Quote Originally Posted by Megatran View Post
Saw a tv show promo today on 7mate(?). I think its called Extreme Collectors. The show, if I understand it correctly, is about valuating people's collection. Not exactly my thing. I'd rather just look & appreciate people's collection. Starts 27th January.

I hope a TF collector appears on one of the episodes.
I watched the first two episodes that screened on the 27th, and it is interesting to see what some people obsessively collect... but the show doesn't do much delving into the collection or talking about more than a couple items (if that) like the Toy Hunter show does (one of the redeeming features of TH was the education we'd get of a number of items each episode).
Of the 7 or 8 collections this Extreme Collectors show covered in the first two episodes, it kept padding out the episode with repeated material (before and after the break, and between collections, which were intermixed throughout the 22 minute episode, not each collection featured at a time... so at least a quarter of the time is wasted on repeated footage and commentary as if people need reminders in a 22 minute episode of what has already happened or about to happen).

Then when collections are actually featured, we get a bit about how and why they got into collecting (which is one good thing, like the old ABS Collectors show, which focused on the Collectors rather than Collections). But after their life story was told, the focus was on a quick evaluation. Sure, the show premise is to find and evaluate big collections, but the values noted at the end of a segment are meaningless if they don't even show much of the actual collection.

The Harry Houdini collection was probably the most thorough one we saw, but they still rushed over much of it, so it's final evaluation of over a million dollars is meaningless, because we didn't see much of what constitutes a million dollar collection.

The least thorough was the toy collection that featured in the second episode. A guy in Dallas Texas had a house of (allegedly) 5,000 different action figure toys, which included a lot of Transformers from the original series to recent Masterpiece toys, but the TV show focused on his Captain America comic... giving us a quick pan of some toy shelves before spending the rest of the 5-ish minutes on this one comic (which isn't even a toy, despite him being there to valuate a toy collection).
The shot of the Transformers toys, which looked to cover three walls of shelves, was so fast, I had to pause and go frame by frame to see what he had. In live speed, it was less than half a second. Seriously.
Such a waste.
A segment and collector hyped up as being about toys, to spend 90% of the time on a single comic issue... that ended up being a restored comic, so had reduced value anyway. (still worth $75,000 but could have been a quarter million if un-restored)

Not as good as I was hoping the show would be, but I'll still try to keep watching it out of curiosity of what other types of things people obsessively collect out there.