What's the Holy Grail item in your hobby?

Wenonah Itasca canoe in Kevlar, a canoe that you can transport your life and another person and their life at a blazing clip and the boat barely weighs over 50 pounds for bring 19.5 feet.

I have the hull in a heavier layup so I am happy but I dream of having the kevlar ultralight version.

I'm a photography nerd.

There's a bunch of rare and expensive cameras, of course, so I could probably just say "oh, probably anything from Leica".

But the real snobs go for turbo rare lenses. As a Nikon fan, I hope that I shall one day be allowed to the same airspace as the hallowed Nikkor 13mm f/5.6. The first ultrawide non-fisheye lens. 350 of these were made, each individually blessed by priests as they left the factory, or so the story goes. They cost an arm and leg - wait, in this economy, an arm and leg would probably be cheaper.

A 1959 Gibson Les Paul in to a Marshall Plexi.

Username checks out... kinda :D

I've started collecting 1:24 and 1:18 scale models of my favorite movie cars and I guess you could say my holy grail would be a 1:18 sized, 1985, Cumberland Grey, V8 Vantage Aston Martin, from 007's The Living Daylights (and recently, No Time To Die). That and the 1:18 Chevy Nova from Death Proof, without breaking my bank account.

As an old and broken skateboarder, I would love nothing more than a pump track within driving distance.

There are some great parks, but nothing with enough flow that I can just carve around to work up a sweat without have to push or climb a ramp to drop in all the time.

As someone who has started rewriting an old Summer Camp Island fanfiction I started around 2019 and never got very far with, I'm gonna have to say concentration and not getting writers block as the combo that would be the holy grail IMO. I'm sure a lot of writers in general could probably agree with that.

I definitely wanna get back into fanfic writing to a degree, but concentration and writers block have been my enemy.

The Imperator-Class Titan is the largest mini in Warhammer 40k.

I have fantasized about using one of these in an actual game ever since I learned of their existence in 8th grade.

"mini"
- Considering it's got full on artillery emplacements, and a fucking house on it's head, it's kinda too scale with the other units.

I dream of one day finding an original Model M keyboard in a Goodwill or yard sale for like $10. Every time I'm in a thrift store I look over the electronics section JUST in case.

Also waiting for the day I find a random copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn. Only 20,000 north American copies were made, which sounds like a lot but in video game numbers is insanely low. I've only ever seen it in the real world once at a gaming convention and it sold for $1,500.

Goodwill has competent people to notice and divert such things to online auction. You’re better off checking pawn shops in crappy towns/cities.
JFC I had that game! Only could get like six games for the Saturn in the US (nights into dreams, clockwork toy knight, a tactical RPG that had a big rabbit in the intro (sorry I forgot the name), owner dragoon, and virutua fighter). Dan I had so many super obscure games from the discount bin cause they weren't popular new. Now everybody wants them.
If you want the model M just for it's feel you should check out Unicomp keyboards. They make modernized versions that feel identical according to a friend who uses one. Although they are way more expensive than 10 dollars.

Any serious guitarists will let you know their holy grail.

It's not any guitar; it's another guitar.

None of the ones I already own sound good, though. Since it can't possibly be me that is the problem, I need to purchase another, more expensive one.
I bought mine for $100!
I got it new back in the early 2000s but it had a flaw in the fretboard. I returned it for exchange but they discontinued it so refunded me instead. Telling this story to someone a decade later, they suggested eBay. I looked and there it was, bought it on the spot and had it in my hands a week later.
I have enough guitars but am now looking at other instruments. A cello is high on the list.

Steady hands. For both of my hobbies.

In my hobbies it's relaxed hands (motorcycles and tennis)

I finally saw a Baltimore Oriole (bird) in real life at my feeder. Its was beautiful and vibrant and now I need to find another cool bird to look at.

have you already seen a scarlet tanager or rose breasted grosbeak?
- Grosbeak yes, Tanager no. But it is on the list.

Atari Falcon

The true Holy Grail item in my hobby of motorcycle riding would be a MotoGP bike.

Realistically the achievable halo option is a 1000cc supersport and lots of track days.

I see a guy pop up on my you tube shorts who talks about his Aprilla a bunch. Says it's not really worth the headache when something that would be simple to fix on a mass produced bike, isn't cause there only like 5,000 of that model ever made.
I say this but if I had fu money, I would definitely buy a Koenigsegg.

As a hobby engineer/machinist I would say any "medium" sized mill but specifically Bridgeport mills are especially coveted by hobbyists.

If I found a reasonably priced Bridgeport even one that needed a bit of work, I would happily sell my Chinese machine and make some extra room in my workshop.

The America's Cup.

Super subjective, but for my handtool woodworking, my grail is a pistol grip Stanley 610 drill. Do t know why, but ever since I saw one, I’ve wanted it!

I really want a used arcade machine for drum mania. It's a party of my childhood I miss

If you're so inclined and have the time, you can make a USB controller to play it on your computer with an Arduino, pads, and some piezo speakers.
https://medium.com/@elainezshen/diy-electronic-drumset-for-drummania-bbcb6524e335
I am a themer for Project Outfox: check us out; all you need is the guitar 😉
Project Outfox
- Now kiss! Seriously, though, what an awesome project. Clone Hero taken to all new levels.
- This looks amazing! Does it also support electric drums?
  EDIT: looks like it's possible! Imma dive off the deep end!

rock band 4 legacy adapter. they stopped making them years ago and the prices went from 20 bucks to over 500 bucks. i had one and it broke because it used a shitty ass micro usb

Can't you solder in a new item port? preferably USB-c?
- yeah. some guy in the community started doing that for people actually

I'm a book collector, sadly most of the books in my preferred address are, and forever, will be out of my reach. My holy grail is The Magus by Francis Barrett (1801), it's basically a guidebook to the occult. I've got a facsimile edition published in 1970 but I've never seen or heard of a original copy for sale - not that I've searched, I don't wish to see an old man cry.

This post has some real The 9th Gate vibes. Love it. I hope you find your book someday.

SAKO TRG 22/42 A1 a good home defense tool for light sleepers.

That looks strangely like a long range rifle that c would be well served putting up a prepared defence or neutralising an unsuspecting target. Neither of which are aligned with home defence.
For home defence I want a shotgun. High lethality that doesn't go bouncing down the road looking for another victim.
Why use a gun chambered in 6.5cm, 308win, 300wm, or 338lapua for home defense, unless you mean defense of your large estate and need long range? Shotguns are long and unwieldy. I'd go for hand guns with rounds that distort when they hit something so there is less chance of penetration and continuing on. Most likely 22lr or 9mm. 22 has less stopping power, but usually more capacity.

The Alpha Lotus

The legendary spray and pray.

a PACDRIVE

My multimeter

Why is it a holy grail? Also what is it?
- It's an instrument like this. It can measure voltage, current, resistance and continuity in electrical circuits. Mine is a cheap 20 euro model but it does its job well so I don't complain. I actually don't mess with circuits very much, but when I do, this thing is very helpful.
3458a?

I'll try to keep these both short.

Magic the Gathering - the "Power Nine"

There's 9 cards from the first few printings that were simply deemed too powerful. Once they were out in the real world, the folks in charge realized they weren't fun to play against, and resulted in wildly uneven games. In extreme cases, the opponent could lose without even getting a single turn. They've been banned from every format*, and have never been reprinted*. *Except of course when they are. https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Nine

Model railroading (O-gauge). Lionel 770e Hudson

For O gauge size, the train everyone wishes they had in their collection is the 1937-1941 Lionel 770E. This was a super-unusual toy for its day, pretty much everything else had been aimed at younger children and a lower price point. Lionel decided to take a gamble and build a hyper realistic scale model that was aimed at young adults. It was honestly not a great seller in its day due to the high price point and the looming threat of WW2. But it was, and still is, considered one of the highpoints of the industry. You could argue that the current Lionel company is founded on this concept, as their VisionLine products are focused on ultra-realistic toys for grown ups (which will always be funny, as yes, our track has 3 rails). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOdDw0-Tflg

Electronics / hardware hacking and development. I have a Saleae Logic Pro 8 which is probably the most expensive thing I've ever bought in a weight to cost ratio at £933 for 60g.

Works fantastically, though, and the analog function and high sample rate is what truly sets it apart from other analysers.

I don't have a personal need for a 16 channel analyser currently, so couldn't bring myself to cough up the extra £500 for that model.

The Klon Centaur is a highly praised guitar pedal that, since it had a limited production, has an unsustainable price for most of the players (some people paid up to 20.000$ for one).
Luckily the circuit is easy to copy and over the years many clones from other brands came out. But still, the original one holds a special charm and has become a higly collectible trinket.

It's called Black Lotus, I think. Not totally sure since I have never been interested in mtg as anything but something to have fun playing at a medium-high level, but I've heard copies of their original release go for many thousands of currency notes. Much to expensive for my means, but that's okay.

The Power Nine https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Power_Nine before mtg worked out how to balance, these 9 cards in the alpha/beta set were brokenly overpowered. There's an alpha Ancestral Recall on ebay rn for $5.5k

Mine is level 100 Fortnite anything. Im a REEEAL gamer.

Just kidding. It's a kick ass CNC machine.

In amateur radio, making an Earth-Moon-Earth contact. That means bouncing your signal off of the moon, basically using it as a satellite. You generally need a big antenna array to do it. Also you need a very high quality amplifier to receive since the signal you get back from the mood is very weak. You can hear an echo of yourself delayed about 2.6 seconds, since the moon is about 1.3 light seconds away.

EME Moonbounces do look like fun. Here's a guy, I think pinging a friend off the moon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMSvwlAYVE
Dude that sounds amazing and would be crazy to demo to someone.
That's dope

3 other cool nerds to play board games with consistently.

Meanwhile, I keep ending up in rooms with board game nerds, and I only kind of like board games.
I was going to say Glory to Rome but your answer is better.
Are you calling yourself cool? That's so not cool.
- Self confidence is in fact very cool. And I'll convince you over a game of Agricola.
- Maybe he already has one cool nerd and is looking for a few more.
- Cool is what you make it, dude.

I'm into fly fishing and the holy grail for many anglers is catching native brook trout. Most trout are stocked or introduced with wild reproduction. Brookies were plentiful at one time before the loss of habitat. There are those that crawl on their hands an knees through brush to catch a 6" fish out of a stream you can jump over

In California Brook Trout is non-native, but we have a Heritage Trout Challenge where anglers try to catch six of the native trout species in their native streams. When somebody completes the challenge they get a custom certificate showing the species they caught and dates. So far I’ve caught one - California Golden Trout.
- I had no idea California had so many native species. Those golden look wild!
I tickled a trout once from a brook in the Galloway Forest.
- TIL

Size 14 socket head

Best I can do is 9/16
- I will literally die if I see another imperial unit tool
I think you mean 10mm?
- my car definitely had more 14mm bolts on it. Always looking for them when doing work on other cars too, most of the work I've done has been on Japanese cars though.

In the typewriter community, the “holy grail” differs from person to person, but for me it was a 1930s Royal P equipped with a rare typeface called Vogue. Very, very rarely they’ll pop up from people who don’t know how significant that is, and that’s the only way to get one at a reasonable price - because those who do know what it is will ask thousands of dollars for it.

Eventually I found one for a comparatively cheap price (sub 1k), and the only reason someone else didn’t snap it up before I saw it was because the guy refused to ship it. Local pickup only. So I took the chance to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it, and it sits proudly as the crown jewel of my collection:

Your actions were the only correct option. This is the same way I snagged my Onix Reference 3 floor speakers. Someone on Facebook marketplace was giving them away for free because they belonged to the previous owner of their new house, and the speakers were taking up too much space in the theater room the new owner wanted to use for Netflix and yoga. I only had to drive 2 hours, but I got immediately into my truck. They also included a Velodyne DLS-3750R Powered Subwoofer, and an Onix Rocket RSC200 Center-Channel Speaker.
to drive the 10 hours round trip to snag it
Fucking respect o7.
Hells to the yeah
Bill Lee: I gave up writing when I was ten. Too dangerous.

Well, my hobby is searching for historical religious artifacts, so...

Your Holy Grail is the Holy Grail
- The Lost Ark of the Covenant actually 😁

TTRPGs. A cleared schedule

And friends with matching ones

I'm really just starting to get into audio and that's kind of by accident.

I actually started fixing electronics, and then some good quality audio equipment came into my life. I didn't know it was good, I thought my little piece of crap bose was awesome but holy moly no, in retrospect. Really all I wanted to do was to fix the obvious minor issues and sell it all. But I do test things meticulously before I sell them.

My first experience was listening to Stevie Wonder As and initially running up to the speakers because I thought I was hearing noise or distortion or something. No, it just turned out there was detail in the music I literally had never heard.

Well I moved that set down the line and sold it because another amazing Yamaha receiver and sub set came into my life, and then two weeks later I got some amazing studio monitor speakers for 10 bucks. Whoever priced them had no idea what they were. And they sound even more amazing in my little apartment than the other setup.

So I guess what I'm telling you all is my weird audio journey that I didn't mean to get into, and now I've become the thing I have always despised, an audiophile.

So basically just drive a dump truck starting with around $180,000 up to my place and then I can get a clean chain of great audio gear, and the appropriate reference audio to play upon it.

Also somebody to teach me what the hell I'm doing with audio stuff. But they can just scoop a few bricks of money off the pile from the dump truck.

Congrats on falling down the audiophile rabbit hole. Shortly, you'll be receiving your complimentary gold-plated interconnects and a lifetime subscription of A/B'ing different masters without actually listening to the full album 🙃

Clayfighter 63 1/3 Sculptors Edition

For example, in the headphone world, the Sennheiser HE-1 headphones are said to be like the pinnacle of headphones and most expensive, costing $59000 for a pair.

Edit: added image

Out of curiosity, what would you plug those into to get the best use of them? I couldn't imagine the headphone jack on my motherboard would be able to take full advantage of them.
- They're super special electrostatic headphones, so they have to be run with a special type of amplifier, and the one they come with come is absolutely insane, and is a huge part of the cost. Honestly, I bet you could cost cut the whole thing down to under $20k, but you're paying a LOT of money for stuff like the fact that the amplifier case is made of marble and has one of the coolest boot sequences imaginable, where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in so the whole thing is seamless. It's very much one of those things that get built when engineers are handed a blank check and told "We don't care what it costs, have fun"
- That thing has an inbuilt DAC, as well as S/PDIF and USB inputs, so I'd imagine any device with enough processing power to play lossless audio files and has the proper drivers should be enough.
- You'd use a dedicated audio setup with it, yeah. I don't know if the 59k is the headphones only or if it includes an amplifier, but a hi range amplifier can cost thousands too.
  I'm not an audiophile tho, ain't got the money, and even if I did my setup would at most cost €1000. So if anyone wants to post some real numbers go ahead.
I had the pleasure of using some at Sennheiser's booth at CES a few years back. They sound VERY nice, but I don't think they're worth $59k. Maybe 8k or something, although I know a lot of the cost is in the tubes and accessories.

Like the “real” grail, it doesn’t exist. A mutual standard and compatibility between aftermarket automotive components. IOW, if I’m building a car, I’d want a third party automatic headlight system to work with the backlighting in the instruments, the wiper controller to work with a stock steering column switch, the air conditioning to work with any temperature sensor and thermostatic control at all…. Yeah. You need to be a programming expert and have the ability to design a controller to get all these proprietary systems to function coherently. But instead it’s cadging together systems and trying to not make it clunky and distracting.

Also, gaming: the grail would be for abandoned games that require online servers to play are turned over to the gamers. Run your own servers and mods. Licensing servers can be contracted out to third parties, so you can still buy the game and a royalty is paid to the original studio, but they don’t have to maintain it anymore.

To celebrate the new millennium, German model train maker Märklin released a 1/87 scale electric locomotive with a body made out of platinum, with real rubys for the red taillights and other real materials such as windows made of real glass, wheels made of stainless steel and isolators of real ceramics. It's considered one of the most sought after railway models.

Do you have a link? Trying to look it up but don't know which I should be looking at.
- Seems to be this one: https://www.maerklin.de/en/products/details/article/32000

Designing small electronics:

Unlimited money for iterated prototyping and being able to afford 0.4mm pitch BGA fabrication and rigid-flex 😂

Maybe holy grail "Item" would be an expensive electronics lab with a very nice R&S scope and a nice soldering station with a trinocular microscope.

Are you aware of this guy on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeEf90AEmmxaQs5BUkHqR3Q he creates some very inspired mini electronics.
- Subscribed. Thank you!

Elite Dangerous: the grail is the Fleet Carrier. Spent 7 years of non-grindy playtime saving up for mine.

If you got one is it the kind of ship you could use or is it to valuable to risk?
- You can use it, and can't really lose it, but it costs a lot of money to operate. (The carriers are about 3.5 burj khalifas long. They are huge)
When the fleet carriers came out, I think I had mine in a week. Of course, I didn't keep paying it off, I never really saw the point of them.
You just need to find a good freight loop. It's actually pretty fun running cargo with no shield (but extra armor). I had an imperial cutter customized for cargo hauling and if done right, you made money at astounding rates.
It took a while to locate, but I found a loop between three stations that allowed me to essentially buy low and sell high at every stop on the route. Though one leg of the route was all cargo transport missions, and they always invited interdictions. If done right you can drop out of FS and then jump right back out before the other ship gets their bearings. With a ship that big nobody can stop you.
But it was scary a few times. I may have lost it once or twice...
Got one, really couldn’t find a use for it, let it go. If you have a gaming group to play with on E:D they’re far more useful for everyone to keep their ships on and engage in group objectives. I generally do exo, so having to maintain that beast while I was out in the black wasn’t worth it.
Good luck getting one, it’s still kinda thrilling to achieve that objective.
- I love taking my FC deep into the black. Just gotta pay my squad mates to load excess fuel and I’m good to go!

The Babel Fish

My hobby is (or rather was) collecting Seiko watches.

I stopped buying watches, but my holy Grail would be "The" Pogue. The original 6139-6005 yellow face automatic chronograph worn by Col. William Pogue on the Skylab mission.

Other than the NASA issued Omegas, this was his personal watch that he just took with him into space, as NASA didn't want the Astronauts to take their Speedmasters home and so they couldn't train as much with them.

This also was the first automatic chronograph in space, as no one had tried before if they would work without gravity (surprise, they did, as momentum is still very much a thing in space).

Here is a very nice write up by a very knowledgeable guy:

https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2017/12/24/the-true-seiko-pogue-chronograph-6139-6005

Mmm love a good space watch. Personal grail for me would be an Omega Skywalker X-33.
Heard also gshocks were one of the few space rated watches for astronauts

I like collecting games, nothing crazy like graded games (graded anything is a scam) or like I have to have every game ever made for a specific console, I just like having a big shelf of games.

I really want a like new, in box green Halo edition original Xbox. People want stupid money for them but I just want to have one. I've got a good condition boxed regular black console and a boxed Halo 3 Xbox 360 but I reeeeally want the green OG.

Here's what people are trying to sell a NIB version for

Hell yeah. If I had space and money this is what I'd be doing. I have some PS1 games (and of course my fav Halo 1-3) from my childhood that are stored away somewhere at my mother's... might have been thrown away by now it's been so long :^(

I don't care what the other nerds say. This is the Holy Grail for me:

My holy grail is that i have an actually painted army
- Respect
Waaaaagh!

In the world of synthesisers, I’m going to say the Yamaha CS-80. Anyone who was introduced to synthesised music by listening to the Blade Runner soundtrack will recognise it. With its many tactile modulation options, it’s arguably the pinnacle of the synth as a performance instrument.

I'd like a prophet 5 or minimood model d.
came to say original arp 2600. or an og tr-808/909
- The 2600 is definitely a worthy nomination. The 2500 is even more grail-ish.

In photography: Global Shutter. So whenever you see object bending horizontally while they're moving, that's because most digital camera sensors have a rolling shutter.

Captain Disillusion! Can't not comment on your excellent choice in explainer video.

A rock

JESUS CHRIST MARIE! THEY'RE MINERALS!

Time

What are you a speedrunner?

Octanitrocubane

A workshop 😅

There it is! The holy grail for all my hobbies... space

In cycling I would say the tools needed to replace a flat tyre.

I guess an Eleiko barbell:

Pretty much the Rolls Royce of barbells.

My dude. $1,200 is not all that much if it's something that is going to be part of the rest of your life.
- For sure. I just have a fairly decent barbell right now (came as a set with bumper plates) and I've got other stuff I need to spend money on. But soon!
I'm curious as to what makes it so nice? My gut reaction is to say "It's literally a rod of metal with some checkering", but I've been in enough hobbies to know that there are some very fine details that make a world of difference.
- It's springy but also very very tough. Weightlifting bars are designed to be dropped from overhead with weight (bumper plates) on them, and Eleikos are rigorously tested. Also, the collars (the things on the ends) that the plates go onto rotate very smoothly.
  They use these barbells in the Olympics and other high level weightlifting competitions.

I picked up 3D printing and started with the super cheap Ender 3. I keep chasing it and got there... The journey was annoying but I keep having to re-calibrate and I'm just too busy to keep fixing it.

A perfectly level bed:

Upload limit cut it off. Link to longer with punchline.

My hobby is Chess, and to me it would be to beat a Grandmaster(impossible under normal context). I have beaten only once a National Master in a simul, to put things in perspective.

So historically speaking, when people have managed to beat a Grandmaster in chess, how often was it because they discovered such a novel new chess technique that even the Grandmaster wasn't familiar and thus pushed the boundary of the "martial" arts of chess, and how often was it because the Grandmaster made a mistake that gave their opponent a sufficient advantage to beat the Grandmaster?
- Getting a novel technique is impossible, there is less and less new theory, and they know all the tricks, but the only way one can possible gain an advantage on a Grandmaster is baiting them into an opening line they they do not know well and you know very well, which again is very unlikely considering they study the game for life and even then, converting said advantage would be very difficult.
  The difference between International Masters and Grandmasters is big enough, but the difference between Grandmasters and amateurs is abysmal. You can see this with the Elo System (rating system), players under 200 Elo points their rival are expected to win almost never.
  They can even beat amateurs with their eyes blinded, and this is not a joke, one can just see the many videos of Grandmasters giving opponents odds like this.

I never knew they had merchandise for Big O.
- From my personal collection:

A server rack with a few A100s

No it isn't crypto

Well, what is it then?
- Selfhosting, as well as occasional LLM/GenAI model hosting for when I'm looking for inspiration in my artistic ventures.
  Currently I do all this on a several generations old gaming rig and would very much like to have a dedicated server for it that I can put not in my living room

Depends on the hobby, but this list is for me, idk if there is a consensus

1.Levity printer 2. Electric Yarn Ball Winder 3. Coops Original Adjustable Pillow

Black Lotus. You gotta shell out bank or win some vintage tournament to acquire one these days.

Green Chartreuse.

Idk if it's just oz but I never have trouble finding the stuff, always at dans whenever I check
- Never on the ground here anymore, US$100 online but not from any vendor I trust. It's a really nice ingredient for a lot of cocktails.

Probably an Abarth 695 Bipisto or similar. I could drive nothing but Fiat 500s and die happy. I have an Abarth 500, and I've literally driven the car to its limit on the track before, 3 wheeling around corners. I can only imagine what a race prepped example would be like.

unattended bag of chips

It used to be something like a 1959 Les Paul

or the Special Edition Lemmy Tribute Ric,

but honestly these days I just like hanging out with my people and enjoying a refreshing beverage. Spending on some thing got less important.

Gunpla. That one rare, out-of-print kit that is only available on ebay for like $500. I have 3 grail kits, and fortunately, 2 of them are going to get reissued in the next 6ish months, and there's a fair chance the third one may be reissued in the near future as well.

Another one for me is Godhand SPN-120-L. They are considered to be the best nippers on the market, and this is the left-handed version. Unfortunately, they're only available on Godhand's official site, and they only ship to Japan.

$500 isn't even that bad tbh. Csgo skins get sold for more than that
- Sure, but it's hard to justify when the retail value is a fraction of that, and I can buy several other nice kits for the same price. I have plenty of other kits to build, so I'm fine with waiting.

Exchange diary, please don't make me explain 😅

Fine, it's a thing underground idols and idol otaku do sometimes. It's a journal that is written in by the idol, then passed to the otaku when she sees him at the next show. He then writes in it and that the next show he attends he gives it back to her, and so on.

It's very subjective, but for me, I'd probably say Black Knight 2000. It wouldn't necessarily be the first pinball game I buy as the gameplay isn't that deep, but if I'm ever in the position to own multiple tables, BK2K will definitely be one of them. Very close second place would probably be the 2007 Stern Spider-Man with all the media rights from the Raimi movies and the JK Simmons call outs and errything, so corny and awesome. I mean it's got a gd Bonesaw mode, what more could I ask for?

Astronomy, something like this https://www.telescopesplus.com/products/meade-16-inch-lx200-acf-f-10-advanced-coma-free-telescope

How much of that cost is the optics? I'm pretty sure there's an open-source design for a diamond lathe that could turn them.
Initially, I was like "not even a space telescope? The thing is probably pretty cheap"

Drum of Swedish Ammonium Perchlorate.

An original, genuine copy of 'Akalabeth: World of Doom'.

https://walbasses.co.uk/

Proper.

An original production Semmerling LM4.