New Media Property Hotwheels

stewbacca · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 10:47 am

I am always behind getting the various cars in the Hot Wheels Line-- (Batmobiles, KITT, Flinstones Car, Ecto -1 etc..) even If I couldnt always find them.. great deal at .99

Then came those DC Heroes, Toy Story, Power Rangers etc. theme cars-- rougly 3.00 a piece- getting a little pricey--

Then came that whole vintage deco line-- Hanna Barbera Characters, He Man, Hersheys, Cereals, Pinup art etc.. at 4.00 a piece-- I only picked up one or two of these..

Then yesterday I saw another Hot Wheels line- like Media Favorites or something-- It had a repackaged A- Team Van, a Knight Rider evil Car, Smokey and the Bandit, a couple of others and a ELECTRIC MAYHEM Muppet tourbus..-- I was all set to pick this up-- until I scanned

and the price-- 6.99. :shock:

Are you kidding me Mattel.-- Some of these cars are rehashes from the .99 line-- new cardboard art is not worth 6.00--this is a case of just getting beyond greedy... When you passed the Johnny Lightning Price- with a basic die cast car-- you have officially gone insane...

dougie97 · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 12:09 pm

stewbacca wrote:

I am always behind getting the various cars in the Hot Wheels Line-- (Batmobiles, KITT, Flinstones Car, Ecto -1 etc..) even If I couldnt always find them.. great deal at .99

Then came those DC Heroes, Toy Story, Power Rangers etc. theme cars-- rougly 3.00 a piece- getting a little pricey--

Then came that whole vintage deco line-- Hanna Barbera Characters, He Man, Hersheys, Cereals, Pinup art etc.. at 4.00 a piece-- I only picked up one or two of these..

Then yesterday I saw another Hot Wheels line- like Media Favorites or something-- It had a repackaged A- Team Van, a Knight Rider evil Car, Smokey and the Bandit, a couple of others and a ELECTRIC MAYHEM Muppet tourbus..-- I was all set to pick this up-- until I scanned

and the price-- 6.99. :shock:

Are you kidding me Mattel.-- Some of these cars are rehashes from the .99 line-- new cardboard art is not worth 6.00--this is a case of just getting beyond greedy... When you passed the Johnny Lightning Price- with a basic die cast car-- you have officially gone insane...

Where did you see these at? I need the Bandit and Evil Kitt. Thanks!

Shellhead · **Posted:** Tue Feb 19, 2013 3:01 pm

BTW guys it's KARR.

Knight Automated Roving Robot.

:mrgreen:

PBateman · **Joined:** Tue Dec 23, 2008 7:33 am **Posts:** 1939

Yeah the Hot Wheels team is getting very greedy this year. I just hope they can keep the 1:50th scale Batmobiles going those to me are the only ones worth the money.

FlaBat · **Joined:** Sat Sep 27, 2008 3:42 am **Posts:** 1206

PBateman wrote:

Yeah the Hot Wheels team is getting very greedy this year. I just hope they can keep the 1:50th scale Batmobiles going those to me are the only ones worth the money.

Me too.

stewbacca · **Posted:** Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:30 pm

dougie97 wrote:

Where did you see these at? I need the Bandit and Evil Kitt. Thanks!

They were at the New Albany KMart..

Jim_Abell · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 6:19 am

I sold a couple of the Mystery Machine this morning, they ring up $4.97 (or something close to that) at Walmart.

stewbacca · **Posted:** Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:59 am

Jim_Abell wrote:

I sold a couple of the Mystery Machine this morning, they ring up $4.97 (or something close to that) at Walmart.

Yeah I saw them yesterday at walmart as well-cheaper but still amazing since I found the exact same Mystery Machine on the Hot Wheels card right next to for only .97 cents...

I though only carded star wars collectors paid a premium for a different picture on the cardboard.. :roll:

I guess the only benefit from this is Hot Wheels sees that their only real sellers to the non Hot Wheels crowd are the multi media cars-- so at least they are prevalent then-- since I saw six Mystery Machines on this new card style yesterday -- vs. the total of 2 - I have seen on the regular card in the past year..

stewbacca · **Posted:** Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:23 am

Apparently these have "rubber" tires so there is a difference-- although I still cant see a 500% increase...

I believe there are 2 different assortments-- other than the one I mentioned-- there is also one with the Mystery Machine, Ecto 1, KITT and another Batmobile (I think 66)

Backward Galaxy · **Joined:** Sun Oct 31, 2010 8:57 am **Posts:** 313

stewbacca wrote:

Apparently these have "rubber" tires so there is a difference-- although I still cant see a 500% increase...

I believe there are 2 different assortments-- other than the one I mentioned-- there is also one with the Mystery Machine, Ecto 1, KITT and another Batmobile (I think 66)

It is the '66 Batmobile. They had them at Kmart in CT.

Edit: I should note that I purchased and opened an Ecto-1. The tires are awful. It doesn't go anywhere when you push it. For display only.

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