Legends Series 11 & 12 Discussion

I will 100% back that - Hot Wheels collectors are THE WORST. I worked at KB Toys for 7 years and they were constantly the worst. The most demanding and insane people. We got truck in once a week or so, depending on the season, and they would loiter around and pretty much expect us to bring a case out so they could pick through it themselves and would nearly get into fist fights about it. It was not expected by management that we would go in back and hunt for these things, yet they always tried to get our staff in trouble for not bringing cases out to them. Luckily the manager and asst managers were realistic enough to not deal with that crap.

Does the item page on the target app auto refresh? Say I leave Bam Bam open on my screen, if stock changes, will the “add to cart” button light up or do I have to go out and back in for it to update?

Whereabout in Texas?

As frustrating as this can be, and it is.. don’t ing do it… dear lawd.

I had no idea until I joined this board how big Hot Wheels actually was and how crazy the collectors are. I still find it hard to believe.

There’s something very nostalgic about them, like the fact that they go line up at the store each morning, I remember doing that in the 90’s a lot for big releases like Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles. I didn’t know until I started working for TRU that people still did that

Insane...I can understand if the retail window passes by and you don't have the figure you want, THEN turning to ebay.

But paying anything above retail before the figure is even widely released? Crazy.

I feel like some of those people on ebay and mercari may have 2 or 3 accounts and sit there artificially inflating the price so they can manipulate people easier.

Most times they're gone before you can get your post up about it.

You’re on the money there. I have this conversation with my brother all the time man, at what point in collecting did the item become MORE valuable BEFORE it was widely released? That makes no logical sense, we don’t even know if it’s hard to find yet and people are paying triple? What is this price based on? It is 100% people inflating the price, the laws of toy collecting have never functioned in this capacity, ever.

I understand turning to eBay after everybody else has found the fig and it’s just no where in sight, whatever, some people just want to have it and are willing to pay more. But for all we know, it’s gonna peg warm, Greg Valentine was fetching big bucks second hand and I came across him plenty. It’s illogical, it’s either scalpers buying up all the inventory of a particular item and deciding, this is what we’ll charge triple on since we’ve cornered the market…or new collectors are just totally clueless as to how value works, and I blame the Funko Pop community for this one, because they operated this way and I feel now that that hobby is definitely not as popular as it use to be, they’re all spilling into other hobbies and these people are clueless. Babies first collectible I always refer to them.

The Pop community would do stupid stuff like that, just at random pick a pop and charge triple for it, based on nothing.I have right now, pops that were limited runs of popular characters sold in stores that are no longer around, that aren’t worth a dime. But then other things that would warm the pegs is worth 5 times the price. It does t work that way. People are buying up all the inventory and deciding what they can inflate. Something definitely fishy going on.