Oh, sorrow, more reminders of stuff I used to collect and also of how old I am.
Sailor Moon came to the USA when I was a freshman in college. I joined the fan club (still have the certificate) and got pens, a notepad, window decals (which died on my dorm window) and some stickers (the art for the club's goods wasn't from the manga or the anime - I don't know who did it but it didn't look good). I collected all the cards from the Toys R Us machines. I bought all the frankly weird looking inner senshi dolls and the crescent moon wand, the Cosmic Crescent Jewel Box, the first season transformation brooch (NA version), the totally out-there Moon Cycle (I did wait until it was on clearance because where did it come from?). I got all the original Japanese manga and the third art book from Japan. I bought the two children's books "Meet Sailor Moon" and "Friends and Foes" and I bought both NA soundtrack CDs. A dear Japanese friend also bought me this lovely tiny tin with beautiful Sailor Moon bandages in it. I had a birthday party with the officially licensed piƱata, the invitations, the plates and napkins and my grandma even got a crescent moon wand put on my cake for me (I was turning 19... I'm having a Pony party this year). Of course I also had some bootlegs (cards, stickers and posters) which I didn't know at the time.
Then I moved to Japan (yes perhaps the two were somewhat related
). I bought Sailormoon furikake, won giant trading cards and double sticker trading cards and mini trading cards, got all the inner senshi dolls which looked adorable, an Eternal SM water glass, two or three sets of boxed chopsticks, a plastic handled cup, a karuta game, two puzzles, all the manga all over again for much less, the Cosmic Heart Compact, the Sailor Moon Crisis Compact, the Eternal Sailor Moon Transformation Brooch, art books 1, 2, 4 and 5, all the other manga published by Takeuchi Naoko, two sets of stationery, lined paper for binders, a binder, clear file folders, post it pads, an inflatable toy, some UFO catcher dolls, telephone cards, several shitajiki, a stamp... I think that's about it.
Stop me if you've heard this before, I sold it all back in the early 2000s when no one cared and no one paid much.
Maybe and I do hope so, but it's a long shot, I stored some stuff at my sister's but as of now I currently have in my possession the crescent moon wand, one shitajiki, the karuta game, the tin with the bandages and the art books (which are stunning). I also think somewhere that I have one lone crescent moon wand that came with the NA dolls...