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.
Happy Halloween — oh wait, its not for another two months you say? You’re right. Well, this year Hot Wheels decided to get the #Halloween cars out to retailers a little earlier than previous years. Its a good move considering these have been showing up at Walgreens, Krogers, […]
Another #2016 New Model that is receiving positive feedback from the collectors is the brand-new Formula Flashback. This release marks its #First Edition and besides the fact that its in the #HW Race Team (2016) series which features the increasingly popular #Hot Wheels Race Team graphics, many collectors […]
The Baja Bone Shaker was chosen as the #Bone Shaker‘s wild side in this year’s #HW Mild to Wild Series. While some may feel the Bone Shaker is already pretty wild, the Baja Bone Shaker is the Bone Shaker as an #Off-Road Vehicle. Even though they share the […]
You can really never get too much of the #Bone Shaker? Can you? This rat rod appears in just about every Hot Wheels line, multiple times a year, and when releases look this good … keep ’em coming! One series that was new to the Hot Wheels mainline […]
In the early 2000s the Hot Wheels Super Van made a triumphant return as it had several premium releases from 2003 to 2008 at HotWheelsCollectors.com (#HWC) and as #Convention Exclusives. This retool was dubbed as the ’70s Van due to the Super Van name belonging to another company at the time […]
The Hot Wheels designers have so much talent that they are not only able to replicate and reproduce real vehicles but they also are able to imagine unique vehicles from scratch. These Hot Wheels original designs, or #Unlicensed Hot Wheels as we call them here, are churned out of […]
The other day, on the forums over at HotWheelsCollectors.com, a fellow collector was asking about this strange orange car they found in a Hot Wheels 9-car Gift Pack. That orange car in question was the Fast Fuse which has been a #Multi-Pack Exclusive for most of 2016, but […]
The year was 2003 and out of the forty-two #2003 First Editions, there weren’t many that excited the general collecting community. No rush to the pegs to hoard all of one #First Edition … it was kind of nice. Of course that was then and its 13 years later […]
Showcasing unannounced, hidden series here at Orange Track Diecast seems to be the motif of this week. This time we are looking at the #Chinese New Year Hot Wheels as we are at the half-way point of the Year of the Monkey. The Year of the Monkey started on February 8th […]
Sometimes its the little things that pique your interest when it comes to collecting diecast and more specifically, #Unlicensed Hot Wheels. Sure, a roller coaster Hot Wheels car is cool but since it wasn’t feasible to feature the whole train inside a Hot Wheels mainline blister, some sort […]
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