Hot Wheels Collectors HWC [Archive] - Beyond.ca - Car Forums

roll_over

11-15-2011, 03:11 PM

I started collecting back in 99 but just this year started taking it seriously. Just wondering if I was the only dork on here or if maybe a few others also collect and maybe willing to trade/sell cars.

I have multiples of some so if you are looking just ask

GOnSHO

11-15-2011, 04:28 PM

i collect but not like, I NEED specific cars, i just go and when i see a couple i like, i just buy em..

schurchill39

11-15-2011, 07:14 PM

Post up some pictures of your collection

BlackRadon

11-15-2011, 07:29 PM

i collected hot wheels when i was pretty young and stopped maybe just before i got into high school. Ive probably have close too 1000+ all still in the boxes. Have a bunch of redlines and treasure hunts and a few other limited pieces. I might go dig them out when i go to my parents house and get a picture.

JordanEG6

11-15-2011, 07:57 PM

Originally posted by schurchill39
Post up some pictures of your collection

:werd: I'm interested in seeing your collection as well.

flipstah

11-15-2011, 07:58 PM

I started when I was a kid so my collection is pretty beat up.

Well played. :)

I got a bunch of Tomy cars from Asia, Matchbox, and Hot Wheels!

Twin_Cam_Turbo

11-15-2011, 08:09 PM

I have a lot of them, saving them for my child.

4DoorGTZ

11-15-2011, 08:18 PM

I have boxes and boxes of stuff from 8-10yrs ago. Think I usually went for sets of first editions, think there's 1 whole box of Treasure hunts.... Have a few of the online limited editions....

Unfortunatly its not sorted, maybe the TH's and special editions are seperated out.

I'll still browse through if I'm in a big box store and walk past the toy section.

bourge73

11-15-2011, 08:21 PM

Me too, I still buy em, but find I mostly now days buy the muscle cars. (all in boxes, but they are only a dollar still...) I have lots out of the boxes from the Redlines, to the 80's and 90's, I just can't help myself I love them.

Gibson

11-15-2011, 08:41 PM

Been buying a few lately that have interested me. They've had a bunch of cool stuff, modded S2000, Datsun 510, R32 GT-R, Civic, Scirroco GT...

I take them out of the box though (gasp!) They're meant to be played around with, they sit on my coffee table and I zip them around while I'm talking on the phone or waiting for my games to load haha. I've got a Ford GT and a Ferrari P4 that are in an infinite duel.

roll_over

11-16-2011, 01:49 PM

Post my collection? i'll try but its going to make a huge mess!!! just give me some time and i will try to get them up today.

@ goandshow that sounds just like how I started.

*EDIT*
Here are a few of my cars I have
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6052/6361385577_f0bbac77ef.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6100/6361382055_844493932b.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6230/6350772463_39a8be049f.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6114/6361383769_07bc5618b5.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6228/6361390727_d636c8d186.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6052/6361388873_0d5033822e.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6215/6361387209_3a24d2cc82.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6213/6351509916_73c31fd583.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6219/6361537263_a7dfa1ebaf.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6031/6361532221_d0267c4d6f.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6109/6361533829_ef333d9513.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6092/6361530373_5cca92b7f0.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6037/6351082289_2d2368a78d.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6050/6350764437_6b5d0e5f82.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6351124801_5593551e26.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6019/6350762677_4b222b19c7.jpg
Some 2010's
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6044/6351080513_8d455f8889.jpg
Some 2011's
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6058/6351078697_d2093e244c.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6100/6352605740_b35d739758.jpg

sputnik

11-16-2011, 02:49 PM

I always have a dozen or so in my dresser.

When I need my two year old son to be a bit more patient (long car trip, nicer restaurant or doctors appt) I give him one.

Best $1.50 spent keeping him busy for an hour or more.

However, I do hang onto any Treasure Hunts I come across.

jonnycat

11-18-2011, 02:58 PM

I just handed over 99% of my entire collection to my kid. He probably has 100 already plus mie. It is so easy for me to buy those things when I see them

flipstah

11-18-2011, 06:22 PM

I'm gonna take pictures of mine this weekend! All of mine are out of the box and 'well-played' haha.

DGill

11-18-2011, 06:36 PM

I have a huge collection as well, growing up they were the only toys I would get, I must say as far and detail and variety of cars they have come a long way.

Chantastic

11-18-2011, 09:00 PM

A bunch of old well used ones sit in my basement. The better half are on display, and it clearly showcases my Lamborghini love. Every time I am at walmart or the like I always look at the hot wheels. The odd time I pick a few up.

Notables purchased recently:

- Silver Delorean DMC12
- Back to the Future Time Machine!
- Ghostbusters Ecto-1!!!

I also tried to get all the WRC editions, I am still looking for the Ford Focus. I want that M3 GT2 and the AMG!! Also one weird thing I noticed the other day; I saw an R32 Skyline GTR, but the picture on the card was of an R34...

Melinda

11-18-2011, 11:28 PM

^ toys r us south had the rally cars when I was there last week. I picked up the Subaru one for my son.

We've got tons of these, but all opened and played with.

If anyone's looking for the delorian or the skyline, the shawnessy zellers has them. Unless the sale has ended, they're half price right now too ($.74)

roll_over

11-18-2011, 11:50 PM

Im still looking for the ecto-1 and the Nissan Skyline H/T 2000 GT-X. Found a few ken blocks, a team vans and batmobiles.

I went to that zellers and raided the peggs they have a big dump bin set up that I almost missed

loose
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6095/6364602085_6057e5ac85.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6053/6361538893_6d2f146285.jpg
http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6047/6361535569_eb1a720524.jpg

Gibson

12-03-2011, 11:36 PM

I bought a Ken Block Fiesta and promptly opened it. Then I realized they might be rare. Anyone know their production numbers?

I also have the two Deloreans (the time machine and just the DMC-12) carded still, because I'm not sure on their production numbers either.

roll_over

12-03-2011, 11:48 PM

http://hotwheels.wikia.com/

Dalking

01-28-2014, 10:38 PM

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

01-28-2014, 10:48 PM

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

mrsingh

01-28-2014, 11:07 PM

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

01-28-2014, 11:07 PM

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

Twenty

01-28-2014, 11:09 PM

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

eglove

01-28-2014, 11:32 PM

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

roll_over

01-29-2014, 01:41 AM

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

01-29-2014, 01:58 AM

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
https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/r270/1002210_10153793667870721_1270727290_n.jpg

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

01-29-2014, 02:26 AM

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

01-29-2014, 09:31 AM

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

jonnycat

01-29-2014, 10:31 AM

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

01-29-2014, 10:45 AM

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

reiRei

01-29-2014, 10:54 AM

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 :D

n1zm0

01-29-2014, 11:07 AM

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

01-29-2014, 12:25 PM

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

roll_over

01-29-2014, 12:38 PM

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

Datsun's
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xIzTOpypbo8/UuiDZF1abWI/AAAAAAAAog0/FrTF-DqIz_c/s1600/03_HotWheelsDatsun620_blue-640x426.jpg
Porsche 993
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XCWSlHPfokk/UuulwNk_ctI/AAAAAAABGCc/JrFUJMmiz9Y/s1600/hwc_sneaks_89340.jpg
Laferarri
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tHvTEocI1Lg/UuulxDC-ftI/AAAAAAABGCw/iQCN63USP80/s1600/hwc_sneaks_89349.jpg
Lambrojeanies
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uq7MIa0vNGo/UukwKevS4oI/AAAAAAABF74/HU5R0oxnKVM/s1600/LoteG0010.jpg
WHO-WHY-RA
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-36L6z2YlbYQ/UukwJOxVo3I/AAAAAAABF7k/LFjMmUXgKvg/s1600/LoteG0007.jpg
Sesto
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u0j0cHZayqY/Uv0hgOMxegI/AAAAAAAApaY/V_ktiXqhzhU/s1600/IMG_1180.JPG

Mar

03-17-2014, 01:13 AM

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.

roll_over

03-17-2014, 01:46 AM

^^^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

03-17-2014, 03:11 AM

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

03-17-2014, 03:47 AM

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 :eek:

Chantastic

03-21-2014, 10:56 AM

Dalking

03-21-2014, 02:12 PM

Everything is getting better. Lost our house from a malfunctioning stove, sparked a large kitchen fire and smoke damage pretty much ruined amything in the upper level and has seeped into the basement the past week. Looking to get back into the house in 3 months.

clem24

03-26-2014, 10:39 AM

Yikes!! Sucks to hear.

I collect though HW is not my main interest. I buy mainly because they are easiest to get in the city LOL. My main interest is Tomica, followed by Matchbox.

I have yet to find a Super in the wild.. Only found regular T-hunts.

Twin_Cam_Turbo

03-26-2014, 11:07 AM

Last I checked I had between 700-800 toy cars from my childhood.

Modelexis

04-09-2017, 07:08 PM

I'm just getting into the HW game.

Started with a few finds from Safeway for 1$ then I started checking Walmart every so often, then on and on it went until I came up with this collection so far:

http://www.modelexis.com/beyond/HW/20170409_185634.jpg

My favs are,
Magnus Walker Porsche, Fairlady 2000, GT Ford GT, new NSX

I've got more coming, but I won't post them up until they arrive.

That's a cork board in the background with a frame around it if anyone's wondering, works well for pinning each row on for display, and you can hang it on a wall if you want.

blownz

04-10-2017, 11:05 AM

My parents sold all of mind many years ago at a garage sale for $5. A couple hundred. I am still mad to this day about it.

My kids have a few hundred now and even though they aren't really interested in them anymore (they are about to be 9 and 11) I refuse to let them give any away. I insist that one day they will be happy I made them keep them. :burnout:

Disoblige

04-10-2017, 11:07 AM

Has anyone found the Focus RS around Calgary?

I would mind 1 or 2 if anyone sees them.

http://www.focusrs.org/forum/attachments/24177d1468096805-2016-hotwheels-nitrous-blue-focus-rs-rs-hotwheels.jpg

Modelexis

04-10-2017, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by Disoblige
Has anyone found the Focus RS around Calgary?

I would mind 1 or 2 if anyone sees them.

Safeway has the koni white one usually:
http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mf68xYj3NLvM9q52OUdFWzA.jpg

Disoblige

04-10-2017, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Modelexis

Safeway has the koni white one usually:
http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mf68xYj3NLvM9q52OUdFWzA.jpg
omfg.
Would anyone be able to get either one for me and hold them until I'm back in town or ship them to me?

2 blue, and 2 white Koni ones would be awesome. Will pay for your time and effort.

Looks like there is a Black Koni one as well, I don't even know where to look to see all the '16 RS' hot wheels made, lol.

Dalking

04-10-2017, 02:43 PM

I have way too many to take photos of. I used to collect pretty aggressively a few years ago, even used to customize them. But have slowed down to a complete 0 on bothering to buy anything in the past couple years.

Modelexis

04-10-2017, 07:08 PM

I got my japanese Historics collection today in the mail, paid way too much for it but had to have it.

http://www.modelexis.com/beyond/HW/20170410_174852.jpg

Modelexis

04-14-2017, 12:16 PM

I was just at toys R us macleod trail last night and they have tons of yellow 1990 NSX in stock if anyone's looking.

danno

04-14-2017, 04:44 PM

I got a bunch of those as well but I let the kids play with them. Love finding them.

03ozwhip

04-14-2017, 05:28 PM

just bought my kid a Volvo v60 polestar at Walmart.

redsrt4

04-14-2017, 08:40 PM

my son and i are collecting, we got about 400+ now.

BensonTT

12-28-2018, 11:32 PM

My very first car back in high school :p

Sugarphreak

12-29-2018, 01:11 AM

...

BokCh0y

01-01-2019, 01:04 PM

You guys ever come across the treasure hunter ones?

Couple of cool Honda ones I've come across:

https://i.imgur.com/CFv8zZU.jpg

I also picked up a bunch of the Tomy Takura cars from HK, here's a couple of them - first one is the Toyota 2000GT and the second one is a concept of a potential MR2 aka SFR:

https://i.imgur.com/P39CwI1.jpg

shakalaka

12-11-2020, 04:01 PM

95920

Ahhhh yeaaa!

^Nice!

Sometimes I think about buying hot wheels (would prefer die cast) versions of all the vehicles I have owned so far and displaying them in my games room in the basement somehow but I think I will end up dropping way too much money on toy cars and not sure if that's worth it! Haha.

Also, I don't like to keep things in packaging so I wouldn't do that either.

The_Rural_Juror

12-11-2020, 04:26 PM

Best Prelude ever!

danno

12-11-2020, 05:21 PM

Wish I collected them. But I give them to the kids. They will be played with for sure, Respect for those that can never play with toys though.

benyl

12-11-2020, 10:02 PM

Wish I collected them. But I give them to the kids. They will be played with for sure, Respect for those that can never play with toys though.

I grabbed that prelude for buh_buh at a dollar store in Vancouver in November. He hasn’t come to pick it up.

My collection is stupid.

95935

firebane

12-11-2020, 10:33 PM

I grabbed that prelude for buh_buh at a dollar store in Vancouver in November. He hasn’t come to pick it up.

My collection is stupid.

95935

lol if that is what you call stupid you'd hate to see mine :D

Disoblige

12-11-2020, 11:03 PM

Anyone have some normal colored non-livery Focus RS hot wheels they want to sell? :D

danno

12-11-2020, 11:17 PM

I have a blue focus rs. Open no box. If you want it you you can have it.

ZeroGravity

12-11-2020, 11:17 PM

Dang, now that I've seen it, I need to have one. My Prelude was silver though... wait... Nordic Mist Metallic.

ExtraSlow

12-12-2020, 08:45 AM

I used to be big into hotwheels as a kid. Love em. Don't really "collect" anything these days, but I wouldn't mind a couple on my desk at work. I should see if they are still in my moms basement.

I'd really love a Ford F series 1967-1972 one. Learned to drive in one of those, and that's what my dad drove camping when I was a kid. Lotta memories in that.

killramos

12-12-2020, 09:26 AM

I’ve been working on having a die cast version of all my cars

I have my M235i and my C63. I also have an E92 M3 which I would like to own one day.

Need a MkV GTI one which has proven difficult.

Not nearly as interested in die cast versions of my beaters like my jeep or pickup though. But I guess it would round it out.

spikerS

12-12-2020, 10:15 AM

About a year ago, I got introduced to a Hotwheels collector and he showed off his collection to me. It is kept in his business here in the city in the back, and if you go to the store you wouldn't even know it was there...

But, HOLY SHIT! dude literally has THOUSANDS of brand new, in the package Hotwheels of every era and vintage, many multiples of a car in every imaginable livery, and from what I saw, probably a good half of them are hanging from the walls arranged in such a way that just the car in the bubble part of the package is shown, while the rest of the packaging is hidden by the car directly above it. Plus the guy has probably a dozen display cases to show off his more desirable cars or oversized stuff and stuff out of box. The guy even has his staff cruising eBay for him during their shifts and bidding on stuff he wants, and he also travels to conventions and such with the sole intention of buying the exclusives there. The guy is bonkers, but full props to his commitment.

I don't really want to give more details than that though as I don't think he really wants his collection well known. But literally with no exaggeration here, if he has less than 20,000 hotwheels, and that less than 15,000 of them are NIB, I would be shocked. It truly is a really impressive collection!

03ozwhip

12-12-2020, 10:36 AM

D'z Nutz

12-12-2020, 10:38 AM

I only have two Hot Wheels and I wish they were cars I owned.

https://i.frog.ink/JCb087Ap/hbdc92-13grn_600.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51yEc5p4igL._AC_.jpg

BokCh0y

04-30-2021, 11:03 AM

Spring cleaning and came across these I've been just adding to for the past year:

https://i.imgur.com/U9Ol335.jpg

HiSpec

04-30-2021, 03:52 PM

Has anyone come across a white A250?
All I can find is the white and red one

legendboy

04-30-2021, 07:43 PM

I have a whole suit case full of 50's and 60's Dinky Toy cars, trucks, busses, air planes, trains, all kinds of stuff

ExtraSlow

04-30-2021, 09:17 PM

I have a whole suit case full of 50's and 60's Dinky Toy cars, trucks, busses, air planes, trains, all kinds of stuff

Like

legendboy

05-01-2021, 05:35 PM

Like

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51151635038_146e7d0c87_4k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kW6v13)Dinky cars (https://flic.kr/p/2kW6v13) by Corey Scheuchner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/csprecision/), on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51150729547_e44eaba244_4k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kW1RQ8)Dinky cars (https://flic.kr/p/2kW1RQ8) by Corey Scheuchner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/csprecision/), on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51151403471_70f7b7ede2_4k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kW5jav)Dinky cars (https://flic.kr/p/2kW5jav) by Corey Scheuchner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/csprecision/), on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51150729502_a572975b4e_4k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/2kW1RPm)Dinky cars (https://flic.kr/p/2kW1RPm) by Corey Scheuchner (https://www.flickr.com/photos/csprecision/), on Flickr
Have these ones on display