How OBSESSED a fan are you?

[Soulfinger]

OK I’ve been reading about these crazy Star Wars fans that have already started camping outside Cinema’s for Episode III that’s not out for another 7 weeks!!! :eek: I’ve got friends booking days off work to see it or then there are those gaming fans that queue for hours waiting for a store to open at midnight to buy a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP. Not forgetting you comic fans that queue for hours to get a signed edition or dress up as klingons etc at conventions.

So I was wonder just how much of an obsessed fan are you of anything and what would you do or have done to show this obsessive nature.

[Soulfinger]

*wind blows*

*tumbleweed*

Hello!!!! Anyboby in.

[Bakema NL]

I'm nowhere near that obsessed. I think it's ridiculous to what length some people go for whatever they're fan of...................then again, I get some looks too when I mention just how many comics I have, so maybe I just have to shut up. :)
Thankfully we have the internet now, so I can order from my lazy ass when I want concert tickets. If you wanted to go to a somewhat popular band you had to camp for hours to get a ticket, before everything sold out. It was always the case with Prince years ago. Usually my brother would get my tickets as I had to work most of the time sales began. As much as I like something, the whole camping for hours is not for me, then I would just let it go, no matter what for.

[Greg Hatcher]

I think part of it might be how you phrased the question. "Are you as crazy as these guys??" is essentially what you're asking, and nobody wants to admit to that.

I've occasionally bought a book that I knew I wasn't going to enjoy, simply because it completes a run. But that's more of an OCD thing and I don't actually do it with comics, where you'd think it would be really out of control. I HAVE done it far too often with paperback originals ... Sherlock Holmes pastiches, the "new" James Bond novels, things like that. But I'm getting better about it. I gave up on the Star Trek novels a while ago because there are just too damn many any more to keep up, but from about 1973-2004 or so I bought every one that came out, which was do-able and didn't feel quite so stupid when it was one every two months, or even one a month. Now it's two every month with additional 'special' titles and hardcovers and so on, and even as devoted a collector as myself has finally had enough.

But occasional bouts of 'collector mentality' is as bad as I get. Julie and I once stood in line for forty-five minutes to get Alex Ross to sign a book for us at a bookstore event, but that was because it was a gift for someone else and we'd already paid for parking. And I like to see movies on opening night, but that's easy to do in a town like seattle where there's a lot of multiplexes.

I dunno. Is there a scale? Nerdy but still a semblance of a life? Geeky but with moderate social skills? Spends a disproportionate amount of income on books and movies but still can pay bills? That's where we fall.

[Winslow]

Hmmmmmm . . .

I used to go to the comic shop on Wednesdays to pick up a monthly the day it was released. I couldn't wait to get home to read it, so I would read it in the car. But I've since dumped monthtly paphlets and moved on to trades - so no more compulsive trips to the shop on Wednesdays . . . .

My daughter and I are huge Tolkien geeks, so we bought all the DVDs of the movies the day they were released (BOTH movie versions and extended versions)

That's about as far as my geek compulsions go . .

[DonC]

You're talking about a group where a large number of people routinely travel thousands of miles to attend conventions. You're going to have to be a little more specific on your definition of "obsessed."

I mean, I don't consider myself very obsessed, but I went to the last Star Wars celebration and am going to the next on, later this month. Obsessive? Maybe a little, but I know grown men and women who just spends hundreds of dollars on Star Wars toys. One guy even had his disappear. He's 28 and he went today to tell the police someone stole his toys. If I was a cop, I would have laughed in his face.

Also, I'm a courier and, yesterday, I was in the neighborhood where Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster used to live. So I drove about 5 minutes out of my way to see the house they created Superman in. That make me obsessive?

[Spider69]

Ok,I love spider-man.I might even be obsessed with him to...my room is full of him I have hella comics,I've pretty much memorized both movies,I even waited outside in line for three in a half hours just to get a good seat for SM2!But....There were people in front of me that were in line at least a day or two before me!Some guy even had his little 6 year old daughter dressed up as spider-man! I look at the guy and said...."wow...."

[Paradox]

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being completely obsessed? About a 2.

[cable guy]

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being completely obsessed? About a 2.

I am a huge Star Wars Fan. I simply can not wait for Episode III.

That said on a scale of 1 to 10, I guess I'm a 4 or 5.

[darkkeeperjr]

gonna get one of those promo posters that walmart has by the door.by hook or by crook :evilsmile

[Rabid Trekkie]

Despite the name I'm not the biggest Trek fan out there. Mostly due to my budget. However I show it in other ways, I try to remember a lot of Trek information. I already know more about Trek than my friends who were actually around to see the days when Kirk, Spock, and McCoy were flying through space.

When Andromeda was good I was working on my own fan project of making a database of every vessel seen on the show. I also started one for the weapons. The one for the ships got to over 30 pages long before the computer screwed up and now I can't access it.

I'm also a Starwars fan, I was also working on a database of every force user I could find both movie and EU. I was also getting army and weapons stuff. Computer locked me out of those too.

Haven't had the incentive to try to rebuild those.

[Deathstroke]

I'm a fan of a lot of things, but nothing rises to the level of OBSESSION.