Collecting The Simpsons: The Merchandise & Legacy of Our Favorite Nuclear Family

by Warren Evnas, James Hicks, Lydia Poulteney

The Simpsons Merchandise Guide for all Simpsons Lovers “What are the two things every Simpsons’ collector needs? This book and shelves! “ ─Stephanie Gillis, Writer on The Simpsons

#1 Best Seller in TV History & Criticism

This quirky book unleashes the entire story of all Simpsons merchandise, spanning decades. Lydia and James Hicks, authors of the bestselling The Simpsons Secret, partner with Warren Evans, the Bart of Darkness, to detail a massive collection of rare Simpsons memorabilia.

Jump right into 90s nostalgia! Simpsons lovers everywhere, explore the explosion of Simpsons merchandise and products right in the comfort of your own home. From action figures, video games, comics, lunch boxes, and yes, even cookie jars, this book is a collector's paradise full of insightful information.

The perfect collector’s item to have! This full-color guide features high quality photos of Simpsons-inspired products and is the perfect gift for Simpsons lovers as well as fans of Friends, Family Guy, and other classics!



Read for all of the words of Warren Evans, a note-worthy expert on The Simpsons familyFind full-colored photographs of Simpsons merchandise and collector items from the beginning of The Simpsons dynasty

If you're looking for one of the best books for TV nerds who like The Big Bang Theory, Welcome to Dunder Mifflin, or The Simpsons Secret, then Collecting the Simpsons belongs right on your bookshelf!

Genres: Tv, Nonfiction

494 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2024

Reviews

[Wesley Mead · Rating 4 out of 5]

A decent, in-depth look at Simpsons merchandise - full-colour, packed with pictures, and with extensive text - that was perhaps just one editing pass short of being definitive.

Guides to the toys, soundtracks and comics are well-balanced, but VHS tapes get incredibly short shrift (two pages total) compared to video games (which get two pages apiece, minimum; over 50 in total). A couple of errors (one boxout attributes an episode to both the wrong year and the wrong season, a VHS tape is cited as being released in the wrong year) detract marginally, too.

But overall, still highly recommended for fans of the show - I've written for a Simpsons website for twenty years, and there's still some stuff in here I hadn't seen before; and the text helps place a lot of the material into a broader cultural context.

[Lance Ferrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is for anyone who loves, collects, or is a fan of the Simpsons. The authors of this book you can tell have a huge appreciation for the Simpsons. I have been a fan since the early days of the show, and when I found out about this I pre ordered it right away. I received my copy today WOW the quality is amazing. The level of detail is great. I will enjoy this for a long time. I did not realize how much collectables were out there for the simpsons.

[Ava Courtney Sylvester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Egghead likes her booky-wook!

I grew up with the Simpsons, and I'd say 90% of my sense of humor cones from the show, not even including my insistence that there really is a Simpsons quote for everything. (Neatly dying of a vitamin B deficiency was a twofer: "bed goes up, bed goes down" and Professor Frink's lifetime supply of "niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin.")

This, then, is a book dreams are made of. It chronicles the Simpsons' breadth and reach for the casual and hardcore fans alike and how it burrowed into our lives, from cataloging every video game to featuring the fast food toys that were the highlight of my childhood. Simpsons fanatic that I am, even I learned a bunch of fascinating trivia, and I'm all the more embiggened by it.

In short? This book belongs in every Simpsons fan's collection.

[Michael Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are few media properties as merchandise friendly as The Simpsons (only things that come close are probably Star Wars and superheroes), so it’s only natural that you can fill an entire book with not only loads of Simpsons toys, t-shirts, VHS/DVDs, comic books and video games, but details about how they all came to be.

Even if you’re not the collecting type, I still think if you’re into the show at all, it’s very easy to get into this book and see just how many outlets beyond TV The Simpsons have gotten involved in throughout the decades.

[Tommy Wren · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you for capturing the warm fuzzy feelings of nostalgia in ways I didn't know existed. I wanted this book purely because I remember watching the first 10 seasons of the simpsons religiously on DVD from the cardboard box sets from my older brother and my love for the show has never dimmed. It makes me so happy to see the plethora of ways that people love the show that are all their own and all just as wonderful. This book is simpsons sonder

[Reader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book with lots of information about simpsons merchandise and lots of photos

[Tommy Harmon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book!