Just last week I took a look at #The History of Hot Wheels II set on the OTD YouTube channel. The set itself is severely underrated as it contains eight great castings with plain decos and premium wheels. It was a #FAO Schwarz Exclusive in 1996, and isn’t […]
1/24/2019 — The second series of Disney-themed, Hot Wheels #Character Cars have been found at retail. Resident Character Car expert (& former Jeopardy contestant), Tim Callo found the second series at a Houston-area Walmart last night. It contains two pairings to series one vehicles with Minnie Mouse and […]
The History of Hot Wheels Sets were exclusive to FAO Schwarz stores in the mid-1990s. Each set contained 8 vehicles, all of which were exclusive to those sets. In the video below, I take a look at the second set which was from 1996. It is clearly the […]
The other day I was filling my 108-count Acrylic Display Case with my Hot Wheels Custom ’77 Dodge Van collection and noticed I had still yet to open two releases: the “Mummy Marauders” Color Shifters Creatures release and the 2015 Super #Treasure Hunt. I had planned to do […]
Collectors have been finding the Backroad Rally series for the better part of the last week now. Its the newest-pegged 6-car Themed Assortment at Walmart on the “automotive” side of the $1.27 pegs while the new 6-car Marvel series hangs on the Themed “Entertainment” Assortment pegs. Not all […]
1/21/2019 — The #Target Exclusive #HW Throwback series has resurfaced for 2019. Several collectors have found these within the last few days at their local Target stores. This year’s mix consists of eight cars and a purple stripe on the card — oppose to blue (mix 1 2018) […]
I decided to do a Video Showcase on the #RLC Exclusive: #’17 Ford F-150 Raptor that I #Showcased here on Thursday. The truck looked so nice on the turntable that I felt like you may like to see it as well. Plus, it gave me a chance to […]
The #Red Line Club Exclusive: #’17 Ford F-150 Raptor is here! It seems like forever since the Red Line Club team at Hot Wheels unveiled the 3D-Printed model at the RLC Party in October of 2017. If you’re counting, that was over 15 months ago. Suffice to say: […]
1/16/2019 — We are in the thick of winter here in the United States but the folks over at Collectors Events Unlimited have provided a glimpse of spring by unveiling the first souvenir car for this year’s Hot Wheels Collectors Nationals in Lombard, Illinois. Starting April 3rd, convention goers […]
File this under, “Awesome!”: Hot Wheels has fully-embraced the fact that Elon Musk decided to use a Hot Wheels car fastened to the dashboard of his Tesla Roadster he launched into space as part of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy mission last February. So much so, that there are […]