Microcar Models’ Danny Draper is Latest hobbyDB Shareholder
Danny Draper of Microcar Models Australia is the newest shareholder in hobbyDB. MMA is a small company that makes minuscule models of microscopic cars. But they still think big. “Our desire is for...
View Article5 Years, 5 Fun Facts – KMJ Diecast, Kirk Smith, and hobbyDB
A little bit more than five years ago, Kirk Smith found himself running an online store selling Hot Wheels cars on kmjdiecast.com that was doing very well – until he heard from his software provider...
View ArticleYou can now organize your Collection with Custom Lists!
Thanks to all of your feedback, we’ve realized that organizing and sorting your collections in custom/easy to display ways has become very important to collectors everywhere. It’s for those reasons...
View ArticleHow to catalog Autographs
We have always struggled with autographs, mainly because they come in two forms. The pure autograph, just a piece of paper, for example, this one with the signatures of the Beatles – Another...
View ArticlehobbyDB and Pop Price Guide to host Price Listing Record Day
The hobbyDB family of brands will play host to its first Price Listing Record Day. And you can help by becoming a volunteer member of our Price Squad. As you might already know, Pop Price Guide...
View ArticlehobbyDB / Pop Price Guide Price Listing Record Day Resounding Success
The hobbyDB family of brands is proud to report that its first hobbyDB / Pop Price Guide Price Listing Record Day was a resounding success. A tip of the cap goes out to the members of the hobbyDB Data...
View ArticleThe Toys of Summer: A Look at Some of the Season’s Best Collectibles
Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. We feel it in the air. The summer’s out of reach. Don Henley’s words ring true as we enter the last weekend of the summer. Fortunately for us, the Toys of...
View ArticlehobbyDB to Host Second Price Listing Record Day Event
Records were meant to be broken. And we here at the hobbyDB family of brands are setting our sights on a new mark with our second Price Listing Record Day. Last month, our Data Team alongside our...
View ArticlePrice Guide taking Shape with 89,201 new price points
It has always been our vision to have some sort of value guidance for every item on hobbyDB (see for example this earlier blog post from 2016). Today we’re excited to announce that with the release of...
View ArticleThe Second hobbyDB Price Listing Record Day is Underway!
On your marks. Get set. Price assign! We’ve embarked on our second hobbyDB Price Listing Record Day with an eye on reducing our backlog of price listings. Our Data Team, working alongside our volunteer...
View ArticleSecond hobbyDB Price Listing Record Day is a Success!
We did! That is to say our wonderful Data Team and volunteer Price Squad members did it, helping us reach our goal during the second hobbyDB Price Listing Record Day. Our intrepid staff was able to hit...
View Article500K! Hooray! hobbyDB Reaches Database Milestone for Items Added
We have a mantra here at hobbyDB that we like to repeat. It humbly boasts “over 100 billion collectibles…eventually.” And while the road ahead of us toward documenting every collectible ever made is a...
View ArticleNewly Added This Week to the hobbyDB Database…Funko, Tomica and More!
It was another busy week here at hobbyDB as we recently crossed the threshold of 500,000 items added to our database. And more is on the way with new items added hourly. Here’s a look at some of our...
View ArticleWorld Series Collectibles: Celebrating the Fall Classic on hobbyDB
October is here and that means more than the foliage is on display as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Tampa Bay Rays prepare to square off in the annual rite of autumn…the World Series. The start of the...
View ArticleMeet our Curator of the Month October FJaviserr from Chile!
Read about Javier, his daughter and collection on this Pop Price Guide blog post. The post Meet our Curator of the Month October FJaviserr from Chile! appeared first on The hobbyDB Blog.
View ArticleIntroducing hobbyDB Gallery Pages to Show off everything you love about your...
What’s the fun of having a collection if you can’t show it off? We’re a big believer in being able to proudly display your passions, so we’re happy to introduce our new Gallery page. You’ll find your...
View ArticleRound 2 is Open! Now is your chance to own a piece of hobbyDB
You, our members, are the heart of hobbyDB. Many of you give your time and knowledge to make the project better and better each day. Without you, the database would not nearly be what it is today. With...
View ArticleAnother Visit to the Jang Birsens Matchbox Mecca!
In the last few months, I visited my friend’s Jang Birsens Matchbox Museum as many times as I could. There is so much stuff to see and it got me back to buy some Matchbox models, for me a kind of a...
View ArticlehobbyDB to Expand its Autographed Item Database
When it comes to adding autographed items to hobbyDB, you, the hDB faithful, were strongly in favor. We started by adding easy ones. For example signed Funko items with their own series, stickers and...
View ArticleNewly Added to hobbyDB: Curators Sought for Smurfs, Teenage Mutant Ninja...
We reached a major milestone in October when we added the 500,000th item to the hobbyDB database. But we weren’t done. Not even close. We are, after all, on a mission to add over one billion...
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