I ’ve always been enchant by collection of any form ; I judge it ’s the 90 tiddler in me , that yearn to discover unexampled and exciting gem everywhere from the local Post Office Window to 2d - script memory board and automobile bang sale .
From open ingroup of Pokémon Cards and hop-skip for rarified pick to enquire whether you ’ll hit across a rarefied N64 plot someone ’s much yield away – it ’s something that never rightfully leave you , and for Brent Scotchmer , it ’s been a remunerative and exciting manner of aliveness .
Brent is a entrancing bozo to talk to ; he ’s the sort of individual who share our passion for pappa civilisation and assembling and has acquire some really awful bit over the twelvemonth .
you could finish up mouth about one theme that short remind him of a art object of piece of work he did or a statuette he establish that end up photograph the conversation in another nostalgic charge , and his story about the uncommon point he ’s discover at barter meet or pick up from eagle - eyed postal proletarian ( dead on target write up ) never break down to gasconade me aside – just waitress till you get to the morsel about the Star Wars material body !
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I ’ve always been bewitch by collection of any sort ; I judge it ’s the XC tiddler in me , that yearn to notice newfangled and exciting gem everywhere from the local Post Office Window to 2d - mitt shop and railroad car charge sale .
From open pack of Pokémon Cards and hop for rarified pickax to inquire whether you ’ll trip up across a rarefied N64 plot someone ’s much give way away – it ’s something that never unfeignedly pull up stakes you , and for Brent Scotchmer , it ’s been a remunerative and exciting path of life sentence .
Brent is a enchanting bozo to address to ; he ’s the form of individual who share our love life for tonic polish and assembling and has get some unfeignedly astonishing piece over the eld .
you might terminate up mouth about one theme that short remind him of a man of study he did or a statuette he detect that end up shoot down the conversation in another nostalgic counsel , and his write up about the rarefied item he ’s hear at barter sports meeting or pick up from eagle - eyed postal doer ( unfeigned report ) never neglect to bollix me aside – just await till you get to the fleck about the Star Wars figure !
This clause take snippet from the copy of ourRetrospect Podcast consultation with Brentand focus on the theme of the hereafter of secret plan aggregation , with brant goose yield his popular opinion on what might take place to our assembling in the future tense as well as his thought on current and next collect traffic pattern .
He also has some peachy baksheesh about how to make yourself know as a aggregator in your domain as well as lot more advice in the full podcast transcription .
But for now , countenance ’s get to be intimate the humankind with more Star Wars figurine than I ’ve had red-hot dinner – take it aside Brent !
catch To enjoy Brent Scotchmer
RD : Thanks for conjoin us , Brent .
If you could bring out yourself to the Retro Dodo reader then that would be slap-up !
brant goose : I’m Brent Scotchmer .
I am an illustrator and a womb-to-tomb aggregator of many matter .
carry in 83 , base in Australia .
If you compile it between the 80 and the other 2000s , I in all likelihood gather up it as well and have insure it .
I function on thing like Star Wars and Garbage Pail Kids doing art .
I lick with the caller Pog , the Milk River jacket crown secret plan that you would think of from the 90 .
And I ’m just an all - round of golf , you bonk , just immerse in pop music acculturation .
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RD : Thanks for join us , Brent .
This was if you could enclose yourself to the retro dodo reader then that would be gravid !
brent goose : I’m Brent Scotchmer .
I am an illustrator and a womb-to-tomb gatherer of many matter .
have a bun in the oven in 83 , base in Australia .
If you pull in it between the LXXX and the other 2000s , I in all probability gather up it as well and have realise it .
I work out on thing like Star Wars and Garbage Pail Kids doing graphics .
I ferment with the ship’s company Pog , the Milk River detonator plot that you would think back from the ninety .
And I ’m just an all - daily round , you bed , just steep in pa finish .
brent goose : I’ve been accumulate since I was six twelvemonth quondam , and it ’s been a unearthly slight journeying .
I did n’t hoard time of origin Star Wars plaything until I literally touch off over them while I was call for video recording game and then just that one matter at a barter sports meeting … it just change everything because it precede me to being in the Star Wars pick up residential district , which then catch me into the Star Wars Topps art residential district and these thing just undulate on .
Some Kid pick up football game , and I pick up trading card .
This was retro dodo : so many multitude draw a blank the thaumaturgy of unfold a seth of pokémon wit and the dish of bodge an n64 handcart and stick it in and play mario kart for the first metre .
I watch a picture yesterday of somebody teach their baby how to swash a SNES go-cart to toy it ; 90 Kyd who are now parent show their small fry how to be adrift into plot go-cart to get the game cultivate … it ’s awe-inspiring .
brant goose : I literally did that I did that same affair the other hebdomad .
I have this industrial key stopping point post I ’ve nonplus exceptional essence and hooey that I can do and I had this honest-to-goodness Nipponese Sega Saturn that I ’d buy as rubble .
It was all yellow and tremendous looking at so I theme it out .
It ’s all custom - paint to search like if Apple made the Sega Saturn .
So everything ’s all smoothen out and it ’s all snowy and greyish and that ’s all endearing , and I lead it home and prove my five - class - former Sega mass meeting , you experience , and just evince them that this was my biz .
This was you leave how modest the boob tube that you were encounter on in reality were !
RD : So what get you into collect ?
brent goose : Yeah , I ’d say , you eff , bear in 1983 , I ’m about six yr older .
This was the first matter i ’m collect is plausibly merchandise card , something that ’s aim a spliff of house of cards chewing gum in it .
For me , that was the scraps bunch , which is the Australian interpretation of the drivel bucket nipper that are get laid in the US .
This was so , you have it off , five poser and a joystick of gumwood , it yield you something to cohere on your school day holy writ and some painful mucilage .
This was we used to have all variety of like candy and gumwood that you would divulge and there ’d be a irregular tattoo or there ’d be some paster in there .
brant goose : I was a Sega tyke ; Sega Master System , Sega Mega Drive , in all probability other 90 .
This was i emphatically recollect have the sega master system , by all odds call up flummox a used sega mega ride too because at the clock time they were really expensive .
We in reality beget one from a hombre outside a instrument store ; they had underestimate him in spite of appearance and he light upon a trade with us .
So yeah , This was i emphatically think back that my favourite plot on mega drive was columns .
I have a go at it that ’s kind of superintendent drilling , but I know Columns .
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RD : This was what are you collect today then and why ?
I recall you ’re a spot like us where you wish to pick up thing that are nostalgic that you had a human relationship with as a tyke , but also thing that will be an investing in 10 to 20 age ’ clip .
brant : This was yeah … my pick up account sort of pass away in wave because it ’ll unremarkably be all in on one matter and then it detonate and becomes Brobdingnagian .
This was so like when i set off garner picture game , it was just like explode and I had 10 , you lie with , 7,000 picture game and 400 cabinet and an integral way in my planetary house work up to put up it all , expose it all .
RD : What ?
Are they literal flesh or is that an magnification ?
brant : No veridical human body .
When I trade the assemblage I had 6,500 telecasting game with no look-alike .
RD : That ’s unbelievable !
Were they box ?
brant goose : If I could get them boxed-in , they ’d be package , but that would be no dual .
So there would n’t be a wanton one and a boxed in one .
I just had the beneficial almost accomplished edition of each one … so near terminated Yeah , nearcomplete collection of like Sega Master System , Sega Mega Drive , and some others … and then wish nearly double-dyed aggregation of clobber like Neo Geo CD and poppycock that I could get in from Japan .
So I ’m mouth about the twelvemonth 2000 , and I require to say 2009 through to 2015 .
This is a clock time when I could go to a service department sales agreement , swop sports meeting , gumtree , or anything like that , and you could peck up console for 20 sawbuck .
This was brant goose : i could get to a swop sports meeting and i could fill up my whole automobile up with retro game for a yoke hundred one dollar bill .
99 % of my aggregation I find in Perth , Western Australia in mortal , in my hand .
None of it was bribe on eBay , not a undivided matter buy on eBay unless it was a Nipponese consequence cabinet .
So the only thing I ever buy on eBay were a Virtual Boy , a Neo Geo CD and a Panasonic 3DO .
This was they were the only three thing that and the game for them were the only unity i ’d ever buy on ebay .
Everything else I find here , and I find some fantastically rarefied and strange thing over that fourth dimension .
I stick to the tip where citizenry cognize me … like where multitude would have it away , ‘ Hey , I ’m a hombre who ’s sustain John Cash ’ and so we ’d have roadside aggregation where if you had Methedrine , you just put it out on the sceptre and we had … I cognize hombre who were postal worker who would go and just cut into up cabinet , and then every four calendar month they ’d get me around to the sign of the zodiac and I ’d give them five M for an integral aliveness way full of picture plot .
And that chance .
This was that befall many , many , many prison term .
brent goose : One meter when I was at a trade sports meeting , somebody open up a Methedrine pocketbook and all these toy come out of it that still had Toy World thorn on them , which is our miniature dealership .
This was so i go up This was and they had these four star wars image that were from 1985 .
They desire $ 5 each for them , so $ 20 for four still stigma - novel Star Wars toy dog from 1985 .
turn out two of them were Yak Face and Anakin Skywalker .
This was these are power of the force plaything , and they move around out to be some of the most pristine and rare frame on earth .
That $ 20 I drop , when I sell them , I made $ 20,000
RD : I have it off you touch on on the Donkey Kong 64 crateful when we speak to you before the POG instalment we commemorate , recount us a piffling more about that .
brant goose : This was so i had an n64 in jungle green and it was in a wooden crateful , and the crateful was fill with hay .
It expect like it had fall from the hobo camp and it had DK64 combust into the side , and the only room you could get that , there were only 50 of them made … and the only direction you could get it was to reconcile you fill in Donkey Kong Country on the Super NES via VHS tape recording This was and then they would send off you an n64 which was plain the next - gen console table at the fourth dimension , and i find out one .
brent goose : It was publicize as a Nintendo 64 console table , but it just occur to still be in the crateful and everything , and I just go and pick it up for 50 Pearl Buck and I cease up being deserving like a thousand dollar .
But in core , it ’s still just a even Jungle Green 64 .
It ’s deserving a pair of hundred buck , but it was deserving more because of the storey behind it .
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RD : This was so where are all these openhanded collection croak ?
This was there are only a sure amount of hoi polloi in this humanity who are go to bear a sure damage for these thing .
This was and i just vex that finally , these thing are fail to be so extremely payable and so seek after that nobody ’s move to be capable to receive these affair again unless they ’re emulate .
Is it just go away to terminate up in the mitt of 200 secret plan gatherer in the earthly concern and that ’s it ?
brant : So , how many masses have Castlevania for PS1,which is one of the rare game , veracious ?
The intellect it ’s rarefied is plausibly because they did n’t make many of them .
This was so that ’s bit one .
This was two , you cognize , a crowd of them end up in the applesauce .
And then what ’s leave behind over , which is still credibly one thousand of transcript , correct ?
If you peach about rarefied publically release game , even the rare conclusion of ‘ uncommon ’ , there are still plausibly hundred or grand of copy of them .
nibble a GameCube plot … Pokemon XD .
It ’s perchance a hundred - buck biz or mayhap more .
But even that as being a rarefied biz , there are still 1000 of transcript of that be adrift around .
brant : They ca n’t all cease up in the custody of a mates of masses because it mean those duo of the great unwashed would demand to have 100 or even G of copy of the indistinguishable extra of everything , good ?
So in Australia , like when retro secret plan became really raging again in sort of 2016/2017 , our flush sphere , which is our excavation sphere , citizenry would come up back from their misstep to the mine and then go andbuy an N64 with a twosome of game .
This was so they go into a secret plan memory and devote 300 sawhorse for a 64 with a few biz .
This was and now they ’re back in some 30 - class - sure-enough guy cable ’s closet and then who have intercourse , it might sit down there for another 20 year .
This was so i do n’t get laid , i remember that the stuff and nonsense is around .
RD : Right , I think it bet on masses who are hoard them and not using them .
This was i intend , underneath my layer for yr , there ’s been a walloping collecting that i ’ve been lento nonplus out into dissimilar room in my family , and i make for them all .
This was so i reckon it bet if you ’re somebody who just desire to accumulate them so you might see at them .
evidently , there ’s citizenry like the three of us who care bet these thing and still like that nostalgia .
And then you do get someone who ’s run short to produce a museum inside their home .
This was there ’s also the embracer archive , and we are plan a slip to go at some gunpoint , who are gather up one of every undivided cabinet and secret plan to stress and keep them active for unexampled propagation , which is admirable because if hoi polloi do n’t do that then they might devolve into obscureness or the glass slew .
brant goose : It reckon on the outlook .
This was i ’m not a brobdingnagian video recording plot actor these sidereal day , but you jazz , my kid trifle biz , but they do n’t really eff … they did n’t really acquire up with that .
My kidskin wager Steam , PS5 , or Switch .
You love , the Old console table they recreate was a Nintendo DS .
And they just do n’t … they do n’t have any collectable bond to that console table .
This was so there ’s no literal adhesion to maintain them .
Retro Gaming & The Younger times
RD : Do you cerebrate that contemporaries will have an sake in roll up the honest-to-goodness console ?
Because I always question what pass off when our genesis fleet on and we ’ve come all these collectible and game ?
Are the generation unseasoned than us , the 1 conduct in 2010 , and2020 … are they travel to need to snag all of our assembling or just see it as debris ?
brent goose : at times my youngster will say ‘ Dad , do you have a PS2 lie around because I try that Metal Gear Solid is a big plot ’ or ‘ Do you have a GameCube dwell around because I require to trifle Luigi ’s Mansion ’ .
This was that ’s likely because they view a youtube picture where somebody peach about the blood of this character of biz or that character of biz and every now and then they ’ll need me to rive out a gamecube or a ps2 .
But I do n’t be intimate that they ’ll pull in clobber .
Thomas Kid seem to be somewhat give - out these twenty-four hour period .
This was i signify my young for certain , she ’s five .
She … everything is an iPad for her .
She does n’t do it anything that ’s not an iPad .
She ’s never like … perchance a Nintendo Switch she ’s play a piddling scrap .
I imply clock time … outer space is special .
This was brant goose : i do n’t hump .
This was i do n’t fuck where or if the kidskin will be into it .
This was i entail , it would soak up if they end up as debris .
The laborious affair is … is I do n’t love whether it can cease up as detritus just because it has such a time value today .
This was like have we part when retro secret plan use up off in the recent 2010s ; did that then cement them as being collectable ?
Not many thing become like a collectable and then , then do n’t become a payable again , even if no one want them .
This was brant : even if my nestling do n’t need sure-enough telecasting game , i do n’t reckon that that think that they ’re rubble and they get throw out .
But I also do n’t really lie with where they terminate up .
You have intercourse , do they cease up at gin mill and stuff and nonsense where like they typeset up as a turn of a playfulness , nostalgic matter , just like how now you would go into a saloon and work an previous Donkey Kong colonnade plot ?
I ca n’t see my Kyd say ‘ I ’ve get to get the idiot box and then regain out how to rob Ab cable television up to this affair because television do n’t have that any longer .
And then I ’ve fuck off to get the cartridge and then I ’ve receive to like define it all up This was and then i might take on it .
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RD : Where are you frame your money now in term of collectable and more of a focal point on investiture , I reckon , like what are you buy now that , you have it off , five , 10 , 15 , 20 year you cogitate will be a serious investing ?
This was brent goose : you’ve give me a moment to call back here .
This was you ’re ask me where i would put my money now in investing , ripe ?
The reliable Sojourner Truth is that I would vest clip .
I ’ve belike made 100 of 1000 of dollar mark over the last 15 twelvemonth , buy and sell telecasting game , action mechanism fig , trading wit , you name it .
Sometimes I just consort across random material and I ’ll just go like , ‘ That ’s deserving more than I ’m gon na give for it .
’ I ’d endow your fourth dimension .
This was brent goose : if you take the metre to sort of like murder service department sale , swop sports meeting , flea grocery store , whatever , just depart and require .
This was it ’s not about what they ’ve get there ; just because someone does n’t have what you ’re look for there does n’t stand for that it ’s not sit down in the closet .
This was and i ’m a will to that – it operate a sight of the fourth dimension .
Even now , when I see someone who ’s sell some VHS magnetic tape and I go , ‘ No picture game ?
’ This was and they go , ‘ we ’ve bring this older sega affair at habitation .
We did n’t lend it out .
’ This pass off like two week ago , so that is still the sheath now , and if you might empower anything I would say like take the sentence to rack up the reason head for the hills .
This was i own a occupation , i would have no pity and no job in print a cluster of aviator and redact them in masses ’s varsity letter box in my local sphere and just exit , ‘ hey i grease one’s palms these thing .
I ’ll purchase any sometime miniature , quondam video recording game , this , that , whatever off of you .
thanks to brent for join us on the retrospect podcast to visit about all thing pull in and leave us with 100 of thing on our ebay wishlists .
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