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Hot Wheels Grateful Dead Tribute

The Pop Culture Grateful Dead series just arrived last week from A&J Toys. This 6 car set will be popular with Grateful Dead, Pop Culture and Volkswagen fans alike. Not only are there 3 different Volkswagen.  Also included in this set

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Toys’R’Us 2014 Mail-in

Buy 20 Hot Wheels Basic Cars: Get a Free ’88 Jeep Wagoneer With a purchase 20 select Hot Wheels basic cars from a participating Toys’R’Us store from 7/13/14 through 9/14/14 and you will receive a specially decorated Hot Wheels Collector Edition

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The latest HW Road Trippin’ at Walmart

Just picked-up the latest releases of the HW Road Trippin’ cars at Walmart.  The 3 newest models are the Highway 1 ’83 Chevy Silverado, Route 66 So Fine, and the Highway 212 Neet Streeter. Check out these and the complete

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The Fast & Furious Hot Wheels cars are back!

With the popularity of the movies Hot Wheels with Universal Studios are putting out another series of eight Fast & Furious cars. Currently these have been found on international packaging and are available in Canada and in the oversea market. Only two cars that

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Marvel’s – The Amazing Spider-Man!

With the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie, Hot Wheels made an 8-car series of Spider-Man themed cars exclusive to Walmart along with a series of track-sets, which can be found at other stores. The first track set is

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Mission Madness

Mission Madness special edition Scavenger Hunts are back at Kroger. This year only 4 models will be available.  The first two castings are now available at Kroger and Kroger affiliate stores.

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Spring has Sprung

It’s been another busy month and have a hard time catching up from the 14th Nationals. New Hot Wheels® are poppin’ up like spring flowers. So many new things to report. The latest are the two most current case codes

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What a Convention

The 14th Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Nationals is over and what a great time we had. Ticket sales were a sell-out and over 950 paid ticket holders attended the event that was held in Oak Brook, IL. I believe everyone

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3-pack only models. Made in Thailand

Walmart introduced new 3-pack now made in Thailand. We will have to see if other stores will soon follow. As of now these packs contain one 5-pack model and two 3-pack only cars. The 3-pack only cars look similar but

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Hot Wheels Grateful Dead Tribute

The Pop Culture Grateful Dead series just arrived last week from A&J Toys. This 6 car set will be popular with Grateful Dead, Pop Culture and Volkswagen fans alike. Not only are there 3 different Volkswagen.  Also included in this set is a collectors favorite the popular Hot Wheels Dairy Delivery. We personally think the Volkswagen TI Panel Bus and the Volkswagen Drag Truck will popular ones in this set.

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Toys’R’Us 2014 Mail-in

Buy 20 Hot Wheels Basic Cars: Get a Free ’88 Jeep Wagoneer With a purchase 20 select Hot Wheels basic cars from a participating Toys’R’Us store from 7/13/14 through 9/14/14 and you will receive a specially decorated Hot Wheels Collector Edition Spectraflame orange ’88 Jeep Wagoneer with large off-road Real Riders. This is only the third release of this model. Along with this there will be three Toys’R’Us exclusive re-colored models available for this mail-in. Find the official rules and order forms at http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com The 3 exclusive cars: You may notice the Twin Mill is on a Twin Mill III card. Which we believe it’s a card error. We’ll have to wait and see if the card or car is corrected.  

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Star Wars Line-up at 2014 San Diego Comic Con

Check out this article in the latest Road & Track which talks about the Star Wars cars to be featured as Hot Wheels models at this years 2014 San Diego Comic Con.

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The latest HW Road Trippin’ at Walmart

Just picked-up the latest releases of the HW Road Trippin’ cars at Walmart.  The 3 newest models are the Highway 1 ’83 Chevy Silverado, Route 66 So Fine, and the Highway 212 Neet Streeter. Check out these and the complete list at HW Road Trippin’ page.

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The Fast & Furious Hot Wheels cars are back!

With the popularity of the movies Hot Wheels with Universal Studios are putting out another series of eight Fast & Furious cars. Currently these have been found on international packaging and are available in Canada and in the oversea market. Only two cars that differ from the 2013 release and that is the ’72 Ford Gran Torino Sport and ’69 Dodge Charger Daytona. The Daytona is the same as the New model issue.

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Marvel’s – The Amazing Spider-Man!

With the release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie, Hot Wheels made an 8-car series of Spider-Man themed cars exclusive to Walmart along with a series of track-sets, which can be found at other stores. The first track set is the Web Swing Drop-Out track set The set includes an exclusive black Venom Covelight  The set is a track clamp style design  to race Venom over a ramp, pass Spiderman’s swinging web trap and try not to get caught. The second tack set is the Amazing Spider-Man Spider Loop Speedway track set. This track is a clamp-style design to speed down the mega drop to a  ramp that opens and closes for a different outcome; get caught in the web or escape through the loop.   Five cars are included in this set; Retro-Active, HW Pursuit, Dieselboy, Sling Shot and Vandetta.  The third track set found was is the Speed Circuit ...

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Mission Madness

Mission Madness special edition Scavenger Hunts are back at Kroger. This year only 4 models will be available.  The first two castings are now available at Kroger and Kroger affiliate stores.

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Spring has Sprung

It’s been another busy month and have a hard time catching up from the 14th Nationals. New Hot Wheels® are poppin’ up like spring flowers. So many new things to report. The latest are the two most current case codes H which came out during the Nationals and J following up just a couple of weeks later. Also out are the Easter Cars, Fourth of July cars, the newest Retro Entertainment, more Thailand multi-packs, the Mustang 50th 5-pack, throw-in some new Pavement Pounders/Trucking Transporters and over in Europe new Mystery Models. Check out the pages for the newest releases.

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What a Convention

The 14th Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Nationals is over and what a great time we had. Ticket sales were a sell-out and over 950 paid ticket holders attended the event that was held in Oak Brook, IL. I believe everyone had a great time. The Hot Wheels Newsletter subscribers that stopped by the newsletter table were given a turquoise ’40 Ford Coupe with fat white wall Real Rider tires. All the other souvenirs cars were well received with the Ghostbuster ECTO-1 selling out at the Sunday toy show! Check out the up coming events. Just to remind you Hot Wheels Newsletter subscribers get the first chance to buy tickets! The 28TH ANNUAL HOT WHEELS® COLLECTORS CONVENTION will be held at the Westin Hotel LAX Airport from Oct. 1st thru Oct. 5th 2014. Be sure to check www.HWcollectorsConvention.com This event is produced by Collectors Events Unlimited LLC under license by Mattel. Start planning ...

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3-pack only models. Made in Thailand

Walmart introduced new 3-pack now made in Thailand. We will have to see if other stores will soon follow. As of now these packs contain one 5-pack model and two 3-pack only cars. The 3-pack only cars look similar but have minor changes from the Malaysia versions. We will have to wait and see if 9-car and 20-car gift-packs will soon follow suit. Check out the multi-pack only list for the the latest Thailand models.

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