Top 3 favourite castings

 Hello and welcome back to my blog. We all know why we are here , we all like Hot Wheels and enjoy them in one way or another , from collecting them , to playing with them. There are many models released so far , from fantasy castings , designers own creations or realistic castings ,  taken from the real model cars , the ones that are actualy built and which you can drive , mass productions or prototypes. There are even some castings like the Camaro Special Edition for 2013 in which the original model is taken from a real car and then the real car is taken after the Hot Wheels release , with the same paint and wheels type ( blue paint and red line tires ).


Because there are so many types of cars , variations , brands , colours , materials and because there have been around for so long and the collectors community have grown so much i'm pretty sure everyone has some favourite castings he likes more than others. There are some that has a sentimental value and its related to a specific event in the collector's life , there are some that were actualy owned in real life by the collector or wanted and there are some castings representing real life racing cars , Nascar , Indie , rally cars or any other discipline.


It would be great to find out what are the most loved Hot Wheels and what are the collector's choices , probably there are many out there but to make it a little more harder and exciting a top 3 would be the choice and this post will be a great way to find out.
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What is your TOP 3 favourite castings ?
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Im going to show you what is my top 3 favourite castings from Hot Wheels , allthough i have also made a top 3 video on youtube but the 3rd place has changed since then and you can post a comment bellow with your top 3. I know it could be very hard to just choose 3 , from 200 , 600 or above 1000 castings owned , but this way it will make those 3 special.

#3. Prototype H-24

 

#2. Scirocco GT24



#1. Volkswagen Golf GTI

This is my TOP 3 , hope you enjoy the pictures. Leave a comment with your own TOP 3 and lets find out what are the most loved castings from Hot Wheels. If you have requests , or if it's something you would like to see on my blog leave a comment , contact me and i will do my best to make it happen.

Have fun , enjoy the hobby and most important ... BE HAPPY.

2013 Short Cards Super Treasure Hunts



Bye bye short carded Supers TH

 As you probably know Hot Wheels Treasure Hunt and Super Treasure Hunt series were made in the long card and short card variation with all the castings released under both variations. Well that happened until 2012 , cause for the 2013 year Mattel wanted to surprise Europeans ( they have mostly short cards available ) and not releasing any of the castings from the Super Treasure Hunt series in the short card line up , only leaving us with the Treasure Hunt series.

As a bigger surprise there are no information regarding this subject, no official answers from any Mattel employees, although questions have been sent directly or thru different collecting sites, like hotwheelscollectors.com, where there is a post made specifically so that a Mattel representative can give some answers and let us know what made them take this decision.

European collectors just didn't found any of them in any of their shops, in any country, although American shops already have the "F" mixes out, so the 6th Super Treasure Hunt. I have searched to see if someone, somewhere found any, on YouIube, on sites like hotwheelscollectors.com or T-Hunted, even on e-bay (where usually you can find everything), on the internet in general using a search engine but no luck.



Where else to look ???



There was someone that stated he had found the Bone Shaker Super Treasure Hunt and he posted a picture, but by the look of it, it looked more like a fake (the casting probably taken from a long card Super and put into the regular Bone Shaker mainline short card release). He didn't answer or post more pictures to prove that his find is a legit one.

There are different rumors that there are actually short card Supers released and that they are taken by different peoples, but on hold so that they can sell them at a later time for profit, but if it was so we would have seen them on e-bay or any other commercial site on the internet, or at least 1 would have escaped into the hand of a collector.

 

Can someone give them to us ???

I do feel and probably many other European collectors that we're left aside, that Mattel doesn't care about European collectors. I would want to know at least the reason for this choice or an official answer to all of this, an explanation.

If you find any Supers on short card leave a comment here so we can all see it and probably start to search in our stores, the same with any information related to this subject. Have fun collecting.