The future is now! Remember that day in Back to the Future Part II (in the distant future) where cars can fly and run on garbage? Well that day was/is TODAY! In case you haven’t noticed, those depictions of 2015 never came true as we are still utilizing our cement highways and […]
In Stars Wars, the Ewoks on Endor perceive the linguistic robot, C-3PO, as a deity. In Hot Wheels collecting, some Hot Wheels collectors perceive the Volkswagen Drag Bus to be of Hot Wheels royalty. So its only fitting that the Star Wars Characters car for C-3PO resembles to all-too-popular […]
Homer J. Simpson and this little pink sedan have been through an awful lot since The Simpsons began in 1989. The car has been wrecked countless times including one of my favorite Simpson’s episodes ever. In the Season 2 episode titled, “Bart the Daredevil”, the Simpsons go to […]
A car built for racing in both real life and in Hot Wheels scale, the ’15 Jaguar F-Type Project 7 is one of the world’s more limited cars with only 250 made. According to the back of its Hot Wheels casting’s 2015 blister card its a two-seat roadster powered by a […]
The long awaited Toyota Supra was finally released in the 2013 Hot Wheels mainline. Hot Wheels released the Fat Bax Toyota Supra way back in 2004 but never a realistic ’90s version of the Supra. The casting itself is based off of a customized version of the ’94 Toyota Supra and […]
Fast. Furious. Ford Escort. Those words did not really go together until Fast & Furious 6 introduced us to the ’70 Ford Escort RS1600. Growing up, if you knew someone with a Ford Escort they could care less about the performance of their vehicle as the name “Escort” was […]
With the release of the Ant-Man movie today, its fitting that we received an Ant-Man Hot Wheels in this current wave of Marvel cars in the Pop Culture line. For some reason, Hot Wheels likes to use the old comic graphics versus the new movie graphics for its Pop Culture line–they do […]
The ’38 Dodge Airflow was produced in the time of Art Deco and it surely shows the time with its smooth lines and charismatic features. But this tanker had a very practical use in its time. Delivering gas. The Henry Ford Museum (Dearborn, Mich.), where one of these is displayed […]
FLAME ON! We are in the dead-heat of summer and here in Phoenix, temperatures are over 100˚F on a daily basis. Still, looking at the paint job on this ’55 Chevy Bel Air Gasser has to turn up the heat. The bright orange paint coupled with the white-hot flames screams […]
Have you seen Jurassic World yet? In the movie they combine the genetics of several terrorizing dinosaurs into one to create a “super dinosaur”. Well you’re essentially looking at the diecast equivalent of THAT in the Hot Wheels Blvd. Bruiser. Taking styling-cues from the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro & […]