That is too funny. What a coincidence!
I think this idea of having people from the forum discuss their passion and their collection is a fantastic idea. I know there a are quite a few of us that don't have the technology to do this so it might take a road trip on my part. I know there has been some mention of how cool would it be to do a road show but the cost is what is prohibitive. How cool would it be if we were to do something like that? I can only imagine. The end result could be a collection of DVD's or a full length indie movie. I would love to go down to Georgia to see Kirk's display cab. There are so many collectors that have such great stuff, it's almost a shame not to show it off.
The one big problem with doing something like this is having a conflict. That is what made King of Kong so strong was the competition between the 2 guys. We would need to show all sides of the hobby and for the dramatic approach show collectors that have had issues with each other for several years. I don't want to mention any names but it would be cool.
Sorry, my mind is going a million miles an hour over this because I am that passionate to really consider this. I know I am getting way over my head but we could start small such as people filming themselves going over why they started collecting and what their collection looks like. We could have a lot of fun with that.
Thoughts!
Without getting into it too much, I came up with a concept and pitched a show "about collectors". We even shot a pilot with a GI JOE "Adventure Team" collector - and he has the most amazing collection. Sadly, the pilot was poorly directed (but I allowed that to happen), and was never close to what I wanted - but there was still some meat there.
Through that pilot, we did identify some of the issues with such a show (at least the kind that I had conceived), so that was good, if we ever return to it.
The biggest issue we ran into was that once something is produced and fails, people are extremely hesitant to even enter the subject matter. I was told a few times that it "had been done, and failed". Though one guy told me it had been "done twice" I could only ever find one example of a "collector show". It was hosted by Emmy Winner John Larroquette, and was actually quite nicely done. Not exactly the same thing I had in mind, but not entirely different, either. And, even with an Emmy winner as host, the thing didn't drum up enough ratings.
I maintain that a weekly show about collectors and collecting could be wildly entertaining for a broad, non-collector, audience, but its time may not have come yet.
Now, a documentary about collecting Wacky Packages is something entirely different. But documentaries... those are extremely thankless gigs... I've never been interested in creating a documentary. Too scary.
