LALD Peeps - what do you use to store your dinky cars?

"RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars" (rallydarkstrike) 07/23/2019 at 12:04 • Filed to: LALD

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You read the title! I have a LOT of dinkies that I’ve had since I was a kid that mean a lot to me...Hot Wheels, Majorette, Matchbox, you name it!

Right now they are sadly jammed into some cardboard boxes that packages of printing paper came in with layers of bristol board in between. I want something more sturdy...maybe something that has individual compartments for each car? Looking for something that could hold 100+ at a time (preferably more like 200...like I said, I have a lot, haha!)

I had heard somebody mention tackle boxes possibly working, but they are all hella expensive locally. An ybody have a link to a storage organizer bin or plastic box or something online that is reasonably priced and work great? :)

Cheers and thanks!

E90M3 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 12:13

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I had heard somebody mention tackle boxes possibly working, but they are all hella expensive locally.

Just browse them in American dollars; they’re less total dollars so therefore less expensive .

punkgoose17 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 12:14

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Thread organizers fit about 95% of Matchbox, Hot Wheels, and Majorette cars.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/7407408061152114633?lsf=seller:3122104,store:11896646862218299402&prds=oid:5241930097880477&q=michaels+thread+organizer&hl=en&ei=GTI3XZIhzbSCB-3QvcAF&lsft=adlpxid:pla;320610513563;161147167320;c;9006122;placeholder;10672699;pla;local;2447&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&source=TIS-S&lsft=gclid:CjwKCAjw4NrpBRBsEiwAUcLcDPty_BHV1h1jlfFpk4_IgOEehiUA8BUood232GculPr-5-UgbsPeRhoCkXcQAvD_BwE

CaptDale - is secretly British > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 12:19

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Very poorly 

punkgoose17 > punkgoose17 07/23/2019 at 12:23

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https://liveandletdiecast.kinja.com/getting-organized-1770078527  

https://liveandletdiecast.kinja.com/calling-all-dlm-soldiers-1708440847

SPAMBot - Horse Doctor > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 13:13

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For long term storage and transportation, I individually wrapped all of mine in TP, then neatly placed them in a plastic storage tote.

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 14:19

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on a used car lot.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 07/23/2019 at 14:40

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I have a lot of older Majorette city stuff so I could actually do this, but don’t have the counter space :(

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > SPAMBot - Horse Doctor 07/23/2019 at 14:43

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Mine are sortof neatly sat next to each other (nothing in between though, but they’re not being moved so not being bumped) and sat on top of layers of bristol board....I still feel I’d like something more durable :)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > E90M3 07/23/2019 at 14:44

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Oh, so that’s how economics works!

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > punkgoose17 07/23/2019 at 15:23

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These would be perfect, but on Canadian Amazon they are $25 each 0_o

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 16:45

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you should find space ... playing with this thing makes me happier than it really should as a fully grown adult .

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire 07/23/2019 at 17:12

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We had a literal dinky car city in an unfinished unused room in our house gro wing up in the basement.

My twin brother and I had a lot of Majokit stuff like this:

We both had TWO variants of a two-storey version of that garage (each of us had the one in the picture and one in green. I had a Majokit hospital, he had a Majokit restaurant. We shared a Majokit Fire Department and both had a Majokit farm as well. I had a Hot Wheels construction site, we both a small Hot Wheels garage/car dealership....uh....I had a Hot Wheels Blimp Port....uh...our train sets were set up down there with interconnected tracks around the cities. We had two Matchbox Truck Stops...a Matchbox Harbour Port....the list goes on.

And, considering we were creative, we had made a ‘National Park’, there was a highway between his ‘city’ and my ‘town, a mountain range (aka an old couch :P) with a valley in between (aka the space between the couch and the wall) where there was a desert scrap yard and two military bases...

Yeah...it was pretty bloody awesome as a kid. a LOT of fond memories, and it’s a big part of why I still love cars so much. :)

Wish I had pictures of it...

punkgoose17 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 07/23/2019 at 17:50

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What about sewing and craft stores?

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > punkgoose17 07/23/2019 at 20:18

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Haven’t checked the local ones, but I’ll have to take a peek...