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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
(Not Counting Honda Civic, Lightyear, Volkswagen, and the other Walmart store exclusives or the Ultra Hots at Target) Today I’ll be taking a look at the Hot Wheels Store Exclusives from 2022. Walmart, Target, Kroger, Dollar General, and Best Buy had exclusive cars available this year. This is a checklist as well as my picks…
Continuing a tradition from 2021 and 2020, here is my annual ranking of the Hot Wheels Regular Treasure Hunts. As always, it’s a mixed bag of quality and interest with these. However, the rarity on these have increased, with more “dud” cases showing up with no Hunts at all. Previously, you could generally count on…
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…
…Also the bottom Five. The Hot Wheels Target Red Edition are one of my favorite store exclusives. I have compiled a complete checklist from 2017-2022. The Red Editions are Target exclusive basic models. They share the same deco as the mainline cars, but have exclusive colors, of red, white, and black. There is always a complimentary mainline…
An annual tradition, it’s time to rank the 2022 Super Treasure Hunts from Hot Wheels. This ranking is purely my opinion, and has some criteria: Here are my 2021 and 2020 rankings. There are fifteen castings that became Super Treasure Hunts for 2022, and this is my ranking, starting with 15-11: 2022 Super Treasure Hunts,…
