From our Friends at Whatnot – The Ultimate Holiday Sale is Here!
Calling all collectors! From December 12–14, Whatnot Wonderland is bringing you unbeatable deals on toys, tech, and trading cards. Don’t miss your chance to snag the season’s hottest finds and fuel...
View ArticleIntroducing Mantel – A New Social Network for Collectors
We love introducing our community to other cool collectible resources! Very similar to our own team, Mantel’s founders share a passion for all things collecting. When they launched we reached out and...
View ArticleThe Supermobile – It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Plot Device to Boost Sales!
Avid readers of the hobbyDB blog will recall a few months ago when we looked at Superman’s Citroen CX as part of our dive into the Pilen model company’s very inauthentic character toys. Now let’s take...
View ArticleSaturday Showcase: Hot Wheels with Nykon!
We love to highlight the amazing collectors of hobbyDB! So we’re stoked to introduce our new weekly feature where we shine a spotlight on some of our favorite collectors and their impressive hobbyDB...
View ArticleRed Hot Chili Peppers Albums land in hobbyDB
Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the most iconic musical group in the world! They are American rock band from Los Angeles , started in 1982 with he line up of singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea,...
View ArticleArt Toy of the Week – Walrus
This week's Art Toy of the Week is Walrus by Craola and produced by Upper Playground, released in 2007. The post Art Toy of the Week – Walrus appeared first on The hobbyDB Blog.
View ArticlePricey Ponies! November Records for Horse Figures
A selection of expensive collectable model horses sold over the past month, including Breyer, Beswick, Hagen-Renaker and Peter Stone. The post Pricey Ponies! November Records for Horse Figures appeared...
View ArticlehobbyDB Designer Series: Get to Know Emmy Nominated Garbage Pail Kids...
1. What led you to 2D design and how’d you get started? Both of my parents were artistically inclined and they saw the penchant I had for the arts as a young child. I would watch kids shows and...
View ArticleWhat was your favorite model car as a child?
It’s a subject that often comes up and is always good for some good banter – what was your favorite model as a child? So here are the 3 I liked most. Siku Pontiac GTO The Judge Matchbox Regular...
View ArticleCelebrities competing with you – they collect as well!
Leonardo DiCaprio collected action figures (and might still do). Here is an article from 2006 that shows some of his figures he put up for auction benefitting his charity. So does Disney’s Adam...
View ArticleTen more of my favorite Racing Transporter Dioramas
In my long overdue second installment of favorite racing transporters and support vehicles from my collection (here is the first one), I again present you with ten models that are among the favorites....
View ArticleArt Toy of the Week – Santa Guan
This week's festive Art Toy of the Week is Santa Guan by Tik Ka from East and produced by Mighty Jaxx in 2018. The post Art Toy of the Week – Santa Guan appeared first on The hobbyDB Blog.
View ArticleEnigma – German musical project now in hobbyDB
Enigma is a German musical project founded I 1990 by Michael Cretu . The idea behind the project is to create a “new age of electronic music”. Michael created his first Enigma studio album MCMXC...
View ArticleTootsietoy Diecast Sets over the years
Tootsietoy is one of those brands that have been around forever but has very little following over all of their products and thus there is a lot of what they produced that is rare and not well known....
View ArticleIf you could chose a prop (or even the real thing) what would it be?
Movies are not just fun they constantly introduce new cool ideas. I was thinking which prop I would want and was torn between Robby from the 1956 Forbidden Planet film… Sold at Bonham’s for $5.3m in...
View Articleun-du Adhesive Remover – a collector’s friend?
Been there? Trying to remove a price sticker from one of your collectibles, only to leave behind some scratches, tears orwors? Tried un-du? One bottle easily lasts through the removal of 100s of...
View ArticleCraig likes Mischief (mostly only) and here are his Top Ten
Like many people, I discovered the joy of collecting during the pandemic. I used YouTube as a source of news and instruction and inevitably discovered the Gastlecast. Not only did they give great...
View ArticlePMs from member “SupportHobbyDB” are a scam, please do not add your Credit...
We have had a new member joining the site today that used the name “SupportHobbyDB” and started to send out private messages that asked to add credit card details – We would like to inform you that as...
View ArticleArt Toy of the Week – Toragon
This week's Art Toy of the Week is Toragon who is created and produced by Yasu in Japan. The post Art Toy of the Week – Toragon appeared first on The hobbyDB Blog.
View ArticleBurning Questions Dept; Why Does The Incredible Hulk Have a Mazda 1600 Pickup...
Following on from our look at the naked cash grab very interesting and not at all redundant superhero transportation device that is the Corgi Supermobile, let’s move on to another of the Corgi Marvel...
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