Hot Wheels: More than a collection, it's history to be kept, lived, and passed on

Welcome all to our little world... My name is Marcelo, I'm from the south of Minas Gerais, and my official start in the hobby was in January 2025. However, I consider that it all really began in January 2021, when I bought the first Hot Wheels for my son when he turned 1 month old. At 2 months, I bought the second, and it went on like that until he was 48 months (4 years) old, by which time we already had 48 miniatures displayed on the TV stand.

During that time, my son asked for his first Hot Wheels track and that's when the mess of minis scattered all over the house began. That’s how I bought the first display case in January 2025. We started with the miniatures we found most beautiful and similar to real cars, then we moved on to THs, which are quite varied. Today, we continue collecting what we find beautiful, but we focus more on sports and thematic cars that remind me of what I used to watch in my childhood.

While assembling the collection, being a very organized person, I searched for apps to register the miniatures. In conversations with friends in a group, they introduced me to ‘MinhasMinis’, in mid-July 2025, and I went straight to see how it worked. I liked the light look and the wealth of information right away, but I noticed that many minis were missing from the platform. So, I started adding an average of 50 per day, until one day I received a message on the platform itself: it was Renan inviting me to be a moderator and help with the approval of minis in the system.

At first, I said my free time was very limited, but he replied that it would be without commitment or obligation, helping whenever I could. And so I accepted the idea, mainly because I saw that the program had a future and the creator was a totally committed person. I have no doubt that this will be one of the best ways to catalog miniatures and I am honored to know that, by 0.0001%, I contributed to allowing hobbyists in the field to have access and the possibility to register their precious collections.

I thank the great Renan for this opportunity and I always say that “collecting is not expensive, but rather valuable”. The best part of collecting is not showing off your collection, but looking at it and seeing the history of where each one came from. I have the first ones I bought, which took several tumbles and dozens of baths in the tub with my son. They are and will remain in the display case without being retouched, because their shine is not in the paint, but in the feeling they can awaken today and that they will awaken in the future, when he understands what all this means.

A big hug to everyone, and may this hobby be a means of uniting good people more and more.