How does GTPlanet feel about Hot Wheels?

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Still collecting! I'm 14.

I try to purchase track cars, cars that can actually run around a circuit and virtually blitz down those narrow trackways... I lost my only track set though... The search is on.

Despite my age, I appreciate classic Hot Wheels cars, from 1968 and such.

I also build 'advanced' race cars and aircraft from Lego too.

A tad off-topic, but does anyone know if the Audi R8 exists in 1/64th scale? My older brother claimed to have seen one, and now I can't find it...
 
I used to collect them as well, I used to spend all my money on those things as a kid, I think I stopped buying them at the age of 11. As a matter of a fact, I have no idea why but my parents have a whole bunch of hot wheels cars from the 70-80's still in their original boxes and have never been opened. I wonder if any of them are worth something these days.
 
I have a bunch of older ones, but my dad has two fairly valuable ones... The VW Surf Bus. One of them even has the original surf boards!
 
I'll buy the normal ones if I find one I like. They make so many "fantasy" cars now, but they still crank out some 1/64 replicas. A few years ago, I bought 7 Ferraris for $3.50 :D. A little while later, I found a pretty cool 1/64 Enzo, too. All of the cars from my childhood are in less-than-mint condition :lol:.
 
I unfortunately sold most of my Hot Wheels at a garage sale years back, but I still have a few in the package, and a few old ones in the basement. I used to love those things, and I remember I always loved that little track that made cars crash in the middle, I can't remember the name of it. I used to also smash some of the cars with a hammer, not quite sure why :D
 
I used to as a kid - Matchbox more than Hotwheels, but I preferred bigger ones. I had a lovely Alfetta GT, and two Lancia Stratoses (Stratii?), which were probably 1:12 or 1:18 or thereabouts, and a couple of F1 cars of similar scale. One was an '80s Renault, but I'm not sure what year. It was Prost's car so it would have been '82 or '83. I can't remember what the other F1 cars were. I think one was Bruno Gaiciommell....um Bruno's Alfa Romeo, which, despite my love for Alfas, I probably wanted because it looked a bit like a McLaren! At least the paint was similar :D

I keep looking at them now but don't bother buying them because they just don't look good enough to me any more. When I was a kid they looked like small versions of the real thing. Now they look out of proportion, with panel gaps way too big and bodywork and glass way too thick. I just want more accuracy than they can probably make them to, unfortunately.

Still, I'm tempted by the occasional plastic model. Those can often work out quite nicely.
 
Kylehnat
I'll buy the normal ones if I find one I like. They make so many "fantasy" cars now, but they still crank out some 1/64 replicas. A few years ago, I bought 7 Ferraris for $3.50 :D. A little while later, I found a pretty cool 1/64 Enzo, too. All of the cars from my childhood are in less-than-mint condition :lol:.
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That's about the same for me. I try to keep the nicer ones from my later childhood in good condition and the rest I have thrown in a bucket. None are still in boxes, sadly.

And I agree with Alfa. I was looking at the website the other day and really started wondering when all of those imperfections either showed up or started to get noticed.
 
philly cheese
And I agree with Alfa. I was looking at the website the other day and really started wondering when all of those imperfections either showed up or started to get noticed.
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I had the exact same experience. I was looking at a stall full of them at a car show and thinking... did they have a serious quality drop, or have my eyes got much better?

Perhaps a child's imagination covered up the gaps when we were younger.
 
Maybe, but up until this summer (I'm now 19), I didn't see anything wrong. I couldn't believe how awkward they all looked after not seeing them in a few months. It might have been the imagination, but I would guess that seeing them every day and not studying them and only comparing them to each other is really what made them seem normal.
 
Matchbox where always my favorite. I have to say these days matchbox cars are impressive, they have alsorts of stuff, including alloy wheels, well imitaions alloys, but cool non the less. That said I never cared that the didn't have special wheels when I was a wee nipper.
 
Thirdeye
I unfortunately sold most of my Hot Wheels at a garage sale years back, but I still have a few in the package, and a few old ones in the basement. I used to love those things, and I remember I always loved that little track that made cars crash in the middle, I can't remember the name of it. I used to also smash some of the cars with a hammer, not quite sure why :D
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Take a look. There are many track sets out there that involved an intersection where cars inevitably met and crashed at high velocity, but the most famous one is known as, 'Criss-Cross-Crash'.

You pounded cars with a hammer? How distressing!
 
I truly have no idea what I did with my Hot Wheels collection (In the old wheel shaped holder, no less).
Thankfully, my mom kept all my comics and sent them to me a couple of years back. So that pile of "collectibles" is intact.
 
TsukubaTrueno
Well, I don't know what I can do, except to change the size. But I like it like this.. If you don't want to read it, fine. Skip my post or something.

And in your other post, I too think that good grammar is very important. I feel dumb when I misspell a word. :O​
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Don't center your posts. It's much, much more annoying than reading small fonts.

As for Hot Wheels, I've had a few, but my favourite is a Matchbox Peterbilt Shell Truck that I've had since I was 1. I've moved up to 1:18's (though I hardly buy them anymore, my Sauber C9 and McLaren F1 GTR were the only ones I really wanted), plus they look very nice in display cases.
 
I've purchased and been given thousands of dollars worth of Hot Wheels cars. If I had kept most of them in the packages, I could probably buy my own real car with their total value.
 
F1GTR
As for Hot Wheels, I've had a few, but my favourite is a Matchbox Peterbilt Shell Truck that I've had since I was 1.
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I think I have the same one except the axles are bent so it doesn't roll anymore and the pain tis halfway gone. I remember my first was a little grey (at least it is now:lol:) 911 on the sidewalk at home in Orange, CA when I was three. That got me hooked, although it is sad that I don't quite know where it is now.:guilty:
 
Just picked up a new set. It had the Lancia Stratos:

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That said, the Chinese factories seem to be of lesser quality than the Malaysian and Thai factories. The paint of one car came off in my hand. On the same car, there were glaring inconsistencies in the paint, and it only appears to affect bright orange cars. The Stratos was damaged right after it came out of the box (quite by accident, but it was a carpeted floor).

The sudden outburst of the Canadian dollar meant it was much like real cars: someone here purchased 7 cars for $3.50; I got 5 for $10, and that was a sale.
 
What did you buy, the cheapest ones possible?

Yesterday I was at the store and decided I wanted to get one. I ended up finding a Hotwheels Porsche Cayman S.
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I recently got the Camaro concept, I noticed that the Chevy emblem paint was off center, and the grill was pretty low quality, but my friend was just "amazed" at how "sick" it looked.
 
Diablo'
What did you buy, the cheapest ones possible?

Yesterday I was at the store and decided I wanted to get one. I ended up finding a Hotwheels Porsche Cayman S.
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Nice. And no, they weren't the cheapest ones possible; some obscure plastics company had some low-quality models at $5. I was just asking, as I noticed this and saw that the car bases coincided with my question. I bought another 5-pack, labeled 'Exotics', with the same price ($12.99, lowered to $9.99), but the models were definitely better quality. The Acura HSC, despite having orange paint, held up very well, there is less friction acting on the wheels, and one of the cars even had a properly centered Porsche badge and expertly tampoed front lights, a far cry from the cars I bought earlier.

Is that a 'special' model (Track Aces, Real Riders, etc.), or a 'regular' model? I just have never seen such a wheel design used by Mattel.
 
superberkut
Is that a 'special' model (Track Aces, Real Riders, etc.), or a 'regular' model? I just have never seen such a wheel design used by Mattel.
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Aside from the wheels, which I think are a little ridiculous, that is a sweet toy. It really doesn't look that awkward like some others I have seen.
 
superberkut
Is that a 'special' model (Track Aces, Real Riders, etc.), or a 'regular' model? I just have never seen such a wheel design used by Mattel.
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Nope, just a regular hotwheels car. I was a bit surprised in the quality and design of the wheels as well. The only thing i found wrong was the taillights which are way off. It also rolls really well though, perfectly straight

The thing is, I went to the same store today and they had a yellow version of the same car :dopey:. It looked so awesome but my family was in a bit of a hurry so I didn't bother asking. Also because I asked for American cheese, in which she bought this rubbish tasting cheap cheese instead of the kraft :grumpy:

And I have to tell you, it's the weirdest feeling being a 16 year old looking at the hotwheels section. I swear the old people were looking at me like I was retarded or something
 
Diablo'
And I have to tell you, it's the weirdest feeling being a 16 year old looking at the hotwheels section. I swear the old people were looking at me like I was retarded or something
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I can't wait to be that 19 year old the goes in and buys like 40 of them. But yeah. 16 might be a little more awkward because you are still a kid who is supposed to have outgrown them while I might be some kid of collector or something. But then again, I look kinda young for 19.
 
Even at 14, they give you funny glances! So, that's why I go to my local toy store after classes, before the little kids that usually crowd the store arrive and nobody else is there as a result. But even the staff wonder who I am...

...and yes, I can't wait to be the 19-year old that buys all the cars on the pegs either!
 
Although maybe I should go into a store and buy just one and act like it was the coolest thing I've ever bought. I bet that would generate a better reaction.
 
I usually casually say, 'The Hunt's on again', as the staff know about the Hot Wheels collectors, though few and far between (and mostly little kids) where I live. But, I agree with you, though some people may question your mental capacity. It's cool, though. Those types of people often are what they say you are, from my experience.
 
About half of my collection mainly from 1988-1997... and some as late as 2005. I still look for really good models.



It's quite a big picture, saved as a progressive .jpeg so give it time.
 
That's a pretty good collection you have there Greycap. It was cool seeing about 10 of those that I have in different colors and in varying states of paint chips and bent axles and missing trailers and broken parts. I'm now inspired to snap my collection once I get back to Seattle for Thanksgiving.
 

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