Now for the Important Stuff - HotWheels

[toyotafreak88]

I didn't know that the blue windowed ones were worth more, I need to find my stack of DeLoreans... going to be tricky though, I have too many totes full of cars to know which has them

I do have two on my desk, one's taped up because I used one of it's wheels for a jewelry project and then decided it looked like the cave car, and I continued taping. hehe

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[SIMid]

This was a Japan only release. Very few were made. The Back to the Future cars were part of a larger line that include other TV and Film cars, mostly entertainment cars from Japanese properties.

Also, while these were branded as Hot Wheels, these were not made by Mattel. These were made by Bandai and distributed by Mattel under the Hot Wheels brand. That is all the information I got from asking around. Believe me, I spent a long time hunting these down at work and trying to get more information on these. This line from Bandai was made before my time and no one at Mattel knew anything about these expect what I just stated.

So, a re-release will have to go through legal mumble jumble between the Mattel and Bandai, as well as Universal...and who ever else was involved in the initial deal. Who knows, the tools may not even exist.

I have to admit, Bandai does the best toys around when it comes to Manga/Movie stuff. I bought a re-issued Macross VF-1J a few years ago which I had in my younger years that got destroyed. Been offered some good money for it being highly collectable. And the same then with these Bandai BTTF series, not cheap on Ebay if you find them. I'm sure the tooling will be around, can't see the Japs dumping the moulds as they did re-issue the Macross ones. Who knows, they may start secretly remaking them for next year! *wishing*

Oh, there are plans. I did a sneak at DCS in Dayton. There will be two versions on the flying/hovering Time Machine at different price points. I cannot say more at this time, but there will be some Back to the Future items from Hot Wheels for 2015. Come on, did you expect us NOT to jump on this important date?

Wow! Awesome news! So that means we in Australia will get them in 2016 then.

Thanks for the info!

[toyotafreak88]

Found an older but seemingly fresh display case at my local Ray's, picked one of the two red DeLoreans and some other goodies.

Say, do any of you have the hot wheels Toyota pickup from BTTF?

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[Dangermouse]

You only picked one of the two red ones?

Amateur

J/k

[toyotafreak88]

You only picked one of the two red ones?

Amateur

J/k

Yeah I have plenty deloreans and PLENTY other HW, so at this price yes, I left the one with a dented quarter window and a damaged card.

Are the reds hard to find our worth more? I've got to find all my deloreans, I should have quite a few. Problem is I have too many cases to check...

[Dangermouse]

In "related" news, look what I picked up today:

[DMC5180]

Now you just need to find the mini sub version 😜

[SIMid]

In "related" news, look what I picked up today:

Saw a bunch of these a few weeks ago and bought the lot. Since then, never seen them again. Phew!

[Dangermouse]

Really? I thought you had to wait until 2016 to get the new 2015 models

[Dangermouse]

Now you just need to find the mini sub version 

Son of a beech:



I thought you were joking