Join 760 Collectors in Owning a Piece of hobbyDB
We’re excited to report that we’ve officially zoomed past our second crowdfunding milestone of $50,000 raised! In less than three weeks, more than 90 new collectors have joined hobbyDB as owners. Many...
View ArticleHow to best pass on your Collection to the Next Generation
I am using hobbyDB to catalog and organize my collection so it can be passed down to my heirs. I have seen a lot of collectors pass away and watched in horror their collections sold off for pennies on...
View ArticleCelebrating the New Year with our Favorite hobbyDB Sellers, including Legion M
Christmas has come and gone with 2020 following right behind it. We’d like to start the new year by taking a look at some of our favorite sellers, including our good friends and partners over at Legion...
View ArticleFrom the Basement: Remembering Baseball Legend Tommy Lasorda and Collecting...
From the Basement is a recurring hobbDB blog where Christopher C. Wuensch delves into his extensive baseball card collection to discover gems from throughout the decades… The world of baseball woke up...
View ArticleCollector Showcase: HeroClix Hero and hobbyDB Curator Brian Perry
Heroes come in many forms and at hobbyDB our caped crusaders are the members of our volunteer squad. Known in the hobbyDB multiverse as “Captain Awesome,” Brian Perry brings to the site his passion for...
View ArticleAdd WandaVision and More to Your Collection via the Updated hobbyDB App
It’s a fun day here at hobbyDB as we celebrate the release of our updated app, as well as the debut of Marvel’s “WandaVision.” Version 1.2 of the hobbyDB app is now available in the App Store. The new...
View ArticleIntroducing the hobbyDB App Roadmap
Our vision is to combine the best that an App can do with a very user-friendly mobile website. That way we get all the benefits without having to support duplicated code base. That sounds good but...
View ArticleInformed Buyer and Informed Seller…
Sometimes that study of Economics pays dividends… Some of the premises to establish a solid value (for hobbyDB, our Estimated Value) are the following – Many buyers and sellers Standardized products...
View ArticleMythic Markets Offering First Appearance Wonder Woman Investment Opportunity
We’re always excited to share news and new opportunities when it comes to furthering the collectible community and our good friends at Mythic Markets have a new offering that has us feeling rather...
View ArticleCelebrating National Lego Day, hobbyDB Style
It’s National Lego Day and the crowd outside our office is already lined up for blocks!! < crickets chirping > Ahem. Anyway. We’re honoring the annual celebration of all things Lego today from...
View ArticleIntroducing Tokens and the New Direct Checkout to hobbyDB Marketplaces
With a New Year comes new announcements that we’re excited to share with you! In the next few weeks, we’ll be making some changes to our overall hobbyDB marketplace experience. We hope that these...
View ArticleWhy Subjects could be your new friend (and how they can become even more...
Generally, folks use the Database Items search to find that Boba Fett San Diego Comic-Con Special or literature about the 1972 Ford F100 Pick-up, but have you tried Subjects? There are already 90,000...
View ArticleAndroid Version of hobbyDB App Now Available for Download
hobbyDB is excited to announce the arrival of its Android app. The new mobile application joins the App Store version already available for download. The hobbyDB app is a quick UPC scanning tool that...
View ArticleGetting Hot Wheels Listings right
Hot Wheels is most likely the most collected diecast brand. It is also possible the best-researched one. And the one that has possibly the most variations – card differences, stickers, decals, interior...
View ArticleThe Many Visual Worlds of Mitchel Wu Toy Photography
For Mitchel Wu, it’s easy to get lost into a world of fantasy and alternate realities…and emerge with the images to tell the tale of the journey. Wu is a former wedding photographer who eschewed the...
View ArticleCelebrating More Than Five Decades of Super Bowl Collectibles
We’re celebrating Super Bowl LV here at hobbyDB when the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers square off for the 55th installment of football’s annual rite of passage. More than five decades...
View ArticleDirect Checkout and Tokens Now Live on hobbyDB
It’s official – hobbyDB Buyers and Sellers can now interact directly with each other, similar to Facebook and other peer-to-peer marketplaces. Less time spent on us being the middleman and handling...
View ArticleNational Guitar Day: Top 10 Most Valuable Hard Rock Café Pins on hobbyDB
It’s National Guitar Day and we’re rocking out to one of the most popular and plentiful items found in the hobbyDB database…the Hard Rock Café Guitar Pin!! On hobbyDB, you’ll find close to 35,000 HRC...
View ArticleTop-10 Most Valuable Michael Jordan Funko Pop! Figures
His Airness Michael Jordan turns 58 years old today, so we thought we’d celebrate by looking at the Top-10 most valuable Pop! Michael Jordan vinyl figures currently on hobbyDB. Air Jordan is now the...
View ArticleTop-10 Most Valuable Tomica Diecast Models
Tomica has been a driving force in the world of diecast for more than half a century. Despite turning 50 years old in 2020, Tomica isn’t letting up on the gas, including its long-awaited return to...
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