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THS Diecast Cars (The Hobby Shopp) is your online source for quality 1:18 scale diecast cars. Our inventory mainly consist of "tricked out" 1:18 scale diecast collectibles created by the "big name" manufacturers. The types of model cars that we carry are American muscle, entertainment, luxury, police, SUV, and vintage. Our diecast replicas come equipped with awesome components such as glossy exterior paint jobs, custom rims, tinted windows, detailed interiors, opening doors, opening hoods and trunks, diecast bodies, custom body kits, plus other great features. The brands that we carry include Big Time Muscle, DUB City, ERTL, Hot Wheels, Jada Toys, Maisto International, Motormax Toy Factory, Sun Star, plus more popular brands of 1:18 scale diecast cars.Check out the latest additions to our inventory
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Sun, 7 Jan 12:04:00 UT-5 - THS Diecast Cars (General Info.)
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The Hobby Shopp is an online-based company that started as an eBay store in 2004. Over the years THS has strived to provide customers with quality products at low affordable prices. Our prosperity as an online merchant is an end result of great customer service, timely shipping, and top-quality products listed at prices below MSRP. With our great inventory, superb customer service, and rock bottom prices, we allow you as a customer, to buy products at super prices.Privacy StatementThe Hobby Shopp values and respects the privacy of its customers. Information collected from customers will only be used for order processing purposes. We do not sell or rent the information to third parties. All credit card information provided to The Hobby Shopp is provided using secure web pages.
Thu, 24 Aug 11:33:00 UT-4 - The Art of Diecast Collecting
The Art of Diecast Collecting by Robert W. Benjamin
Collecting diecast vehicles consists of acquiring specific items based on your particular interests, such as airplanes, cars, trains, ship models, etc. Although some people just accumulate them, this is a passionate hobby for most folks, in which the genuine collector organizes carefully those items to catalog them and proudly display them. The depth and breadth of every collection is as unique as every collector is, and they are the ones that determine if a collection will focus on a specific subtopic within their area of general interests or if they only want to accumulate determined items. As an example, a collector may collect diecast vehicles trying to accumulate any or all of them, while another individual could prefer collecting only a model, brand or marquee.
Diecast vehicles and toys are an example of a collection that is never-ending. When you start collecting these vehicles it is like traveling back in time until the early decades of the 20th century when manufacturers such as Tootsie Toys in the United States, or Dinky Toys in the United Kingdom first produced the first diecast toys. Because the term "diecast" refers to any product produced using the casting method, the first models on the market were small cars or vans without plastic windows.
Over time, the vehicles were made of plastic and metal, more commonly an alloy of zinc and aluminum, including not only cars but also scale models of airplanes and trains, although automobiles are still the favorites among all of them. With more than 50 popular brands including Altaya, Bandai, Brooklin, CMC, Dragon Wings, Exoto, Guisval, Ixo, Jada, Johnny Ligntning, Kyosho, Lledo, Matchbox, Minichamps, Norev, Plasticos Argentinos, Racing Champions, RCCA, Revell, Tekno, Tomica, UT Models, Vitesse, and the popular Hot Wheels introduced by Mattel, among others.
Like with other popular collecting fields, diecast collecting has specialized commercial dealers that trade vehicles and related accessories. In fact, many individuals start collecting cars as a hobby to become dealers at a later date, either turning this hobby into a profession, or as a means to get extremely rare vehicles for their own collections, while they help other collectors in their pursuit of showcase-model cars. In the United Kingdom, there are teams specialized in visiting small and larger toy fairs to acquire incredible cars, in good conditions from Dinky Toys and Corgi, the main British collectibles companies. Dinky Toys was first introduced in early 1934 by Meccano Ltd of Liverpool, England, presenting a new line of modeled miniatures, as diecast vehicles were first known.
Corgi Toys began producing scale model cars until July 1956 under the supervision of Mettoy Playcraft Ltd. in Swansea, Wales, along with Dinky Toys, and the American Tootsie Toys, which is one of the most wanted brands of collectors worldwide. However, there are many other popular manufacturers from the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, etc.
Rarely a diecast collector completes a collection because new models of cars are always available, and collecting never stops, you can always expand or start an entirely new collection in a subtopic, such as cars, then sport cars, vans, etc. From Hot Wheels to Matchbox and from Bandai to Tomica, including all the other brands, diecasts models include popular automobile marques. Packard, MG, Morris, Hillman, Austin, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Citroen, Opel, Triumph, Talbot, Gwynne, Vauxhall, Reliant, Singer, Bristol, Wolseley, Innocenti, Healey, Siddeley, BSA, Darracq, Crossley, Jowett, Frazer Nash, Northern, Renault, Ford, Chrysler, and the classics Jaguar, Mercedes Benz and Rolls Royce, just to name a few.
Broadening a collection is not that hard, even when focusing on a single marquee, because there are different models from the twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties, seventies, etc. Hence, every diecast Collector has a world of possibilities when gathering diecast models from almost any period of time as early as models from 1885, when the first automobile driven by internal combustion was introduced by German inventor Karl Friedrich Benz, to actual models in modern car showcases.
Diecast vehicles come in various scales, the most popular ranging from 1:28 to 1:64 scale, although many collectors prefer focusing their collections on the 1:43 and 1:50 scales. Diecast toys were originally designed for children, but the collecting boom started during the 1950's when grown children stated to keep their cars instead of throwing them away and adults discovered them as valuable collectible items.
There is computer software that is made just for collecting diecast vehicles. Anyone who has a small or large diecast vehicle collection can easily keep track of what vehicle they have, the color, condition, cost, value, scale and lots of other info for each record (vehicle). This is the most easiest to use software of it's kind, and it is made 100% for diecast collecting. The software is described in detail and you can download a free demo version of it at this website address:
By Robert W. Benjamin
Copyright © 2006
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Wed, 2 Aug 13:56:00 UT-4 - Diecast Collectibles
By Sandy on June 10th, 2006
A diecast collectible is simply a collectible, made out of metal and plastic, created by casting from a die. Generally speaking, although anything can be modeled in this way, the product is usually cars, trucks, airplanes and other machinery.
The diecast toy is somewhat of a masculine version of the porcelain doll; collected and frequently passed on from generation to generation. However, little boys don’t collect diecast toys because dad has bigger, more expensive diecast toys…he collects them because dad has the real thing!
Boys often times have a fascination for things with wheels from an early age; diecast toys provide a fairly rugged plaything that allows them to envision themselves as grown ups, sitting behind the wheel, cruising around (and, generally, running into things). Because they tend to be made of metal, they stand up to the terrors of boyhood better than plastic vehicles.
One distinction between diecast toys and nearly every other collectible is that they tend to provide a nearly automatic history lesson while being collected. Because they are often times a replica of an existing vehicle, there is obviously a year and a story behind each piece. These stories often times become as valuable (if not more valuable), to the collector, as the toy and are dutifully passed along to the next generation.
Automobile diecast collectibles have an especially enriching way of developing as stories because a collector will often times focus on a specific time period or specific make and model of a vehicle. The reason frequently has to do with personal history and a personal story. Through this, the diecast collectible becomes a personal reminder and token of days gone by and is, after all, much cheaper to pass along than the real thing.
As you delve deeper and deeper into the diecast collectibles market, it becomes apparent that the collectors frequently treat the small, toy versions as if they were the real thing. Discussions of various mini mechanical marvels include engine specifications for that particular piece and frequently pull in facts about the full size version, weaving “fact” and “fiction” into one thought process.
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Wed, 2 Aug 13:51:00 UT-4 - Diecast Model Cars - A History by Colin Lloyd
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Diecast Model Cars - A History by Colin Lloyd
There is quite a long history of craftsmen building detailed miniature replicas of transport vehicles and machinery, but it wasn't until 1934 that diecast model cars and lorries arrived on the market in any great numbers.
At that time the model cars and trucks weren't regarded as collectable items in their own right - they were produced to lend added realism to model railways.
Since the early 1920s Frank Hornby had been making increasingly complex train sets. One of the sets, Meccano Set No 21, was embellished with six diecast models, consisting of a motor truck, a sports coupe, a delivery van, a sports car, a farm tractor, and an Army tank. These were the first Dinky models, issued under the "Meccano Modelled Miniatures" label, as Set No. 22.
These early diecast cars were fairly crude by modern standards, being cast from an alloy with high lead content which didn't lend itself to a high degree of detail. Also they didn't attempt to depict genuine vehicles, although the sports car bore a resemblance to the S.S.1, a popular make of the period and a precursor of the Jaguar.
In terms of scale, they were not very well suited to the train sets which they were intended to adorn.
It soom became apparent, however, that there was a healthy market for such models, and it wasn't long before individual diecast replicas based on real cars and trucks were produced and sold separately. Dinky Set 30 was based on the Rolls Royce, Set 36A on the Armstrong Siddely, 36B a Bentley, and 36F was a Salmon sports car.
With the passage of time the quality of detail and reproduction greatly improved. The Dinky sets had diecast alloy bodies and tinplate radiators and rubber tyres. The later models also came with drivers and passengers. The Armstrong Siddely had a footman and chauffeur. Just before the Second World War some superb military models were produced, including tanks with catterpillar tracks and rotating turrets.
Few models from that era have survived in acceptable condition, and examples in good condition are extremely collectable - pre-war Dinkies can fetch prices up to $1000 in auction.
In the 1950s, new production techniques heralded a new era in the history of diecast model cars. Lesney, famous for their splendid Coronation Coach, and Corgi, ("the ones with the windows"), entered the market to provide competition to Dinky.
This new generation of diecast vehicles, with finer detail, better running gear, and better color finish, leads up to the present day, where millions of precision diecast replica models are produced, at quite affordable prices for the collector.
About the AuthorFor a great selection of diecast model cars, going back to the earliest days of the automobile, visit http://www.diecast-vintage-cars.com
Wed, 2 Aug 13:31:00 UT-4 - Ford Advertise w/ Diecast Cars in Kellogg's Cereal Boxes
Like seemingly every other business these days, Ford Motor Company’s marketing team have been trying to use new advertising methods to capture the attention of consumers when they are noy involved with traditional media like television, print, and radio.Ford has worked out a deal with with retailer Target to slip Ford Fusion Hot Wheels diecast cars into 600,000 Kellogg cereal boxes. Naturally, one lucky person will find a red Ford Fusion emblazoned with a Target logo in their box. As a result, that person will win a 1:1 scale Ford Fusion.
Ford is not placing the spiffs in products that are aimed toward mature consumers (e.g. Crispix and Smart Start), it’s going for products like Apple Jacks, Cocoa Krispies, etc. Consider this to be partly because the company is giving away toy cars, and partially because the company is vying for the affections of young gearheads-to-be who influence the buying decisions of those around them.
Finding a diecast car in a cereal box is something of a time-honored breakfast tradition, but this is the first we have heard of a car manufacturer doing this explicitly for marketing ends.
+ The Associated Press: Ford to Put 600K Toy Cars in Cereal Boxes
Written By: Christopher Paukert
Wed, 2 Aug 11:51:00 UT-4
