleteI checked them both out and will continue to do so every week. Just catching a glimpse or two of some great items makes these shows worthwhile. Toy Hunter is absolutely living the dream!
ReplyDeleteMe too Brian. The fun part of the shows is seeing what everyone has in their collections. Do you know anyone hiring for Jordan's job? ;-)
DeleteI watched both of these and screemed at the TV when the dealer lowballed the guy with all the great Six Million Dollar Man sets. Those boxes didn't look so bad to me. As I said on my blog. I SAW that Oscar Goldman figure on the table and I would have killed everyone including the camera man to get it.
ReplyDeleteI like these shows but I wish they didn't make the guys who buy and sell the toys to be such dickheads. As a toy collector I would not want any of them as my friends.
As a collector and seller of toys myself I guess I get it. The dealers are in it to make a profit and collectors hope to find a holy grail cheap. However, most people don't realize there are other means to sell their toys, which means I need to do a post about selling toys and not getting fleeced.
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