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The movie has come and gone, and I think 2/3 of the world saw it. Â The Fast & Furious movies get more and more popular with each installment, even as they get more and more outlandish. Â FnF in Space has to be on the horizon. It is for that reason that there exists an "Ice …
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You have most likely already seen this Hot Wheels car. Â If you are a reader here or at Japanese Nostalgic Car there is a good chance you have already read about it. Â If you have read about it there is an equally good chance you have marveled at the awesomeness that is Hot Wheels doing …
I didn't see this coming. Surely the latest Hot Wheels Car Culture release was going to be a popular one. Â They all are. Â But this one, with three Porsches, including one new casting, a Mazda RX-3, and the introduction of the new Aero Real Rider, was going to be particularly so. Â That was easy to …
It is most certainly what I call an "event model". Â One of those Hot Wheels models that grabs collector's attention, no matter what they are in to. Â It really doesn't matter why someone collects - holdover from childhood, a gearhead collecting replicas of favorite cars, a JDM fan riding the Hot Wheels wave - these …
Numbers 7, 8, and 9 of what will be 12 Hot Wheels Red Editions are hitting Targets this week, so be on the lookout. The Red Editions are to Target what the Zamacs are to Walmart and Collector Day Exclusives are to Kmart. Â Special colors of already existing decos, and always in red and white. …
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Best Hot Wheels assortment of the year? Â This case certainly has an argument. The last couple of cases have had a few gems, but only a few. Â By comparison the M Case is loaded. Â You will see it all, so let's get to it. As always, Wheel Collectors picked a case at random and documented …
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I have no idea how many Camaro castings Hot Wheels has done. Â Someone reading this might. Â Actually you could probably make up a number and I would believe you. Â There is a lot, I know that. So me saying the '70 Camaro is the best Camaro casting Hot Wheels has done is probably not the …
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My Gassers have arrived. Â Nothing is worth waiting THIS long for, but this trio comes pretty darn close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MffQdPo8ozU
The US K Cases have hit both Targets and Walmarts in the last couple of weeks, so here is a US K Case so you can have a looksie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kReYfqCM2AY And you can always compare it to the International K Case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8IiOf8Aplc
You are going to see a lot of this little Hot Wheels car in the coming months: And for good reason. Â For one, it's a tremendous Hot Wheels model, and two, it is based on a real car built by a supercool dude. Japanese Nostalgic Car is the first to showcase Roy De Guzman's Hakosuka …
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Many of you have sent me links to this article since it was posted, so I thought I would post a link here. Â Go for the pictures, but stay for the article. Â It is a great read, with Jun and Ryu really detailing the process and their backgrounds. The author also captures what it is …
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With the new site platform, I feel I can now do features like this again. Â I feel best when Lamley is a mix of news and features, but on the old site posts like this could bury news that not everyone had yet seen. Now, because so much content stays on the front page, I …
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I never opened 2017 Hot Wheels International J Case, so I will make up for it by opening a US J Case. Â Enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmEQEBBPYeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuCUedy7WNY Is it the artwork? Â Or the models? Â Both are tremendous.
Call this a Ryu Asada passion project. Jun Imai is dropping all kinds of goodies while he is in Japan, and after unveiling a trio of Skylines, he threw a beautiful curveball with this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3WgIPFX9g/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam Yep, the Honda City Turbo.  Some of you may have to google this one, and please do.  There is more to …
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On a bit of a Skyline kick, eh Hot Wheels? Designer Jun Imai, in Japan currently for the Tokyo Toy Show, unveiled not one, but two more upcoming Hot Wheels Skylines: https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3PKMVlXcG/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3QEQSF4kg/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam And these on the heels of the Hakosuka Wagon unveiling the day before.  Call this run on Skylines and Japanese cars what you …
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If you haven't heard already, the latest Hot Wheels Car Culture assortment, Race Day, is out: I found four sets pegged today at Target, but there have been reports of the batch being found at Walmart as well. That is a little odd considering Target has the rights to stock it early. My guess is …
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Hot Wheels Designer Jun Imai is hanging out in Japan.  And having what has to fantastic time over at Nissan.  And that seemed an appropriate setting to unveil an early prototype of the upcoming Nissan C10 Skyline Wagon. https://www.instagram.com/p/BUymIEnlsic/?taken-by=hotwheelsdreamteam I know that my opinion is no more important than anyone else's but my goodness, that's a …
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It ranks up there at the top of my "C'mon Hot Wheels!" list.  That is the list of no-brainers we should have seen from Hot Wheels by now.  There are quite a few items on that list, but at the top is why haven't we seen a stock, or "stock-ish" Dodge A100? The '66 Dodge A100 …
Alright, fine. Â Because so many of you asked. Â The Hot Wheels and Majorette Mercedes-Benz AMG-GT's, together. Â In peace and harmony. I will post the pics, and you can do what you want. Â It is always interesting to see the reactions. Â Ultimately we all like what we like, so deciding definitely on which is better is …
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Excited? Â Relieved? Â Something else entirely? Â Probably a lot of emotions. Â The 2-3 year nightmare is over. Â The Membership Gassers are shipping. It will happen in shifts, but over the next few weeks everyone who joined the RLC in 2014 will finally have their membership car or cars, depending on the level purchased. Â Some already have …
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If you are new to Hot Wheels collecting, you should know of two major events each year. There is Hot Wheels Nationals, which is held every spring usually at a city located in the Midwest US or east. Â And there is the Hot Wheels Convention, always held in Los Angeles near Mattel Headquarters. The events …
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In my preview of the Hot Wheels Entertainment C Assortment, coming this summer, I mentioned the Fast & Furious R34 Skyline stood out enough that it merited its own feature. Well here it is. I could start by saying how good this model looks, but the R34 has always looked good. Â It was designed by …
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Hot Wheels Entertainment Batch C will probably not garner a ton of attention from collectors, with one massive exception. Â And it doesn't take much to know what that is. Mattel sent over a set to preview, which I did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJnUqdj02Nk It all depends on what you like HW Entertainment for. Â Obviously the purpose of the …