Hot Wheels Finds - Finally a New 2014 Treasure Hunt

   Hello and welcome back to my blog. Sorry i haven't post anything in a while, but i have been busy with, well with life and all that comes with it, so my time to spend on this hobby of collecting Hot Wheels cars was limited. Also the stores are bad, but it has become something normal around here. They had started to arrange the pegs for the holidays and for Christmas, the toy shelves had to be expanded, thus increasing the space for Hot Wheels as well.

I was there in the stores and i managed to find some cars i was after, not that many, but very important to me.

Hot Wheels cars for mix "F" & "G"

The mixes for the short cards Hot Wheels are different, from what i know, from the American long carded ones and they are closer to the International cars.The Toyota 2000GT and the Batman Tumbler both appear in mix "F", as well as in mix "G". The Lamborghini Veneno appears in the "Q" mix and the Carbonic appears both in mix "P" and "Q".

Hot Wheels for mix "P" & "Q"

I also found a Hot Wheels Treasure Hunt after a long time of absence, basically since the first Treasure Hunt of the 2014. That is La Fasta, the Treasure Hunt for mix "P". Obviously all on short cards. Still no sign of Super Treasure Hunts around here.

Latest Treasure Hunt

As you saw above it is really tough to categorize a specific car at one specific mix if they seem to appear in more than one and on its back, or anywhere on the card it doesn't have nothing noted with the mix letter. As well we don't get all the mixes around here and that way it is really hard to try and complete a series, like the Treasure Hunts one for example.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and reading, i have also made videos of these finds and many others more, with many Hot Wheels related subjects, FAQs, track sets and play sets on my YouTube channel : https://www.youtube.com/10h41

Leave a comment and let me know what are your latest Hot Wheels finds, or any other die-cast. Enjoy this hobby and happy collecting.

Hot Wheels Trick Tracks Sets

   Hello collectors and welcome back. We have talked here about Hot Wheels track sets and play sets and how we can have fun with them, but i only showed you two examples : a motorized track set - Acceleracers Acceledrome and a play set - Crashin' Big Rig Camion Crash. Well, in this post i want to show you other sets that bring a lot of fun from Hot Wheels and those are the Trick Tracks sets.

The Hot Wheels Trick Tracks sets are sets that contain an action, a trick made out of two or more parts, usually launching the cars in the air, with an increased fun factor. The main attraction for these sets is that they can be connected together, creating huge layouts. They don't need to be connected in a specific order and they can be rearranged every time you put the sets together. Some of the most known Trick Tracks sets are the Dino sets. As the name shows there are sets with the dinosaurs theme and they can be connected together to create huge dinosaur layouts with awesome stunts, tricks and actions. The Dino sets can be connected together with other Trick Tracks sets, like the Hammer & Hoop set.


                                                            Tail Bash Track Set

                                                    Hammer & Hoop Track Set

                                              BackBone Slide Track Set

I haven't done a video with all of them connected so far, but it is set for the near future. Let me know in the comments what do you think about the Hot Wheels Trick Tracks sets and also let me know how many of them you have so far and if you have connected all of them together.
Happy collecting and have fun playing with your Hot Wheels.

Hot Wheels Track Sets and Play Sets

    Hello collectors and welcome back to my blog. Today i want to show you a few ways you can have more fun with your cars. Just the simple fact of collecting the cars it is fun, with hunting for them in the stores, looking at them at home or categorize them, but there is another way of having fun with them and that is using the Track Sets and Play Sets. They are in a very big number out there, for all the tastes, needs and possibilities. We are going to see two of them and i will let you be the judge of which is the most fun. 

Acceleracers AcceleDrome Track Set

Crashin' Big Rig Camion Crash Play Set

The Acceleracers track set is a motorized one, with many pieces and it is difficult to put together without the instructions sheet, it also requires 4 D batteries and 3 C batteries, it is not that cheap and the price is raised for the extra batteries. But once all these are ignored and resolved it is an awesome track to play with, it makes a lot of sound, you can add many cars on the tracks and it can be played with a friend, racing each other. It also takes a lot of space, so it can not be played everywhere, you just need the right space for it. The action of this set is very spectacular and you can see that very well by watching the video. A problem comes when you finished playing and you want to store it, it must be put in the original box, or in any other boxes to store all the pieces that come with it, because if you lose some important pieces it might be impossible to find spare parts or to make it work as it was originally intended, the box is huge and it takes a lot of space.

 

The Crashin' Big Rig play set is an easy to get set, it is a lot cheaper than the track set shown above, it doesn't require any batteries, so no extra cost, it doesn't make to much sound and it doesn't have any automated parts, it can be used by the younger kids very easy. Also the instructions sheet is not needed, because it comes already assembled, ready to be played with. The action is simple, exactly as you can see in the video. It is fun as well, but nothing spectacular like the AcceleDrome track set. It is small, it can be played on any surface and after playing it can be easily be stored on a shelf, under the bed or in any other corner of the room.

 

Hope you enjoyed reading and watching the videos. In the end the choice is yours and it depends on your likes, needs and possibilities. Leave a comment and let me know which one you prefer the most. Happy collecting and have fun with your Hot Wheels.

Hot Wheels Mutant Machines & Moto Track Stars

   Lately i am starting to see more and more special series from Hot Wheels around here, well for me a special series is everything from Hot Wheels out of the ordinary, something else besides mainlines. Welcome back to my little blog page, in today's post i will show you some of these different series that i came upon the other days.

Moto Track Stars

What are these Moto Track Stars ? Well they are these very cool motorcycles, Tron like ones, with big and wide wheels. And judging by their name and appearance (Badlander, Axle, Atomix, Team Red/Blue)i would say they are fantasy motorcycles, probably based of a cartoon or animated movie, if they are not based on a past movie, they will probably be in the future. I didn't pick any at home to try them out and give you a more close-up opinion, the pictures are in store footage, but i must say i like how they look, they seem very eye catching for the kids.

Mutant Machines

What are these Mutant Machines ? Well they are probably normal cars that have suffered mutations ... no way, they are just these funny Creature Cars (Scorpedo, Street Shark, Commander Croc) that can bend, slither and stretch. If you guys remember the Rapid Transit trains, well these are something similar, but smaller and lighter, meaning they can connect together, with the possibility of making a long line with them. Even in their packaging they have the blister in the shape of a curve to show you how they bend.

New cool and fun Track Sets

Of course Hot Wheels have also released track sets and play sets for each of them, so you can try them out, play with them and have fun. They look very fun, but the prices here are not the ones to make you grab them as soon as you see them, they come at around 10$ each, as for the sets it is not even worth mentioning the prices. As you can see in one of the pictures we also have other kind of series, like the Color Shifters, but that will be the subject for another post.

Thank you for reading. Let me know in the comments section if you have tried these new toys from Hot Wheels and if you think they are worth buying. Happy collecting and have fun.

Hot Wheels Finds - Latest Happy Meal Series

   Welcome back collectors. It is a really tough period for me with huge exams approaching, so i spend a lot of my time studying. With all these on my head i will always find some time for my hobby, although it is just on a break or just to take some fresh air to oxygenate my brain. I am trying to keep the pace with the latest Hot Wheels mixes, well the latest that can be found around here, so that i won't lose any of the cars i am after.

Latest Hot Wheels Mixes

These are my latest finds and i managed to put my hands on a Batman Batmobile i was missing, on the card it only says Batmobile, but from what i know it is called the Action Figure Batmobile. I love everything about Batman and i plan on getting all the casting from this character. I also want to get all the color variations of the Prototype H-24 and i must say this aqua blue with the white wheels is one of the best. Also for now these are going to stay in their packaging, because i am out of storage.

Happy Meal Series 2014

From time to time McDonald's has Hot Wheels toys (cars, motorcycles and others) in their Happy Meal menus. This time we have four toys in the series, three cars and one motorcycle. They are not how we are used to usually, 1:64 scale, they are a bigger scale, made out of plastic and each of them have an action. I only got two of the cars and both of them have the pull-back action.

The green car is Turbo Car, looks something like Twinduction from the mainline series, has the pull-back action and also at the end of the action the white flag is being released. The red motorcycle is Air Slayer, also released in the Speed Cycles series, has the pull-back action and at the end the motorcycle is launched ahead, being detached from the back part. You can also check the video HERE.

Thank you for reading, leave your comments and let me know if you got these at your local McDonald's store and if you did if you are planning on completing this set. Have fun and happy collecting.

Hot Wheels Finds - Ballistiks On Sale & Bat-Pod

   Hello Collectors and welcome back to my blog. It is about time around here for the dry period to pass away and some of the stores already filled the pegs with new Hot Wheels. Most of them have the cars from the A and B mix that i already have, but I got to one store and getting closer to the area where the pegs are I saw them full and you guys know how that feels, when you think maybe you will be the first one to go thru them and find what you want, especially the harder to find cars, Treasure Hunts and Super Treasure Hunts. It wasn't my case, because when I got closer I saw that someone else already went thru them, I didn't find any Treasure Hunts, didn't find any since the A mix one, Subaru WRX, no Supers, because we don't get any Super Treasure Hunts anymore, but I managed to find the Porsche Panamera and the Bat-Pod from the C mix.

C mix cars

The 3rd car for me in this set

As I told you in one of my previous posts we get the Muppets serie and because of the high price I will find them on the pegs even after one-two months since they appeared, so I am going to have time to complete it. This time I picked the '59 Chevy Delivery and i have three in total, with the Baja Breaker and Dairy Delivery.

They cost around 15$

By now all of you are probably familiar with the Ballistiks line from Hot Wheels, if not, they are plastic based cars at a larger scale than regular Hot Wheels that can change into a ball and on impact they can change back into a car. They're mostly made for kids and not for the adult collectors, besides some of them that represent different known characters, like the Joker, Batman, Superman and so on. Also the Ballistiks in their line of toys contain many launchers and play sets that work only with the Ballistiks cars, like the Combat Cannon, Pullforce, Super 6-Shooter and others. The regular price for them here is about 15$, but i managed to find this one at 2$.

Hope you enjoy the pictures and reading. Leave your comment and let me know what you think and also, what are your latest finds ?

Happy collecting, stay safe and have fun with your Hot Wheels.

Shelby Cobra GT500 Super Snake

7 colour variations

One of my first castings

Shelby GT500 Super Snake

  This sports cars is one of the first castings I bought, one of the first ones in my collection and it is also one of my favorites. It was first time introduced in 2011 (the year I also started collecting) in the "New Models" serie and it is based on the real life model car. There have been seven releases so far in different colour variations, besides these two that I am showing there have been also blue, aqua blue, black, green and white. The variation you see now are from the New Models serie from 2011, both with a black plastic base, the yellow one has PR5 rims, while the red version has 10SP.

The only special serie this model has been part of was the Super Treasure Hunt serie from 2013 in green and gold rims with rubber tires. I want to get all the colour variations for my collection, but I missed a few so far and it is going to be very hard.

2013 Super Treasure Hunt

Yellow - PR5 rims ; Red - 10SP rims

2011 New Models

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and this car and you can always leave your feedback in the comments section below. What is your favorite car from Hot Wheels ?

Have a great day and happy collecting

Hot Wheels Finds - First Time Special Series

 

   Hi everyone. In this post i want to show you my latest Hot Wheels finds, with a huge surprise for me, a very pleasant one. As you probably know from my previous posts or from my videos on my youtube channel in my country we only get the normal single cars, 1:64 scale also known as mainlines, we don't get the adult collectibles, the special series, not to mention we never get exclusives or mail in promotions for the single cars. Looks like this year for Christmas holiday someone thought of us and brought here to one store only the Pop Culture special serie the Muppets and a mix from the Retro Entertainment.

Retro Entertainment

I didn't bought any of the Retro cars but i took two of the Muppets ones, Baja Breaker and Dairy Delivery. They had the whole set on the pegs, but they were priced at around 6$ and for that price i'm very sure that they are going to stay on the pegs a long time and i'm going to have time to get the whole set. I was very surprised to see them and maybe this is also a sign that in the future we are going to get more of these special series/adult collectibles. Love the Muppets set and the graphics/artwork on the cars and cards. I will just hope that this will not be only because of the holidays and that they will start to bring this more and more the whole 2014 year.

Pop Culture The Muppets

Happy New Year

Hope you had fun reading this small post, i wish all my readers and all the Hot Wheels collectors a HAPPY NEW YEAR filled with joy and happiness and i hope all your wishes will come true. Let's all hope the 2014 year is going to be better for all of us in our collecting and personal life. Leave a comment and tell me what did you find on the pegs this Christmas. Have a great day.