Monday, May 28, 2007

Hobbie Stock Virra Mall Greenhills











What a pleasant surprise finding a pure diecast store in Virra Mall near Toy Kingdom. I learned about this place thru a friend who told me about it. This shop is barely two months old. They sell diecasts at very reasonable prices. They have a huge selection of 1/18 models and they have a lot of Minichamps road cars. As happy I may seem finding this fantastic store, I am quite disappointed because their racing car selection is quite limited. This store is definitely for the road car afficionado. Not the place for racing car collectors.

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RAMS Festival Mall / Shoppesville Blue Lane






For Diecast Toy Collectors who have shit loads of money, this is the place for you. Most of the items that are found here are priced extremely high. Overall, this store is only for browsing, unless of course, you really want to spend an obscene amount of money for diecasts that you can get around 60% cheaper in ebay (with shipping included).
The only thing that can be bought here for a very reasonable amount is their Hotwheels toy cars (which are perenially on sale) which sells for roughly 50 to 75 philippine pesos (which is cheaper than the standard retail price here in the Philippines).
The store owner, Ram, is very friendly. He will go out of his way to talk to you. Avoid his wife however, who is the opposite.

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UJ Megamall






Uncle Johnny's Hobby Shop in SM Megamall is a place where collectors meet, trade, sell and swap stories about diecast cars. Most collectors who meet here are 1/64 car collectors, mostly Hotwheels collectors and toy collectors.
Every Saturday afternoon, the place is swamped with collectors from all walks of life. It's like having a mini swap meet every week.
Besides being the place where you can meet new collectors, Johnny also has a lot of cars available for car collectors in any scale. He has Auto Art models, Minichamps models, Tomicas that are rarely seen in malls and some rare out of production diecast cars. Johnny was the one who helped me locate the stores in Hong Kong. He told me where to go and what item a particular store is selling.

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