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.
Sometimes, all it takes is some #Spectraflame Paint and some #Real Riders to really make an #Unlicensed Hot Wheels car stand out. Such was the case this year with the Driftsta released in the #Night Burnerz Series. The Hot Wheels #Driftsta casting quietly snuck onto the scene last […]
The tool for the Hot Wheels Audacious must be working overtime as the casting was released four times this year with at least another two releases on their way for 2017. With a multi-pack exclusive release, a Mystery Models release, this Halloween release, and most recently a Night […]
When you collect a certain Hot Wheels casting, you often find yourself buying Hot Wheels products you normally wouldn’t just to get that exclusive car. In 2007, one of my favorite castings, the #Deora II, was released as a #Playset Exclusive as part of the Octopark playset. The […]
How many times must we say it? Given the right graphics treatment, some of these less-than-popular #Unlicensed Hot Wheels can really stand out! After multiple colorway releases in the 2014 & 2015 mainline and a less-than-stellar Snow Stormers 5-Pack release earlier this year, the #Dune Crusher was released […]
Fresh off the pegs is the brand-new, Hot Wheels Aristo Rat. Clearly a play on the word aristocrat, which is a term for “someone from the ruling class”, it can be implied that this racer rules its class on the local dirt track. But that is not the […]
Every year, traditional collectors tend to complain about the influx of fantasy castings that are introduced into the Hot Wheels lineup. Some don’t like the castings, other don’t like how much plastic is used, while others simply don’t like any #Unlicensed Hot Wheels. Fortunately, there are a growing number […]
Being that 2016 was an Olympic year, Hot Wheels decided to release a 10-car series in this year’s mainline to coincide with the summer games. Olympic branding was never part of the series, nor any other license for that matter, as this series was dubbed “HW Games” and all […]
Those of you that read our articles everyday may notice the Racing Stocker we have today looks strikingly similar to another car we featured on the blog last year. Wearing the same paint scheme as the Hot Wheels Racing Select: ’81 Buick Regal Stocker, the Racing Stocker was […]
It pains me to say, but sometimes it takes a super #Treasure Hunt release of an #Unlicensed Hot Wheels casting for collectors to take notice of it. It pains me even more to say that I dismissed the Hot Wheels Driftsta before I saw the 2016 super treasure hunt release […]
The Hot Wheels #Cat-A-Pult was first released as part of the 1998 First Editions and was definitely a pegwarmer until the casting was ultimately retired as part of the 2004 Final Run Series (shown below). See this little car just never caught on in the mainstream Hot Wheels crowd as […]
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