Hot Wheels Collectors HWC

[Dalking]

Just seeing if anyone else out here buys one for their kid/niece/nephew and then gets one or two or 20 for themselves :P

[roll_over]

I collect them, but I don't have any kids yet I just buy them for myself

[mrsingh]

Originally posted by Dalking
Just seeing if anyone else out here buys one for their kid/niece/nephew and then gets one or two or 20 for themselves :P

I will neither confirm nor deny that every time I buy my son a new hot wheels, Daddy gets one too...

[egmilano]

lol my grandfather has boxes full, numbered and all ...

[Twenty]

I collect them! I can't go in a grocery store without heading to the hotwheels shelf.

[eglove]

I hunt for friends, I'll keep treasure hunts if I find them.

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If you see a carbonator buy it because it's a bottle opener. What do you all collect? Just what you like or anything specific?

[Dalking]

i started collecting imports only, then subarus, then this and that and now my collection is large. just went to walmart tonight and got the paul walker supra suprisingly


ive been buying for my niece for the past 5 years, shes a hotwheels addict. then i recently discovered these things called treasure hutns and super treasure hunts worth money....thats when i decided that i need to make sure i know what im giving away as a toy and to buy an extra for myself lol

ive got about 100 cars or so that i have kept in the packaging

[roll_over]

Nice haul that chev truck is an error wrong way in the package. We don't get many supers in Canada because the low wages in Malaysia so they steal them to supplement their income. The regular treasure hunts are easy to find so don't expect much from them. The Sesto is nice but I'm waiting for the next color wave which IMO is way nicer (I still grabbed two lol). PM me if you want me to learn you how to optimize your hunts.

http://t-hunted.blogspot.ca/

http://lamleydlm.blogspot.ca/

[TL911]

Mine are all open but put away from my kids...when I have them

[jonnycat]

I used to, I bought my kid so many as well everytime we went out and saw them, I would buy some. He probably has 200, plus I gave him my stash. all opened, played with and becoming worthless.

[ArjayAquino]

got a couple STi ones at work that my coworker was nice enough to pick up for me

[reiRei]

I have a few in my cube, I just pick up cars that interest me. I have been debating on whether or not to take them out of the packaging and making a parking lot in my office, but the general consensus is to keep them in the packaging, I have:

2 AE86s
Toyota FR-S
Toyota 200 GT
Nissan Skyline GT-R
Ford Fiesta Ken Block Edition
2 Ford Gran Torino
Lamborghini Aventador (neat matte black paint)
Datsun Bluebird 510
Lotus Evora
DeLorean
and a 1970 Toyota Celica

the good thing is, I work in Automotive Marketing, so it's all work-related decor

[n1zm0]

Recently (probably about last year) I have started buying them, it started as OP said, buying some for the little cousin. Then I kept looking through the selections and realized theres TONS more real-life make and model cars being produced now than when I was a kid! That's where it (re)started I guess.

I used to have a massive bin (about 3/4s of a garbage can) full of them when I was a kid, my dad would get me one once a month when I went to the grocery store with him, then my mom gave them all to the salvation army one day in a fit of spring cleaning without telling me (worst day of my childhood). I moved on to 1:18 scale die casts (Maisto-Bburago) and still have lots of those, post a pic when I get home.

[Dalking]

Originally posted by roll_over
Nice haul that chev truck is an error wrong way in the package. We don't get many supers in Canada because the low wages in Malaysia so they steal them to supplement their income. The regular treasure hunts are easy to find so don't expect much from them. The Sesto is nice but I'm waiting for the next color wave which IMO is way nicer (I still grabbed two lol). PM me if you want me to learn you how to optimize your hunts.

http://t-hunted.blogspot.ca/

http://lamleydlm.blogspot.ca/

are tehse your own blogs? my cousin and i are into it quite a bit now, would love to setup a trade session one day

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Not my blog's but a good way to know what's being released

Datsun's

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Porsche 993

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Laferarri

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Lambrojeanies

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WHO-WHY-RA

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Sesto

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[Mar]

I come across these a lot on my weekend hunts for Transformers and when I hear them ask about some of the prices, they're selling some of them for a couple of hundred dollars. Last weekend there was a guy oogling one because it had both surf boards on the roof, apparently they're normally lost or broken. I don't get it, what causes certain metal cars to be worth money and others not? It doesn't make any sense to me. I was trying to dig through his N64 cartridges and they wouldn't even move, they were in some sort of Hot Wheels hypno-trance.

I had a couple growing up but we never called them Hot Wheels, we just called them Dinkies. And the only thing we did with them was stand across the room and see whom would make the other bloodier by whipping them at each other, then we'd bury them in the yard and leave them out there for 2 years. I remember I had the little white Ghostbusters car, the Dukes Of Hazzard and the KITT Car. Beyond that I just remember boxes of metal cars that all looked the same. I'm pretty sure I still have them somewhere, I'd be willing to trade them or give them away if someone really wanted them. Though they're at my parents' house in Newfoundland.

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^^^this coming from the guy that was freaking out about scalpers. Some people just take the hobby to cereal it makes the majority of us look like 40 year old virgins with pot bellies who wear shirts that are to small from conventions past

[Dalking]

Anyone interested in hotwheels I have a decent collection and alot of cars worth good coin. We lost our house this weekend and I will be selling them to prepare for reparations. If anyone wants them pm me.

[s dime]

Originally posted by Dalking
Anyone interested in hotwheels I have a decent collection and alot of cars worth good coin. We lost our house this weekend and I will be selling them to prepare for reparations. If anyone wants them pm me.

Sounds terrible