Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Latest Buys

Hey there fellow bloggers, I finally got this exclusive Kmart variant of Hotwheels 2010 Camaro SS. The colour is stunning satin blue, and I really like it. And upon opening my parcel, I found out that one of them has an error. Obviously a tampo misalignment there, due to low quality control from Hotwheels. But some collectors can agree that this is what makes HW so fun to collect. Here's photos of the must-get variant!

Normal one on the left, error car on the right.

For comparison:




Also, KK finally received new waves for Hotwheels and Matchbox again last week. Its the silver Aventador wave (E07) for HW and E07/E08 for MBX. KK Toys had a fair pick of the new cars.


But no sign of the orange Evo X or blue Cadillac Cien! I wonder were it could have gotten to..

For Matchbox, this wave isn't that interesting, but the Baja Bullet and Triton/L200 are my favourite castings, so I decided to get one each. Along with this MBX wave is the white Dodge Viper with the palm tree tampo, and the white-tyred red Corvette ZR1.

For sure, the Lamborghini Aventador is one of the most hot and popular castings in this G case. Thankfully, Hotwheels made plenty so all collectors had their chance to grab the silver variant. Unlike the more hard to find orange variant, which came in the D44 wave. I heard that some parts of the Klang Valley did not get this wave. I was lucky to stumble on one few months back! :)

In each box of 72 cars, one might be able to find 3-4 silver Aventadors. I found 3 in two seperate places. So don't worry, hopefully there will be many more silver Aventador on the way to KK.

^ A casting too good to resist!!



Friday, June 1, 2012

Hunting Report & Extra Haul

Hi all, today I dropped by City Mall in the morning to see what new cars are up for grabs, since I saw some cases (boxes) were being transported to the store room last Friday. I arrived there with a fresh and nice sight of  newly restocked cars. Its the E03 wave for Hotwheels, and E05 wave for Matchbox.



Hotwheels' E03 wave comes with some hot cars, such as the T-hunt Chevy, Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT), Ferrari 458 Italia, black BMW M3 GT2, Mustang Boss Laguna Seca in silver, white Dodge Challenger Drift Car and there is also a chance of spotting the blue Camaro ZL1, white Ford Falcon Race Car and purple Megane Trophy in this case. A fellow collector informed me that the particular case carrying these cars had been filtered by staff there, and he could not find any t-hunts.

Matchbox's E05 wave is the 2nd 2012 wave to hit the country. In this wave, one can find the blue Mini Cooper Cabrio, silver Aston Martin DBS Volante, red SWAT truck, silver Dodge Monaco Police car, green Toyota 4 Runner, as well as the gray Volkswagen Saveiro.

Meanwhile, I just decided to take the KITT and a few extras..