Tomart's Price Guide to Hot Wheels Collectibles (Price Guide Series) [Paperback]

Michael Thomas Strauss (Author), Mike Strauss (Author)

Book Description

Series: Price Guide Series | Publication Date: October 1998

This is a collectors price book where all of the hot wheels toys are listed with their respective prices if sold today.

Product Details

• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Tomart Pubns; 4th edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914293400
• ISBN-13: 978-0914293408
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,919,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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64 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is THE book about Hot Wheels, July 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tomart's Price Guide to Hot Wheels Collectibles (Price Guide Series) (Paperback)

I found the third edition to be an improvement over the second edition in terms of the prices of cars listed, but still off in many instances. As a price guide, it allows the reader to see the relation of different colors and variations to others, but the prices themselves are not, and cannot be expected to be, current. If it takes about a year to revise and publish a book, how can that price guide have "current values" in it? Before criticizing this book, and it's author, I think Hot Wheels collectors should consider the huge effort of time and organization in producing a book of this type. It is a massive undertaking. As a general guide to the world of Hot Wheels, this stands as a great example of a fairly complete, authoritative manual to this ever-changing, (usually appreciating) toy collectible. No matter how you slice it, this is THE Book for Hot Wheels collectors. I like the layout, the photos, and the historical information that introduces the book. As a collector I am intrigued by the history of this legendary toy brand! It is easy to criticize, but I'd like to ask the collectors that are overly critical of this book: "How knowledgable would you be WITHOUT the Tomart guide?"

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Indispensable Hot Wheels Bible!, May 21, 2001

By 

Michael Tyson (Flagstaff, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tomart's Price Guide to Hot Wheels Collectibles (Paperback)

Two words describe this book: essential, and outstanding. Not only is it an invaluable resource for those sorted greedheads and bean-counters out there who like to know the value of their collections down to every dime, nickel and penny, but for the rest of us who engage in the collecting of Hot Wheels for the sheer LOVE of it, this book serves almost as a muse for the hobby . . .enticing us to continue the search in an all but impossible quest of obtaining every one. While frequently criticized for not being entirely "accurate" and "current" with listed prices, I have found through my own experience that the prices give you a fairly good "ballpark" figure to know whether or not you're getting ripped off. As with all collectibles, beauty and worth is in the eye of the beholder. On this note, this book is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL if you use Ebay or other online marketplaces to look for cars.

More than anything, this book is a superb gallery of Hot Wheels cars so that even if you'll never own them all, you can at least SEE what they look like. As all collectors know, there will never be enough Sky Show Deoras or rear surfboard Beach Bombs to satisfy us all, but with this book you can at least see what you're missing.

My advice? Simple. Do not hesitate to buy this book. You will not regret it (unless of course you go over your credit limit and the bank hooks you with fees!), and you will be guaranteed with hour upon hour of satisfaction with the love of these little cars that only true collectors understand.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great photos, prices semi-accurate, best guide out there, August 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tomart's Price Guide to Hot Wheels Collectibles (Price Guide Series) (Paperback)

After perusing the price guides at most major bookstores, I found Tomart's Price Guide to have the best pictures, most accurate pricing, and easiest reading. Most guides want you to find the car then have to find the price in the back of the book. Tomart's has the prices with the photos. The photos were also the best quality and in color. This was a big deciding factor for me when I decided to shell out my $29.95! There were a few model variations(i.e.Ambulance 1792-1991 with plastic siren) that wern't included but should have been. This is forgivable however, given the book's quality. Keep up the good work Tomart! (Please, please make one for "Matchbox"!)