Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed by the episode. I was hoping to see some articles from Amalgam, Capo, DeAgostini, Hachette, Lesu, ScaleArt, but instead we got the inflated vintage and Veblen crap.
It wasn't the weight distribution of the original Beach Bomb that was a problem, it was too narrow to run on the newly launched tracks - so they added the side pods that the boards fit into, making the body wide enough to run down the tracks correctly
You have to remember, the people that own these cars LOVE to talk about how much an oil change is. "You gotta pay to play" is the motto here. So, for a Ferrari owner, who has a 4+ car garage, with posters all over his flawless garage floor.....I get it.
I had a family friend who just passed away about a year ago and had a huge collection of model cars they were able to sell most of the collection and made enough for 2 college funds for his grandkids and still had plenty left over to keep his wife comfortable and from what I understand they actually kept some of the most valuable ones
Jun Imai is a legend in the hotwheels/diecast cars community because technically he started the hotwheels classic jdm craze with his Datsun 510 (Kaido☆House), followed by Ryu Asada (RIP) and the Godfather himself, Mark Jones. These 3 legendary designers brought most of the muscle cars, JDM, europeans and even Rocket bunnies & LBWK
During a local diecast convention held back in May 2023, I actually saw him at Mini GT's large booth (the largest booth in the convention). Too bad none of the Kaido House models match my taste tho, although I don't deny that they look good.
I was at Ferarri World in Abu Dhabi a couple of weeks ago. They had a selection of 1/12th (i think) scale models for aprox £2k a peice. They are made by 3D scanning all the OEM cars and molds then using CAD to shrink them down then reproduce. They're then inspected by actual Ferarri scrutinisers (is that a word?) before going on sale. I can confirm they do look better than your average scale model
My great-grand père had a massive Matchbox car collection he spent his entire life building dominating two rooms of his New Hampshire home. I was hoping to inherit some of it when he passed, but it was unfortunately passed on to other family members who promptly sold them in an estate sale. I have no doubt there were probably some valuable pieces in that collection. I also kick myself for not treating the ones he gave me when I was a little kid better, but I didn't understand their significance as a child and just kind of threw them in with my other toys where they eventually got ruined or sold in garage sales.
I guarantee he didn't give them to you to collect. You did exactly what he wanted; you had fun! I'd try to remember some of the models he gave you and recollect them if possible. I've done that with action figures that my great uncle gave me back in the day that I promptly wrecked by playing with them.
It's a toy and your were a kid, I bet you had a way better time with it back then, compared to you now which would probably just look at it (no offense, just kids tend to make things special with their imagination)
Wow, you really fucked up bro. Your gramps obviously didn’t leave you the collection because he saw the way you treated the ones he had already given you. Way to miss that opportunity
I remember this old model I had. Don't remember what type of car it was (not a huge car person, but love the channel). I just remember being blown away by the detail, the wheel would turn the tires, the engine was incredibly detailed, etc. Edit: I would love to see one of those ferrari models compared to the same model from another company, I imagine you wouldn't see much different from the higher end ones.
There are also other 1/64 scale brands that are much more detailed and expensive. Brands like MiniGT, Tarmac Works, Inno64 and Tomica Limited Vintage go for $20-$150 regularly, but they're of much higher quality and lower production numbers than HW and Matchbox.
Hot wheels still does rare mystery box color combos. I only know this cause I worked at Target. The manufacture puts holes in the back of the mystery box's so you can see the car inside it because collectors would come in every morning to see if we got new ones, and rip the backs of the packaging to see what car it was.
Their company works perfectly with this expensive toy car. When getting an amount of worthy money, to own a model car that can literally move around any direction to have its own particular function
Diecast car collectors around the world.... ASSEMBLEEEEEEE 🥳 Hotwheels, Matchbox, Tomica, Tarmac, Greenlight, Kyosho, MINI GT, Bburago, Autoart and many more
When I was a kid in the 80s, Matchbox had much nicer cars that Hot Wheels. They were heftier, had better suspension and were not so "childish". I had several rally cars based on real life rally monsters of that era, complete with true to scale liveries.
I had the green one . I gave them away to a friend in high school for her son . My grandpa and Great grandpa worked at General Motors. One was a tap and die maker, and the other was the supervisor that opens the Norwood plant . I had that one with the surfboards to. I probably had 2/300 hot wheels . i still have all my micro machines and I am 48
For the Lesney Era Matchbox 6 Wheel Crane, tan was actually the rare color. and can sell for over a thousand dollars (in worse quality), which as me thinking you must have gotten a repro or a customized one. The more common color is silver which can be fairly easily obtained for ~$15
Yeah I didint believe that the silver one was rare. I have that one so I thought no way in hell would I own a $12,000 dollar car without knowing since I’m a nerd ass on matchbox and hot wheels
between keeps and WD40 pocket version, and so many other ads, you guys make them entertaining to watch i feel like you could make extra money on the side making ads theyre just awesome and funny and the production is great
Loved all the Hot Wheels segments. I used to be an avid collector of Hot Wheels when I was a teenager back in the early to mid 2000 range. I miss it, but collecting Hot Wheels nowadays is a very expensive hobby. The prices of them just keep going up!
I'd argue it's a pretty cheap hobby if you primarily collect mainlines and live close to stores which sell them. The RLC scene is too expensive to be worth it imo. Too many passionless folks in it to make a buck nowadays.
@@flurpoid oh yeah I remember the RLC. I was part of it for about two years 2003-2005. I did get a few awesome collectibles from it though. It was fun while it lasted.
@@flurpoidThat's basically me. (No pun intended). My entire Hot Wheels collection consists of almost entirely mainlines from the mid-90s to today. Only about a month ago I bought my first Premium casting, the Speed Machines white Ford GT that honestly looks like it's from Gran Turismo 4.
Most of those rarities are worth only to specific brand collectors, people who have collections of only 1 brand (mostly Hot Wheels or Matchbox). They're not meant so much for car enthusiasts. Nowadays there are other brands in the marker that deliver high quality models for not too much money, such as MINI GT, Tarmac Works, Kyosho, POP Race, and many, many more, these are aimed towards car enthusiasts who don't care too much about rarities, brands, or nostalgia.
My family actually has probably about 50-60 model cars. Most of them from the 50s-80s. My grandfather bought and collected these, had them on a piedestal in the living room. Forbid anyone to ever touch them. Once he died my mum inherited them, and they are still in a piedestal, or most of them are. They are now toys to some of our nieces. But I am sure my mother does not let them play with the most expensive ones. But these cars look insanely detailed.
I once bought a HW Lamborghini Aventador in Lime green with white stripes. I noticed that after I bought it, it never had the glass installed in it. I've always wondered how much this defect made that car worth, or at least how rare it is. I would never assume that much but it's certainly something I've never seen before.
I believe the real reason for the change from rear-loading surfboards to side-mounted surfboards on the beach bomb was to widen it so it would work better in superchargers
I have to disagree with Donut on the pricing of those Ferrari models. Coming from the model railroad community, I've seen similarly sized models with a near or equal level of detail going for around $1,500 - $3,000, depending on the gauge, series, manufacturer, and model type. Lionel for example is notable for their Vision Line series, where everything from cab interiors, extra lighting, steam/pressure valves, emptying coal loads, steaming whistles, swinging bells, oscillating lights, and scale couplers are modeled. You can get even more detailed with larger models and there's some enthusiasts who have scale model steam locomotives that run off of actual steam with real working physical controls. You only start to see figures around $10,000 - $20,000 when you get to the models large enough that you can actually ride them. This just seems like another case of Ferrari being Ferrari and overpricing everything.
Well production errors for any kind of toy usually makes them worth more, that isn't exclusive to die-casts and to be fair the wrong color does make it a much rarer car than the hundreds of thousands that are exactly the same except they don't have that color.
@@Z38_US I still don't get WHY people pay more for that. If i would buy a Tesla and it has a bad paintjob i would call it normal and expected and you are telling me there are people that would pay 15x the price because of this?
@@DarkSession6208 It all has to do with supply and demand, misprints, paint errors, etc are usually caught before they leave the factory so very, very few actually make out to buyers. This results in the price going up as people who collect [insert item] want to have this rare item that few others have. Although i agree the prices do get very ridiculous
@@DarkSession6208 No you see this is different for actual cars. You want your car to be as advertised because that is likely why you bought it. If your actual car has a manufacturing error in it you'd want that to get fixed, this is why stuff like recalls exist. However toys are just that, toys and a toy car having a color that is very rare does make it much more valueable to collectors of such toy cars because it is much rarer. That is why I said this extends to most toys but it doesn't extend to things you actually have to use on a daily basis like an actual car. Personally I would not pay thousands of dollars or even hundreds for a toy car just because it has a different color but some people do and I do get why.
I have a box full of unopened hotwheels from the eraly 90's cause i thought they would be valuable when i was a kid. Still have em all unopened in my garage even though most of them arent worth much. Gotta really know what you are looking for to get into hot wheel collecting and as a 5 year old i had no clue what i was doing.
the funny thing is when I was 6 years old I went to the 2013 dubai motorshow and there i saw the gold bugatti model at the bugatti stand. To little me it just looked like a toy car that just looked super clean and shiny. I went up to it and tried to open the door on the model and a man from the stand came running after me with a cloth to wipe my fingerprints off 😂. As far as I recall that man was at the time their marketing manager who was moving to lamborghini and I still have my photo with him. He even gave me a free official veyron poster and little me was LOVING IT
You guys basically always make videos about things we were thinking of minutes or days prior, yesterday we started collecting hot wheels, and today you released a video about them, y'all are Houdini
I build model cars as well. Kits are going for $30+ now but then when we add photo etch parts, paint, clear coats, 3d parts and other things. It tallies up to $125 or more and if you want a specific person to paint the car it will go for $250. But the answer Why would anyone would pay that much, here's a quote my old Boss told me, "Cuz I can Afford it and you can't" No truer word than that. 😂😢
I don't have a car but, I'm still binge watching donut, I just found out this channel 4 days ago, now got addicted to their content I'm in 56th video of theirs. Love it, in the future I will get my own car.
Oh yeah, 1:18 is just the perfect scale. Not too small, big enough to have tons of detail and in the whole theme of things mostly relatively affordable.
AUTOart would be my choice should I ever buy a 1:18 in the future lol. 😬🤣 I've seen a number of them in-person, including a BAC Mono. If they ever make a Nissan Silvia S15 Spec R in Brilliant Blue, especially if it's lightly modded aesthetically, take my money! 🤣🤣🤣
I think my dad has a couple of the higher costing die-cast cars from back in the 80’s. If I’m thinking correctly it’s an original hot wheels redline still in the packaging.
No. I’m sorry but redlines ran from 1968 to 1977 so if there from the 80s they are not redlines. Maybe you might be talking about the hot wheels vintage redline series with reproduction redlines that ran in the early 90s
I have a feeling that the reason people would be willing to spend so much on these Model Cars is the same reason Watch Collectors spend so much. They are almost guaranteed to hold if not increase in value. So it’s essentially like investing in gold to that you can also display.
Except that would only make sense if they were then sold at a later date, which collectors are not want to do because it defeats the purpose of having a collection, so it's irrelevant.
I think the answer to "Why?" is the same as the trading card and collectors video game market. A lot of these collectors marketplaces (most, I'd argue) artificially drive up the prices so that when a rich sucker eventually gets their hands on it, the sellers can cash out. It's usually a pretty complex system run by just a few people at the top, but there's also a lot of real collectors mixed in there.
Honestly though it's not artificially driving up the prices like how you describe it when what's really powering the inflation is a rat race. I know how the collecting community is because I've been in it for some time... and theyre like a bunch of rabid, wild animals when something new and popular comes out. People have gotta have it before the other guy so they can become king of the hill and prove their dick is 1/10 an inch longer than the other dude's. The point: it's not just a few dudes at the top driving up the prices. People want what's rarest, what's newest, what's popular, and what holds market value well like RLC cars, Redlines, Super Treasure Hunts, etc., and there is a big market avalible for people who can get the rare stuff for cheap and resell it at a price point majority of collectors are willing to pay. Highrollers are the ones who usually get into the 1000s terrirtory. The people who make good money from it are the ones who can get the rare stuff in bulk and sell auction style or BIN prices. On top of that, people don't just collect to hoard they collect to resell, and I think that the prevalence of resellers is what makes the market pretty toxic. Everybody wants to resell, so you have people who make a system of it by getting multiples of things cheap and then marking up for higher than they paid. Honestly, it's just a ridiculous pursuit. What strikes me so much about it is how collectors will spend to their own detriment just to feel accepted and have status in a community.
All value increasing beyond inflation is technically artificial. But it is easy to see the pathetic scalpers etc in my collecting hobby too, listing items 25-50% or more above market purely out of greed and an attempt to massively drive up values for no reason. Complete lowlife losers.
High pricing (even when it's irrational) also creates a sense of desirability to some people. Some people's sole prerogative in collecting is owning something "valuable" and sought after. Scalpers know these types of people are extremely easy to take advantage of, that's why prices are so inflated for mass produced models.
I have a ton of the minichamps and diagostini formula 1 die casts and jesus christ the detail is unreal, for christmas i got a 1/43rd jackie stewart Tyrrell 003 and its literally like an art piece
0:35 Very early model. You can spot them by their gray wheels which got replaced in the mid 60s by black ones, which later got replaced by the "superfast" wheels when Hot Wheels debuted. 1:30 I'm pretty sure these are made by Amalgam and they're about as realistic as model cars get. They make resin 1/18s as well (10in).
I love that the holy Grail can just be someone accidentally packaged a product they weren’t supposed to
That's pretty much any type of collecting tbh
Yeah same with coins
Time to work at a factory and purposely pack the wrong items into wrong containers. 😂
Every time I see the Donut logo I want a donut. Am I a fatass?
@@mattstone8878 yes
Donut is the only channel I don't skip adds on. You mean to tell me I may be entitled to a full head of hair? 😂
Underrated comment.
Seeing this comment made me realize I watch them too
Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed by the episode. I was hoping to see some articles from Amalgam, Capo, DeAgostini, Hachette, Lesu, ScaleArt, but instead we got the inflated vintage and Veblen crap.
For the price of $2.9M, I was expecting an ignition and a noise of a real engine for that model.
u didnt even watch it fully
Well considering the 2.9 mil one was just a chunk of gold and diamonds and makes zero noise I think you didn't watch the video
@@Diddythedidlerspecial kind of stupid aren't ya.
There is, it's called buying the actual fucking car 😂
Maybe an RC car?
Big shoutout to whoever does color grading for donut videos. It's always so on point!
It's depressing when die cast cars cost more than your actual car
and all the houses of your entire family together jajaja amazing
Look, the candy gaser in spectraflame is worth as much as my car
I didnt expect much
I mean at that point it's basically a car shaped jewelery
I mean with conversion to usd & everything my car is worth like 3k with sound system,some of these are worth thousands of my car
I Assure you, a carbon fibre diecast prius with real gold wrap on it, costs more than any Lamborghinies today
It wasn't the weight distribution of the original Beach Bomb that was a problem, it was too narrow to run on the newly launched tracks - so they added the side pods that the boards fit into, making the body wide enough to run down the tracks correctly
And it could not fit in the new boosters too
yep it wasnt wide enough to go through the then new electric boosters
You'll never convince me $11k for a model car is worth it.
What about $2900K?
You have to remember, the people that own these cars LOVE to talk about how much an oil change is. "You gotta pay to play" is the motto here.
So, for a Ferrari owner, who has a 4+ car garage, with posters all over his flawless garage floor.....I get it.
Its not for you then the target market is diff
pretty sure nobody wants to...
Things are only worth what people are willing to pay... And those people willing to pay over 1 million for a toy car are called, "fools", 😂😂👌✌👍💥
I had a family friend who just passed away about a year ago and had a huge collection of model cars they were able to sell most of the collection and made enough for 2 college funds for his grandkids and still had plenty left over to keep his wife comfortable and from what I understand they actually kept some of the most valuable ones
Bring back old B2B/Up To Speed!!!!
Fuck that we want miracle whips
Even the new one is gone lol
They don't care, also, they still wont make up to Speed on Ken Block
@@Cris907right?
@@GuninGamesthat’s would be an amazing Up To Speed! I miss them making those too
Jun Imai is a legend in the hotwheels/diecast cars community because technically he started the hotwheels classic jdm craze with his Datsun 510 (Kaido☆House), followed by Ryu Asada (RIP) and the Godfather himself, Mark Jones. These 3 legendary designers brought most of the muscle cars, JDM, europeans and even Rocket bunnies & LBWK
During a local diecast convention held back in May 2023, I actually saw him at Mini GT's large booth (the largest booth in the convention).
Too bad none of the Kaido House models match my taste tho, although I don't deny that they look good.
Donut media advertising other products is always one of the best advertisements that ever been on earth 😂❤ pure gold 👌
I was at Ferarri World in Abu Dhabi a couple of weeks ago. They had a selection of 1/12th (i think) scale models for aprox £2k a peice. They are made by 3D scanning all the OEM cars and molds then using CAD to shrink them down then reproduce. They're then inspected by actual Ferarri scrutinisers (is that a word?) before going on sale.
I can confirm they do look better than your average scale model
Damm props for the editor and the filming crew for the perspective trick very cool
@@VeganSemihCyprus33 go away
@@VeganSemihCyprus33people started ignoring you in real life so now you gotta spout your garbage on here? Sad.
0:09 this is a very well done perspective shot.
My great-grand père had a massive Matchbox car collection he spent his entire life building dominating two rooms of his New Hampshire home. I was hoping to inherit some of it when he passed, but it was unfortunately passed on to other family members who promptly sold them in an estate sale. I have no doubt there were probably some valuable pieces in that collection. I also kick myself for not treating the ones he gave me when I was a little kid better, but I didn't understand their significance as a child and just kind of threw them in with my other toys where they eventually got ruined or sold in garage sales.
You were a child, they were toys, not Faberge eggs, you played with them. You did the normal healthy thing.
Well to hold or honor their memory have a personal Matchbox car collection in their name
I guarantee he didn't give them to you to collect. You did exactly what he wanted; you had fun! I'd try to remember some of the models he gave you and recollect them if possible. I've done that with action figures that my great uncle gave me back in the day that I promptly wrecked by playing with them.
It's a toy and your were a kid, I bet you had a way better time with it back then, compared to you now which would probably just look at it (no offense, just kids tend to make things special with their imagination)
Wow, you really fucked up bro. Your gramps obviously didn’t leave you the collection because he saw the way you treated the ones he had already given you. Way to miss that opportunity
I remember this old model I had. Don't remember what type of car it was (not a huge car person, but love the channel). I just remember being blown away by the detail, the wheel would turn the tires, the engine was incredibly detailed, etc.
Edit: I would love to see one of those ferrari models compared to the same model from another company, I imagine you wouldn't see much different from the higher end ones.
This is a really fascinating world of auto memorabilia. Love this sort of thing
There are also other 1/64 scale brands that are much more detailed and expensive. Brands like MiniGT, Tarmac Works, Inno64 and Tomica Limited Vintage go for $20-$150 regularly, but they're of much higher quality and lower production numbers than HW and Matchbox.
exactly I hoped they would about Mini GT and Tarmac Works
As a diecast car collector and customizer, it's exciting to see Donut cover cars that are in other scales besides 1:1 😄🤟💪🤘🍩💨🚗
Hot wheels still does rare mystery box color combos. I only know this cause I worked at Target. The manufacture puts holes in the back of the mystery box's so you can see the car inside it because collectors would come in every morning to see if we got new ones, and rip the backs of the packaging to see what car it was.
I really hope Keeps appreciates the quality of your spots. Hilarious
Their company works perfectly with this expensive toy car. When getting an amount of worthy money, to own a model car that can literally move around any direction to have its own particular function
I like these different type of donut vids!
Diecast car collectors around the world.... ASSEMBLEEEEEEE 🥳
Hotwheels, Matchbox, Tomica, Tarmac, Greenlight, Kyosho, MINI GT, Bburago, Autoart and many more
Hell yes. GT Spirit, Highway 61, Welly, UT , GMP/Acme BBR, Ignition, Ottomobile, HW Elite, Norev, Minichamps ect.
When I was a kid in the 80s, Matchbox had much nicer cars that Hot Wheels.
They were heftier, had better suspension and were not so "childish".
I had several rally cars based on real life rally monsters of that era, complete with true to scale liveries.
Agreed. I have a ton of mint 80s hot wheels and they were definitely built better than cars made now.
I had the green one . I gave them away to a friend in high school for her son . My grandpa and Great grandpa worked at General Motors. One was a tap and die maker, and the other was the supervisor that opens the Norwood plant . I had that one with the surfboards to. I probably had 2/300 hot wheels . i still have all my micro machines and I am 48
Most valuable die-cast cars on planet: Hot Wheels Customs 😜
Any 3dbotmaker fans in here? As a grown man it’s the most exciting die cast racing I’ve ever seen 😅 and why I got back into it
Low key feel bad for Ken, brought him on for 30 seconds of screen time and that was about it
Glad to see some diecast content. There’s definitely some variation in prices and quality . 1:64 collector myself🤟🏼
For the Lesney Era Matchbox 6 Wheel Crane, tan was actually the rare color. and can sell for over a thousand dollars (in worse quality), which as me thinking you must have gotten a repro or a customized one. The more common color is silver which can be fairly easily obtained for ~$15
Yeah I didint believe that the silver one was rare. I have that one so I thought no way in hell would I own a $12,000 dollar car without knowing since I’m a nerd ass on matchbox and hot wheels
between keeps and WD40 pocket version, and so many other ads, you guys make them entertaining to watch i feel like you could make extra money on the side making ads theyre just awesome and funny and the production is great
Loved all the Hot Wheels segments. I used to be an avid collector of Hot Wheels when I was a teenager back in the early to mid 2000 range. I miss it, but collecting Hot Wheels nowadays is a very expensive hobby. The prices of them just keep going up!
Yeah as a hot wheels collector who is a teenager it’s kind of hard to get a hold of a ton of cars I want because of the collector car market.
I'd argue it's a pretty cheap hobby if you primarily collect mainlines and live close to stores which sell them. The RLC scene is too expensive to be worth it imo. Too many passionless folks in it to make a buck nowadays.
@@flurpoid oh yeah I remember the RLC. I was part of it for about two years 2003-2005. I did get a few awesome collectibles from it though. It was fun while it lasted.
@@flurpoidThat's basically me. (No pun intended). My entire Hot Wheels collection consists of almost entirely mainlines from the mid-90s to today. Only about a month ago I bought my first Premium casting, the Speed Machines white Ford GT that honestly looks like it's from Gran Turismo 4.
Most of those rarities are worth only to specific brand collectors, people who have collections of only 1 brand (mostly Hot Wheels or Matchbox). They're not meant so much for car enthusiasts.
Nowadays there are other brands in the marker that deliver high quality models for not too much money, such as MINI GT, Tarmac Works, Kyosho, POP Race, and many, many more, these are aimed towards car enthusiasts who don't care too much about rarities, brands, or nostalgia.
I can’t even afford the $1 one… idk why I’m even gonna bother watching
6:21 It is a super treasure hunt. They cost a lot of dough. But an error STH will be worth as much your house
My family actually has probably about 50-60 model cars. Most of them from the 50s-80s. My grandfather bought and collected these, had them on a piedestal in the living room. Forbid anyone to ever touch them. Once he died my mum inherited them, and they are still in a piedestal, or most of them are. They are now toys to some of our nieces. But I am sure my mother does not let them play with the most expensive ones. But these cars look insanely detailed.
Plus that aventafor is carbon and making that many details that small is INSANE borderline F1 level engineering
I love the large scale lego technics. The Porsche gt3rs and F40 were a blast to build and I really want another now lol
Ken is a better guest than "November"
I once bought a HW Lamborghini Aventador in Lime green with white stripes. I noticed that after I bought it, it never had the glass installed in it. I've always wondered how much this defect made that car worth, or at least how rare it is. I would never assume that much but it's certainly something I've never seen before.
Yeah that’s an error which is a rare type of error. Had that one too but played with it as a kid
You can't tell me they didn't put such a great effort on their advertisements. Today's ad is pure peak.
I believe the real reason for the change from rear-loading surfboards to side-mounted surfboards on the beach bomb was to widen it so it would work better in superchargers
I love the minds of collectors.
"ITS RAREEEEE QUICK PAY A MILLION BUCKS FOR IT!"
I have to disagree with Donut on the pricing of those Ferrari models. Coming from the model railroad community, I've seen similarly sized models with a near or equal level of detail going for around $1,500 - $3,000, depending on the gauge, series, manufacturer, and model type. Lionel for example is notable for their Vision Line series, where everything from cab interiors, extra lighting, steam/pressure valves, emptying coal loads, steaming whistles, swinging bells, oscillating lights, and scale couplers are modeled. You can get even more detailed with larger models and there's some enthusiasts who have scale model steam locomotives that run off of actual steam with real working physical controls. You only start to see figures around $10,000 - $20,000 when you get to the models large enough that you can actually ride them. This just seems like another case of Ferrari being Ferrari and overpricing everything.
Glad to say I have some Aussie model vehicles in my collection. A Holden Ute (HZ I Think), Holden FJ Panelvan and two EF Ford Falcons.
Only die-cast collectors would believe a paint error is somehow more valuable for its flaw. Anyway, I need to hear more about the Spiderstang...
Well production errors for any kind of toy usually makes them worth more, that isn't exclusive to die-casts and to be fair the wrong color does make it a much rarer car than the hundreds of thousands that are exactly the same except they don't have that color.
it applies to any collectible hobby, including money. a misprint will increase it's value more than a normal one.
@@Z38_US I still don't get WHY people pay more for that. If i would buy a Tesla and it has a bad paintjob i would call it normal and expected and you are telling me there are people that would pay 15x the price because of this?
@@DarkSession6208 It all has to do with supply and demand, misprints, paint errors, etc are usually caught before they leave the factory so very, very few actually make out to buyers. This results in the price going up as people who collect [insert item] want to have this rare item that few others have. Although i agree the prices do get very ridiculous
@@DarkSession6208 No you see this is different for actual cars.
You want your car to be as advertised because that is likely why you bought it. If your actual car has a manufacturing error in it you'd want that to get fixed, this is why stuff like recalls exist.
However toys are just that, toys and a toy car having a color that is very rare does make it much more valueable to collectors of such toy cars because it is much rarer.
That is why I said this extends to most toys but it doesn't extend to things you actually have to use on a daily basis like an actual car.
Personally I would not pay thousands of dollars or even hundreds for a toy car just because it has a different color but some people do and I do get why.
Bruce Pascal is such a cool guy. The work he has done with Mattel to categorize the history of Hot Wheels is amazing.
I still would’ve raced these down my track.
the idea of someone's tiny model car collection being worth more than their actual car collection is just too much to process
Even though the Ferrari models are like 10,500 up to 20k. The level of detail and the clean of paint is soo clean. Its art really
I have a box full of unopened hotwheels from the eraly 90's cause i thought they would be valuable when i was a kid. Still have em all unopened in my garage even though most of them arent worth much. Gotta really know what you are looking for to get into hot wheel collecting and as a 5 year old i had no clue what i was doing.
Really cool to see one of my obscure hobbies in a donut video.
I appreciate the attention to detail in the little dancing Nolan dancing to the background beat. Kudos, editors!
I really expected Nolan to start explaining why people are actually buying the cars there at the end but the video just ended🤣🤣🤣
"NOLAN is looking super handsome at his desk. The buffest horse. Toy cars on the desk look microscopic in comparison."
Brilliant
i like how the rarity meter was never full on the 1 of a kind models but some of which there are multiple of it was full.
Y’all are the only channel where i won’t skip the ads lol (sometimes)
Another bucket swish
Shoulda’ let Ken educate us a lil more tho lol
Just started watching this and I can already tell it's going to be my favourite episode ever.
"Men don't grow, their toys become more expensive"
A wise man said once.
Finally some diecast content. Thank you guys.
As a die cast collector, this is awesome!
the bmw not being wiped away with the others was a mind trip before i clued in.
simple and easy effect, flawless execution!
I'm so tempted to build one or some custom Hot Wheels models for the Donut crew... No idea how I'd get em there or what they'd want to see, tho, haha
the funny thing is when I was 6 years old I went to the 2013 dubai motorshow and there i saw the gold bugatti model at the bugatti stand. To little me it just looked like a toy car that just looked super clean and shiny. I went up to it and tried to open the door on the model and a man from the stand came running after me with a cloth to wipe my fingerprints off 😂. As far as I recall that man was at the time their marketing manager who was moving to lamborghini and I still have my photo with him. He even gave me a free official veyron poster and little me was LOVING IT
You guys basically always make videos about things we were thinking of minutes or days prior, yesterday we started collecting hot wheels, and today you released a video about them, y'all are Houdini
Why don’t we just stop watching Donut altogether until they bring back Up 2 Speed?
My most expensive hotwheels is a 2012 ferrari 599xx . Worth about 200$ my whole collection is worth thousands . Its an addicting hobby for sure
Some hotwheels cars have become a collector items.
I build model cars as well. Kits are going for $30+ now but then when we add photo etch parts, paint, clear coats, 3d parts and other things. It tallies up to $125 or more and if you want a specific person to paint the car it will go for $250. But the answer Why would anyone would pay that much, here's a quote my old Boss told me, "Cuz I can Afford it and you can't" No truer word than that. 😂😢
This is like those amiibo collections some people have
Editors: How many effects would you like in this video?
Donut: YES!
This video should have been D-List
Can you imagine how many people have thrown away collectibles without even knowing how much they can get 😮😮😮😮😮😅
Just adding gold and diamonds to something and calling it "The most expensive X in the world" is the height of stupidity.
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I don't have a car but, I'm still binge watching donut, I just found out this channel 4 days ago, now got addicted to their content I'm in 56th video of theirs. Love it, in the future I will get my own car.
You're late to the party bro
I've said once but I'll say it again your product ads are the best !! I miss the days when everything was in that old vhs print lol
As a diecast collector myself, I think I'll stay happy with my 1:18 scale AUTOarts (among other makes), thank you very much.
Oh yeah, 1:18 is just the perfect scale. Not too small, big enough to have tons of detail and in the whole theme of things mostly relatively affordable.
Same here 1/18 GT Spirit, ignition, ottomobile,kyosho, minichamps hot wheels elite I'll buy them all and my wife says I have issues. Lol
AUTOart would be my choice should I ever buy a 1:18 in the future lol. 😬🤣 I've seen a number of them in-person, including a BAC Mono.
If they ever make a Nissan Silvia S15 Spec R in Brilliant Blue, especially if it's lightly modded aesthetically, take my money! 🤣🤣🤣
You should check out Russel lords Ford, he is making his own scale model of a Ford escort, by hand. The detail is incredible
I think my dad has a couple of the higher costing die-cast cars from back in the 80’s. If I’m thinking correctly it’s an original hot wheels redline still in the packaging.
No. I’m sorry but redlines ran from 1968 to 1977 so if there from the 80s they are not redlines. Maybe you might be talking about the hot wheels vintage redline series with reproduction redlines that ran in the early 90s
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@@shawnsdiecast7852 maybe I got the years wrong but my dad has a few redlines
Gets a pro collector on the show. Lets him say like 2 sentences and says good bye... LOL what was the point!
We need Up to Speed again
Love Tomica! I have over a hundred of those. And all that Hotwheel, Mattel, Matchbox, Majoret, stuff. In my adulthood still love that stuff.
I have a feeling that the reason people would be willing to spend so much on these Model Cars is the same reason Watch Collectors spend so much. They are almost guaranteed to hold if not increase in value. So it’s essentially like investing in gold to that you can also display.
Except that would only make sense if they were then sold at a later date, which collectors are not want to do because it defeats the purpose of having a collection, so it's irrelevant.
I think the answer to "Why?" is the same as the trading card and collectors video game market. A lot of these collectors marketplaces (most, I'd argue) artificially drive up the prices so that when a rich sucker eventually gets their hands on it, the sellers can cash out. It's usually a pretty complex system run by just a few people at the top, but there's also a lot of real collectors mixed in there.
Honestly though it's not artificially driving up the prices like how you describe it when what's really powering the inflation is a rat race. I know how the collecting community is because I've been in it for some time... and theyre like a bunch of rabid, wild animals when something new and popular comes out. People have gotta have it before the other guy so they can become king of the hill and prove their dick is 1/10 an inch longer than the other dude's. The point: it's not just a few dudes at the top driving up the prices. People want what's rarest, what's newest, what's popular, and what holds market value well like RLC cars, Redlines, Super Treasure Hunts, etc., and there is a big market avalible for people who can get the rare stuff for cheap and resell it at a price point majority of collectors are willing to pay. Highrollers are the ones who usually get into the 1000s terrirtory. The people who make good money from it are the ones who can get the rare stuff in bulk and sell auction style or BIN prices. On top of that, people don't just collect to hoard they collect to resell, and I think that the prevalence of resellers is what makes the market pretty toxic. Everybody wants to resell, so you have people who make a system of it by getting multiples of things cheap and then marking up for higher than they paid. Honestly, it's just a ridiculous pursuit. What strikes me so much about it is how collectors will spend to their own detriment just to feel accepted and have status in a community.
All value increasing beyond inflation is technically artificial. But it is easy to see the pathetic scalpers etc in my collecting hobby too, listing items 25-50% or more above market purely out of greed and an attempt to massively drive up values for no reason. Complete lowlife losers.
High pricing (even when it's irrational) also creates a sense of desirability to some people. Some people's sole prerogative in collecting is owning something "valuable" and sought after. Scalpers know these types of people are extremely easy to take advantage of, that's why prices are so inflated for mass produced models.
I have a ton of the minichamps and diagostini formula 1 die casts and jesus christ the detail is unreal, for christmas i got a 1/43rd jackie stewart Tyrrell 003 and its literally like an art piece
0:35 Very early model. You can spot them by their gray wheels which got replaced in the mid 60s by black ones, which later got replaced by the "superfast" wheels when Hot Wheels debuted.
1:30 I'm pretty sure these are made by Amalgam and they're about as realistic as model cars get. They make resin 1/18s as well (10in).
That "Keeps" ad is honestly genius. Love the early '90s "Just for Men" lighting 😂.
The lighting? No. The 90's-era standard/analog camera resolution is epic! 😁
The “Holy Grail” joke made me chuckle more than it should have… well played, Nolan, well played.
I never imagined a toy car version is more expensive than the real car. At this point its gotta be used for money laundering
Nolan, I think it is time for you to talk about diecast collecting!
Another rabbit hole to dig into! 🤣🤣🤣
And then Hot Wheels bought Matchbox. (Edit two days later) I finally was able to watch the whole video, and Nolan goes on to state this.
4:31 “worth now more” lol
Do another version with 1:43, like Minichamps, Ebbro, Kyosho, Ignition, Spark, HPI racing ...etc
Hands down the best keeps ad ever. Very smart in the old deal.
Today's Keeps commercial surpassed any commercial I've ever seen, remarkable!
8 mil subscribers!!!!! Congrats!!!!!
This reminds me of a only woody panel van with rubber wheels. The only car I ever had with rubber wheels.
Also these ads are fire, I never watch ads but you guys make it fun 😂
3DBotMaker is great channel to see these cars race