While I'm not that much of a collector off of various things that I really love throughout the years, the closest thing to something like that I came across was my love for Walt Disney's one heck of a jungle jumpin' movie called; "The Jungle Book"! Even I became quite a big fan of this movie since my teen years back in the middle 2010's and still quite a fan to this day! But hey, it's a collection that could be small, but is quite worthy of something to me (regardless of the comparisons to others out there).
Most of these were taken by me aside from the poster that was taken by my mom some years ago before she passed away in late 2022. And the book by Andreas Deja is basically pretty recent one into my collection as I got it last year on Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, there's other Jungle Book stuff being sold on there like the books and same exact VHS tape as I got on there that a few of the books like the Little Library and Little Golden Books versions were from Goodwill as I remember getting them as a kid/teen some years ago alongside getting that Disney's Wonderful World of Reading version that's from one of my public schools that I've bought with the "school money" in my area (as it was called: "Walbridge Bucks" in that one school that I went to at the time if I'm not mistaken there as some of my childhood memories can be foggy to remember nowadays).
As for the VHS tape, it was given to me by one of my parents (I think so I can have it in my room as I used to have a Quasar "Video Viewer" TV ever since I was a teen back in the middle 2010's to watch VHS tapes and DVDs in my room that unfortunately ended up not working anymore after earlier this year as the last time I watched the TV was likely back in the ending of January of this year when I finally got to watch that Tenacious D movie) and I totally wasn't ready for it to gone already despite it did have a solid decade run as for now. Even the one light went out on the "PROG. TIMER" part also meaning that it's no longer working (that I usually see it all the time just constantly blinking there when the TV did actually work). Not to mention that setting up the DVD part (like hooking up a DVD player) wasn't pretty easy to go through either!
But instead of talking about the loss of my TV even further, if you look at my blog posts about which Disney movie I tend to post/talk about the most, I feel like "The Jungle Book" needs no introduction as to why it's such a beloved movie by me. Through the moments like during the songs or some character moments, I gotta say without a doubt, this movie is pretty fun that's worth revisiting again and again!
P.S. I used to have the sequel on VHS that I also got from Goodwill (AKA "The Jungle Book 2"), but after sometime went by on not wanting to own the sequel on VHS for some reasons like on how Shere Khan was brought back as the "main villain" just for fan service and the reintroduction of its many characters including adding a new vulture in that's voice by one of my favorite music artists, Phil Collins...? Well, with the context on how the vultures were made as they were purely based on the Beatles at the time, I agree that this doesn't make sense just by randomly adding Phil into their group honestly... Perhaps they missed out on Ozzy Osbourne (who is quite a fan of them honestly) being a vulture to make a joke in there or something like that. But if you wanna hear my thoughts about Jungle Book 2 a bit more, I think it was okay and of course, it wasn't really a great film unlike the first movie was in my book. Despite its flaws, I think it did have some little moments in there like that "W-I-L-D" song (mainly sung by John Goodman as Baloo) was a fun little ditty for what it was, but definitely it's no "Bare Necessities" or "I Wan'na Be Like You" at the same time. Plus, I think "More Jungle Book" is a better written "what if" sequel than what we actually gotten so far. Even it has King Louie in there without having the need to cut him out!
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