My 'smaller' Volkswagens

    VWs have been a part of my life since 1992. That was the year dad got the family a 1965 Beetle in Bahama Blue. Soon after, I started collecting VW toy models.
 

Many collectors start of their collection with the popular 1:62 sized models from Matchbox, Hotwheels, Majorite, Corgi, Siku, Tomica. I did too and many of my favourite VW models are from these scale.

I have plenty of Water-cooled VW in this scale too... Golfs, Sciroccos, Passats and the New Beetle.

Kombi vans are the second largest in my collection after beetles.

   Collecting was fun then in the 90s, I had to go out and search through shelve after shelve hunting for the models I didn't have. Now toy models are difficult to find in stalls as they're all swept up buy greedy buyers hoping to resell them at higher prices on the internet. Some don't even make it out to display! They would tell the shop staff to keep those rare models aside for themselves. Sad! 😢

   Prices have also gone up but sadly quality has gone down. Casting of models isn't as good as it used to be with many rough edges. I have reduced my toy craze because of these factors and now only collect selectively.

  Many cartoons use VW or VW lookalike vehicles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or TMNT party wagon is a kombi like van. There's also a VW Beetle too.

Transformers - The smallest autobot was Bumblebee, back then it was a VW Beetle and not a Chevrolet like in the movies now

Remote control from Kyosho & Tamiya

 

Lego!!