Recently my buddy Reis O’Brien of The Lair of the Dork Horde turned me on to the Cool and Collected site.  An incredible amount of posts featuring all manner of geeky stuff.  Once a week they ask fellow bloggers one question and we all answer then share some of the other posts.  Its a circle of geeky friendship!  Here is this week’s question:

You have an unlimited budget and space is not a problem. What piece of Hollywood memorabilia would you want hanging around in your batcave?

I have now debated this question for hours.  It has to be more than an item.  It has to be something with great meaning in my life.  More than just an object to display, it has to transcend time and space and emotion.  No matter what happens in life this object has to have the power to make me that the world is innocent, magical, and full of the possibility that anyone can become great.  That is why my pick for this question is…

The Monster Squad tree house.

It is everything we look for as adults.  A place to get away from it all, to hide from the dangers of the world.  Once inside there is no choice but to lose yourself in the geekery that surrounds you.  Model kits, comic books, Famous Monsters of Filmland (or my current favorite, Scary Monsters magazine) are stacked or piled every where you look.  Posters covering other posters.  All of this in a serene woods that is never too cold, never too warm, and never raining.

Yes, in order to buy this tree house everything would have to exist inside.  It is a place in which mint condition doesn’t matter.  Enjoyment is king.  If it doesn’t look beaten up and thoroughly torn through then it doesn’t belong here.  Unless of course it has just arrived after sending away box tops in the mail.  This tree house will become my own private Acker-mansion.

 

Other League Members have this to say!

Reis O’Brien at Lair of the Dork Horde works his way around the question to pick one garage but with five cars!

Flashlights are Something to Eat wins the nostalgia award with Mr Rogers trolly.

Not. Not Nate. Dot Net. picks something I have never heard of seen before, the Thunder Road from Explorers.  I will now be looking for this movie.

That Figures avoids the Hollywood part and goes across the pond with the TARDIS.

Matt Can Draw brings us all back with the Time Bandits map.

The Sexy Geek’s House of Swag swaggers in to Gotham City in the Batmobile.

Cool and Collected itself picks one of the apes from Planet of the Apes.  Just to hang out, answer the door, stuff like that.

Generals Joes figures out a way to get a really cool Cobra Commander prop.

Midnight Monster Spookshow gives the most brilliant answer of the week by picking the rights to all the Universal Studios Monsters.  I’ll be back to his blog quite often.

Branded in the 80s picks the AT-ST Scout Walker from Return of the Jedi. Lets stomp some Ewoks!

For a full list of what every League member contributed this week head over to Cool and Collected.  We’ll be back every week!