Show Us Yours: Toys R Steve

Kotaku AU

This is the post where you get to show off your gaming setup and collection to the entire world. Let’s take a look now!

The idea of Show Us Yours is you take some photos of your games collection or your gaming room or your gaming cupboard or whatever else you have in your house that is about you playing games. You then send us your photos along with a few comments about what makes yours so special. Then we publish it here on a Thursday afternoon.

Today it’s the turn of regular commenter and reader reviewer extraordinaire, Steven Bogos.

Steve even helpfully supplied his own captions for each pic, saving me from going to all the trouble. (Click to enlarge each pic.)

“Influenced by the last ‘show us yours’, I figured I’d show off my gaming setup. It’s not as extensive as others, as I relegate most of my older generation stuff to storage. What is impressive about my collection is the sheer amount of TOYS I’ve collected over the years, from special editions, as well as small purchases.”

“First shot of my gaming room – this is where I spend most of my time… sitting at that chair. Most of the toys are on the top shelf, but there’s a few scattered around, like the facehugger hanging off my monitor, and the Indiana Jones Lego planes on my desk – within easy reach so i can play with them during loading screens.”

“Other shot showing my ‘secondary’ gaming devices, my beast of an 18-inch laptop, and the Wii which is hooked up to my computer monitor. It also contains the prize of my collection – a 1:1 scale replica of the pulse rifle from ALIEN.”

“A close up of the rifle. There’s a few more toys on top, my favourites are the Luffy/Goku crossover toys.”

“My less-than impressive collection of current-gen games. I usually trade/sell most of the console games I stop playing. My Xbox isn’t pictured because my brother ‘borrowed’ it a couple months ago…”

“My slightly more impressive PC game collection.”

“The top shelf of my desk, containing all my toys, as well as special edition boxes and a Katana (because, everyone needs a Katana).”

Editor’s Note: Steven did not supply a caption for this photo, so I will have to step in.

“The top shelf of Steven’s desk, continued.”

Editor’s Note: Steven did not supply a caption for this photo either, so once again I will have to step in.

“The top shelf of Steven’s desk, continued, continued.”

Thank you, thank you very much.

“Bonus pic! My Manga collection”

Steve also is offering a bonus point for anyone who can guess who his favourite Disney character is. Well, can you?

Don’t forget to show us yours!

Discuss

(33 Comments)
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    Shonks

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 4:06 PM

    Donald Duck, Only Disney character i could make out.

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    Mario maniac

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 4:47 PM

    Oh, it’s Lady Tremaine, right?

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    harli

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    lovin’ the Viper figurine, man.

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    rpgplayer83

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM

    Ok, now show us pictures of your girlfriend.

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      Woopstreet

      Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:08 PM

      Oh jeez I lol’d at that. Must be that time of the evening…

      Anyway, I am fluroescent green with envy of the 1:1 Alien pulse rifle – that thing is luh-vly.

      Nice work Steve :)

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      Steven Bogos

      Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:25 PM

      Why do you only say things to hurt me, rpgplayer83. Rpgplayer’s 1 through 82 are always so much nicer

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      David No.1

      Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 7:09 PM

      We should have a show us yours ‘GIRLFRIEND edition’!
      I’ll start:
      http://playstationlifestyle.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/feature-3rd-birthday.jpg

      Nice collection anywho. Lots of figures everywhere!

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      Techa

      Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 11:02 PM

      Oh come on, be nice. The guy’s only 12. Who else would play with legos while the games load besides a 12 year old?

      • [–]

        Steven Bogos

        Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:47 PM

        I’m 21 and a proud AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO)!

        Ironically, some of these toys were bought for me by my ex-girlfriend

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    Joel

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 5:17 PM

    Death Note :D

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    chAWPsticks

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 5:22 PM

    It’s the little mermaid ofc. Go team edward!

    jk. Save carmine! =w=

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    Andrew Burdusel

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 5:24 PM

    David, your captions are mind-blowing. I would have never known I was looking at the same desk as before. I just assumed he had three identical samurai swords. Just a tip, they are perhaps too analytical. I just want to know what I’m looking at.

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    Ben Richards

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 5:59 PM

    is this Christian Weston Chandler’s room?

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    Ben Richards

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:03 PM

    if I ever need to devise a way to repel women within a 5km radius, I would definitely draw inspiration from this

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    PlasmaDavid

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:13 PM

    Is that a Lego Thunderbolt on your desk, or do my eyes deceive me?

    • [–]

      Steven Bogos

      Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM

      Sorry, It’s LEGO Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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    welbot

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:33 PM

    is that soundwave infront of the DBZ character? Nice collection! Where on earth did you get the homestarrunner characters?!!

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    Chuloopa

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM

    Soooo may toys.. i’m actually jealous!

    I must say, though, how brilliant are the wall mounted NERF guns?!?! hahah. Just slightly less impressive than the pulse rifle.

    mucho respecto chief-o

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    Ren Finlayson

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 7:12 PM

    I might have to send take some pics of my setup. It could get embarrising tho :P

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    Andrew Bills

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 8:50 PM

    http://tweetphoto.com/37855078 I need a gun rack…

    • [–]

      Steven Bogos

      Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM

      Nice collection! I also have the Vulcan (the machine gun), was drooling over the new sniper rifle when I saw it at Toys R Us the other day

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    Aaron Clement

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 9:51 PM

    Loving the Strongbad figures!!!

    Also sweet Donald Duck Transformer too man – I nearly bought that & Mickey, but never found anywhere with it priced reasonably.

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    yikes

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 10:10 PM

    That’s one awesome (and big) Franky statue!

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      Steven Bogos

      Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:55 PM

      Thanks! That’s actually my latest addition, I picked it up as a bargain when I was in Hong Kong a couple months ago ($60 Hong Kong Dollars, which is about $15 Aus)

      It was marked down so much because he was missing his accessories (he’s supposed to come with sunglasses and a bottle of cola), and also the stand he is on says ‘Brook’

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    weresmurf

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 10:15 PM

    Holy shiznit is that an original release Soundwave figure!??!?!

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      Steven Bogos

      Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:46 PM

      Nope! It’s the re-release that came out a few years ago, that actually functions as an MP3 player (you can stick an SD card in where his tape deck is)

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    oggob

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 10:27 PM

    Nice collection… but you’ve taken them out of the boxes! They are no longer collectables!

    Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

    :p

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    Zachary Clarke

    Thursday, August 12, 2010 at 10:36 PM

    Loving the Homestar figurines, and the Death not Manga

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    William Hamilton

    Friday, August 13, 2010 at 1:48 AM

    Anyone know of any good online stores to get replica swords in victoria?
    Like he said, everyone needs a katana!

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      Onizhu

      Friday, August 13, 2010 at 10:47 AM

      Just use ebay. I found some quality katanas on ebay at a moderate price.

      Also, the katanas are upside down, and the handles should point to the left unless you want to show aggression to whoever enters your room =p

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        Steven Bogos

        Friday, August 13, 2010 at 12:52 PM

        Thanks! I never knew this. Although… the Dragon pattern is only on one side of the blade, so i think i’ll keep it this way and risk offending any hard-core japanese that happen to come into my room…

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    Strand0410

    Friday, August 13, 2010 at 2:44 PM

    Most of the stuff is pretty cool/retro, but the Samurai swords are a bit too otaku for me..

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