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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!!

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..

Today's Haul And Sighting Report With New MBX Restock

I headed down to KK Toys in the city again today and I decided to buy these 3 this time:
The cute garbage truck from 2010 is aplenty there (3 more left); the City Bus about 2 more there. Unfortunately there wasn't a sight of the 2011 variant of the garbage truck in KK.

I finally got poisoned by the HW Land Cruiser FJ40!

FYI, KK Toys has a huge restock of Tomica cars. I'm not into Tomica so I just looked at what models are on sale, and it is indeed interesting. Too many to list here~

The highlight of today's hunting was this sight:

I think collectors should know where this is. The cars are sold at RM 6.90 each, and since its the school holidays, there is a 10% discount. They deduct 10% off the total cost for the cars you buy, not 10% individually for every car. So if you buy more at one go, you save more too! Most likely they have just put all these cars out from their store room yesterday night or just this morning since the pegs were full!

This is the D25 wave, where most collectors can find the blue Nissan Cube, yellow Mini Cooper and Dodge Challenger with ease. This is my 5th time spotting this wave on the pegs. IMO, the hardest car to find in this wave is the white Mazda 2. In my opinion, other than its tampo, the Mazda 2 is too plain. Plus there is no painted lights; so I left it there. For Hotwheels, there has not been a restock in this store lately.

So if you're still missing cars from this wave, go get it now!

HW Megane Trophy With Ripped Card

I spotted this poor Megane Trophy lying down facing upwards at Giant City Mall last weekend. No one seems to want to buy it due to the torn card. It was lying there for a few weeks, while there was another Megane Trophy there with a perfect card. That one was gone within two weeks, but not this one. This must be a playful kid's job with itchy hands. What would you do if you spot your favorite casting in this condition? Would you buy it too? This one would make a good candidate for uncarding...

I like the combo of purple with yellow rims!

First Post!

This is my first go at blogging. I've been rather inactive here for about two years or so, but now I plan to revive this blog to share about my new hobby, die cast vehicle collecting. I have a passion for cars, and I really enjoy collecting toy cars. I concentrate on 1/64 models, such as Hotwheels, Matchbox, Maisto, Majorette and so on.
I do collect 1/32 models as well, such as New-Ray, Bburago and Kinsmart. On a side note, I happen to own 4 1/18 models too. I really like Lamborghini cars!

I started collecting back in 2010, but I was still slow then. And then in 2012, I fired up and really started hauling new items, almost every week! I've planned to put my blog entries from a local perspective, so that collectors around the country and even the world can know about the latest stuff and arrivals concerning the hobby of die cast collecting in my hometown, Kota Kinabalu.

Okay, enough of words, time for some pictures. These are among my collection! Let's warm up..

First up, here's my Maisto 1/18 Lamborghini Murcielago, with both colour variants! I always focus on buying 1/18s only if they are from Parkson. Parkson always has 20% discounts off their die cast vehicle toys.

One of my favorite castings, Matchbox's Mazda 2! The details on the models are really great! 

Siku Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren, nicely done.

And these are a few of my larger hauls of Hotwheels and Matchbox!

Mixture of waves and models hauled locally in May 2012.

These great gems are bought online as it would be almost impossible to get it from local stores here in Malaysia. The silver Porsche is a rare variant!

These two are bought from City Mall. I was really surprised when I found the black Infiniti G37 in the D51 wave. Its still a new model here. The blue Ford Falcon was from Popular Bookstore.

This silver Aventador and black BMW M3 GT2 are part of the E07 wave. I decided to buy this online too. Fantastic models!

This next one is one of my most memorable peg sighting at Giant City Mall. D51 cars which were all very cool!

What I got from this wave...

My first 3 2012 Matchbox, bought from City Toys at City Mall, though I needed to fork out RM 1 extra for each vehicle.

Based on my observation, there was only 1 SWAT truck, 1 Mini Cooper and 3 Aston Martin DBS Volante in this wave, among other models I did not buy. This is officially the first 2012 MBX wave to hit KK.