I’m waiting for Microsoft Bob to become a collector item. I’ve still got mine in the original box.
Hate to tell ya, but it is probably as much of a collector's item now as it ever will be.
On the other hand, ya never know...
The PlaySkool / Fisher-Price look and feel of Windows 8 Metro could take over Windows-land, and if it does, I predict that "MS-BOB" will stop being an ancient, weird, abandoned novelty and start being revered as "decades before its time".
And dear Melinda Gates, the chief driving force behind MS-BOB (and oh-by-the-way Bill Gates' girlfriend at the time) will be seen as "prescient" and a true visionary of the user interface of the new millennium's second decade.