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mister bungle
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 Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 7:49 am Post subject: New hotwheels VW SP2 toy |
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Snatched a few of these up last night at walmart. are they rare or worth more than the dollar I paid? either way, a cool new one to add to the shelf!!
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Anchovy
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| mister bungle wrote: | Snatched a few of these up last night at walmart. are they rare or worth more than the dollar I paid? either way, a cool new one to add to the shelf!!
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Why would they be worth more than the dollar you paid if you can go to Walmart and buy them for that? Do they have a Walmart in Auschwitz? |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:29 am Post subject: |
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Depends on how many thousands or hundred thousands produced, select market or worldwide and how old you are now in relation to can you keep a toy un-molested for forty plus years.
I personally would like to have the rest of the vehicle this was attached to prior to the crusher getting it.
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mister bungle
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Mr Anchovy thanks for your kind, helpful words. I hope you feel good about yourself today 
The reason I asked is because sometimes I have seen some of the hot wheels (even the newer ones) go for good money, I've never seen these before and thought they might be rare.
whatever...they're going on my shelf, wasn't looking for info as if I was expecting to get rich on some one dollar hotwheels
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its a brazilian model so its crap anyways 
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Yes, some Hot Wheels are instantly worth more than the $1 you paid because they can be hard to find and because of the "collectors" that grab them up via various methods, sometimes before they even get put out at the store.
I don't know if that one is harder to find but you never know...
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| Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| mister bungle wrote: | Mr Anchovy thanks for your kind, helpful words. I hope you feel good about yourself today
The reason I asked is because sometimes I have seen some of the hot wheels (even the newer ones) go for good money, I've never seen these before and thought they might be rare.
whatever...they're going on my shelf, wasn't looking for info as if I was expecting to get rich on some one dollar hotwheels |
With a death camp listed as your location and a rude quip for your signature line, your reaction to my comment shouldn't surprise me. My original comment was a legitimate question. Why would the value change immediately? I am not tuned in to the hotwheels market. |
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I bought a few of them. 3 different cards so far actually.
If only they were Yellow to match mine...
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I'm a member of the hot wheels collectors club. Here's what makes a hot wheels car extremely valuable.
1. Vintage/Redline.
2. If it's a treasure hunt car(The SP2 is not, yet anyway).
3. Limited production or a promo car.
4. A car that the collectors go ape $@&$ for (this casting isn't).
5. Error car (casting defect, assembly defect, mis matched wheels, etc. This can be questionable as to value)
Will it be valuable down the line? Probably not for a while since it's brand new, and they make quite a few thousand of them since it's a mainline car and there'll be at least 2 color changes in it's first year of production.
For the most part there aren't too many castings that go straight up in value once they hit the pegs. One was the VW drag bus, because it was the heaviest casting hot wheels ever did. The second was the Karmann Ghia, because mattel only made maybe 2000 of them as first editions. The only hot, valuable hot wheels I know of this year is the Ghostbusters Ecto 1. Plus when a new casting goes up in value right away, it's only making a couple bucks more than what you paid, we're not talking money you can retire on.
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Hey my dad works at Mattel and gets all these cool toys in his office most of them cars. and the other day i walked in and noticed he had a souped up single or double cab with a blue paint job and huge blower type engine in the bed.
it was a 1:8 scale blue called the volkswagen truck or something like that. havent found it on google i wonder if its worth something
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See my post above. It applies to the big stuff too. There's only been one rare 1/18th scale bus and that's the chrome Red Line Club exclusive from about 10 years ago.
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The second was the Karmann Ghia, because mattel only made maybe 2000 of them as first editions.
This Karmann?
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