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I’ve threatened this one a few times over the years: a post about my can collection! I’ve covered some of it before, so I won’t mention them here today. This is the rest of them 🙂

Incidentally I’m not a collector of cans. Im not like these guys! I just keep some every now and then…

I started with the above since I drink the damn stuff every day :< The can on the left is some weird camouflage design, and the one on the right was sold in 2012 to market a Batman film. Both are about 50% taller than normal cans.

Similar to the above, tiny and narrow Lift cans from Oz, and a tiny Fanta can that was in stores last year to (bizarrely) market the new Mummy film!

This set of 8 was out way back when the first Avengers film released. We bought lots of Dr Pepper to get them all, and I recall pouring lots down the sink. I believe I saved three of these sets; and think I gave one each to AW and BS?

I believe the above were for Avengers 2? Again Dr Pepper, but this time I couldn’t get them all because some were only on regional flavors we never saw in shops!

And then they continued the madness with Batman vs Superman…

And Wonder Woman. As you can see I didn’t complete either, again due to the difficulty of getting the weird flavors.

Actually Dr Pepper movie cans have become a bit of an annual thing, although the contrast on this years Jurassic World cans left a bit to be desired:

Again… I only found half of them 😐

Moving away from endless Dr Pepper a while, here we have a lovely Dragonball can from Japan, a customized Coke can that was part of a promotion in Australia, and two game-related energy drink cans.

Here we have Evangelion coffee and a special Hakone-themed beer can (bought in Hakone) both from Japan.

And a variety of additional Japanese cans, including AKB48, Frame Arms and Queens Blade (my only ‘gamebook’ can!). Most of these are energy drinks, and all are the tiny half-sized cans.

Here’s one from 2012: a Michael Jackson Pepsi can! It’s oversized and nicely designed.

And continuing the music theme, three Pepsi cans I bought recently. I don’t drink Pepsi and neither does KLS, so I poured all the contents down the sink…

And I say I’m not a collector! Actually to be completely honest, after photographing all this and making this post I’m wondering just why I keep this stuff? Yes some of the Japanese ones are nostalgic souvenirs (I recall exactly when I bought the Dragonball one for instance) but Michael Jackson?!?

At least they don’t take up too much space 🙂

I’ll end by saying I’m a little disappointed there hasn’t been any additional Star Wars cans released since 1999, especially considering the annual Dr Pepper series. Surely consumers would prefer a Porg can to one with ‘Stiggy’ on it?!?

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