THE RESULTS WILL SURPRISE YOU! HOT WHEELS HUNTING UK

[@customcollects]

Check out this awesome light up display. Very cool! Thanks for watching s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_oDhCgxx

[@TheRyan-himself]

Yay! You finally posted!! Love your vids

[@customcollects]

Hey man, thanks for the great support. Had a small break over Christmas and also January is full of birthdays in my family. How are you? Found anything juicy for your collection? Hope you enjoy the vid!

[@JAGoldenberg]

Great video as always. Again I love your enthusiasm. You are still the only hunter I follow because you are real.

[@Penguin_Racer-10-y5p]

I always hate the scalpers, they just leave the collectors with nothing and eBay ones are just overpriced, great hunting!

[@customcollects]

Thanks man! At the end of the video I show exactly what I bought and I'm sure you'll agree that I always leave behind a TON of decent cars for other collectors. Although I'm sure they don't stay hung up for long. Also happy to share what I find with another collector at the pegs as well. Have you found anything nice for your collection recently? What's on the top of your most wanted list right now?

[@Penguin_Racer-10-y5p]

My best are probably the Cupra, Bumblebee transformers and the McLaren P1 The most I want is any THs

[@customcollects]

Yeah man. Cupra so so nice outside of the packaging. Literally ripped mine open first when I got home. You'll be very pleased to learn that I actually found a super 2 days ago so I'll make another hunting video and show you. Keep on the good hunt and I hope you can find what you're looking for. I'm checking well over 20 stores 3 times a week now. These videos are the highlights. Thanks for being one of the cool hot wheels guys

[@CarlosFandandgo]

We have a tiny home bargains in town, and they only have 6 pegs, so maybe 36 castings at a time. On Saturday they restocked and on my afternoon visit the very last casting I picked was the Huracan STH from 24. I couldn’t believe it, only my second STH. ❤😊

[@customcollects]

EPIC! Storytime. Love it dude. That's a dream come true and oh man did you find a good one! Do you keep your STH cars in protectors? Enjoy the great trophy in your collection. Buy a loose Lambo STH or a cheaper one so you don't have to open the one you found. Enjoying the cars outside of the packaging is a great feeling! Congratz man, super happy for you!

[@SilverfoxLobo]

Awesomeness 😊

[@customcollects]

Legend! Thank you brother. Appreciate your great support and kindness. Happy hunting and collecting. Keep building your awesome collection

[@Jollyshep-u7o]

I only need the 2 treasure hunts you got LOL

[@customcollects]

Keep on the good hunt man, the more you check the more chances you have of finding what you're looking for! Wish you great luck for 2025!!

[@Jollyshep-u7o]

@@customcollects yep, you too

[@CarlosFandandgo]

My local B&M had a full height restock this week…..of brand new 2020 hot wheels! 😮 I ended up buying 15 castings I’ve never even seen before. But the record is my local WH Smith’s who last week had a battered old casting on at full price of £2.99. It was a Kokomo Fire dept Camaro RS from 2012! 😂

[@Josh_Quillan]

I think you've hit on a great metric for gauging how scalped a shop is: Time To JDM. If it takes more than 30 seconds to find any form of legendary Japanese car, there's probably not much point in digging. Great work with this. How long does it take you to visit all these shops? It looks like such a lot of work. Surely this is several days of filming? Also, no love for the '66 Buick Riviera? Such a cool classic cruiser and looks amazing in teal for 2025. Also, people are sleeping on the Stratos Zero?! That and the Metro 6R4 are all I care about from Hammer Drop. I will admit I'd rather have it in silver than orange but as soon as I see one, it's coming home with me. One of the most legendary and influential concept cars in history, got to have one. I really hope they do more classic concepts. Even if they just stuck to Bertone, they could make so many amazing cars.

[@pmeim9314]

ordered 2 cases of B and both my TH came with the worst cards of the case! luckily found a STH in that box so its fine

[@Dragonbreth455]

Over here in oregon the stores i go to always have fantasy only or some peg warmers, i have managed to find some good 2025 ones but i have to get there early

[@carcrazydixon]

Wow those Silvia Liberty Walk finds in Lidl is a score! I just paid £7 for one!

[@customcollects]

Yeah, ouch! I also bought one for a fiver from an online retailer for an old video. The cards were pretty beat up. Still left 3 behind as I hope other people who don't care and will rip them open and enjoy the car will find them. Just gotta check 20+ stores 3 times a week like me to be able to find what we're looking for. Happy hunting and wish you good luck. Thanks for being here and thanks for the great support too

[@EthanDavidson-jg8io]

19:11 I saw the Blue Daytona Coupe at Walmart when I was there I just didn't pick it up

[@customcollects]

That's a good one! I'm sure you'll bump into another one soon. Check to make sure the tampos are looking fresh when you buy yours to open 🫡

[@quartznation9499]

I save so much money on fuel and traffic stress thanks to scalpers {they do the leg work giving me time to watch diecast vids} although I would love to find the hammer drop set including the chase wow thanks for vid sir

[@customcollects]

This is very true! And I've said it before in one of my much older videos that sometimes you find nothing and just take home your own car but with a lot less fuel inside of it lol. Happy to make these videos and share the highlights. You'll be pleased to learn that my next video will be about the super treasure hunt I found 2 days ago! Hooray. I found a nice online deal for the hammer drop set but still picked up extras for the best ones. Happy hunting and thank you infinity for your kindness. Appreciate you

[@alh961]

Nice finds!

[@customcollects]

Appreciate you brother. Thank you for taking the time to drop and comment. Hope you have been finding some nice pieces for your collection too. Happy hunting!

[@alh961]

Haven’t found much since the holidays, my area in a dry spell waiting on C case. I did find a cool new Matchbox today 👍

[@pantel6240]

In Ireland just impossible to find rocket bunny skyline. I was really looking for it, but I even didn’t find any models from this set, but if believe website, they had it. But resellers just grabbed everything

[@customcollects]

Hey man, how's it going? Is this Northern Ireland or Ireland? I don't collect or like Pokemon cards but the TCG guys suffer like we do. Too many people pushing reselling on social media and making people believe that hot wheels can be like a new crypto currency or something. Dude. Literally my thumbnail is what you're talking about. I check A LOT to be able to make these highlight videos and I have never found the rocket bunny or greddy skyline out in the wild. Employees must just buy a full box of 10 and take it home to list on eBay (sad life) Did you ever see the silver Mercedes hung up in store because then you're doing better than me LOL

[@pantel6240]

@ both, I live between Irish city, and north Irish city, so I check both. I’ve never seen any modern classic model in shops, but I know by website, that they were there. So workers or their friends just took everything.

[@DrivingGod21]

7:46 You say that like it's a pleasure. 😂 As a Canadian Hot Wheels fan, we get the worst of both worlds. We get international cases with less frequent treasure hunts, we don't get the cool card branding, guaranteed for life, or the association of the blind decals. We have just as many scalpers and obsessive hot wheels fans as the US has, but we get less frequent cases, super old restocks, and pretty much every store is nine pegs and six dump bins. It's absolutely miserable and embarrassing to rifle through dump bins for an hour just to find the car you're looking for with a destroyed card. Absolutely gutting. At least in the UK you guys are getting 2025 restocks. I've checked 30 to 50 stores in the last week and we are still getting n/o/p/q case restocks from 2024. It's like it's better to be a collector anywhere but Canada.

[@AgungSetiawanDiekeshter]

Scalper is always scalper … 😂😂😂

[@realphil429]

more vids like this!

[@customcollects]

Nice one, thank you! Appreciate the great support. Always trying my best to find the time to make a video and hopefully go out hunting enough to eventually find a super treasure hunt. Happy hunting and keep building your awesome collection

[@realphil429]

@@customcollects I really love your enthusiasm when hunting. makes me want to go to the store after watching your vids :)

[@EthanDavidson-jg8io]

I haven't found a treasure hunt in forever and my only hope is the Walmart in Eagan MN. The last time I was there, I was talking with someone, and he told me aa friend of his found 2 (or more) treasure hunts in the dump bins

[@EthanDavidson-jg8io]

The big dump bin isn't that deep at all, but I was able to find the Dark Horse Mustang in there

[@customcollects]

I hope you can find more of what you're looking for in the future dude. Sometimes I wonder if the scalpers we speak to at the pegs/bins just say that their friends found supers when it's really just them checking the same store 4 times a day 🤣

[@customcollects]

Love the dark horse mustang. Paint looks amazing!!

[@isaactorres1917]

The Truth is 😎GOOD LUCK SCALPERS VS BAD LUCK SCALPERS😜

[@customcollects]

Oh nice. I like your style. And employees can't always have time to check the hot wheels and if you're out hunting as much as me eventually you gonna hit a nice restock and find a super!

[@isaactorres1917]

@customcollects a scalper is a collectionist who take all the good stuff....if your find 3 STH Silverados and you take 1 that means you are a COLLECTIONIST but if you take more than that, that makes you a SCALPER 😎

[@isaactorres1917]

@customcollects Everyone is a SCALPER but the BAD LUCK SCALPERS is the ones are always whining and complaining 🤣

[@AlmondEditz369]

we need to see a room where you put these cars someday

[@chrisevaggelou8473]

A solution to scalpers is if Mattel release really bad super treasure hunts (fantastic castings). Have more availability for premium castings and more real cars in main line. Ow and more recolours of desirable models.

[@customcollects]

What do you think about this idea. Getting a super is more like a mail in. If you buy X amount of product then you send away and get a reward. Finding what you're looking for a problem for sure in this hobby and the thing is finding it... it's the thrill of the hunt and that's difficult to replace

[@Josh_Quillan]

That only solves scalping of treasure hunts, and since they're basically intended to be resold at high prices, i.e. scalped, it's not a real issue. The true issue with scalping is bad distribution and profiteering: I don't really care about treasure hunts or series, I just buy what I like, but as this video shows, finding even mainlines of a popular car can be nearly impossible. I had to pay close to £10 to get a mainline red '87 Audi quattro from ebay, I think because there weren't many '24 D cases sent to the UK, so all the cars from that case are scarce, and especially the desirable ones go for high prices on secondary markets. if anything, a smaller selection of more carefully chosen cars, maybe in more colours/designs, would be better. If Mattel made boxes of particular collections, e.g. just the HW Turbo 5 car mini collection or the Fast Foodie 5 car mini collection, shops could gauge sales and control inventory better and there'd be less trouble getting the cars you want. By arranging things so shops can only buy in boxes of 72 very mixed cars at a time, Mattel create FOMO to drive their sales but at the same time manufacture scarcity and drive the scalper economy.

[@Jd-rj1ut]

In my area the workers who stock the HotWheels are collectors themselves and take all the good stuff when shipments come in 🤦🏻‍♂️.

[@customcollects]

Yes this is something I've even built a term for... it's called "employee resellers" unfortunately we suffer like in other hobbies, the LEGO guys and TCG guys all struggle against people who want to make money. People only care about the value and not interested so much in ripping open cars to put on display in a collection like we do. But what can we do? In all my videos I show and expose boxes of hot wheels that have clearly been sorted through first even when I'm the first customer to look through the box. People just see dollar signs and treat hot wheels like a crypto currency to buy and sit on to see if the price goes up. Always open up and enjoy your cars man! It's good that you and I care and enjoy this hobby how it should be 👍

[@beatnikbanditdiecast4932]

The Chevy Impala TH you found in Lidl is different. It’s a’58 model and the recent Impala TH is a ‘59. I should know as I have both 🙂

[@customcollects]

WHAAAT! Haha. Oh man, I absolutely blast through these shops and when I edit these videos do I have a massive fear that guys like you are going to make me wish I could go back in time!!! lol. Oh joking. Dammmm wish I picked that up and it's a treasure hunt too. That's crazy dude. Thanks for literally making my day. I'll head back over and check tomorrow but there's no way it'll still be there. Thanks for being that guy. Super cool you have an eagle eye and I appreciate that you made the effort to drop a comment too. Hope you enjoyed the vid. Did you find anything nice for your collection recently?

[@beatnikbanditdiecast4932]

@ No problem ! Maybe they’re doing a collection of Impala lowrider THs with the Mexican skull livery ! I am concentrating on Premiums at the moment and was lucky enough to find the complete set of the last Modern Classics in Smyths. Very cool models

[@customcollects]

Thanks man. That is super lucky! My thumbnail is literally a joke about never finding that pandem skyline. Never move from the area you live in for sure. I'm definitely in a very competitive area as I bump into plenty of hot wheels guys and 100% all of the staff are reselling when they get home after a hard days work of opening boxes in the stockroom lol. Found a super a couple days ago so will make a video about that. Hope you'll be back to watch it. Got lots going on in real life. Working hard and two kids to keep me busy too. Trying my best to post when I can and make a decent video without slacking on quality. Cheers for the the great support

[@beatnikbanditdiecast4932]

@customcollects Good luck with it all mate. Lucky to pick up a STH. I haven't found one since the blue Porsche 935.

[@23miked]

2:52 if you’re going to take the Porsche, you should definitely take a whole set. Otherwise no one will ever be able to complete a set because they won’t restock until the rest of them are gone.

[@customcollects]

That particular store sells out of the majority of Hot Wheels pretty much daily. I hunt a lot and never see very much sitting around for long. I'm going to buy a full box on Amazon Japan for sure. I want to eventually have a full set opened and sealed for Neon Speeders 4. Had to grab that Porsche and I can buy the rest much more easily over time. How are you man? Found anything nice for your collection recently?

[@josephj807]

As a collector I can confirm I can’t find anything

[@customcollects]

As a collector who now makes more hunting videos I can confirm that checking 20+ stores about 3 times a week is what I takes to be able to make these highlight videos. Keep on the good hunt and try switching up when you check. Turning up when doors open first thing isn't always the best approach. Hope you can find more of what you're looking for in 2025 dude. Thanks for the comment and support

[@martinklarenbeek6875]

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[@customcollects]

Great to have you here! Hope you enjoy this one. Happy collecting ♥️

[@sillycat2575]

Damn is 😂🎉

[@approachingtarget.4503]

Max i will ever pay for a hotwheels is the mainline price. Scalpers are pathetic.

[@customcollects]

When you eventually find out who the person is buying up all the hot wheels to sell on eBay for 2 dollars more you quickly realise it's a type of person for sure... keep on the good hunt man. Just keep ripping open your cars like me and just laugh when someone cares about devaluing a dollar car. Haha! Craziness out here bro

[@pmeim9314]

my entertainers are trash! only have 3 nicely packed cases (scalper was there)

[@pmeim9314]

found my 2nd sth a day after my first

[@supercarmarvin3249]

Its the nissan not the pontiac 3:50

[@customcollects]

Bro this makes sense now as I found a super a couple of days ago for the first time in one of these smaller display boxes. Have you found a super in these boxes too?? I'm so surprised the double non supers wouldn't have one as the super but I think you're right. It's the car that's only seeded once!? Very interesting

[@supercarmarvin3249]

@ I have never pulled a super ever lol

[@DrivingGod21]

11:39 sounds like a traumatic experience 😂

[@customcollects]

Lol! Amazing. My girlfriend would think I was crazy if I wrapped up a toy car with valentines and gave it to her so I'm just trying to save some of the younger collectors from a traumatic event perhaps 👍 🤣 It's hard enough buying these hot wheels as an adult without having to feel bad about it. Legendary comment! And thanks for being here

[@PrakosoKoko]

This is why I stop buy hotwheels premium and move buy miniscale like pop race and minigt or inno64.

[@customcollects]

It's understandable for sure. Actually putting on your boots and hitting stores to hunt down pieces for your collection is a whole bunch of fun man and making these highlight videos of my findings is such a good time as well. I don't like or collect Pokemon cards but the TCG guys are suffering the same as us because people make reselling content and push collecting on the side of investing. If people just ripped open cars and devalued them and put them on display like I do there wouldn't be a huge problem and I wouldn't make videos like this. Just like most things it all boils down to money. But what can we do??

[@derrick3294]

No thanks for being a real hunter

[@customcollects]

What do you mean? 😮

[@derrick3294]

@customcollects sorry I said wrong thing I meant thanks for being a true caring hunter

[@customcollects]

@@derrick3294 haha! No worries man really appreciate you dropping a reply. I always try my best to present my content in a manner that I hope others will acknowledge as good etiquette. Happy hunting! Hope you find some nice pieces for your collection

[@sealing14]

its a shame that americans always find a sth