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00:00Coming up on Cards and Collectibles, an episode full of 90s nostalgia.
00:09Don't forget to rewind, a VHS collector for the ages.
00:15Matt explains the junk wax era.
00:19Floor to ceiling, Hot Wheels and diecast treasures.
00:25And a Futura flashback with these classic Australian cards.
00:36There's hidden treasures all over this country.
00:39Vintage sports cards, they're almost like antiques.
00:42Come on a journey with Cards and Collectibles Australia,
00:45where collectors from across the continent unite to showcase their treasures.
00:50It's got to be seven figures, it's got to be a million dollars plus.
00:53Witness the passion, the money and the stories behind Australia's most coveted collectibles.
01:00Back then they were laughing and now they call me a genius.
01:08In the 80s and 90s, going to your local video store on a Friday night was an experience in itself.
01:15Today, with certain titles fetching record prices, VHS collecting has become a passion-driven treasure hunt for lovers of the classic physical media.
01:26I'm a tape collector, I collect VHS from the golden era of VHS.
01:39I've got memories growing up with Beastmaster, Revenge of the Nerds, my god what a film.
01:48Back to the Future as well, I would have watched that every weekend, recorded off the TV.
01:53To the point where I still watch them and I know exactly where the ads are meant to go.
01:58I've seen it that many times, I'd just wait, pause, oh, we're live here, we're still going, this is great.
02:04Friday nights at the video store are epic.
02:11When you could have been there in your PJs, in your dressing gown, it was just like one of those social experiences that we took for granted.
02:19Rad says it all. The reason why I love Rad is like it's the, to me, as a visual guy, hot pink, power yellow cover is just incredible.
02:33It's one of the most gorgeous covers that you'll ever see. Funnily enough, I believe it's meant to be presented horizontally.
02:39So it's meant to be long ways on the shelf, which is quite odd.
02:44One of the first things you do as a kid back then and you pick it up, turn it over.
02:48You see this dude on a BMX upside down doing a backflip and you're like, that never happened in BMX Bandits.
02:53We've got to check this out. It's a great film, amazing soundtrack, awesome cover.
02:58If I don't have a Rad in my life, then I don't know if I can really call myself a tape collector.
03:07The reason why I collect VHS is that it's the original release of a film.
03:13And if it's an important film to you, then having that totem in your life tells me and tells the people that I have in my life that this film matters.
03:28Films have that power, you know, we love them.
03:31We all have our own intricate varied tastes and the tapes that I love aren't for everybody, but to me they matter.
03:38It's also the polish and the product itself. It's the cover art that stays around and invites you to come and investigate further.
03:47The Video Dead is this one of our awesome Australian novelty cases.
03:56Basically, all releases were different in the world.
03:59In Australia, we were making our own, we're designing our own.
04:02The Video Dead is one of these great examples.
04:05It's just a cool kick-ass hologram on a cover.
04:09Take the hologram away, you've got a $70 take.
04:15With the hologram, you can add a zero.
04:18It's an incredible little novelty, but they work.
04:25The Evil Dead is an incredible favourite.
04:27You could say it's almost like a gateway film for a lot of people into horror.
04:31Any horror collector worth their soul is going to have any of the series, but you've got to have the number one.
04:36The number one is the film wave's release, the silver gorgeous clam.
04:41It's an essential piece of cinematic nostalgia.
04:49At some point in your life, you have to accept the reality that you're not going to have all the films in the world.
04:54When I realised that I'm never going to get the horror movies that I want to get, I opted to go for sword and sorcery, barbarian films.
05:01That wasn't easy either, to be fair.
05:03I mean, one of my big tapes was Conan the Barbarian, and I wanted that from day one.
05:08But I believe it took me about three to four years, and I'd almost given up hope.
05:17Conan has had multiple reissues, but The Big Daddy is the Thorne EMI first release, and it's a gorgeous clamshell.
05:24Big, beautiful, top to bottom cover art, and I'd seen it for the first time.
05:29I'm like, it does exist, and it's amazing, and it's beautiful, and I must have it.
05:33I overpaid him to forget about it, and for him to send it on to me.
05:38It's just the perfect tape.
05:43It's an easy decision to make to hold these things in my life, because they matter.
05:47You know, they shape me, they shape who I am, and what I've learned to grow up and love and adore.
05:53So, it's a no-brainer for me.
06:02Whether you're looking for singles, boxes, or card accessories, Sports Card World has had you covered for over 30 years.
06:10Come in and speak with their knowledgeable team about all things cards and collectibles.
06:23If you have children under the age of 30, and you ask them what a VHS is, they'll probably just look at you blankly.
06:29But for those of us old enough to remember the joys a videocassette could bring, and the trips to the local blockbuster,
06:34then it's easy to understand the nostalgia one can feel for certain movies.
06:37But due to their repetitive usage, most tapes didn't fare too well over the years, and often found their way into the rubbish.
06:44Every now and again though, some videotapes managed to sneak through the years with minimal damage, wear and tear, and in some cases, still sealed.
06:52One such example is an initial copy of Star Wars A New Hope, which went up for sale in October 2022, and sold for a princely sum of $174,000.
07:01For more record sales, or to see the value of your collectibles, download the OneThirtyPoint app today.
07:13A lot of people believe that if you hold something for long enough, it will eventually become valuable.
07:18This is not always the case.
07:21It depends on a number of factors, most notably rarity.
07:25So, have you ever wondered whether your childhood trading cards are worth anything?
07:30Matt from Sports Card World has the answer.
07:32The 90s is a very nostalgic time for card collecting, and if you didn't live it, it's really hard to explain just how popular card collecting was.
07:50There was shops everywhere for cards.
07:52I mean, you couldn't go to your local shopping centre and not find a place selling cards.
07:57There was such a boom, and everyone collected cards in the 90s.
08:00You'd put a card there, and literally, sometimes within an hour or two, you'd sold it.
08:09You wouldn't have a card at the shelf for more than a couple of days.
08:15The difference between today's collecting and the 90s was, today there's just like one company that does manufacturing.
08:21Back then, there was multiple companies.
08:23Upper Deck, Topps, Fleer Skybox, to name a few.
08:25The competition to bring out new card designs and everything was really great, and each company tried to outdo each other with a new set design or something like that.
08:35You never knew what was going to come out.
08:36In the 80s and the very early part of the 90s, most card sets just had the base cards, but as it started to really get popular around that 93, 94 period is when they started bringing in what they call insert cards.
08:49So, special cards are randomly inserted into packs.
08:53Some of those ones, at the time, became valuable.
08:54I always loved collecting Skybox. That was my set. I remember the 93, 94 Skybox. It was the series one. It was the first box of cards I ever actually bought and opened and completed the whole set.
09:13So, Skybox was definitely my favourite.
09:14By far, some of the most popular inserts could have been the Fleer Ultra Scoring Kings from 93, 94.
09:25Very iconic card. Purple with lightning in the background, and the Michael Jordan is one of probably everyone's most favourite cards.
09:33Other sets were Fleer Team Leaders and Fleer Total Ds from the 92, 93 set.
09:38A tough part of the job is, probably on a daily basis, we get a customer who will come in with their old folder, and you've got to break it to them that they're not going to be able to retire.
09:55The cards that they've got in their folder, all the nostalgia that they might have and the memories that they might bring them, cards are really worth nothing.
10:03Unfortunately, the 90s cards, that was the start of the junk wax era.
10:08The junk wax era is from the really early 90s and probably late 80s as well.
10:17They just produced so much of it, and cards that you thought were probably really rare have found over time that they aren't. There was a lot of them produced.
10:26If you're going to go look at your old cards and find your folder, whether it's out in the garage or maybe at mum and dad's house, I'm going to break it down to you.
10:34Most cards from the early 90s through about 1996 are probably worth nothing, apart from a few cards.
10:42The junk wax era ended around 97. From there, sets were a lot more limited and it made collecting your favourite cards a lot harder to find.
10:56So if you're going to go now and find your old card folder and have a look through them and you think you're going to find that million dollar card, it's not going to happen.
11:04But what you can do is have a look and have a look at the players and remember all those good times you had with your mates collecting and buying packs of cards from your local card shop.
11:14After the break, the Dietcast Dreamland filled with Hot Wheels.
11:27And Futura, the card brand that defined a generation.
11:32During the peak junk wax era, approximately how many cards were printed each year?
11:39A. 20 billion. B. 40 billion. C. 60 billion. Or D. 80 billion.
11:48Find out after the break.
11:50Welcome back. Did you select the right answer? Let's find out.
12:07For every Hot Wheels collector, each car has a story.
12:11For Tim DeLongville, his collection isn't just about the Dietcast treasures themselves.
12:16Some of his cars are a tribute to resilience, love and a trip to Malaysia with his wife Melanie that changed their lives forever.
12:33Four or five years ago, I'd grown up, stopped playing with toys.
12:36And then it would have been, I was at a, I was at a market and I happened to see a Hot Wheels of the very car I drive.
12:43And I'm like, that's so cool.
12:45And it's only $8.
12:47This little $8 car started this obsession.
12:53This is my Hot Wheels room.
12:54So this is where the bulk of my collection is.
12:57One wall, I've got all my main lines, all my basic cars.
13:01On another wall is all my themed basic cars.
13:05And then we move around to where my premiums are, where I've got my boulevards, my team transporters.
13:11And then I've got a few bits and pieces around, my own dump bin, a few little diorama displays.
13:17The feeling when I get a new car is joy of being a kid again.
13:21I've been known for my wife to tell me to stop jumping up and down like a small child in the middle of a shop.
13:26But sometimes you just can't help it.
13:30This is my Matt Gabe collection.
13:32Matt Gabe is the lead artwork designer at Mattel and this was his first casting that he designed.
13:42I've got the full set of long and short card blanks autographed and with the car on them autographed.
13:48And I just thought that was a really cool piece being his first casting he's designed.
13:53Over on this side, I've got my Japan Historic Swan collection that my wife surprised me with for Christmas one year.
14:04My wife was on eBay.
14:05She didn't tell me a thing about it.
14:07And she ended up securing the set and go to Christmas.
14:11On Christmas Day, I opened up and I had a set of JH1s that not only has their value, that now has this story of how they came about.
14:20At the first Australian Diecast Expo, they had a whole bunch of event cars.
14:30There was a VIP dinner, which I was able to attend.
14:33And at that dinner, there was a VL Commodore and it was one of 220, I believe.
14:39And that was made by Oswheels, a local Australian diecast company.
14:43And then we also had a pop race car.
14:46They did a Skyline for the event and that was also numbered to 300 cars made.
14:51And then at the event, I managed to pick up the rest of the event cars, which was another two VLs and another Skyline.
15:00It's been so long waiting for Australia to get something that it's nice to have almost the full set of the Australian Diecast Expo's first year cars.
15:10I think what makes Hot Wheels so sought after for a lot of people is it doesn't matter the situation you're in in life.
15:17You can still collect for a basic mainline, you're spending $2.
15:21But then you can spend anywhere up to thousands and thousands of dollars for a single car.
15:30This here is my Boulevard set.
15:31There's over a hundred cars in this set.
15:34At this current state, I'm under missing two.
15:36This is what got my wife Inu collecting with me.
15:40When there's Boulevard's missing, my wife goes on the hunt.
15:43It's almost like the Boulevard has become her set.
15:46Just to have that common interest that just started off as my thing and spending time together, you can't pass that up.
15:52So over here, I've got my Proton Saga from Malaysia.
15:59This was the first Malaysian car made into a Hot Wheels.
16:02My wife had to go to Malaysia for some life-saving surgery.
16:05It was a difficult time and being able to go out and collect the thing that brings me so much joy during that difficult time.
16:12So what kept my head up and as a husband, I've got to sit there and be the strong one.
16:17So because obviously she's going through a lot.
16:19So that helps keep my head up so that I can help keep her head up.
16:22And that's why Hot Wheels means a lot more than just a $2 toy car to me.
16:27Who remembers Hologram Cards?
16:45In the 90s, NBA Hologram Cards were the crown jewels of any card collection.
16:50Companies like Upper Deck and Skybox introduced 3D holographic designs featuring stars like
16:56Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal.
16:58But as a decade wore on, mass production flooded the market and demand plummeted,
17:03turning once prized Hologram Cards into a relic of the collecting boon.
17:07I remember one of the first sets I ever collected was the Holler Jam Set.
17:11I love the way that when you got the card in the right light that the player's image would just be so bright.
17:16I also like the cards that just have the player's face.
17:19So when you tilt it in the light, their eyes follow you from side to side.
17:22Head to our socials and tell us what you remember about Hologram Cards.
17:32During the 90s card boom, there was a card company that seemed to have a product for every sport.
17:37Formula One, MBL, cricket, even surfing.
17:41In total, Futura produced more than 3,000 different cards for the Australian market.
17:47And there's someone out there who wants them all.
17:55Futura produced cards from around 93 to around 96.
17:59There's a wide range of Futura products.
18:01So you can go from cricket, to surfing, to rugby union, to basketball and all sorts of sports.
18:08And also the opportunity of maybe completing a master set.
18:13That's one of the biggest things was actually being able to complete a master set.
18:21We've got various collections of Futura albums that were released during the 90s.
18:26Ranging from Futura basketball, to cricket, to baseball, to rugby union, to Formula One, to surfing.
18:38The master set collector is a particular set of cards from 1994 for example.
18:45You've got a base set of cards, maybe two or three insert sets.
18:48You've got potentially signature cards that go with that particular set from that year.
18:53The master set is collecting everything from that particular year.
18:57I would say that I was maybe about around 100 cards away from having every single Futura card.
19:04The stuff that I'm chasing is now the high-end stuff, the high-end signature cards that just don't seem to come up very often.
19:10I would say that the 93 Don Bradman signature card would be the elusive card that pretty much everybody would be chasing in their Futura collection.
19:20And with only 15 available, or apparently 15 only ever produced, that is a rare holy grail of a card to come across.
19:31I remember growing up in the UK, watching soccer back in the late 80s, early 90s.
19:36Seeing Craig Johnson playing for Liverpool, flamboyant Australian player playing in the English League was just fantastic.
19:42And I've got the memories of that. Being a soccer fan, that is a card that I cherish.
19:51This is the Heritage Platinum set, which was produced in 1996, which features a lot of Test players from Australia.
19:58The set that I have here is a player edition set, which is obviously given to every player that signed this particular set of cards.
20:05I'm fortunate enough to get Alan Connolly's set.
20:08This one there is the Bradman card, which is obviously the most sought-after card in this particular set.
20:14Towards the end of the mid, sort of the late 90s, the trading card scene, I believe, sort of dropped off.
20:20So obviously the demand wasn't there for them, so all of a sudden just sort of finished up, really.
20:25I've got a couple of prototype Futura cards that are AFL and Rugby League in the late 96.
20:32Potentially Futura were looking at other licensing for these cards and produced an AFL set and a Rugby League set.
20:39The Andrew Gaze Leroy Loggins dual signature card was 1996.
20:46Very, very difficult card to come across.
20:48The demise of Futura towards the end of 96, who knows how many were redeemed,
20:54because that card certainly doesn't come up very often for sale.
20:57In the last 10 years, I would say I've seen one Gaze Loggins dual signature card,
21:03and that would be the one that I purchased.
21:09The value increases because people my age are now looking at reliving their childhood,
21:15what they used to collect when they were kids.
21:17Obviously it's a very good feeling, and it's very cool to replicate that years down the track,
21:22when potentially you're in a position to be able to fund it.
21:25The Alan Border Signature card, probably second to the Donald Bradman Holy Grail.
21:34Only 50 produced.
21:36Back in the early 90s, that was the card that every kid opening a packet was looking to get.
21:43Those sets, those boxes, those packets sold off the shelves very, very quickly
21:48because of a limited edition Alan Border Signature series.
21:56The Shane Warne Hattrick Signature card, I believe, was a run of 150.
22:00Obviously with Shane Warne's passing over recent years,
22:04Shane Warne cards have become highly sought after.
22:07And that particular card is a must for every cricket card collector.
22:11So if one comes available, grab it, because you might not see another one.
22:18Obviously the ultimate goal for the collection is to collect everything Futura
22:26that was released here in Australia between 93 and 96.
22:30That would be fantastic to actually achieve that.
22:37Next time on Cards and Collectibles.
22:40An AFL card collector whose collection never gives him the blues.
22:44Why these precious gems are the most iconic cards in the hobby today.
22:51A Michael Jordan collector who chases his cardboard and his ink.
22:58Watch past episodes of Cards and Collectibles Australia online now.
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