I can relate to this guy! I'm running out of room myself. The struggle is real. Unfortunately I don't have a wife who tells me no, she's equally addicted. So she's my enabler haha - but I wouldn't change it for anything. We love it!
I am also like you but, in my city hotwheels are only meant for kids to play not for collecting. So it is hardly available to buy hotwheels to collect 😥 But still i have about 20 cars
Nothing infuriated me more than to walk into a department store and find the local loser trying to control the entire Hot Wheels section. Not letting anyone else including children into the display area until they personally searchd through every single car looking for their treasure hunts!!! There are some real bastards out there. I was always that guy picking up straightening and cleaning up a destroyed display for the sake of preserving any ounce of respectability the Hot Wheels collector scene could possibly retain.
Walk down the local store aisle yesterday just in time to see the Hot wheel display completely freshly stocked yet I had absolutely no idea what a treasure hunt was nor what to look for now. For a decade I felt like a dog on a leash chasing down the series cars every year store to store. I'm out.
Once you start collecting, there's no way back...hehe...Like other collectors, I always enjoy collecting, playing, and appreciating this hobby...I hope there will be video featuring his collection so we can see closer some of those 30,000+ awesome hotwheels...
I too have the sickness. I'm 57. Took great care of my red lines as a kid. Then Dove deep into aggressively collecting in '95 and just went berserk until I finally put the brakes on in 2005. I was carrying on like I was some kind of a drug dealer running store to store. Then sneaking all these great finds into the house only to store them into tubs because I have no room to display them. Then I switched over to focusing on The fine wines of Mattel called Red lines and vintage '60s Mattel Hot wheel memorabilia which is my passion today. I stopped aggressively collecting The annual Chase series cars because I got tired of the repaints. More and more repaints on the shelves year after year. Now my entire collection sits stored in stacks and stacks of tubs in my basement, awaiting a larger house so I might put them on display in my own room full of Hot Wheels!!!! At 57. It's so funny to hear my 86-year-old mother tell me. "Don't let anyone tell you to give up your Hot Wheels. Those great cars. Keep you young at heart!"
I jokingly started collecting less than 3years ago, now I'm highly concerned I can't stop. I need to know the threshold between hobby, obsession and insanity.
@@kihdxfghj2193 you are amazing. Now THAT to me is FUN!!! true excitement. Rock on brother!! I got over 10,000 cars but AINT GOT any unopened cases. Just loose and unopened bps.
I have been collecting for the past year. It can get addicting. You spend time going from store to store and not finding much and when you hit a nice stocked store, you want to hoard everything to make up for the time you have been running around....lol My son got into them and it brought out the nostalgia for me and I went a little bonkers. I have found some nice treasure hunts and super treasure hunts. Plus, the cars that are real riders nowadays are made so much nicer than back then with so much detail. I also bought a whole bunch of wheelsets to customize the mainlines. All I need now is the time to customize them....lol.
@@BuiltToCruise I guess this was the unofficial end of the Chanel you have put out anything in almost two years which really sucks I loved your content
The thing is with Hotwheels, after buying one, your never content with the amount you have. I bought 55 cars at a swap meet, and not even a week later, I was dying for more. But I love it so much!
Hollllllllllllllaaaaay sheeeeeit! Hands down this man is a THOROUGH Car enthusiast lol what a Collection, I always wonder if Collectors can tell if they have doubles/triples of certain Cars after you've already surpassed 200
@@BuiltToCruise man, salute to that Guy and his passion for cars AND toy Cars...I love me some Toy Cars but couldn't see myself going past 50 HotWheels, THAT numbers more than enough for Me. Now 30K ACTUAL REAL Cars would be a feat 👀😋🤣🤣🤣😁✌🏽 #icantEvenAffordToMaintainONEcar
Hello from France. AWESOME CORY 's collection ! And very well organized ! Congrats for this great great collection. Me too i love collecting even if i lack of room for all my different collections... Happy New Year and Happy Collecting.
I have multiple collections. I collect mainly vinyl records, that's my favorite collection. I have a Beatles things collection, guitar collection, Nintendo 64 game collection, airsoft/bb gun collection, model car collection, and many more. However, I moderate my stuff. I only get what I really want, and then leave just a little slack for something new just because. My record collection is my biggest so far and I'm eternally happy with it. Every record has been serving it's purpose for me, they never get old. But just now, my dad found my Hot Wheels box from when I was a kid, so I'm proud to say I have a Hot Wheels collection too! Not just Hot Wheels, small cars in general. I actually have always loved the flimsy metal ones, I don't know what their called, but they're made out of really thin bendable metal and cheap plastic and they're all made in china. Well, I love those the most for some reason lol, as a kid those where my fave
That's s great collection I my self collect hot wheels not any were close to your but I would say I've got a couple thousand. I've got some older TH it's a great hobby thanks for sharing . Subbed!!!👍👍
Work starts on my own diecast showroom this August & I can't wait to finally display all of my 40 years collecting .Guys like Cory just show me what's possible with awesome displays like his .
I LOVE THIS. I have about 1500... found some from my Mom... that she kept for me and 2020 I started again... Its a great addiction... and Im a recovering alcoholic...
Great Video & AMAZING COLLECTION!!..........I'm very close to having 6,000 die cast cars currently myself & the main two are Square Body Trucks & Fox Body Mustangs which get expensive but his collection is crazy!
This was a great video. Always nice to see a fellow collector as insane as I am. We should link up in Atlanta in April if you're going. I'm driving out from Denver.
In order not to get too crazy and run out of room, I have tried to focus on only items I really like, I don't need to have all Mustangs that were produced and every colors... (Mustang Collector only, if you didn't noticed...), and it works pretty good that way for me.
I have a 4800 + Hot Wheels in my Personal Collection.... my wife thought I was crazy until she saw this video... and yes it's an addiction I have to have every last one of them
I collected when I was a kid, but my parents got rid of them. Now, I'm collecting again, and I'm now a little over the number of cars I collected as a kid. So it's good to know I'm not the only one.
I've been collecting since 1992. I've got about 3500 hundred cars. I only collect production cars. Mostly Ford ..lol I buy Chevy hot wheels. To trade for my Ford fever cars
I've got a few hot wheels on my shelf like the A team van, ghost busters car, halo warthog, mystery machine, pizza planet truck from toy story, etc but my thing is micro machines. I've got 1000s of them and I just can't get enough of them, just like this guy I'm always on the hunt for certain ones and it's definitely not a cheap hobby
Cool collection! I’m just starting out again. I have a few from my childhood and some newer ones from Batman and justice league movie I bought some years back. Just started collecting again in the last week or so. I’ve just been collecting mainlines and the cars I enjoy. I don’t care about treasure hunts or what’s trending. It’s all pretty overwhelming and I’m not going to battle grown men to be the first to a fresh box at the store to grab the treasure hunts. It’s seems pretty ridiculous to me and takes all the fun out of it for anyone just hoping to find this stuff in the wild, even kids. After just starting again and watching some RU-vid videos it looks like thats all people care about watching them just throw all the mainlines around and bending the cards hoping for new stock. I haven’t joined any groups yet but parts of this hobby seem extremely toxic. I’m thinking I might just keep to myself collecting my basic cars that nobody cares about anyway. Works for me cause I can always find something I enjoy and don’t have. Somewhere down the line these people forgot this was a hobby and not an investment. Thanks for sharing the collection it’s very inspiring 👍
I've been collecting since 2009. Now i have somewhere beetwen 100 to 150. Most of them is ferrari and race car like ford gt, lambo huracan troveo, mercedes clk gtr, and many more.
This is why I don't get any tattoos.......soon there would be no room left. But my Hotwheels collection is somewhere around 2000 to 2500 with about 1000 more of varying brands (mostly M2)...still growing. Started collecting in 2016.
I feel this guy's feelings just the same as I do for Disney Cars it's hard for people to like you for you but deep down they are just jealous of what we own and it's cool to have a Collection. I love to tick cars of theist when I've finally found a really rare car even if it's like $150+ I will buy it just because you don't know when the next opportunity will come.
Alot of People aren't doing it for the fun there doing it for profit there's literally a guy on youtube making videos on how many hot wheels do I to sell to buy a tesla. I can understand hunting for hot wheels and selling a few here and there but clearing out walmart racks for profit that isn't a hobby.
@@BuiltToCruise Totally , and what you guys are doing is such a great outlet for these stories. Theres so many OG's out there and its kool to get a minute to know them on a different level. You guys do such a great job with this... just my 2 cents
Wow homie you really have over 30, thousand hot wheels cars awesome much respect for being a true hobby collector no doubt about it I’m myself a hobby collector always enjoy collecting everything specially when it comes to hot wheels they are the best for sure keep dropping awesome video post homie god bless
I have been collecting for 25 years and I say that I became an addict recently. Like in the past few weeks I sent oner $200 on cars from eBay alone. I would throw a $1 bid on cars and let it ride. Then it went to small lots of cars and I have a rule of no more than $1 a car including shipping in the total. Now I'm buying large lots of like 25 to 30 cars. It can be a downhill spiral if you truly get into it especially when you have access to eBay 24/7. It's great to see another person's collection. One day I would love to walk through somebody's collection to just see what I am missing when it comes to Hot Wheels.
I’ve only got 27, but all are RedLines, from ‘67, 68’ & 69. I have two of the collectors cases that are wheel shaped. No cars in packages. I have the chute used to slow those rockets down in the drag race... How do I price my cars for possible insurance? I’d appreciate any help! Thanks.
