Starting kids into collecting?

[inter]

I have a 7 year old boy that absolutely love my car collection and i would like him to start collecting and have a feeling of owner ship towards his own collection.
What cars should i start him with?( i need to watch the bank balance)
regards inter:)

[singer]

I have a six year old boy I've started him on 1/64 hotwheels/matchbox/cc/biante. He now has quite a collection & leaves my collection alone.:)

[chups]

well when i was a lil tacker (not long ago) i started out with matchbox then CC (early ones) and it just went up from there.

[inter]

Originally posted by chups
well when i was a lil tacker (not long ago) i started out with matchbox then CC (early ones) and it just went up from there.
Now that you have move up do you still have the Matchbox cars?
inter

[dobct1]

how about 1:24 scale diecast cars
they come in kits or ready made (the kits are fun but simple and great for school holidays)
cost under $20
great range from maisto and bburago
thats what i started with when i was 12YO with a limited budget and now i'm 19 and collecting the expensive v8's in 1:18 scale

[chups]

Originally posted by inter
Now that you have move up do you still have the Matchbox cars?
inter

[chups]

Originally posted by inter
Now that you have move up do you still have the Matchbox cars?
inter

it was only the commodores and FJs but yes i still have them.

[V8SS]

I'd go with the Biante minicars. Good detail and a lot easier on the budget. You don't want to end up having no money to spend on your own collection:D

[Y2Joel]

Biante minicars are a great starting point. I started with them and I still collect them with my 1/18's. Maybe If you only got him a 1/18 model for his Birthday or Christmas.

[Mux]

Getting a 1:18 for a seven year old would be risky in my opinion, i mean they're so young and may not understand they're not toys. heh.

I could imagine my young brother with one of my skaife cars, i'd find it missing doors in the sand pit.

I'd start your son on 1:64 cars, inter, so if he broke them or something, it'd not be such a big thing.

[terrine]

get him what he likes and what you can afford.

this get them crappy models because theyre kids is rot.
i have 3 sons and even the 4 year old has a couple of 1:18s, as well as smaller scales.
its all about respect for special belongings and teaching them that they will die if they even so much as touch them:)

r/peter

[inter]

Originally posted by Mux
Getting a 1:18 for a seven year old would be risky in my opinion, i mean they're so young and may not understand they're not toys. heh.

I could imagine my young brother with one of my skaife cars, i'd find it missing doors in the sand pit.

I'd start your son on 1:64 cars, inter, so if he broke them or something, it'd not be such a big thing.
He seem to understand that the 1:18 are not toys but colectables
I might start him with 1:43
inter:D

[terrine]

sounds to me like you had your mind made up before you started this thread...
all my kids had 1:18s before smaller scales..i tell ya..it differentiates collectables from their 5000 toy cars scattered in all the places and in all sorts of conditions.....you know.....
i have found that the only TOY they respect is the soldier...
there must be something in that

r/peter

[the_goldie]

My boy who is almost 2 has a collection of matchbox cars that I buy every now and then from woolworths, plus he has my 2000 Kmart S.Richards 1:18 CC car - spoiler/side mirror didn't last too long and he also has a 1:43 S.Johnson CC car - same deal spoiler didn't last too long plus he has his own BIANTE display case with about 20 or so minicars that he gets me to pick him up to admire.

Teach them young enough and they will soon realise what is theirs to play with and what is theirs/yours to admire. :)

[Dingo]

You people mean to tell me that you weren't told bedtime stories of Beechey and Geoghegan and Brock and Johnson? :D

I digress....the 1/64s are a good place to start, they can play with the cars without fear of getting fingers jammed in doors, etc. My cousin got a 1/18 Brock Commodore for Xmas 2002 and was told if he looked after it he would get a new model for Xmas 2003...well his idea of looking after it was to break it into little pieces in a temper tantrum....

Santa brought no models for him anymore :rolleyes:

[Gan88]

Wouldn't it be better to get the kid a bucket of lego or mechano... It saves you having to buy a garage full of toys that they outgrow.

It will be way cheaper in the long run and you get a more creative kid with a better sense of imagination.

[the_goldie]

Originally posted by Gan88
Wouldn't it be better to get the kid a bucket of lego or mechano... It saves you having to buy a garage full of toys that they outgrow.

It will be way cheaper in the long run and you get a more creative kid with a better sense of imagination.

Don't worry Gan88 my boy has some duplo (baby lego - bigger blocks) and will have all the lego I use to have. Glad I don't have to buy too much of it new - seen the price of lego these days!

[KRAKA05]

My little bloke is off the lego now and onto 1/64 matchbox. He's already got about 50 of them and he parks them in his mega transporter.

That's ok cause my baby daughter will inherit the lego.

The real headache will come when he wants to migrate to 1/18...then i will be in trouble. He most probably thinks the 1/18 Bathurst collection is his now....given he guards them in his room.

Actually it will go to him or the daughter when i pack up and go to diecast heaven.