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Tomb Raider Tours #12: Vicente Pardo Minguez
Another Tomb Raider tour, another new piece of merchandise I want to add to my personal collection. Actually, make that about a dozen pieces. Check out Vicente’s full collection here!
Name: Vicente Pardo Minguez
Country of Origin: Spain
How long have you been a fan of Tomb Raider?
When the first Tomb Raider was release, I was 5 years old, but I can’t remember exactly at what age I played it for the first time. Tomb Raider 1 was my first Play Station game, I was just a kid, but since that moment, I fell in love with Lara Croft, and I slowly started getting fan of the saga. I spent so many hours with Lara, visiting all the time her mansion because I was scared of the wolves in the first Peru level. (Laughs).
Although I think it was 2006 when I really consider I became a real fan. Tomb Raider Legend was going to be release and by then, I joined the CroftGeneration.com community. I tried to find so many secrets around the saga and discover the entire world behind Tomb Raider. It was useful to let me find fantastic people, who some of them they are still my best friends in the present.
What is your fondest Tomb Raider memory?
Tomb Raider gave me lots of beautiful memories. I grew up with the game, but it exits 3 moments in my life, which are the most special for me. The first two are when I was still a kid, first after getting my PlayStation, when my father bought me two games, Tomb Raider and Gran Turismo. TR was the first one I tried, and I was so much into, that I never played Gran Turismo. The second one it was when I didn’t have PC yet, and I went to one cafe to write TR fan fictions where Lara Croft and Crash Bandicoot were couple and went together for adventures (Laughs). The third special memory is in 2007 when I met for the first time in person with all the TR fans and Karima Adebibe in the TR Anniversary promotion in Madrid.
Where did you get the bulk of your Tomb Raider merchandise?
On Ebay.
How do you store or display all of your Tomb Raider goods?
It’s all exhibited in my bedroom, although in future I would like to have an exclusive room just for my Tomb Raider collection like a museum place.
What is the gem of your Tomb Raider Collection?
The signed Karima Adebibe poster from Tomb Raider Anniversary!
Is your collection complete? What items are on your Tomb Raider wishlist?
Not yet, but it will. I made one inventory document where I placed all the Lara Croft figures and Tomb Raider merchandise that I consider essential for a TR museum. As far as I’m getting the figures or other merchandise, I’m adding to the completed section of my list. Obviously the Tomb Raider merchandise is infinite, but I don’t expect to get everything, just what I consider essential. When I finally get it done, that part of my collection will be finished, and occasionally if I find something rare that I don’t have and it’s not very expensive, then I could add to the list. I think this way of collecting things is better, because you put limits and you can feel more satisfaction knowing you can complete it, apart that my personal economy will be grateful (Laughs).
My collection is divided in 3 parts. “Eidos – Core Design - Paramount” which is near complete, “Eidos – Crystal Dynamics” that I still have to get some figures, and “Square Enix – Crystal Dynamics” that it just started. The next figure in my wish list is the Sideshow, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
If you’ve got an impressive Tomb Raider collection and would like to show it off, send an email to community@crystald.com.
