Hot Wheels
The best of the latest diecast news from the world of Hot Wheels
Another reason to join the Red Line Club
Posted last week over at HOTWHEELSCOLLECTORS.COM, was a RLC-only preview of the next mail-in offering from Hot Wheels. The Dairy Delivery will be the second of four mail-away cars for 2008. Done up in the same paint and tampo scheme as the Volkswagen Drag Truck offered in the current K-mart promotion running through 04/26/08, I’m [...]
Hot Wheels Painting
Its been a loooong while since I’ve added anything new over on WWW.DIECASTVIDEO.COM, so I thought this might be a good one to get things going again. RexCarrs shared this amazing video of a painting he created entirely out of diecast cars (Hot Wheels..?) - Pretty cool!
[via diecastvideo.com]
Hot Wheels Designer’s Challenge Series
As part of the 40th Anniversary of Hot Wheels, Mattel is pulling out all the stops and creating a new seven car series called Designer’s Challenge. What makes this series special? Well for starters, Mattel asked major automakers to come up with the designs for the castings. Thats something they’ve never done before. Six car [...]
A Dairy-D you “goth” to have
Just a quick reminder that the Uber-cool 2007 Custom Car Show Japan Dairy D goes on sale tomorrow over at HOTWHEELSCOLLECTORS.COM. As usual, the sale starts at 9am PST/12pm EST in the Hot Wheels Shop and is open to Red Line Club Members only for the first 24 hours. The price is set at $29.95 [...]
Hot Wheels 100% of the Day
If you’re a fan of the Hot Wheels 100% line of adult collectibles, then you should definitely be checking out the 100% Hot Wheels forum over at HOTWHEELSCOLLECTORS.COM. Collector darwin8 posts a great daily thread there called “100% of the Day.” It features great close-up shots of various 100% pieces that are absolutely amazing! I’ve [...]
More Hot Wheels Love Spotted
Collector thebigorangecat of Team 100 and HotWheelsCollectors.com sent in this shot of VW bus the spotted at a Los Angeles Dodgers Game last summer. Now thats a serious tampo!! The etching in the glass above and below the logo indicates that the owner of the bus might be a collector as well!
Thanks to thebigorangecat for [...]
Mardi Gras Hot Wheels Style
What better way to salute the fine folks in New Orleans on the tail-end of Fat Tuesday 2008, then with a shot of this crazy Mardi Gras Mustang! This “party time” piece was found in Walmart and comes to us from collector crayonbreaking over at JOESDIECASTSHACK.COM. Click the thumbnail to see the full image.
[via joesdiecastshack.com]
