Category: Latest Aritcles

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for collecting. Recently found the Holiday Hot Rods mixed in “B” case mainline mix dump bins at Walmart. We just received the hobby only Entertainment “K” case purchased off eBay but it has been reported that they have been found in Walmart stores in Canada. The last case assortment of HW Road Trippin’ have been appearing on eBay. The good people at  A&J Toys sent over the Heritage – Real Riders case. Just found are the first two 2016 gift pack exclusives including new 2016 multi-pack only releases. Mattel even surprised us with the return of the Target exclusive Snowflake cars for 2016. Also a friend from Europe send over twelve new Mystery Models for 2016. This set has a mf gold Loop Coupe chase piece.       ,  

Kmart Collector Day Event When: Saturday, 11/7 at 9 a.m.Kmart local times Where: U.S. Kmart Stores Kmart Exclusive Releases: ’70 Chevy Chevelle – Speed Team (Hilite green), ’71 Buick Riviera – HW Performance (Base blue), ’71 Datsun Bluebird 510 Wagon – Night Burnerz (Black), Subaru B.R.A.T. – HW Hot Trucks (Golden yellow) and first to market cars will be: ’41 Willys – HW Flames (Dark blue)Aston Martin 1963 DB5 – Then and Now (Red) Volkswagen Caddy – HW Showroom (Dark  Red)

The 29th Convention was one of the best Conventions attended. It is always fun to meet the first timers and to enjoy the times to get together with the seasoned convention goes. Over 350 rooms booked with about 250 rooms open at some time or another for room to room trading and selling. There are many things to do Downhill and Sizzlers racing, Button Bingo Convention Mania and Texas Hold’em. For the children there the coloring contest, scavenger hunt and more.  The convention dinner with the guest of honor Rob Mathis have over 300 dinners sold.  The dinner is one of the best values of the convention. For $125 you get a great dinner, a limited sticker dinner car, a t-shirt, a collector pin, a special painted code 3 dinner car, raffles, and the ability to buy extra dinner cars. It is always a fun get together with other convention ...

Just updated the latest Q case assortment and current round of the Entertainment series thanks to A & J Toys. The Q case assortment has 2 new models, which are the #41 Ollie Rocket and ’96 Nissan 180SX Type X. The regular Treasure Hunt is the #106 Tread Air and the super is the #120 Toyota Off-Road. In the Entertainment series there are 3 new casting ’56 Chevy convertible, ’74 Marathon Taxi, and the Top Gun Kawasaki Ninja GPZ 900R. The somewhat disappointing release even though it’s metal on metal is the Tumbler. It is the less detailed plastic body version cast in metal. For a five dollar plus apiece we would of like to have seen the more detailed casting. Ollie Rocket This car was designed by six-year Oliver E. and the Hot Wheels design team to fulfill his wish creation and to support 35th Anniversary of Make-A-Wish.

Received the latest Pop Culture cars from A&J Toys. This batch features Nintendo’s most popular Mario games. The casting include: 8 Crate (Drx. Mario), Dairy Delivery (Super Mario Bros.), School Busted (Super Mario Bros. 3), Volkswagen T1 Panel Bus (Super Mario World), Cool-One (Super Mario Bros. 2), and A-OK (Super Mario Kart). The card art is well done and the nice surprise is when they are opened up. Most of the cars have different tampos on the drivers side. Enjoy the side by side shots.

Q case assortment was just up dated. Treasure Hunt is the #106 Tread Air and the Super is the #120 Toyota Off-Road. The new models for this assortment is #41 Ollie Rocket and #120 ’96 Nissan 180SX Type X. Good Luck Hunting!

Check out these sweet tricked out treats this scary season. Available this year at Kmart and Kroger stores. Look for the follow 4 cars: Hi I.Q., 16 Angels, Screamliner, and What-4-2. 

Ride to your nearest store and get hands on the latest Hot Wheels Motorcycles with riders. Four new decos on some of our favorite Hot Wheels designed motorcycles have parked on the shelves of your local retailer. Look for the Street Noz, Blastous Motorcycle, Airy 8, and Tred Shredder,

Four new 5-Packs and ‘P’ case found there way to the shelves early this week. The 5-packs were found at both Target and Toys ‘R’ Us and Walmart ‘P” case dump bins made it out before this weekend Kmart Collector Days. The four new 5-packs are: X-Raycers, Spin Storm, Graffiti Rides and Batman. In the ‘P’ case the New Models include Grease Rod, Custom ’15 Ford Mustang and Power Surge. The Regular Hunt Rouge Hog in red and the Super is the ’70 Plymouth Superbird in Spectraflame aqua. Remember this Saturday Sept. 5th 2015 is Kmart Collector Days look for the ‘P’ case Hunts and the follow Color exclusives: Honda S2000 in silver, Mazda RX-7 in grabber blue, ’67 Chevy C10 in mf green and the ‘12 Ford Mustang in black. Check out the pictures below. The second Kmart mail-in will be the ’64 GMC Panel. Check out Hot Wheels ...

The second mix of the popular Entertainment series is hitting stores and hobby dealers such as A&J Toys. This mix include two new casting BBTF Hover Mode from the movie The BTTF Part II and James Bond 007 Toyota 2000 GT Roadster from the movie You only live Twice. Other movie releases include the well-liked ’67 Camaro featured in Christine, BTTF Time Machine – Mr. Fusion which first appeared in Back to the Future and The Fast & Furious ’70 Dodge Charger R/T. Check these out individually on the 2015 Entertainment page. Other updates include: The latest mainline assortment Mix P, along with the latest Character cars: DC Comics, Star Wars and Marvel. The newest Walmart exclusive Road Trippin’ cars have been added to the 2015 assortment. The ’76 Greenwood Corvette has arrived. Check out these photos and look at the already released 2015 mail-in cars.