Would the forum know if… you DIED?

Good points, LHoffman, because one person’s treasures can easily be viewed as another person’s junk.

In the case of some types of things that people collect – let’s say stamps – the inheritors of a deceased person’s property might at least realize that the stuff may be valuable (even if them themselves have no interest in that particular hobby) because it’s fairly common knowledge that some rare stamps are worth a lot of money.  In the case of A&A sculpt collections, however, there are several problems.  First: collecting (and painting, if applicable) A&A sculpts is – let’s face it – just not as well-known a hobby as stamp collecting.  Second: although some really rare A&A sculpts (like those accidental “green Germans”) can probably fetch a decent price for piece of plastic small enough to fit on a dime, I don’t see such sculpts being worth what some people will pay for super-rare stamps.  Third: someone who knows nothing about A&A would probably not realize the phenomenal amount of work that goes into the exactingly detailed paint jobs that have been showcased on this forum.  (They could easily assume that they just come already pre-painted when you buy them.)  And fourth: to borrow a phrase from Calvin and Hobbes, I suspect that A&A sculpts might very well appear “to the untutured eye of the ignorant layman” as just plain old toy soldiers, and that they might be casually (or even contemptuously) dismissed as being only fit to be given to the kids to play with.

So yes, I’d agree that if a person cares about what happens to their collection, they should make provisions in their will for it to be handled in a suitable way.

@frimmel:

It would take a lot of new topics in the BOTB section and my not replying to them before someone went, “Hey, where’s Frimmel been?”

_There would be a Rift in the Force Frimmel!

Even though you are a Treky_. :-)

This post made me realize I have not finished my three son’s game training.

They have made good Risk players for the age they are. And we have started playing Catan.

I have been slowing building up to the World Wars.

@aequitas:

@frimmel:

It would take a lot of new topics in the BOTB section and my not replying to them before someone went, “Hey, where’s Frimmel been?”

_There would be a Rift in the Force Frimmel!

Even though you are a Treky_. :-)

I like Star Wars too but I’m certainly a bigger fan of Star Trek.

@Gargantua:

LOL that said, and without getting into politics.  I would probably pick trek too…

Tough call.

Luckily you only have to choose which you’d like to partake in on any given day. They are very different things and answer rather different callings in what you want from some viewing or reading.

@CWO:

Taking these ideas one step further, an interesting concept (about which I’m 100% kidding) would be to offer special badges to members who make a legacy donation to A&A.org through their will after their demise.  I think that fundraising people call this “planned giving”.  The catch, unfortunately, is that the deceased person would never get to enjoy seeing the badge on their account since they’d first have to die to get the badge.

Or you know, they could fake their death, start a new account, and look at the badge they earned…

@amanntai:

Or you know, they could fake their death, start a new account, and look at the badge they earned…

A clever idea with Alfred Hitchcock overtones.  This method would imply interesting things about the person using it – perhaps the notion that “I value my badge more than my life.”  They’d have to be seriously motivated because it wouldn’t be enough to just fake their death on the forum; they’d also have to convince the authorities that they’d died, because otherwise the will wouldn’t get implemented.

@Gargantua:

LOL that said, and without getting into politics.  I would probably pick trek too…

Tough call.

That makes three. You know… that is not a bad thread. I’m gonna start one. Nerd fight: begin.

@LHoffman:

@Gargantua:

LOL that said, and without getting into politics.  I would probably pick trek too…

Tough call.

That makes three. You know… that is not a bad thread. I’m gonna start one. Nerd fight: begin.

I sense a disturbance in the Force!

We should be carefull with all this posting about death.

I did read the bible today, and it pertains a lot to the thread:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=prov+18%3A21&version=NKJV

Funny I found this thread. I have been buying a ton of games lately and the missus was not angry but somewhat annoyed. I simply told her If I died she would be able sell off my games and have more than enough to bury me. My dark sense of humor on the subject was met with a “Oh don’t say that!”.

In all honesty I hope my games collection is passed on to someone who really cares about them, and when it happens I think my wife would pass them on properly.

As for the site. My participation has slowed as I have been involved in other games and projects. However A&A is still my muse in most regards.

We seem to see people come and go here but some are constant and if they died I truly would mourn. If I won the lotto I would invite my favorite A&A.org members to a week long gaming event at the Tillamook Air Museum. All expenses and lodging paid. A “golden bucket” list item I would think but hey, a guy can dream.

@toblerone77:

In all honesty I hope my games collection is passed on to someone who really cares about them, and when it happens I think my wife would pass them on properly.

Another valid option would be to follow the tradition that many ancient cultures had of burying a honoured warrior with some of his weapons.  Given how tiny the A&A sculpts are, there wouldn’t be any difficulty in, let’s say, slipping a T-34 tank into a pocket of the deceased’s clothing as a little tribute to his lifetime interest in A&A.  Nobody would even need to know that it was there.

@CWO:

Given how tiny the A&A sculpts are, there wouldn’t be any difficulty in, let’s say, slipping a T-34 tank into a pocket of the deceased’s clothing as a little tribute to his lifetime interest in A&A.  Nobody would even need to know that it was there.

At least until an Archaeologist in the future uncovered human remains buried with a small plastic tank sculpture!
Was this man a veteran of an unknown war? Was this some kind of tank-worshiping ritual? They may never know…

@Gargantua:

What would be more amusing, would be to bury someone with a coffin FULL of thier A&A pieces/collection on top.

I mean, we all have 1000’s of them lol.

“1000 year old man believed to have died in toy factory, says Archaeologist”

@Gargantua:

What would be more amusing, would be to bury someone with a coffin FULL of thier A&A pieces/collection on top.

I mean, we all have 1000’s of them lol.

And if there are any odd corners left empty, they could be filled using the hundreds of dice we all have, starting with the normal sized ones and then using the tiny ones from A&A 1914 to plug the last few little remaining holes.

@CWO:

@Gargantua:

What would be more amusing, would be to bury someone with a coffin FULL of thier A&A pieces/collection on top.

I mean, we all have 1000’s of them lol.

And if there are any odd corners left empty, they could be filled using the hundreds of dice we all have, starting with the normal sized ones and then using the tiny ones from A&A 1914 to plug the last few little remaining holes.

Okay, now this is just an incredible waste of A&A stuff. Wouldn’t you rather give it to someone then have it all buried under the ground?

Unless you got really weird and made your grave a geocaching location, and posted the directions to find it on the forum, so someone could dig up your A&A stuff.