Collectible Hot Wheels Price Guide

[Magdalena Liendo]

Whilethis guide may appear to cater to some of the more experienced collectors out there with its loads of abbreviations, novice collectors need not worry as there is a complete wheel & abbreviation guide in the front of the book.

I have a Hot Wheel collection of all redlines that I started when I was a teenager. My Dad owned a shell station at the time and Hot Wheels was giving away cars w a fill up..thats when it all started..I am curious what my collection is valued at, these cars have been in a glass case for over 50 years! Also have Johnny Lightenings as well.

Hello,

I am looking for the latest update on the Tomarts Hot Wheels guide or anything that gives updated information regarding casting, pricing, etc. Looking for this information for pre-2007 Hot Wheels. I currently have Tomarts 5th and 6th edition. Just curious if there is anything more updated for these old models.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thank you.

Abe Vaughn

abelovscars

For the love of Pete, will somebody please make a digital version? perhaps online where you pay a lifetime fee of $49. The online guide can be updated at will by the author, like a wiki fan page. Wiki fan pages are great but the quality of the pics is not consistent. I might gladly pay for an online site that has good pics

Any chance this Hot Wheels Casting and Pricing guide will be released in pdf format? I would love to have it accessible on my smartphone and be able to search it when I am trading hot wheels with friends or on a hunt?

Hi Jonathan, we have images for over 30,000 variations and if we do not have an image you can add it. We also do not sell anything ourselves. It is other users of the site that offer items for sale which in turn finances the site. Which casting pages did you look at?

I guess the biggest thing for me is the way the info is presented and having to navigate through so much unnecessary info through too many pages. I'm a graphic designer, so I'm picky that way ? I used to be able to select Robs text only descriptions in bulk, and paste them into my own spread sheet for my own use/lists. That's not possible now. (I still use the original STDC site for that on older series)

Hey guys! I feel your pain too when I first approached hobbyDB. It was hard to tell variants apart and it took some time getting adjusted to a newer format with more options. I have been working closely with hobbyDB in resolving some of the issues. I have since did a small in-depth review, or walk thru, I should say of the site. Yes it's a long video but I'm hoping it will get people on board and involved and you can see how easy it is to move around the site now then it was just a few months ago. Here's is the link to the video. I also do many other die-cast reviews and unboxing. So have a look and don't forget to subscribe. We are all in this hobby together. =XUiY_eO3wRk

Re how the info is presented you can get to everything you want with one search and 2, maybe 3 clicks. You just have to use the site differently. Let me know per reply if you have a query where that does not work that way.

Re the Viper, I found 3 variations and another card variations, so am not sure what is missing? Also, if one was to miss, why not just add it? Rob had explained that he could not do it all (here also a quick note why I am replying, Rob did not want to deal with all the negativity that he got from this move, so I said I reply to all of them).

I would be super happy to give either you or Musicvox a tour of the site as I think you are trying to use it the way that STDC worked; approach it a new way and you get what you want and more. Why don't you try it and then report back here in the Comments section?

Sorry Heath, that is not going to happen and your comment is not really helpful. You are free to build your own site and do it the way you want to. Of course that would mean spending a few thousand hours doing so.

As for the vipers, I didnt see the grey variation last night. But now I do so it must have showed up last night. It must've been a bad first cause i tried to test the site with some other cars and was able to find them. But to search for these cars where more difficult then using either Hot Wheels Wiki or ebay for the same purpose. Thats why I dont want to bother creating an account to a site that I have no purpose in and thus add the cars that are missing.

As for the price guide I did check on the Dairy Delivery and it is a decent set up with value I wouldnt argue against with. But the Dairy Delivery is like one car out of many. Is there a list of cars that have their values, cause that could be some help? Also, how does one become a curator/ help a curator make values? Because if I had some control over deciding values, that would definitely be worth making an account and help a site become useful.

And lastly with KMJ, since he is able to sell his items on the site, how does one sell their items? Could it be linked up to an ebay site? If it did I am sure the site would become better but with only 80 user who sell.. eh.

And yeah I figured the KMJ price isnt the actual value but Im just stating it for the people who wouldnt know any better.

And I would totally have to disagree with you;eBay is in a way a price guide. If you look up the lowest Buy It Now price (minus shipping) for a certain car it gives you a value. Thus a price guide that is always updated by every listing.

I'm not against the change, my only real problem is that HobbyDB is a Wikia-like site. I have an old computer and Wikia-like sites often have so many scripts running in the background that they have an unfortunate tendency to freeze/crash my browser.

Hi Steve, we share some philosophy with Wikipedia but our software is inhouse and very different to what they use (Wikia is using Wikipedia's main stack that by now is quite old). Do you experience crashing when using hobbyDB and if so would you allow us to investigate so that we can solve any problems?

I first discovered HobbyDB when looking up info on some older Majorette releases. While what I found on there was great and helpful, it was definitely a bit of a cluster you-know-what. STDC's list view definitely made navigating the site easier than how HobbyDB is laid out. Having it be an open site like Wikipedia/wikia sites will make things chaotic, especially with the addition of Code 3s and prototypes and such. Unless there are a few people monitoring new content, it is going to get out of hand as more and more people use it.

I prefer how, in HotWheels Wikia, Matchbox Wikia, and MBXForum, it is possible to see each casting, as sorted by chronological order of release. One notable benefit is that this makes it more fun to casually browse how a casting changes throughout the years.

All three of them also have a function to see the entire lineup of a company in a particular year (i.e. it is easy to see all the 2004 MBX releases).

These kinds of features, unfortunatey, keep me, as a Matchbox collector, from using HobbyDB.

You have to try at least the same search. Why not also type J3258 into the hobbyDB search? You then see 3 items with large photos and click on the one you want. Also all 3 of them show a link to the Variant Overview page with 12 variants.

As I said it is different to STDC, you can search by toy number and you can use other search functions such as using a minus or quotation marks to qualify your search, very often getting your result with the first search.

i write J3258 in hobbyDB search to. And what do i add to J3258 if it is only thing on car ? It is first time i see this car and don't know nothing else. And it is not in first 3 items then i push variants page and still there i still need to click on two pictures.

I newer used STDC. Don't even know what it is. I started collecting only this year. At first i addend all to excel then try to and hobbyDB and added some 6 cars. Then i went beck to search wiki. and do photos of cars to remember what is in my collection.

Some cars don't even have a name on them, just a casting year, so I want a LIST of every casting of that year with pictures, so I can find the one I want, click on it and then have a LIST of every variation, in chronological order.

That being said you can add the words Hot Wheels to your search and you will not have the problem or you define your search query to only model cars (you can choose the type on the left hand side after doing a search) or use some of the many other search tools that are part of hobbyDB. The site is working differently than STDC but should give you the same results (in fact more as we added 000s of HWs since the move). I would be very happy to give you a tour, just reach out via the contact button on hobbyDB!

I don't know how much versatility you guys have on HobbyDB when dealing with different types of collectibles that require different types of searches, but for hot wheels, baseplate year would be a very efficient way to narrow down possible castings with little to no other clues about the car.

I don't mind lending a hand, really. I'm a classification freak so yeah. I relate to most complaints about the move to HobbyDB, since most of these complaints were about ease of searching and the ease of interpreting search results.

There will also be improvements made so it's possible to search for cars using the baseplate year, to make it easier to ID loose cars when the casting name or model is not written on the base, such as the Peugeot 405.

HobbyDB is a good site, because the people who run it will reach out to you (color me surprised, you don't see that every day), and I suggest you talk to Christian over the phone as well, if only to learn a thing or two about browsing the site.

Thanks for taking the time, it was a good call and yes, for others please reach out. The calls help us to better understand need and there is always at least one good idea (here there were 2 or 3). Just to avoid disappointment I want to stress that these changes take time as we are a small team.

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