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Buddy, carded.

Real Toy cars looks quite similar to that of Maisto. Some are quite nice, particularly Maisto with some latest latest BMWs, Mercedes, Jaguars, Porches etc.

A 1986 Maisto : Pontiac Firebird bought from "Yaohan" supermarket which no longer exist. Looks similar to the real car posted by Fadli85 in Smokey & The Bandit movie except the eagle on the bonnet looks exaggerated. The car suspension is superb and cushy.

a new kind of a experience.

Yup, better be quick, can see the car dissapearing fast. Try to use a mini screw driver to run across the bottomside of the roof and it is actually textured not merely lines shown on the surface of the roof.

hi buddy paanjang16, your MBs have gone thru the test of times and is still going strong as i can see, the more paint that came off the better it is, a testimony of the extreme tests that the cars have gone thru. Keep the cars that way just to show you have an ori piece. Yup, keep the antique pcs that you have and it is near impossible to get, i mean locally. Cheers.

buddy, are u being a bit naughty here? I thought pon-tee-ak sounds a bit more decent. Lol. Joking only. Tnx for helping out with the pronunciation.

I'm looking for 2 pcs of 16 Angels. Anyone has any to spare pls give a shout here. Tnx.

Watch out for the back tail lights, one of them not painted, and the front right side headlight gone missing.

[quote="Fadli85"]Well at least for me, I like the '77 Pontiac Trans Am, the sexiest ever, and I like it more when it appears in Smokey & The Bandit Movies, damn really hot car, killer look with the Flaming Chicken logo..... Fadli85, thanks for the photos, yup the Pontiacs that they used for IROC are cool. I like the Pontiac Firebird IROC (HW 2001 #121), a very sleek looking car. Older Pontiacs have the headlights or whole front panel recessed in against later models, can't remember too many cars have that feature and it's distinctive, however I like the 1969 Pontiac Firebird most (HW 2005 Realistix FE#5). Help to post some pictures pls if you can, I'm a bit of a computer illiterate. Check out the link below to see one of their sleek models:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PontiacTransAmWS6RamAir.jpg Cheers.

Brada Paanjang 16, Glad to know someone who shares the same opinion here. As much as I do not wanna believe HW is still that yard off Matchbox but I can't help believing so, just taken a look at 1pc of black MB Mercedes-Benz CL500 under magnifying glass, can't find any fault, to me black colour paintwork is the easiest to spot defects, but i couldn't find any. However, one look at the HW metallic Nissan Skyline GT-R-R32, without using the magnifying glass, i can see the red color paint on one side of the tail-lights missing while the other one is half painted, heartache? Not sure am I having a cacat pc, reject pc or an error pc??? Whatever it is, I'm not happy, I keep thinking the tail-lights paintwork is missing. Yup, I could remember back in the 70s and 80s in Malaysia MB is the order of the day while HW only makes its presence felt only in the early 80s. Not forgetting it comes in those nice little boxes that you can open up, get the car out, race it, slammed it, rammed it, crashed it and fiddle with it. Phew, you have a piece of a gem here, it must have been from the 70s or 80s? Great piece, keep it that way, don't try to re-paint it. Once read a book about antique on diecast cars, it advises collectors not to restore old diecast cars, such as trying to repaint its surface, this is to retain its authentic value, the author is an authority on antiques and an auctioner, so he must be right then, can't argue much with him. I'm led to believe, there are lots of collectors out there looking for yesteryear diecast cars and it doesn't come cheap, like the pc of Dodge Challenger that you have, eventhough play worn. Whatever it may be, we certainly hope MB continues to produce quality stuff to keep us collectors happy. Hasbro? ...... hmmm can't comment much on them as i don't collect figures, but feedback from me pals that collects figures suggests that Hasbro has the knack of changing the blister card but with the identical figure and sold as variation and diehard collectors have to follow suit and buy and buy and buy, to complete collection-mah. Some collectors dropped out and some gave up all together, too expensive to keep up. If Hasbro took over we may end up in those situations. Scarry, scarry. As it is now Mattel is already a headache with those colour variations. Ah .... just taken a look at other pieces of Nissan Skylline GT-R R32, all of them have the same defect. If you happen to carry a piece, I believe it carries the same defect.

That online blog or block may not have a taste for Pontiacs and most probably may not know the history of it, otherwise he/she will not be too quick to condemn it. Crappy cars??? There're more crappier cars out there than the Pontiacs. Can we say the Pontiac Firebird any crappier than, say, the 2007 Rolls Royce Phantom??? Don't get me wrong i've got nothing against Rolls Royce, it is the ultimate but they still comes out with crappy designs. Yeah, i can agree earlier Pontiacs looks a bit crappy but they have improved over the years. Look at the pictures and it's all there to be seen. Cheers.

As someone has mentioned earlier on Matchbox has a long history before Hotwheels, it's true, it is still alive and kicking. It depends on whether you are a "realist" or a "futurist". If you falls under the former category then Matchbox would suit you better. A quick look at the 2009 catalogues for both brands suggests that approximately 45% and 75% of Hotwheels and Matchbox cars respectively are real cars. Besides that, Matchbox made up of mainly British and Continental cars while Hotwheels real cars are mainly American cars, with a few exceptions of Japs and Continental cars thrown in. Hence, there's no fix and fast rule to say which is better, depends on your taste. As a general and personal observation, older collectors, say age 35 and above tend to prefer Matchbox than Howheels, but but we can also see younger collectors showing great interest in Matchbox. One notable thing I like about Matchbox of yesteryers cars is that a car is packed into a a small box like that of the Tomicas where you can open up the box as and when you feel like it and fiddle with it and one tends to appreciate the car better, but now it is in blister pack which takes off a big portion of the fun. Now one can only see but cannot hold the car, what a pity.

quick quick pls can't wait to see those cars.

I'd like to trade or purchase some of the cars, pls pm me. Thanks buddy.

My pleasure buddy. It's all about caring and sharing together as collectors. Cheers.

For me it's about collecting any cars that I like and that has a history behind it. Of course every HW cars or for that matter any other brands has a history behind it but it brings greater enjoyment in collecting toy cars that exist in this real world against concept cars. Of course again it depends on the paper Agung that is available to us, as someone has rightfully mentioned so. Lol. The more that is available the more we can have but I don't zoom in one particular type of car or brand, I have an open mind and as much as possible spread my collection across all types and brands of cars that is worth collecting and that I like, so that when you kick the bucket, you can proudly say I've known and perhaps held and owned most of the brands of cars available in the market, even though it's only 1 piece each. It's all part of the learning process as a collector. Instead of having hundreds of dragtors and don't know what to do with them. Lol. However, a notable trend being the older you get your taste changes and you may go for an upgrade to higher end toy cars and abandon your earlier ones and you may go for vintages. Be prepared for that. It's not a case of whether we have 100 cars or 10,000 cars. It's a case of what quality cars that we have that counts? So don't get too worried if your friend's collection outnumbered you by triple digit, you don't need to collect that many and everything that's out there, you don't have the space to store them anyway. Are they rare, are they vintages that's what we have to ask perhaps? HW collections is not only all about the green cards, some of you may have known there are other rarer HW cars out there that costs many x more than the green cards.

Try Amcorp flea market on a Sunday, it's still available loose at RM 10.00 per pc at some of the stalls, Be quick, stocks fast depleting.

Hi bro, sorry has been away for a while. Yup, with a hole or two will allow circulation of air inside the plastic bag, so call allowing the car to breath and not allowing the trap air to react with the paintwork. Imagine the same air trapped inside the plastic bag for a long time will find nothing better to do but to react with paintwork or in other terms oxidation of the body paintwork and small bubbles will form on the paintwork and that being the early signs of paint deterioration or paint fatigue. Of course some gurus whom have been collecting for years will also tell us to do the simple exercise of opening the boxes once a while to allow the supply of fresh air. Storing the loose cars at places of high humidity and hot places like the attic, near the window etc is also a no no. The heat will get onto the paintwork and causes early deterioration and more importantly hasten the metal (Zamac) fatigue. One may ask, how about those cars inside the blister pack? Well, if we have the chance to lay our hands on a 30 year old or more car in an unopened blister, one can find that the paintwork is dull and on some cars you find small bubbles marks on the paintwork, I believe the oxidation of paint does takes place. Ideally, we would like these toy cars paintwork to last forever, but it's simply a wishful thinking and the paintwork will somehow comes off at some point of time. As some collectors will tell us, once Zamac decay is detected, that's the end of it, the decay has gotten to the body of the car and it's cancerous that will require a major surgical recovery job. All hope is not lost, it has been mentioned many times before, polishing and waxing the cars will prolong the lifespan of the cars and it definitely helps in this case as I believe it provides a protective film of micro mm on the car paint and zamac against direct contact with the air. Perhaps, we should not get too worry, the paintwork won't comes off overnight but over a long period of time and frankly, I fully expect nearly all of my collection to outlast me. Zamac also last for years and has been around for over 70 years. I'd believe the biggest area we have to worry about is the rubber used for tires and other items as rubber does decay! I'd rather not get too worried but enjoy our collections, life's too short to worry about every thing! But, what we are doing now is to preserve the body paint and the car metal body as long as possible. Zooooooooooooom ................ i'm off to get some fresh air for my loose cars. Sorry for the long read. Cheers.

Hello ........ everybody out there, have you seen the 1st 9 cars, pls give us a shout then. It's no good for Mattel not making the first 9 cars available locally, it defeats the purpose of colleting the cars then. Collector needs to complete their collection, if they are not given a chance to do so, what's the point of collecting then.Now many of my friends told me they are not buying the "Ferrari Racer" range anymore 'cause they know very well they can't complete the whole range. Food for thought for Mattel SEA.

Err...... PR5 wheels for the Reventon, what a shame, should have been SB wheels, the car will then looks threathening. Looks like a pussycat now.

I can't find the first 9 cars. Mattel Malaysia must have flushed it all down the water closet. Pretty frustrating.

wow! didn't know there are so many fathoms around. Only got the white one in the middle.

I find it easier to rely on the catalog and pure memory. Constant reference to the catalog will also help to memorise the cars that we already have and those in the pipeline. I've tried using photos in the handphone but when under real circumstances at the toy dept, coupled with the stress, duress, hustling and bustling around when others are also looking for cars, no time to dilly dally with the handphone, one has to decide there and then whether to buy or not to buy and pick up whatever you can before it dissapears before your eyes and more often than not ended up having doubles or triples. Thank goodness Mattel Malaysia is slow in getting out the cars onto the maket to allow us time to register the cars that we have in our memory and catalog, otherwise kaput, you get doubles or triples very often. It will also be useful if one can design a simple personalised catalog by allowing variations to be recorded as some cars look the same when your eyes are betraying you and you tend to miss out. There's no fix and fast rule as to how the personalised catalog should look like but as long it suits you then fine. Besides that, regular trip to your favourite toy departmental store (s) will also help as it would allow you to identify new cars on the shelf much easier, relying on the catalog and memory of the cars that you already have. If one doesn't drop by the toy shops often, you'll get something like; "I don't have that, no wait a minute I think i have that, but again no I don't", so we end up buying the same car and have to be slaughtered eventually as someone has mentioned earlier on. Just my personal opinion on the whole matter after some costly mistakes made over the years. If the photos in the camera suits you, fine why not it's easier to handle that way instead of stack of papers to carry. It's purely a personal choice. Cheers.

I need more of a magnifying glass than a torchlight. Don't look too near, you'll freak out. How would you feel when you found out that the gear shifter is as high as the steering or that you have a giant size steering nearly hitting the windscreen. Not sure it's funny or to be angry with Mattel. Nonetheless, we pay RM 6.50 per car what the hack to start demanding for details, unless we're talking of Minichamps, Autoart or Kyosho here.