No prizes for guessing what I collect :P

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@TZC: How wonderful and inspiring it is to see a dedicated "franchise" collector. Though I don't collect anything for Nintendo aside from a very specific set of "Gamecube" games for Resident Evil, I have to greatly admire your collection. A beautiful, beautiful collection. Welcome! And please, more awesome pictures of Zelda stuff! Although I don't collect for Zelda or Nintendo as I said, Zelda stuff is always fascinating to me. Also, I believe I'm a small part Welsh...

[thatzeldacollector]

Aw well thank you very much I think my first games was probably along the lines of Donkey Kong and Pole Position for the Atari, but the first series I ever got into was Zelda and it's stuck ever since! I still remember playing ALttP and OoT with my Dad helping me lol

My collection has only really grown a lot more in the last couple years, before that it was mostly just games and bits and pieces I'd picked up along the way. It's by no means the best one I've seen but I'm looking forward to watching it grow.

Yay! It doesn't matter how much, you can still be proud to be Welsh

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Very nice Zelda stuffs! Been watching this thread for a couple days. Waiting for more pictures... Some of the "Other Merchandise" items you've listed, I would like to see! ^o^ Especially the "OoT Ocarina (sealed)".

Do want the TP Guide and Beach towel. Didn't realise there was a Hard back TP guide until recently, I only have the paperback guide. People on Ebay are asking way more than I'm prepared to pay for one aswell... >.< Same with the towel. People want too much for that aswell. Last one I saw on ebay, the guy was asking £50 for it +p&p... ' Will cross my fingers for them to appear on stars catalogue again! lol

Look forward to seeing more pics! ^o^

[thatzeldacollector]

I'm busy tomorrow but I'll try and get some more up soon for you, didn't realise people were waiting

Yeah there's one for Spirit Tracks and Phantom Hourglass aswell as the paperback ones, the TP one has a large cloth map inside but looking at it on youtube is good enough for me as I don't want to open it lol

I actually thought they'd be asking more than that for the towel, I'd seen a few on there and I'm watching them out of interest. I think the club nintendo is a great way to get official merchandise that not many others could have, but they could do with some more stuff lol

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Yeah, I've got a Spirit Tracks and Skyward Sword one. My local Gamestation still has SS Guides for £10! lol Also Amazon had ST guides for £13 just before Christmas. Picked up one of those too... lol Unfortunately the other 2 hardbacks are out of my price range right now... Need to get a new job FAST!! XD

I wish there was more club Nintendo stuff in the catalogue, but it's not as easy to get the stuff now for me. My GF used to work in GAME and she was allowed to take the Club Nintendo cards from the preowned stock! lol Not to mention she used to get loads of staff promo Tshirts. Didn't take us too long to get the Statue. Unfortunately missed the towels when they were on there. Hoping I'll spot one at the right price on ebay sometime. Again, will have to wait til I get a job! lol

[thatzeldacollector]

We went shopping just before Christmas and my boyfriend saw the SS guide for £10 in a shop and was a bit gutted lol he left the price sticker on mine because he didn't want to take it off incase he broke the seal lol

Haha that's a handy way of getting them though! I don't get many as I only buy Zelda games which seem to come round every half decade lol and if a new Pokemon comes out with new Pokemon in it. I got lucky a few times when we went to car boot sales my boyfriend found 2 Professor Layton games both with codes, and he's asked his younger cousins if he could have their codes for me to use. Which actually included the 3rd Layton game which meant I could get that neat little Layton box to keep the games in lol

Anyway the towel appeared one day when I was looking so I decided to get the towel and carry on saving for the statue

[Cosmic_Link]

Yeah, I don't get many either now! lol I managed to scrape a few 3DS ones together to get a few goes in the "raffle" to win a Mario 3DS off Nintendo, but that's been about it recently! lol Need to start going to car boot sales again! can sometimes find some right bargains there. I got an Xrocker gaming chair for £15!! XD Haven't been to one for ages though. Will wait for the summer to come back around...

Best of luck getting the points together for the statue. It's been on and off the catalogue for a while now! lol

[thatzeldacollector]

I got Starfox64 (or Lylat Wars to me!) for christmas so I already had one code for that, but the boyfriend wasn't buying another 3DS game until Tales of the Abyss and I don't think that was on the list lol

We only started to go to car boots last year but we need to start going again too, the last day we went we were looking at some games from an old guy who clearly buys and resells and he told us we'd been missing the biggest car boot all summer and it was a bit further down the road ;;

Thanks my logic was I hadn't really seen the towel before and assumed it was more off and on than the statue so I took my chances lol

[Cosmic_Link]

I gave Star fox 64 a miss. I didn't really like Lylat wars. I would love to play another like Star Fox Adventures though!! Did your BF get a copy of Tales of the Abyss in the end? I got my copy off GAME back in November and hadn't seen them since, besides for silly money on ebay!! XD

Ahh, people who buy and resell. You'll never get a bargain from them. lol They usually know what fetches the money and they ramp the prices up! lol Look forward to the summer coming back round again though!

I'm saving all my unredeemed cards to see what might come up that's interesting. Can you still only redeem 1 code for each game on your account? o.0 Haven't tried recently... lol

[thatzeldacollector]

It was something I used to play all the time when I was younger so I was after it again for nostalgia reasons lol he did get TotA which meant he took the 3DS back so I haven't played much Star Fox yet! lol

Towards the end of the season we actually started to recognise the people who were going round scoping out the stalls and then taking all the games back to the same stall to resell, so we made it a bit of a game to try and get there first, we started splitting up and I'd go to one stall and he'd go to another and if I saw something I thought he'd be interested in I'd just hold it until he came over xD

I think you can only redeem one yeah, I've contemplated buying them off ebay but you're not really getting your moneys worth when they contain codes for games you've already done, which most do