Next to the door that will become my dedicated home theater is a theater-style marquee with changeable letters and "moving" lights. I've been able to print out my own transparencies for the sign, such as "Coming Soon..." and "In Dolby Digital!" to add color and interest. I just create them as WordArt in PowerPoint and print them onto transparency film.

All around the gameroom are movie posters of some of my favorite films. Most of these are reproductions I got at a "nostalgia" store in the local mall, which frames them for a reasonable price. But my Rocketeer poster is an original; it was a gift from my sister-in-law at the time the movie came out (1991).

The other memorabilia hanging around the bar is mostly prop banknotes and coins from the movies, most of which I got on eBay at very reasonable prices. I don't collect things for their individual rarity, but for their general attractiveness as décor. I've always liked foreign coins and currency, so movie prop money was a natural place to start.

There are framed displays of:

Banknotes used in various (unknown) film productions from old westerns to modern movies. A little online research helped me find information about the "Mexican stand-in," Mexican currency used as models for money in westerns.

Banknotes created for Total Recall. These look great and were shown in several scenes, altho never close enough to see much detail.

Banknotes and a coin created for Coming to America. These look fantastic and were featured very prominently in a few scenes. I have since added a second coin, which displays the reverse.

"When I say the boy has his own money, I mean the boy has his own money."

Doubloons created for The Goonies and used again for Hook. This allowed me to make a combined display with pics from both films. You can find them pretty easily in The Goonies, but I haven't looked for them in Hook.

To add to the display, I found a nice description of New World "cob" coins on a sunken treasure Web site.

A German bearer bond created for Beverly Hills Cop. This was a cool item I remembered from the early scenes of the movie and which are seen again in nice detail much later. This is a very detailed prop (all in German); it opens to reveal full detail inside and on the back. But it's so big, I didn't have room to display anything but the front.

I did have enough space for a definition of "bearer bond" that I found on the Deutschebank Web site.

A "Tardust Casino" chip and 20 clams from The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas. Not a great movie, maybe, but pretty cool additions to my collection, especially with the photo that came with it, which shows Fred and Barney playing craps on a table where both chips and clams are visible.

These are mounted in a shadow box because they are each about half an inch (12 mm) thick.

Nifty coins like those used in the Harry Potter movies. I bought two sets and left them in the holders so that you could see both sides. There is a knut, sickle, and a crown. In the first movie, we see Harry pull out a pocketful to buy candy from the steward on the train.