Paul Sams and his Blizzard collection
by Mike Schramm 
Nov 13th 2008 at 1:20PM
The Orange County Register was all over the place yesterday -- being the hometown newspaper of Blizzard's hometown, they posted all day about the release and what Blizzard was doing for it (they've got some really good coverage of the event in Anaheim, which our own Dan O'Halloran attended as well). But perhaps most interesting is this post about Blizzard COO Paul Sams -- we haven't heard a lot from him in press before, but apparently he's a bigger Blizzard fan than any of us, with a collection of Blizzard items that includes a mint Spectral Tiger Card, Blizzard skateboards (which are apparently a licensing deal that never went through, so you can't buy those anywhere), and the second Frostmourne ever made -- we assume the first one went to Arthas.And not all of it is Blizzard stuff -- he's got a first edition of The Count of Monte Cristo, and lots of sports memorabilia, too (but let's be honest -- a signed jersey is nothing compared to a Frostmourne. It's real.). Sams also collected his wife from Blizzard, too, apparently, and he says he'd be happy spending his whole career with the company. Sounds awesome to have someone who's such a fanboy sitting in one of your top exec positions.
Sams' favorite item, though, is probably the coolest: three drawings by the man Chris Metzen himself. That would be awesome to see. Check out all of Sams' collection in the OC Register's gallery.
Filed under: Items, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Fan art
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
darren Nov 13th 2008 1:37PM
Am I too big of a nerd that I'm supremely envious of this collection?
Zythern Nov 13th 2008 2:13PM
GG on the PA reference :)
jay Nov 13th 2008 1:44PM
Now to conceive a plan on how to stealth my way into this dudes office
-.-
antonia Nov 13th 2008 3:08PM
nothing for nothing but its kinda easy to have that much of their crap when you not only work for them but you're one of the higher ups.. show us some poor mooch in his moms basement with the same collection and i'll care more.
Drakkenfyre Nov 13th 2008 3:48PM
Nice, lol.