Monday, September 29, 2008

Hot Wheels Collectibles

Hot Wheels from Mattel. These are collectible matchbox cars more often aimed at a younger audience. They make easy gifts being fairly cheap. Plus they are fun to collect. There are a lot of accessories to go along with them too. Things like Hot Wheels tracks or games.

Just as an example the average young collector has around 41 Hot Wheels cars. The Hot Wheels brand by Mattel has some of the most popular matchbox toys in today's market. They have Monster Trucks, Sho-gun Racers, and Mechanix. It is said that around two Hot Wheels toys are sold every second of the day.

These matchbox cars are well collectible, some of the more recent years are still easy to get. Like the Hot Wheels 2006 set or even 2007 and 2008. Giving a whole collection could make a substantial gift to any collector.

If you are interested in collecting hotwheels here are a few suggestions: Look into getting an hot wheels price guide, also if you want to buy Hot Wheels you will want to hit up a site that has hot wheels for sale.

Hot Wheels is celebrating it's 40th anniversary. It was founded in 1968, here is a list of the original toys also know as the Sweet 16:

Silhouette
Beatnik Bandit
Deora
Hot Heap
Custom Barracuda
Custom Fleetside
Custom Firebird
Custom Camaro
Custom Mustang
Custom Corvette
Custom Eldorado
Custom T-Bird
Custom Cougar
Custom Volkswagen
Ford J-Car
Python

Hot Wheels are a great collectible matchbox toy.