Legends 16 and 17 are Coming soon to Target Stores. Here is a preview including carded versions. Legends 16: Farooq (1999): Farooq (Ron Simmons) is the gem of this batch, as he looks to be the most accurate and is the one that I’m personally going to look for first. He’s in his Acolytes attire…
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…
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…
It has been an exciting time to be a collector of the WWE Mattel wrestling figures line. With the arrival of San Diego Comic Con, there has been anticipation of new reveals and preorders for upcoming figures. However, this process has been a disaster so far. Preorders delayed, confusion, cats and dogs living together, mass…
The Jakks Pacific WWE Classic Two Packs were exclusive to Toys R Us, starting in 2004, as a compliment to the Classic Superstars line. I remember finding these and being floored at Series 1 (Hart Foundation, Legion of Doom, and Rockers), and had to have all of them. At 19.99, they were a great deal…
For the second year, Gamestop was slated to host a Gamestop Hot Wheels event. The initial release from hotwheelscollectors.com was that the event was to be held on Saturday, December 5th. There would be cases available and you can mail in for a special release with the purchase of 20 cars. You could also order…
It was announced that Dollar General would be hosting the next round of Hot Wheels exclusives along with a mail in vehicle, after Kroger and GameStop recently. To this point, it’s been a fiasco. Once the mail in period started, I began checking DG regularly. After seeing posts online of people starting to find the…
It is becoming a tradition, as with last year’s Wrestlemania Week Reveals, WWE and Mattel have put together a batch of previews of upcoming Legends Reveals, and figures to be released throughout 2021. As always, my focus is on Legends and Flashback figures, so those are the ones I will be highlighting here. Summerslam Series…
This is an as-complete-as-possible list of Hot Wheels Batman series Vehicles. There have been Batman subseries, known as mainline segments, as well as (Typically) Walmart exclusive Batman sets yearly. These series focus on various Batmobiles and other vehicles from the Batman universe over time, from the 1966 TV show, to the various movies from 1989…
Mattel has released the Ruthless Aggression Elite Collection, and there is the upcoming Monday Night Wars set, but what about the New Generation? The New Generation era began with the departure of Hulk Hogan in 1993, and ran through 1996 with the oncoming Attitude era. There were plenty of big names and stars in the…
