Buying multiple Hot Wheels & model cars: Childhood interest reignited

After about half an hour of choosing, I went home with 6 Hot Wheels cars and a Tomica Premium series Toyota 2000GT.

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Getting back into model cars and collectables

Like many kids in India born in the early part of the new millennium, I grew up with model cars and other collectable items (most notably Cricket Attax in the early 2010s).

I too had a small collection of HotWheels growing up, I had maybe 6 cars at the peak of my collection but I loved them all. Off the top of my head, I can remember three. A purple Custom VW Beetle and blue BoneShaker (which I later found out are both part of the 2012 HotWheels HW Racing series) and some sort of blue Ford Mustang based on the S197 generation.

Recently my interest in model cars had been reignited. After watching the new Spiderman movie with a couple of friends we decided to roam around Vega City mall here in Bangalore and aimlessly wandered into Hamleys in the same mall to look at a few automotive Lego sets (we found a magnificent Lego BMW S1000RR although it was priced at an eye-watering 30k).

We then spotted an all too familiar shelf blue blister packs. It was two full shelves of HotWheels. While most of the ones there were fantasy cars from the Color Shifter series I did find two gems. A "Dodge Van" in white based on the 3rd gen (1998-2003) Dodge Ram Van and a HotWheels version of the silver 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Stingray seen in Fast 5. A little bit of research showed that HotWheels was officially back in India following the Idiotic ban in September 2019.

Dodge Van

The interior of the Dodge van seems to have an entire Go-Kart and two spare wheels, nice detail

Fast Five C2 Corvette Grand Sport Stingray

Yesterday I was with a friend and we went to Church Street to grab a cup of coffee. Since there was a line for Indian Coffee House we were about to go elsewhere. My friend spotted a few cool-looking anime figurines in the window of a store called Play Port, we decided to check it out. As soon as I walked in I was treated to a whole bunch of HotWheels cars just hanging around and a few more boxes full of HotWheels waiting to be put on shelves. I was even more delighted when I found a shelf filled with Tomica cars and I believe a few Mini GT ones as well.

After about half an hour of choosing I went home with 6 HotWheels cars and a Tomica Premium series Toyota 2000GT.

C1 Corvette in Barbie spec

First gen Nissan Maxima Wagon drift car

Drag Spec EG Civic Hatch

Mercedes Unimog

'69 Shelby GT500 Convertible

Ford Sierra Cosworth

and finally, The Toyota 2000GT

Also, could anyone tell me where I could find a scale model of the AE86 from Initial D, Hotwheels/Tomica size is fine but I'd like something a little bigger.

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