Eric Jaskolka, the world's largest X-men memorabilia collection

Hello, my name is Eric Jaskolka

I am the Guinness World Records holder for the largest X-Men memorabilia collection

My collection has over 16,000 items and continues to grow. I started reading comic books in 1989 because I needed a form of escapism

And then in the mid-90s, I started collecting everything X-Men. My synagogue Sunday school teacher owned a local comic book store where I lived in

Lincoln, Nebraska and said, you might be interested in X-Men. There is a tie to Judaism and the Holocaust

Mutants have powers and people didn't quite understand them, similar to the way the Nazis

felt about Jews, gypsies, blacks, anybody who wasn't part of their race or nation

And there's actually several storylines in which they build these giant sentinels, which

are to capture mutants and put them in camps. And there is even a storyline with the Mutant Registration Act where all mutants had to

register their powers. So a lot of connectivity to Jewish history. For modern times now, it more or less means for all of us that don't fit in because of

our hair color, height, our lack of hair, our weight, whatever the case may be, it kind

of represents that every man, every person is trying to fit in and be a part of society

I've never put on a Wolverine costume. It's kind of fun. You know, this is definitely a moment

This is something to celebrate. So definitely stepping out of my comfort zone and putting on Wolverine is kind of awesome

We walk through the room here. The first section we have right here is movie, from movie theater cups at the top and popcorn tubs

They're from the United States, from overseas. And we have different items from the other movies

A lot of it's promotional items given out to the cast and crew or given out at different

movie theaters. As we continue to move down here, we have bobble heads, we have slurpy straws, we have glasses

These four glasses were from a movie theater chain down in Texas

Down at the bottom here, we have most of the toy items

So we have all the action figures and something right above the action figures that's unique

is this watch. This was a promotional watch given out to the cast and crew for the first X-Men movie

Various items like a cookie jar and some other statues. My son actually made this sculpture for me when he was in fourth or fifth grade, so very

important item for my collection. My kids are heavily involved in my collection

Magneto helmet, Cerebro helmet, Professor X. I have tried them on. They're a little big, but fun

I do like the fact that there's so many watches. I think there's 60 or 70

I actually have an extra one of these that I wear daily

This watch in particular is one of my favorites. From what I understand, this is a prototype

It was never released. I've only ever seen three of them. This is one of them

The battery does not work anymore, but at one time it actually did play little animated

cartoons and caricatures on the watch. As we move along here, we have a lot of different action figures

At the top, we have from the X-Men Evolution cartoon, 10 or 15 or so years ago

Then we move on down here to Marvel Legends, which are more of the modern action figures

that are larger. Two of the really neat ones here, we have Apocalypse

As you buy figures, different parts of the figure, for example, the arms, the legs, the

torso, the head, come with individual figures and you build the figure literally

Then we also have the Sentinel, which is even taller than Apocalypse

Those are really neat just how massive they are, plus the amount of detail that they put

in, especially here to the Sentinel. A couple of interesting items here

This particular figure, this is a wooden figure. My wife was on consumer advisory boards and she recommended Super Hero

More or less, my wife had a hand in making a Wolverine figure, so that's kind of neat

We have one of my favorite items, one of my first early expensive purchases, a life-size

Wolverine claw replica here. This is another unreleased prototype, something unique to add to my collection that no one

else will have. Back here, we have a Papa John's pizza box

Interesting story on that. When that came out, I contacted them and said, I want to buy a clean box

I have to pay the $10, $15 pizza, that's fine for a clean box

They looked at me kind of weirdly and said, we'll just give you a box