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Newsflash: Celebrities collect toys!


5:00 PM on 08.30.2011
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I often wonder what I'd do if I had them money of a software mogul or a movie star. My fantasies usually involve a lot of electronics, a lot of toys and a big house to put them in. Well, Buzzfeed posted an article about 11 celebrities and their odd hobbies. Although it came as no surprise that there'd be at least one or two celebs who used their fortune for figures, it was pretty surprising to see that Leonardo DiCaprio and Johnny Depp were on that list.

DiCaprio (Inception, The Departed, The Aviator) collects old Star Wars action figures as well as other rare toys from shows like He-Man. He apparently auctioned off a rare vinyl Jawa that went for $4,500 in 2006. Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands) has a collection of, oddly enough, Barbies. According to an interview he did a couple of years back, he would do different characters with the dolls, evidently creeping out his young daughter in the process. What's even stranger is that I'm not more surprised by that.

So what would you guys do with the millions afforded to folks like DiCaprio and Depp? Which toys would you buy and where would you put them?






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Most of the toys I would buy would be custom pieces, over 12 inches; huge urban vinyl makes me all tingly. Possibly get some of Takashi Murakami's life size pieces and that shit would be everywhere besides the kitchen; can't get my four cheese lasagna hamburger helper on my new awesome figures right? (and yes, I would still eat that stuff. I loves it.)
First I will give my beauty queen answer and say I would donate a large amount to charity. I helped wrap toys for little kids one year at Christmas and I honestly do think it's important to help out-just seeing their expressions is enough.

Now, the next thing I would do would be to track down my holy grail item-The Sideshow Predator Maquette, and then the Creature from the Black Lagoon bust. You know, when I think about it my dream house is something like Rob Zombies house from MTVs Cribs.

On the extravagant scale, I want a set of Megalodon jaws.
I'd spend the money on building a really nice room to display the figures in, and a studio to photograph them.

Then I'd start collecting exotic cars. Not scale models, actual exotic cars.
I would buy a big ass Gothic mansion and just fill with it cool shit like military antiques, skulls, chandeliers and cool furniture.

Then I'd buy all the figures I ever wanted. And hire a butler (preferably a Sebastian Michaelis look-alike) to cook for me and drive my Hearse!

I could finally afford ball-jointed dolls! And maybe track down SSUReal From The Cradle To The Grave vinyl skull-the most badass piece of vinyl ever created!

And...
Honestly, if I had that kind of dough I'd be more likely to invest in collecting old video game systems and games. But I would like to collect Lego and build an entire city, and build a huge diorama with train lines and stuff.

I'd get a real doll too, and have its face and body made to my specifications.
Ok, now I love Depp and DiCaprio even more. xD
Ok, now I love Depp and DiCaprio even more. xD

Ditto.
I would try to purchase every Chogokin and recreate Super Robot Wars with them.
I would try to purchase every Chogokin and recreate Super Robot Wars with them.


HELL. YES.
I would say I'd buy something like a life-size Saber but with that kind of money I could just find girls to dress the part >_>

Although there's a lot of custom stuff I'd love to see, but after a certain size figures kinda suck. I would like a snowspeeder, though. And bob-ombs that actually walk and explode.
creepy or not atleast Depp plays with his kids.

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