Finding Hot Wheels in the
stores is very easy depending on the country, but here in my country
it is a real challenge, there are very few stores that has them and
even those stores do not have more than 3-4 of the normal pegs filled, except for holidays, where in that time you can find about 5-6
extra pegs filled. The only ways they have been arranged in the
stores was on regular pegs and a few times in dump bins, or BOD (Bin
Of Death) how they are called between collectors.
Sometimes it is really hard
to look thru them on those normal pegs, either they are placed to
high and you cant reach, or they are very crowded, no spaces
between pegs or cars, making it impossible not to knock them down
and make a mess or even worse, bend or break the cards and blisters.
The only way is to take it slow, one by one, but this way you will
spend a lot of time there, just to go thru about 3 pegs and find out
at the end that was nothing interesting for you. I haven't seen dump
bins around here in a long time so i am not going to talk to much
about them, but let me tell you that they are even worse for cards
and blisters, from here the name "Bin of Death".
In countries like USA there
are already alternatives to this problem, the introduction of
"shippers". These shippers are in more than one model,
from my understanding :
*1. Medium
sized boxes split into locations where it
can be added 7-10 cars in
each location, making it easier to go thru them without damaging any
of them.
*2.
Medium sized pegs, where it
can be added many cars on them, but with spaces in between the pegs, avoiding crowding, where you can look easy on every peg without
damaging anything.
One
of this shipper has made its way in my country for the first time and
i really find it very helpful, it made the experience for me a lot
better and i was able to search all of it without damaging any of the
cars there and it was very fast, without time consuming.
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| Pegged Shipper |
Also
this part of the world only got regular mainline Hot Wheels, no
special series, other than the Color Shifters. Well that has
changed, because in the same store i was able to spot castings from
"Team Hot Wheels" series and a few "Monster Jam"
ones. A few weeks ago i was able to spot some of the long card Hot
Wheels from the 90's, as you saw in my previous post, so all of
these makes me hope that things will change around here and maybe in
the near future we are also going to receive the most wanted and
highly collectible series
that countries like USA have them. There is a first time for
everything, right ?
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| Team Hot Wheels serie |
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| Monster Jam castings |
Hope
you enjoyed the reading, happy collecting, have fun and stay safe.
***What
new things have you found in your stores lately ?***
