Posts about Hot Wheels Cars
Most Hot Wheels Collectors are dedicated to finding Super Treasure Hunts. People often ask, how can you tell what is a Super? I’m going to provide some examples so you can see how they Supers stand out in the crowd. In 2012, Supers stopped being premium versions of regular T-Hunts and became Super Secret Treasure…
Welcome to 2020. It’s January, and this month has definitely exemplified how January is the worst time of the year for diecast collecting, wrestling figures, and the toy department in general. Bare shelves and pegs everywhere you turn, as the stores recover from the mania of Christmas time. January is inventory time, and department reset…
Since 2013, there has been a sub series of cars that is exclusively at Walmart known as Hot Wheels zamacs. ZAMAC is an acronym for the Zinc, Aluminum, Magnesium, and Copper alloy that Hot Wheels and other die-cast toy cars are made from (cast). A ZAMAC car is basically an unpainted car and/or base. These…
All photos from Hwtreasure.com
Target is another store that’s getting into the exclusives, they’ve had a few sub series, the decade cars in 2018 and 2019, and before that there were throwback cars for 2016 and 2017. Starting in 2017, Target and Mattel rolled out the red edition series. The Red Edition Series consists of 12 red and white,…
One of my biggest segments of my Hot Wheels collection are the store exclusives. I always make a point to find them as they come out and I’ve been working on backfilling the holes in my set. What are store exclusives? Here’s a breakdown. Toys R Us, Kmart, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger, and now GameStop…
With the dissolving of Kmart Day (coming soon), Mattel and the Hot wheels collecting community have been looking for a place to pick up the slack. Kroger picked up the September event, sort of. I’ll be writing about that soon. GameStop picked up the November event and this is part one of the results of…
These are my personal Top 10 Super Treasure Hunt Hot Wheels. As a cop out, they are not ranked. Photos sourced from Hwtreasure.com. My main criteria is color choice, casting choice (it needs to be a car I like), and standing out from the crowd. I like muscle cars and bold colors. There are 180…
This is a short list of terminology that I will be using on this site as it relates to hot wheels and the other diecast brands. Case: a box of cars, most cases are 72 cars in a box. Kmart offered 36 count cases but that is coming to an end. “__” Case: Hot Wheels…
I stopped in to two Target stores today and was pleased to see some P case hitting. The first stop had leftovers, but I picked up a good handful of the new P case cars. On a hunch, I headed to the next closest Target to see if they had the same. After a quick…
