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Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:31 pm
Posted by FAT SEXY
California
Member since Jun 2020
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Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:31 pm
Do any of you guys still have a collection?

I snag tapes here and there still. Random tidbit: Horror VHS has started to get harder to find and kind of expensive lately
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
24700 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:33 pm to
All I have to add is I remember the pallet of Jurassic park VHS at Walmart like it was yesterday since we had to wait forever after theatrical.

If those were all graded they’d be worth a fortune
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42913 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:40 pm to
I was getting a little burned out on collecting sports cards a few years ago and dabbled a little into VHS. Buying sealed and grading them. Collecting and selling. Values like with a lot of collectibles boomed during covid and VHS collecting/values really took a hit after covid. Two of the bigger companies aren't even grading VHS anymore. Thankfully sold most of mine prior and kept the few I wanted in my collection.

It didn't stick like sports cards or even video game collecting because it is a very age group specific and is very nostalgia based.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
156928 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:48 pm to
I haven't bought many VHS tapes in the last however many years (maybe one here and there), but of course I still have my collection. I am pretty big on physical copies of shite still.

Currently I have 310 VHS tapes and 1,475 DVDs.
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iwyLSUiwy

I saw your thread on MSB about cards and signed balls and shite. I'll take any shite you want to give away.
Posted by skrayper
21-0 Asterisk Drive
Member since Nov 2012
35603 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:49 pm to
My wife kept some that were important to her from her childhood; I got one of those hybrid players so that she could still watch them.

None of mine have survived to today sadly.
Posted by nes2010
Member since Jun 2014
7945 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:50 pm to
I have a copy of the banned Little Mermaid cover vhs. It isn't really worth anything though.

Posted by The Pirate King
Pangu
Member since May 2014
69038 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 1:58 pm to
We still have all the original Disney VHS from the 90's. I wonder how much those are worth these days
Posted by iwyLSUiwy
I'm your huckleberry
Member since Apr 2008
42913 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 2:10 pm to
Get me your address somehow and I'll send you some of the VHS I have left!
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
104690 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 2:32 pm to
I still have a sizable collection of UFC and WWF stuff on VHS because I hadn’t had a way to gracefully move any of it.
Posted by TheFonz
Somewhere in Louisiana
Member since Jul 2016
23385 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 2:43 pm to
I’ll pick up a few here it there at thrift stores or something. This past weekend I found Blazing Saddles for fiddy cents. That was like finding a gold nugget to me.
Posted by meeple
Carcassonne
Member since May 2011
11259 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 4:49 pm to
Paging OMLandshark…
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
479551 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:15 pm to
quote:

Random tidbit: Horror VHS has started to get harder to find and kind of expensive lately

Our local Kroger put them out early and we got a copy days before the official national release
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
479551 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:17 pm to
quote:

Horror VHS has started to get harder to find and kind of expensive lately

Damn that sucks. I threw out all of mine.

I have to make a list of movies I've owned on VHS, DVD, Blu Ray, then 4k

A few I knew for sure: Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
9088 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:37 pm to
Until this thread I had no idea this was a thing or that there was any kind of market for this
Posted by FAT SEXY
California
Member since Jun 2020
2374 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 5:53 pm to
I buy to watch and enjoy them mostly. I have a pretty extensive physical collection of games and movies. My game room is loaded. I might post some pics of it in the future.

I do have some sealed tapes that I probably won't open.
Posted by Sam Quint
Member since Sep 2022
9088 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 6:42 pm to
Is it just the vintage / nostalgia factor? I can’t imagine why else anyone would choose to watch VHS these days
Posted by Lesalli
Member since Apr 2013
849 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 7:10 pm to
Make sure to get the Sinbad movie "Shazam". I know it's a real movie...I remember the VHS cover when it came out but I never watched it. Mandela effect says it never existed.
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
156928 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 7:51 pm to
quote:

Get me your address somehow and I'll send you some of the VHS I have left!

I meant the cards and signed shite. I’m good on VHS.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
479551 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 7:53 pm to
quote:

Is it just the vintage / nostalgia factor? I can’t imagine why else anyone would choose to watch VHS these days

Agreed.

I have an extensive physical media collection, but VHS? No
Posted by sledgehammer
SWLA
Member since Oct 2020
7508 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 8:39 pm to
My dad still has the LSU 2003 SEC championship taped on VHS. We couldn’t watch it live because I marched in a Cub Scout Christmas parade in our city. Crazy that I remember that.
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