Charlie don't surf wrote:No one will collect much beyond the B2, after that the Super NES and game systems replaced RC cars by and large
What's your point? I've got a few of those too! That's the great thing about being an adult, you get to have the things you wanted as a kid but couldn't.
True. I play my NES way more than my PS3. I bought it just to have a Blu-ray player that will take updates and a database for music and pics for my home theater. As for r/c I tend to agree with civilguy. RTRs will cause a loss in interest, but provides a great and much needed boost in the hobby today. Take music for instance. I spent 25 years(which continues today)building a great cassette and cd collection which could now be had with the single click of a mouse. In r/c the re-res are a great bonus though and a sign that an interest in vintage r/c is and will always be alive, maybe even easier to get. With such a large world population there will always be at least a small group of vintage r/c enthusiasts. The internet will continue to bring us together. By the way, I think we should come up with a name for people who are interested in vintage r/c. It would keep the brotherhood strong! My wife uses "idiot", but I think we could come up with something better.
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It is a generational thing so your wife is right but there is some overlap. Some small subset of other generations will think these are cool but not share the nostalgia and hence be willing to pay far less to get into the game.
My example with full scale cars goes like this. I am a child of the 80's. Miami Vice (when I could sneak an episode in as a kid), Transformers, 80's RC, and 80's music. I have a 1987 and 1980 BMW because I stared at them and wanted one as a kid (and a Lamborghini Countach is on the wish list, but I don't have one of those!). BUT I really like the 50's style, the jet set age, the huge ass fins on the cars. But I wasn't going to drive-ins and listening to do-wap music as a teenager. So my nostalgia value is zero.
The inflated (in my opinion) value of these cars is due to the boomers at the zenith of their income curve in their careers and it is winding down fast over the next decade or so. The value of these cars will drop out as the people reliving their youth die off or are too old to drive. Then I can swoop in for "my price". Likewise someone born in the 90's might think a vintage gold pan is neat, but be unwilling to shell out $200 for a mint, never run early car. But we might because we aren't kids anymore trying to barely finance an expensive hobby.
Holy hell, where was this post going? It's the beer talking... Err typing.
I just think that shortly after 95' we saw a huge decline in racing numbers all over the country due to all other types of entertainment, that's why I think that the B3/B4/B5 etc will not have that appeal. Sure there will be some cross over, but not much IMO-
And what else can your wife call us? OCD participants? Hoarders? Or just mis-directed youth
That's the great thing about being an adult, you get to have the things you wanted as a kid but couldn't.
