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Post by KingboyD on Aug 13, 2007 10:46:14 GMT -5
This past weekend I went to a Bon Festival held at a local Japanese gardens. In the museum, they displayed items associated with Japanese pastimes. In one display case, they had three robot toys displayed. One was a Valkyrie, and although I am not familiar with these (they never really struck my fancy), it appeared to be a cheap, plastic new release. The other two toys were also cheap, plastic, newish appearing toys I did not recognize (one was some type of gorilla and the other was a beetle). It got me thinking that if this is the best they can come up with, maybe I should contact them about loaning out a portion of my collection! A couple of vintage and modern chogokins and such would provide much more awe to spectators than what they were displaying. I think it would be pretty damn cool to have your collection prominantly displayed in a museum setting (since my display room at home is anything but museum-like ) with plaques stating "On loan from the private collection of Myles ...". I am thinking about contacting the gardens, but I have some concerns. What kind of security is provided to ensure the safety of my stuff? Will they provide insurance to me? Can I live without a portion of my collection for a period of time? Do I want everyone locally knowing my name so they can track me down? Has anyone else ever publicly displayed their stuff? Did you get the proper assurances to satisfy you? Thanks.
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Post by xiombarg on Aug 13, 2007 12:18:46 GMT -5
While I think it sounds like a very worthy idea, there is always going to be a chance of damage, in moving the robots if nothing else.
This is a sort of related topic.. Our newspaper has a weekend edition magazine that has a two page "special interest" feature section that covers topics such as collections and art. Quite often these features get the front page pic. I have been thinking about contacting them to see if they would be interested in doing a feature on robot collecting using my collection. But I'm afraid of making my collection and name publicly known. Especially if the interview asked about prices and how much the collection is worth. I haven't decided whether I'm really comfortable with this idea or not.
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Post by Kidchuckle on Aug 13, 2007 14:36:53 GMT -5
I would maybe ask for some kind of deposit and maybe some agreement as insurance if things are damaged.
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Post by lurkerx on Aug 14, 2007 14:36:29 GMT -5
Though I totally get how cool the notion of this is.... The thought of packing my stuff up setting it up then re-packing again, just diminishes its cool factor 1000 folds. Now were they to come over and do an episode of "Bizarre Collectors" based on me & my stuff then that's different ;D
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Post by thebigr on Aug 18, 2007 13:51:08 GMT -5
no one is going to give you a deposit. that's insane.
they don't even give deposits in the art/museum world for millions of dollars of paintings- they get insurance.
what they should (and usually) do for you is PAY you to show your collection; figure this to be the cost of insurance, transportation, and your time.
if you want to apply for insurance, then you have to have the collection professionally appraised.
two things you can do, home-made style:
-put stickers over the door's edges- this way you know whether or not the dorrs were opened.
-a contract(!!!) which states that damage or theft due to visitors *AND* staff (very important, 9 out of 10 disaters in museums are caused by staff, not kids or visitors) will be 100% compensated within 3 months by the venue.
-BE AROUND- if you want to show off your collection to the public, be around, people might want to speak to you, or ask questions! plus you can watch your stuff while its on display.
...and honestly, thieves arent looking to steal your toys- they are difficult to sell for value on the street, ebay is traceable, and to the common thief, your ipod looks more valuable than that red and blue Transformer.
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Post by Gold on Aug 27, 2007 0:34:15 GMT -5
I attended a few toycons here in Philippines where the collectors displayed their stuffs in glass shelves. It was pretty cool to look at but the first thing that ran into my mind was.. "hope the toys don't pick up the smell of this convention hall" what with all the people attending (it was pretty jampacked with collectors and mall-goers and it was raining outside) even with the airconditioning on full blast some areas of the hall reeked of BO and musk. I wondered if the toys inside the display cases would affected, humid environment and all that. Gold
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Post by thesilent on Aug 27, 2007 2:45:31 GMT -5
Hi, I had just recently a little experience in the field, as a friend of mine asked me for some stuff to be displayed for a Sci-fi/Contemporary art exhibition he was putting up in my town. It was a bit of an official thing, with some local majority money involved (no big deal, mind you, they just paid the expenses) and a nice space (an old church) for display, so I went in straight ahead. I was not able to have any kind of insurance, apart from a friendly word beetween me and my friend, but I tried to secure everything the best I could and to be there as often as I could. We had a very tight budget and my friend designed custom closed (very cheap) displays fo my stuff, and was very repectful of the value of the toys. It worked out pretty well, no damage or any kind of problem to any of my pieces that included SOCs, some vintage Diaclones, Micronauts and Popys from the 70s an 80s and a coupla of vintage comics from the 70s(Jack Kirby's 2001: a space odissey giant size, one of my fave books of all time). I understand the concern about setting everything up (in fact, packing and unpacking was a real pain in the a**) but in the end I was glad I did. People attending liked my stuff and asked lots of questions, it gave some sense of purpose to my collecting... I also designed the posters and a series of postcards to publicize the event, you can find them here, posters postcards click on the thumbnail if anyone is interested in having a closer peek... The postcards are Photoshop montages of views of my city invaded by Chogokins and Diaclones, they turned out pretty funny and people loved them... I have some shots of the exhibition, and if someone is interested, I can put them up. All in all it was a very satisfying experience if a bit tiring, and I would definitely do it again, if I had the chance. And, I totally agree wit thebigr, stealing toys to sell them takes too much knowledge of collecting and its market to appeal to common thieves...
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