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New 6-car series: Despicable Me MINIONS

05/27/2017 — Minion-mania will finally hit the Hot Wheels brand as six vehicles will wear your favorite Twinkie-shaped creatures from the Despicable Me movies. With the new Despicable Me 3 movie being released on June 30, you can bet you’ll see these in the next month or so, as they […]

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Lamborghini Series: LAMBORGHINI SESTO ELEMENTO

#Lamborghini and Hot Wheels have had a great relationship for the last decade, as Hot Wheels has produced at least one new Lamborghini casting every year since 2009 — a streak that unfortunately ends this year. However, before you begin to think Lamborghini is going the route of Ferrari, […]

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Then and Now Series: ’13 DODGE VIPER SRT

If you could sum up modern day Hot Wheels collecting in a nut-shell, one could argue its like keeping up with the Joneses. You’re buying the latest cars, keeping up with the assortments, tracking others’ finds online, and of course, hunting for the #Treasure Hunts — whether to […]

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RLC sELECTIONs: TEXAS DRIVE ‘EM

With the #RLC #sELECTIONs over at HotWheelsCollectors.com (HWC), Hot Wheels has continually done what no other diecast car company has done — let the collectors have a hand in designing cars. Its every collector’s dream to design their own Hot Wheels car — especially this collector’s dream! — […]

Hot Wheels 2017 Mainline “M” Case Unboxing

05/16/2017 — Our guy Muazli Marzuki on YouTube has once again scored the latest case of Hot Wheels — the “M” Case Assortment. Him and the other collectors in Malaysia (the home country of the mainline factory) can expect to see these showing up at retail soon. With thousands of views on […]

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Monster Duo: ’89 BATMOBILE

Casting collectors of any of the Hot Wheels #Batmobile castings know how hard it can be to track down and maintain a casting collection when it comes to the Caped Crusader’s ride. Unless you are strictly collecting carded releases, it can be be hard to establish which variants are […]

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HW Daredevils: PILEDRIVER

The #Former AcceleRacers continue to be released in the Hot Wheels mainline 10 years after they first infiltrated it. After the demise of the #AcceleRacers line in 2006, these 36 vehicles found their way into several Hot Wheels lines which (for fans of the castings) was a rather fortunate move […]

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Street Beasts (2017 New Model): HOTWEILER

Woof! …has been the reaction by a lot collectors towards most of the fantasy cars Hot Wheels has produced as of late. While you can’t fault the collectors who love real looking vehicles with minimal graphics, you have to realize the Hot Wheels mainline is as diverse of […]