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What an amazingly long time for a toy line to continually sell
Anyone what to share their Hot Wheels memories?
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
I wish they would have done some anniversary releases of original sets. I know they have sort of done that over the years but few of sets were real true repros and the carded cars were ok, but sort of lacking compared to originals.
I stupidly gave most of my die-cast cars (mostly Hot Wheels) to my nephew-in-law when I was in my late teens/early 20s. I could have bought him a new set cheaper, and still kept my childhood toys. Sigh.
I was never a HUGE car guy, but I liked to go to the narrow hallway of our house and have races, crashes, etc. The gold or red-rimmed Hot Wheels always seemed the fastest.
I do some Hot Wheels collecting. I prefer the vintage redline cars, but I buy a few of the new issues also. Heres a pic of a set I put together this past year......
......this is an original 1st issue "Sweet 16" set from 1968. Thats Hot Wheels 1st year of release. I managed to put together a complete set of all 16 models and all in matching green color. Trust me it sounds alot easier than it actually was to round these up. Several were not exactly cheap either. They are fun to collect and they come in a maddening variety of colors and variations.
Heres a pic of a set I put together this past year......
Wow! That is super cool.
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...
Trust me it sounds alot easier than it actually was to round these up. Several were not exactly cheap either. They are fun to collect and they come in a maddening variety of colors and variations.
Doesn't sound very easy to me.
I don't collect them, but my son loved them. So, I have a pretty good idea how many models you had to sift through to find what you were looking for.
I'd call what you did a rather impressive accomplishment.
I had forgotten all about Key Cars until just now! I vividly remember squeezing that plastic key.
Back to Hot Wheels. They were neat, but I was much more into action figures. However, many of my friends collected them and had several blue cases of them along with tracks to run them on, etc. On top of that, my dad is a car guy and always loved Matchbox as well as Hot Wheels. He didn't get the action figure thing, but was always happy to buy me Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars. So, that's how I obtained most of the ones that I owned.
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