Category: Latest Aritcles

Just in Saturday February 16th will be the first K-Day for 2013. With the mail in being the a Heavy Chevy in Spectraflame pink. Check back here for more information as it becomes available. I recieved these photos from Mattel of the first to market and color exclusives. Exclusive Colors ’49 Drag Merc (Grey Primer) Phaeton (Red Tint) ‘71 Plymouth Road Runner (Sublime) 2009 Corvette® Stingray® Concept (Grabber Blue) First-to-Market ‘64 Corvette® Stingray® (Pearlescent Blue) ‘73 Pontiac® Firebird® Blue (Blue) Lotus M250 (Grabber Blue)        

Just received the latest round of adult line releases thanks to Ken over at A&J Toys. Look under 2013 assortments for pictures of the current models. Some of my favorites in this round are: ’32 Ford from American Graffiti From the Retro series, the Datsun Bluebird 510 Wagon in the Boulevard series, and the ’73 Ford Gran Torino from the Flying Customs. I was really intrigued with the color of the wagon, I thought it was an interesting color choice and wondered what color it was. As I was searching the net I came across a great  article on Hot Wheels® designer Jun Imai http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2012/12/19/jun-imais-datsun-510-wagon/ and is 510 wagon. It must be nice to design your own car into a Hot Wheels® car. My only disappointment about the Hot Wheels® version is that it doesn’t have the same deco as Jun’s. Maybe in the furture….

A nice little feature on the ’97 Ford F-150 is the bed cover can be removed. On the latest release of the HW City #45 ’97 Ford F-150 is no exception. I have yet to see one but there have been claims from collectors finding it in blister-pack without the bed cover. It would be nice if Mattel could do a version with a camper shell. The Dodge Ram one doesn’t quite fit.      

2013 Ferrari 5-Pack Looks as if the new package theme for individual cars will follow through into the 5-packs. The first new 5-pack for 2013 is the Showroom Ferrari 5-pack. I can’t seem to get enough of the Ferrari race cars. The Ferrari 512M and Ferreari 330P4 are no exception. I’m also happy to report the 512M didn’t lose the opening rear deck feature. Look for more pictures in the 2013 5-pack page

HW JUKEBOX Honda Civic wheel variation. Look a little closer for this wheel variation. pr5 or mc5. It seems the second run maybe the mc5 version.

More information will be posted as soon as we know it. Look for an upcoming list of all zamac cars in 2013 releases.  Update: It seems that these are Walmart exclusives and will appear in E case assortment “dump bins”. The Zamac cars are the color exclusives for Walmart for 2013. They will be 6 sets of 3 different  ZAMAC cars for the year. For total of 18 cars.