Kmart Day Recolors: An Unforgettable Time To Collect
Kmart hosted Hot Wheels Collector’s Day events featuring exclusive vehicles, providing collectors opportunities to find rare items. Events ended post-bankruptcy in 2019, leaving a nostalgic gap.
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Have You Been to The Hot Wheels Legends Tour?
The Hot Wheels Legends Tour began in honor of the 50th anniversary of Hot Wheels. These events were held at Walmart stores around the country, where real car customizers were invited to show off their full size creations with the winner of the tour being immortalized as a Hot Wheels car. Along with the car…
What do you think about Car Culture 2 packs?
Hot Wheels Car Culture 2 packs Checklist Car Culture 2 Packs is a premium series of 2-car packs introduced in mid-2021. These consist of two Premium cars (Metal/Metal and Real Riders) designed to a certain theme. The packs are a Target exclusive. 2021 Mix 1 Theme Casting Body Color Larry Chen Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32)…
Here is a Complete Hot Wheels Mail In Collectors Edition Checklist
Let’s Start with Kmart Day Kmart supported the Hot Wheels collecting hobby by sponsoring the Kmart Collector’s Day events. Kmart stores would host a special collector’s event where exclusive vehicles would be made available. This was the chance for collectors to open a sealed case with the hope of finding a Treasure Hunt or Super…
Coca-Cola Christmas Series Checklist: Check out These Collectible Cars
The Story of Coca Cola Christmas, from M2: As I documented in 2020, the Coca Cola Christmas Cars from M2 are a tradition at this point. A tradition of competition, motivation, urgency, frustration, glory (for some), and a lot of time spent hunting and waiting. Everything you love about Christmas in a nutshell. These cars…
Worst to best: The Hot Wheels Treasure Hunts of 2023
2023 has been an interesting year for Treasure Hunts. You can see my rankings of the Super Treasure Hunts here, and for the most part the results were not favorable. In some ways, the regulars have been the better Hunts of 2023, as far as color choices and variety in castings. This year has been…
Let’s Rank: best of the 2023 Super Treasure Hunts?
An annual tradition, it’s time to rank the 2023 Super Treasure Hunts from Hot Wheels. This ranking is purely my opinion, and has some criteria: Here are my 2022, 2021 and 2020 rankings. There are fifteen castings that became Super Treasure Hunts for 2023, and this is my ranking, starting with 15-11: Let me just…
Hot Wheels Ultra Hots Wave 3 is out. My thoughts:
As posted earlier, Mattel has continued it’s Target Exclusive Hot Wheels Ultra Hots Series. Ultra Hots Wave 3 continues the pattern of all metal, spectraflame paint, and Ultra Hot wheels with a flame design. The majority of the modern Ultra Hots have been classic muscle cars, with a couple of exceptions. So far, we’ve avoided…
Hot Wheels: Ultra Hots are back in 2023
For 2023 , The Hot Wheels Target Retro Exclusive will be Ultra Hots. This follows previous Target exclusives Retros, Decades, and Flying Customs. The Ultra Hots are a throwback to the early 80s. All cars feature Spectraflame-style paintjobs, and are a tribute to the original Ultra Hots from 1984. Ultra Hots Wave 2 Checklist: Ultra Hots Wave 3…
Which Hot Wheels Anniversary Series do you have? A checklist
In 2018, Hot Wheels celebrated its 50th Anniversary. To celebrate its Anniversary, they released the “50th Anniversary Black & Gold Collection”, a series of 6 cars and 1 chase car painted in black with gold accents. Since then, a new series has been created each year to celebrate the age of the brand. Each set…