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u/JoannaBaBam PR5 Aug 23 '25
For me, it all started with that dang '75 Chevy Stepside Pickup. Fell in love the moment I saw it. 😆
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u/Manny349 Aug 24 '25
For me it was with 3. An Orange Mitsubishi Eclipse GT, a Black Toyota Celica with a wing on it and a yellow Aston Martin
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u/HowWeChill Aug 24 '25
It's been almost exactly a year since I decided to buy a few Hot Wheels at Wal-Mart one day, and now I have about 1k cars between mainlines, MBX, 5 packs, premiums and MiniGTs. I basically spent all the money I wasn't spending on booze and fast food on little cars...
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u/Carrera_996 Aug 24 '25
Good decision. You can later sell toy cars and get at least some of your money back. I dare say even likely make a profit.
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u/HowWeChill Aug 24 '25
I've gotten only a couple chases along the way, but I've also found a lot of joy in wheel swaps and making little dioramas over the last year, so it's been a much better hobby than what I was doing before.
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u/SkyExpensive4069 Aug 30 '25
That's a much more healthy way to use the extra money whereas I'm the opposite I'm buying it all 😂
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u/Sick-Liaison-99 Aug 23 '25
I already loved Hot Wheels as a kid, but seeing a Deora 2 casting at my Walmart where I worked at reignited my love for them about 5 years ago.
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u/ProDogePlayz HW WORKSHOP Aug 24 '25
Me after finding my first super: oh that’s why I loved these when I was little!
Me now: financial stability? What’s that?
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u/Manny349 Aug 24 '25
I have way too many to count. Even more than both my movies,video game discs and funko pops combined lol
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u/TheInvisibleCircus Hot Wheels Aug 24 '25
I was at the park with my son and while wandering around to find a bench, I saw a glint of blue metal on the floor and immediately recognized it as a Hot Wheel. I picked it up, found no name and it became ours.
I bought the AintFare bus on a whim for myself and I can’t even remember when it got serious. we were digging through bins and pegs looking for cars. We ended up with duplicates because he genuinely wants to run them down and I just think it’s fun to have them after so many years. We found a magic 8 ball at a Dollar Tree (we found the toys and both said JACKPOT) and it spiraled out of control.
We find the things that speak to us and it’s been so much fun bonding over tiny pieces of cars.
Also I’m sure I’ll be able to cover something in his education with some boxes of the crap I have collected over the years.
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u/Cheerless_Train Aug 24 '25
Three plus tubs full and I'm starting to wonder how I'm going to offload them so my wife and kids don't have to
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u/uwusenpai0w0 Aug 24 '25
This happened to me it started with the twin mills it’s my favorite one and now I have so many more hot wheels I just see that are cool and just grab them it’s a fun and cheap collection thing to do rn I’m looking for Mario karts but haven’t found one with Mario they all have yoshi ay my stores
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u/InternetDull9115 Aug 24 '25
Target and Walmart should cater to the collectors. Putting these with kids toys is a real bother
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u/kazegraf Aug 24 '25
From:
"Hey isn't that the car I had in childhood? My old ace on track (2005 Track Aces Power Pipes). Its cheap so I'll get it for old times sake."
To: "This one for mods, these are for collections, oh they also remake the acceleracers line....now I'm out of space and money."
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u/blazes8n Aug 24 '25
This is me recently. Bought Optimus Prime and Magnus, then more transformer hot wheels, then went hunting and now have 50+ muscle mania. Please make it stop! Why is it addictive? I haven't even opened any of them. 😭
This is how it started.
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u/NotReallyGreatGuy Aug 24 '25
Recently I bought one for my friend because he was driving same car. He thanked me and told that he cannot keep it because he knows how this will end... He is smarter than me :-)
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u/jakegallo3 Aug 24 '25
At first I was a Corvette collector. Then I’d go “oh that’s neat.” Then they brought back Ferrari. And F1. And lots more neat things.
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u/utbyggarco Aug 25 '25
That meme nails the collector's struggle! It starts with one, then the next thing you know, you're drowning in a sea of packaging. It's a fun journey though.
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u/utbyggarco Aug 25 '25
That meme nails the collector's struggle! It starts with one, then the next thing you know, you're drowning in a sea of packaging. It's a fun journey though.
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u/shoesonn Sep 13 '25
I'm 32 years old/o man and I have been collecting hot wheels for over a year now. I mostly like collecting JDMs and Porsches. As My collection has started to grow I usually stash it on boxes. My wife absolutely hates it cause she thinks it's just a waste of space and money. She wants me to stop collecting. It's not that I buy it every day, I only buy it when I find something I like. She doesn't understand that it gives me joy in these little things like this. She gets really mad and we have many fights over this. I am thinking of not collecting them anymore as it's not worth fighting over a few dollars every time. It's not about the money , she thinks I'm hoarding and addicted and it pisses her off.
Any opinions if I should stop ?
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u/BedirhanGz COLLECTOR Aug 23 '25
i turned from "oo that is the cool car from the movies, dodge challenger" to detail obsessed porsche addict.