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People in this hobby collect enormous amounts of cars they even don't give a shit about. They end up buying the same thing in 15 different colors. Imagine bringing a girl back to your place and instead of displaying 3 or 4 nice die-cast models you have 10,000 poor quality hot wheels covering your walls. Some of them in disgusting yellow packaging "too valuable to take out". The level of cringe would be off the charts. Then she asks you what you do for fun and you explain "peg hunting" and how you dig in toy bins to find the "R A R E" worth $5.
Just buy a 1:18 model from Aliexpress or Temu, they're all made in the same Chinese factories and look nicer.