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Scored a Pastrana, poto and reed for $5 each at a store closing. My 4 year old sees them hanging on the mancave wall and has been relentless trying to get me to open them for him. So i hop online looking for replacements and geez you can find them close to what retail used to be some some people think they are worth gold and charging insane amounts.
Over the years ive probably bought all of them and watched them all turn into parts bikes before heading to the trash can lol. Oh well they were played with as they should have been.
Over the years ive probably bought all of them and watched them all turn into parts bikes before heading to the trash can lol. Oh well they were played with as they should have been.
I wish hot wheels would make their dirt bikes again. They were by far the best. My friends and I use to all have our own tracks. We’d build large wooden boxes, fill them with primo dirt and build SX tracks. My old man made tough blocks out of foam to line the tracks. He also made me when I was a kid and most recently my two boys a foam Supercross track out of expanding foam and then shaved the obstacles in before painting the whole thing. He even glued play sand to the top on the last one he made (which turned out to be a mess indoors). Good times!
The Shop
No worries though baby Roczen will eventually wear me down and get at least on of them.
Good thing I bought two because this has been the best performer since my first E.K. stunt cycle
My son who is 4 has the cheap versions of some of these and a few expensive ones and a track and half the toys he has broken but he plays with them every day.
Let's talk about the reason why mint in-box collectible toys go for big money: they are bought by an adult hoping to catch emotional lightning in a bottle.
It is the "Rosebud" phenomenon: an adult may pay nearly anything to recapture the magical feeling of a kid seeing that thing on the shelf for the first time. Or maybe in the collector market, the buyer is just some opportunist looking to commoditize that emotion.
But the great part is that you get to give the true magic that makes the toy valuable, perhaps worth millions, to your kid for basically free.
When we were at the Anaheim Supercross race hanging with
Mike LaRocco years ago I had set down my bag of signed
Motocross racers action figures for a couple of minutes, some
asshole took the bag right off the table were everyone eats
and ripped them off, we looked everywhere throughout the pits
and came out empty. Make Purge legal, kidding or am I.?
Pit Row
These are the ones that I have opened and on display. Almost three totes full of others still in the package and autographed.
Between my brother and I, I can remember having Pedro Gonzales, Mad Mike Jones, Mike Larocco, Keith Johnson, Tim Ferry, Travis Pastrana, Ricky Carmichael and Jeff Emig.
Hot Wheels- Jeremy McGrath Supermoto
I scored this years ago.
My baby passed away before he was able to play with it.
6-24-2022
I've got that same one but it's MC. I also have a Windham, Tortelli and I think maybe a Pichon in a box in a closet somewhere.
90s rider, I can only wish you a beautiful life , and may your child Rest In Peace !
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