December 17, 2024 • 7 mins
Welcome to The Bama Brown Experience with your hosts Bama Brown and the Big Puma, exclusively on the iHeart Podcast Network. In this episode, we dive into the nostalgic world of collectibles, exploring the fascinating stories and surprising values behind some of your favorite childhood toys. Join us as we reminisce about the golden days of Hot Wheels, from the iconic Snake and Mongoose drag racers to the ultra-rare pink VW van prototype that fetched over $200,000! Discover the hidden treasures in your attic and learn how those old redline Hot Wheels could be worth a small fortune.
But that's not all! We also delve into the world of GI Joes, discussing the incredible value of original 12-inch figures, including rare international editions like the Russian, Australian, and Japanese soldiers. Hear about the deep-sea diver with the gold helmet and other valuable accessories that could turn your childhood memories into a lucrative collection. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just curious about the value of your old toys, this episode is packed with fun facts, expert tips, and heartwarming stories. Plus, we share personal anecdotes about our own collections and the joy of receiving Hot Wheels from loved ones during the holidays.
Tune in to The Bama Brown Experience and rediscover the magic of your childhood toys. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast, and share it with your friends who might have hidden treasures waiting to be uncovered!
But that's not all! We also delve into the world of GI Joes, discussing the incredible value of original 12-inch figures, including rare international editions like the Russian, Australian, and Japanese soldiers. Hear about the deep-sea diver with the gold helmet and other valuable accessories that could turn your childhood memories into a lucrative collection. Whether you're a seasoned collector or just curious about the value of your old toys, this episode is packed with fun facts, expert tips, and heartwarming stories. Plus, we share personal anecdotes about our own collections and the joy of receiving Hot Wheels from loved ones during the holidays.
Tune in to The Bama Brown Experience and rediscover the magic of your childhood toys. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review our podcast, and share it with your friends who might have hidden treasures waiting to be uncovered!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience with the
Big Puma on the iHeart Podcast Network. Tell them how
they can hear your sports show of Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, available here as well anywhere you get your podcast.
It is the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We were talking about baseball cards and the value of
them and movie posters yesterday and so we actually started
talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hot wheels and Puma had hot wheels. I had hot wheels.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I sold my collection and this is not our podcast
is not going to turn into this every day about collectibles,
but we love all that kind.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Of stuff and not everybody does. But I had the
Snake and Mongoose.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
My first hot wheels were the original Snake and Mongoose,
Tom McEwan and Don Pernome. I was a hart Rod
guy and drag Race guy, and so those were cool.
And I still had some originals that I had bought
in my collection, but the most valuable hot wheels out there,
and I have a buddy of mind that has probably
the most valuable collection in Texas. I mean literally has
(01:05):
I think close to two hundred thousand dollars worth of
hot wheels and Lord he has them encased in glass
on a wall, would on.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Walls, let me say it that way, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
But he told me, he said, the most valuable one
sold one hot wheels. It was a pink BW van
with the surfboards in it, and he said, he said,
the one that sold was the prototype the hot wheels
that Mattel had made. And the guy knew a guy
(01:37):
that was the engineer that designed it, and he gave
him the prototype and he ended up selling it last
year for two hundred and something thousand dollars two twenty
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So that was the most valuable one.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But many of the if you've got those Redline hot
wheels starting digging in, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, let me say it this way.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wives, go when you're this holiday coming up, when you're
at there, you know, at your mother in law's house,
and you've got a you know, a husband that's somewhere
in the sixties or fifties or something, go look at
his hot wheels. If he's got the original Redline series,
those are worth a lot of money depending on how
rare they are, and you can look them up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's pretty easy to look them up.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Uh, But get his hot wheels out and uh, when
he starts protesting, just take them away from him and
sell them.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
About to say that could that could easily become a
new purse or a pair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, who knows what else.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Same thing with G I Joe's. You know, when I
was a kid, I had G I Joe's and uh,
you could still find them an original boxes and stuff.
But I had I had the Russian, Australian, I had
the uh, the Japanese, I had the uh, the German
and Australian. Let's see what was that? Oh, the French
(02:49):
resistant one. So those those six I had all six
of those, and including you know, I was a G
I Joe old kid, you know, and uh, each one
of those, if they're in the original container, the original stuff,
each one of those will bring five to six thousand
dollars apiece. Lord. So at one point I had thirty
thousand dollars worth of GI.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Worth of worth of basically stuffed and because those are
the tall ones, right, those are the.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Original twelve Yeah, the original Oh I'm talking about only
original now the little ones later in life, probably in
your age group, some of those are still worth there's
a few that are still worth some some pretty good money.
But the one, you know, the original one footers. There's
a lot of them out there that they sell all
the time, but that was the the foreign ones or
(03:37):
the ones that are are worth a huge amount of money.
And the astronaut you know in the spaceship, the jeeps,
these kind of things that go with it. They're oh,
the deep sea diver with the gold helmet and white water.
Those are worth a lot of money. And a couple
of years ago, my mom uh sent me a box
and it had my original hot wheels.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
All of them were tore, none of them had the
wheels on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It got played with, Oh I played you played.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
With them, you know. And then there's and then the
g I Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She throwed all this she was cleaning out the house
and throw all this stuff in a box and sent
it to me.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But the g I Joe's there was about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I don't remember what the what the networth, but I
knew a guy in New Orleans had had.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
A gigantic collection.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
He was a former school teacher and retired, but he
had cases and cases of them, and I boxed it up.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I suay I just taped the top.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And sent it to him and I said, here's everything
that There was a lot of miscellaneous stuff, you know,
And he sent me a check back for two hundred
and fifty bucks, and he said, he said, this is about.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The value of what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And then I donated that two hundred and fifty to
the veterans here. I just thought that would be a
good place for that to go. You know, yea having
to fight wars because of these guys, I got to
play with dolls.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So it seems like that only seems like a fair
trade off at that you mentioned the Uh, you know,
I'm still lucky enough to have my grandmother every year
at Christmas here in a couple of weeks, I'll get
a hot wheels toy from her. She's still you know, me,
my brother, my cousins, and my uncle, we all still
(05:19):
get hot wheels toys from her. But I will say something,
I've noticed the detail on the bottom of hot wheels.
It has gone completely downhill. You no longer get you
don't dual exhaust, you don't get any of the undercarriage
build detail whatsoever. Yeah, it's just all plastic bottom on
(05:39):
most of it now. And just slick because it's those
are the things that I guess, like we were talking
about yesterday, you know, trying to determine what makes something
more valuable than the other when it comes to these
collectables and losing those details on every part of the
car right immediately because that now it's just a toy. Yeah,
(06:00):
it doesn't feel like there's any really anything worth collecting
there anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I still think though, I still love Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
One of the things when we were kids, you know
the track they had the arms strips and then you
had the pink deals that stuck them together.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Those range strips made perfect whips for mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So that's one of the things that a lot of
us found out. I was like, well, this is a
terrible toy with these tracks, because they could whip the
snot out of you with these things.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Man, there were perfect switches.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Almost like the inventor of those must have had an
unruly child at home, was just looking for more creative
ways to instill some discipline.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, and you're a Mustang guy. You know my favorite
hot wheels and I had a bunch of My favorite
one was my chrome plated seventy Boss Mustang and I
it was. It was the chrome one, you know, it
was solid chromes, put the stickers on. I didn't even
put the stickers on it. That was one of that
was maybe my favorite of all time. And of course
my Red and Mongoose and Yelling Snake were also a
(07:01):
big one for me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I love both of those.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But anyway, this fun thinking about neat stuff back at
Now all you have is a kids on phones.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That's all they do is is get on the phone
that you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get them sing NFTs of yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So anyway, great memories there.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You've been listening to the Bama Brown Experience with the
Big Puma on the iHeart podcast network, and tell all
your friends about it, starting getting them to listen.
Hey, you're listening to the Bama Brown Experience with the
Big Puma on the iHeart Podcast Network. Tell them how
they can hear your sports show of Puma.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, available here as well anywhere you get your podcast.
It is the Sports Cave with Biggest Puma.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We were talking about baseball cards and the value of
them and movie posters yesterday and so we actually started
talking about.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Hot wheels and Puma had hot wheels. I had hot wheels.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I sold my collection and this is not our podcast
is not going to turn into this every day about collectibles,
but we love all that kind.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Of stuff and not everybody does. But I had the
Snake and Mongoose.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
My first hot wheels were the original Snake and Mongoose,
Tom McEwan and Don Pernome. I was a hart Rod
guy and drag Race guy, and so those were cool.
And I still had some originals that I had bought
in my collection, but the most valuable hot wheels out there,
and I have a buddy of mind that has probably
the most valuable collection in Texas. I mean literally has
(01:05):
I think close to two hundred thousand dollars worth of
hot wheels and Lord he has them encased in glass
on a wall, would on.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Walls, let me say it that way, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
But he told me, he said, the most valuable one
sold one hot wheels. It was a pink BW van
with the surfboards in it, and he said, he said,
the one that sold was the prototype the hot wheels
that Mattel had made. And the guy knew a guy
(01:37):
that was the engineer that designed it, and he gave
him the prototype and he ended up selling it last
year for two hundred and something thousand dollars two twenty
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So that was the most valuable one.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
But many of the if you've got those Redline hot
wheels starting digging in, you know.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Okay, let me say it this way.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Wives, go when you're this holiday coming up, when you're
at there, you know, at your mother in law's house,
and you've got a you know, a husband that's somewhere
in the sixties or fifties or something, go look at
his hot wheels. If he's got the original Redline series,
those are worth a lot of money depending on how
rare they are, and you can look them up.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
It's pretty easy to look them up.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Uh, But get his hot wheels out and uh, when
he starts protesting, just take them away from him and
sell them.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
And yeah, I was.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
About to say that could that could easily become a
new purse or a pair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Yeah, who knows what else.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Same thing with G I Joe's. You know, when I
was a kid, I had G I Joe's and uh,
you could still find them an original boxes and stuff.
But I had I had the Russian, Australian, I had
the uh, the Japanese, I had the uh, the German
and Australian. Let's see what was that? Oh, the French
(02:49):
resistant one. So those those six I had all six
of those, and including you know, I was a G
I Joe old kid, you know, and uh, each one
of those, if they're in the original container, the original stuff,
each one of those will bring five to six thousand
dollars apiece. Lord. So at one point I had thirty
thousand dollars worth of GI.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Worth of worth of basically stuffed and because those are
the tall ones, right, those are the.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Original twelve Yeah, the original Oh I'm talking about only
original now the little ones later in life, probably in
your age group, some of those are still worth there's
a few that are still worth some some pretty good money.
But the one, you know, the original one footers. There's
a lot of them out there that they sell all
the time, but that was the the foreign ones or
(03:37):
the ones that are are worth a huge amount of money.
And the astronaut you know in the spaceship, the jeeps,
these kind of things that go with it. They're oh,
the deep sea diver with the gold helmet and white water.
Those are worth a lot of money. And a couple
of years ago, my mom uh sent me a box
and it had my original hot wheels.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
All of them were tore, none of them had the
wheels on.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It got played with, Oh I played you played.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
With them, you know. And then there's and then the
g I Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She throwed all this she was cleaning out the house
and throw all this stuff in a box and sent
it to me.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But the g I Joe's there was about.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I don't remember what the what the networth, but I
knew a guy in New Orleans had had.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
A gigantic collection.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
He was a former school teacher and retired, but he
had cases and cases of them, and I boxed it up.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Well, I suay I just taped the top.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
And sent it to him and I said, here's everything
that There was a lot of miscellaneous stuff, you know,
And he sent me a check back for two hundred
and fifty bucks, and he said, he said, this is about.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
The value of what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And then I donated that two hundred and fifty to
the veterans here. I just thought that would be a
good place for that to go. You know, yea having
to fight wars because of these guys, I got to
play with dolls.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So it seems like that only seems like a fair
trade off at that you mentioned the Uh, you know,
I'm still lucky enough to have my grandmother every year
at Christmas here in a couple of weeks, I'll get
a hot wheels toy from her. She's still you know, me,
my brother, my cousins, and my uncle, we all still
(05:19):
get hot wheels toys from her. But I will say something,
I've noticed the detail on the bottom of hot wheels.
It has gone completely downhill. You no longer get you
don't dual exhaust, you don't get any of the undercarriage
build detail whatsoever. Yeah, it's just all plastic bottom on
(05:39):
most of it now. And just slick because it's those
are the things that I guess, like we were talking
about yesterday, you know, trying to determine what makes something
more valuable than the other when it comes to these
collectables and losing those details on every part of the
car right immediately because that now it's just a toy. Yeah,
(06:00):
it doesn't feel like there's any really anything worth collecting
there anymore.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
I still think though, I still love Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
One of the things when we were kids, you know
the track they had the arms strips and then you
had the pink deals that stuck them together.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Those range strips made perfect whips for mom and dad.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So that's one of the things that a lot of
us found out. I was like, well, this is a
terrible toy with these tracks, because they could whip the
snot out of you with these things.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Man, there were perfect switches.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Almost like the inventor of those must have had an
unruly child at home, was just looking for more creative
ways to instill some discipline.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Yeah, and you're a Mustang guy. You know my favorite
hot wheels and I had a bunch of My favorite
one was my chrome plated seventy Boss Mustang and I
it was. It was the chrome one, you know, it
was solid chromes, put the stickers on. I didn't even
put the stickers on it. That was one of that
was maybe my favorite of all time. And of course
my Red and Mongoose and Yelling Snake were also a
(07:01):
big one for me.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
I love both of those.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But anyway, this fun thinking about neat stuff back at
Now all you have is a kids on phones.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
That's all they do is is get on the phone
that you.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Get them sing NFTs of yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
So anyway, great memories there.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You've been listening to the Bama Brown Experience with the
Big Puma on the iHeart podcast network, and tell all
your friends about it, starting getting them to listen.
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