Unlicensed Hot Wheels are Hot Wheels castings that don’t require licensing agreements with automobile manufacturers. These can be fantasy vehicles and/or realistically proportioned vehicles. These are designed in-house by Hot Wheels designers.
Vehicles from the ’80s and ’90s as Hot Wheels seem to be all the rage these days. Call it the Gran Turismo generation — or whatever you like — but a new wave of collectors that grew up racing rare race cars (in video games) has demanded the […]
We have reached the pinnacle of Hot Wheels premium thus far. That is a fact! Collectors like to oooh and ahhh over the latest mixes of #Car Culture, #Boulevard, #Replica Entertainment, #Fast & Furious, and sometimes even #Pop Culture. New mixes sell like hot cakes, while older ones […]
Back in the fall of 2019, Hot Wheels collectors were greeted by the #Mod Rod — a modern take on the hot rod, designed by Hot Wheels designer, Dmitriy Shakhmatov. That October at the convention in LA, designer Eric Han had his latest creation — the #Erikenstein Rod […]
The Hot Wheels #MBK Van recently hit the pegs as part of the Speed Shop Garage of #Pop Culture. As soon as collectors started to find it, questions were asked: What type of van is it? Will we see more vehicles with #HKS livery? Why is there an […]
After 20-some-odd-years, love for the Hot Wheels #Dairy Delivery appears to be fading. What’s going on Hot Wheels collectors? Collectors used to periodically post pictures of their Dairy Delivery casting collections like clockwork. There would always be some collector clamoring to include the Dairy Delivery is this series […]
How many Hot Wheels cars did you crush as a kid? I know I mutilated a few in my adolescent years as many ’80s blackwalls met the hammer, brick, and flame. When did the destructive behavior begin? It was near the sandbox were many Hot Wheels met their […]
The Hot Wheels #Loco Motorin’ had quite the debut. No one would have thought that an #Unlicensed Hot Wheels train car would have flown off the pegs — yet, here we are — the Loco Motorin’ has been sought after by collectors in the last several weeks since […]
The Hot Wheels Legends Tour officially kicked off for 2020 in Miami on March 7th. A winner was crowned while the Coronavirus was in the back of everyone’s mind. That didn’t stop the thousands of people who showed up though, as they were rewarded with the first couple […]
14 years before Hot Wheels even came into existence, Mattel released its first car: the Mattel “Dream” Car. Sold in 1953 for $1.98 the 1:24 scale “Dream” Car was Mattel founder, Elliot Handler’s vision of the future of the automobile. The Hot Wheels #Mattel Dream Mobile celebrates that […]
In the last month or so my collection of the Hot Wheels #Mach Speeder doubled in size. The #Hot Wheels iD release — which was a holdover from 2019 –finally shipped from Amazon in early January. Also in early January, I found the 2020 #Mystery Models Series 1 […]
