I am excited to be at the 2026 Diecast Supercon later this week (just check out the full Schedule for Wed – Sunday to know why!). I am currently preparing for what I think should be a fun presentation about diecast over time – hope you can make it to that on Thursday at 3:30pm. […]
Jimmy Wales wrote a book to mark Wikipedia’s 25th anniversary called The Seven Rules of Trust – in which he overdelivers by actually giving eight rules – where he explains that delighting its users played a big part of the world’s most famous wiki’s success. Bearing in mind that hobbyDB is intended to start where […]
I hate nothing more than checking a trusted data source and finding that it is no more – like this website on Medieval coins that we had tried to reach out a few times – Even worth is if there is nothing in the Internet Archive (even if they cover it it is normally […]
Graeme has been documenting the history of Hornby and many other train and diecast brands since 1960s and he done under the very fitting name of Binns Road. After all the Binns Road factory, established in 1914 covered 11 acres and was employing over 2,000 workers at its peak. It was here that the […]
We are working on what AI features to add to improve our member’s experience or make the work of our Squad easier and more fun. So I have spend some time with various tools. Here are for example the models I came up with for the Hot Wheels 2026 line… I started with the Lamborghini […]
We have seen more and more one-off cards in the “mainstream” trading card world – like the Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Jordan and Bryant 2007-08 Dual Logoman card sold last week for almost $13 million or the Magic The Gathering The One Ring card sold for $2.6 million. But others have started their […]
We spend some time in Bispingen, Germany and visited the excellent tank museum (more about that in a later post) and then saw a leaflet touting the Iserhatsche. Lovely building and lovely ground and then this – and that And both are full of collections, each weirder and more wonderful! It was […]
The pawn shop TV show you’re likely referring to is Pawn Stars, a reality television series on the History Channel. The show follows the daily operations of the World Famous Gold & Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas, Nevada, and features the Harrison family. There have been 21 Series with a staggering 675 episodes! There is […]
Today, Pop Mart is valued at roughly 120 times what Funko is worth — and more than 5x Mattel and 3.5x Hasbro’s market caps. I just co-wrote an article in ALTS (with ALTS CEO Stefan) – Pop Mart: The largest collectibles company nobody talks about Please note that we are currently working hard on adding all Pop Mart items […]
We have been thinking hard how to use AI, for example writing descriptions for our more than 1.2 million database item and subject pages, but tests just created a mix of gibberish and garbage. We know other tried this, so here is the State of the Art! Here eBay UK’s description of this Dinky Toys […]
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