Came across about 10 clearly repackaged HW 9 packs at a Walmart this weekend. These weren’t quite the normal repacked returns, however. Typically when these are spotted the one or two good things are removed, and some random crap thrown in…maybe HWs, maybe beat up Maistos, maybe some other garbage, sometimes the…
Hit up the Goodwill just now, again in hopes of picking up some records…and also to see if any more diecast popped up since my last visit.
I’ve read numerous stories about folks here finding good stuff at thrift stores…but it never really happened to me until recently. I’ve been hitting up goodwills and such a lot lately, searching for vinyl records (my current obsession) and I am starting to find diecasts…maybe just because I’m frequenting them more.…
I’ve been a big fan of the MBX National Parks & Forest Service series vehicles for the last couple of years, and have managed (with some degree of difficulty) to obtain all the various models and variations of both series, and also some related vehicles that don’t quite fit in with the series but are accepted by…
K-Day 510....should have one or two more coming soon. Can’t wait to crack one open!
Had some FRSs on my to-swap pile, saw some other custom FRSs using the new sawblade wheels, liked how they looked, and wanted to do a couple of my own. Stanced it a bit for that “I’m going to completely ruin my handling cause I want to look stupid” look that’s ever so popular these days.
Found this Maisto International Durastar Flatbed with VW Beetle Cabriolet recently, and couldn’t resist. Somebody else here posted one of these sets the other day, and made the argument that the International wasn’t a good representation. I would mostly agree, but I think in this example its cartoonisheness is not…
The buzz last week surrounding the Craigslist Aerotech got me thinking about the Matchbox Oldsmobile Aerotech that I loved as a kid. I loved the real Aerotech as a kid (and as a greying adult), and at the NY Autoshow the year it appeared, I stared at it as long as my parents would let me (much in the same way I ogled…
I was lucky enough to find all the regular VW Double Cabs (No Chases, sadly). I was able to find doubles of most of them, but only opened a few of the doubles. I noticed that some of them were very similar to other M2 VW releases that I own, so here are a couple that stood out to me. And if anyone has a chase tow…
Found a 20 pack on Tuesday in a post-Christmas shopping frenzy that contained a lot of new goodies, including a lovely satin green GT3 RS, the yellow Escort RS 1600, a few other multipack exclusives, and this new blue Gasser.
Yesterday I posted a Fairlady 2000 that took a RIT dye bath and came out an unintentional clone of the next Fairlady release. That was the second test in my somewhat successful dye experiment. The original test piece was a Tien-liveried Acura Integra GSR. I had done JH swaps on the other original white Tien releases,…
I’m a big fan of the recent Fairlady 2000 release by Hot Wheels, and have done a few wheelswaps with some of the ones in my collection. I experimented recently with using RIT dye on another casting that I may do a post on soon, and while that one was somewhat successful, I threw a Fairlady into the dye bath along with…
Completely in effort to be pointlessly contrary….the 918 Spyder! I don’t have any pics readily available of any 356s from my collection, but I do have something from the complete opposite end of the Porsche spectrum. I can’t imagine the designers of the 356 could ever have envisioned this one coming about a half…
Among Matchboxes recent revival, a standout can be found in the re-release of the SLR McLaren. Somewhat surprisingly, it hasn’t fallen victim to Matchboxes continual cost cutting measures. I dug out my 2009 version and compared it to the new 2016 version, and while the colors are slightly different, it is thankfully…
Latest error find....found in a Dollar General. Weight Reduction Stage 1.5?
I’ve yet to attend a K-Day, and likely never will, but thankfully the two or three remaining K-Marts near me have a habit of putting everything out in the days before or following the K-Day events. The most recent two I was able to find the exclusives without any issues, and the last one yielded a number of goodies…
Found this in a 9 pack yesterday. I knew it was coming out, and as far as I know, it is a multi-pack exclusive. I haven’t seen anything about it being a mainline release yet, so keep your eye on those 9 packs. The pack also came with a new multipack Maverick in a nice flat white with some graphics, I’m looking forward…
I’ve been a collector all my life, and have managed to hold onto the vast majority of the cars I had as a kid. Over the last few years, I’ve managed to find most of them and integrate them into my collection, but I knew there was some that I never found. After I moved into my house 15 years ago, my parents somewhat…
Went up to a nearby but out of the way supermarket on my lunch break today. I try to get to this particular place every month or so, because it has paid off with Treasure Hunts and Errors on more than a couple occasions. I had a feeling today was a good day to head up there, and while I didn’t find any hunts (trying…
A few weeks ago, in an out of the way, old style 5&10 store near my office, I found a recently pegged older HW case hanging. Amid the cards was a lovely 70 Plymouth Superbird STH! I long ago gave up on finding one of these in the wild. It was liberated the minute I got it back to my office, and what struck me funny…
