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Are there any Hot Wheels collectors here who don't like opening a case?  For most of us that doesn't happen often.  Kmart seems to the place where most of us have the best chance, and there is that rare moment when you walk in a store and a sealed case is waiting for you to …

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Just a quick heads up that Wheel Collectors just received a shipment of Hot Wheels 2015 Batch B.Just in time too, as the crew from Overland Park is off to cheer on their Kansas City Royals, but they were able to get them all listed, including this batch's Super TH, the Rrroadster.  (It's growing on …

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We got a lot of feedback on last week's feature on the defunct Hot Wheels Speed Machines line.  The consensus was that this line would be very popular today, the comolds look awesome, and that Hot Wheels should do something along these lines again.We agree.The Speed Machines was a tremendous line, and the cars seem …

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I was scolded yesterday by my Lamley partner.Among some normal email correspondence with David Tilley, the UK-based Matchbox-only side of the Lamley Group, I got this:BTW I saw that blog you did on a model in a blister.  Wuss!  A 5,000 piece run should be opened.  There are loads more.  Now get on with opening …

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4 out of the 5 are out, with only a drag Cadillac to go.So what do you think?Us?  We think it has been a decent set, with the burnt orange working some of the time.  Our favorite of the four remains the Jeep Wagoneer, but this is only because we like the casting so much. …

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Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you don't...We have documented several times before here at Lamley how many Hot Wheels product lines have been discontinued before the entire run of models was released.  Sometimes that means the models are never produced (like the now legendary final batch of Hot Wheels Racing, which was to have …

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Did you think we forgot about Wagon Wednesday?  Nope.But we didn't want to jump into another monster wagon post after showing one of our favorites, the Matchbox Olds Vista Cruiser, last week.  So the MB Audi RS6 Avant, or Auto World Land Yachts, or TLV Skyline Wagons, will have to wait.  Instead we will throw …

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We just can't open it. We should have ordered two, but we didn't.  And now I can't get myself to open this for pics.  Maybe you guys can convince me.For now, we will just show this new arrival in the blister.  These were made available on HWC several months ago, prior to the Mexico Convention, …

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The ultimate Catch 22 of doing this blog is that if you want to let out a secret, the second you do it is no longer a secret.Oh well. For those of you frustrated with pallet-raiders, door-warmers, and the obsessive overnight Super hunters, we have always said try every store other than Walmart and Target. …

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We were wondering when this model would appear...A month ago this recolored Hot Wheels Toyota Supra appeared on ebay (from the seller that somehow gets them all), and we jumped on it in order to showcase it here. We figured this would be a standard recolor of the Falken Supra that was released earlier this …

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These just arrived from Wheel Collectors, and since then we have been trying to figure out how to start this post. We could start with "Shaken, not stirred".Or we could give you Blue Steel.Of course we could start by signing the praises of doughnuts.We could always just show a pic of our fantastic sideburns.But alas, …

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So is it Blackbird?Well, no, because that was a 1987 Porsche 930 Turbo.So was it inspired by Blackbird?It seems that could be the case.  It was in fact designed by Ryu Asada, who has already played his Japanese street racing card with the Honda Civic EF.  Blackbird is a legend, and its driver as mysterious …

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Before we start, since our friends at Mattel do take a gander or two at Lamley, but probably don't have time to read all my long-windedness, let's get this out there right off the bat:Mattel, will you secure the Tillamook license already?!?!?!Make it a mainline, an RLC, a Pop Culture, whatever.  There has never been …

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The Great Super Treasure Hunt Experiment of 2014 continues, with a bit of a shocker today, but first...The 2015 Experiment has already started, and it is already full of firsts.As one year ends and another begins, strange things happen in the Hot Wheels world.  This is the second year in a row that two batches …

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