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Post by JC Motors on Jul 21, 2014 10:00:37 GMT -5
I finally got a regular Tasmanian Devil this year. I'm glad it doesn't have spectraflame paint
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 22, 2014 11:33:06 GMT -5
I finally got a regular Tasmanian Devil this year. I'm glad it doesn't have spectraflame paint Awesome. That and the newer Avenger are the two main trucks I'm after this year.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 23, 2014 12:09:04 GMT -5
I was in the grocery store today when I saw a Goldfinger 1963 Aston Martin DB5 I picked it up along with the 94 BMW M3 GTR. I didn't buy the new Ducati 1199 Panigale because I wasn't sure If I had it or not because International carding doesn't have the New for 2014 logo on it
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 23, 2014 12:21:17 GMT -5
After months of searching I FINALLY found The Homer!
Mattel is so dirty putting only 1 of these per every other case.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 23, 2014 18:50:22 GMT -5
After months of searching I FINALLY found The Homer! Mattel is so dirty putting only 1 of these per every other case. I still haven't found it yet. It's pissing me off
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 23, 2014 23:24:06 GMT -5
After months of searching I FINALLY found The Homer! Mattel is so dirty putting only 1 of these per every other case. I still haven't found it yet. It's pissing me off Oh I know. Every week I would look in my local flea market with the resellers and they never had it. The finally I found it. It was in those shipper displays at TRU.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 24, 2014 7:55:54 GMT -5
I still haven't found it yet. It's pissing me off Oh I know. Every week I would look in my local flea market with the resellers and they never had it. The finally I found it. It was in those shipper displays at TRU. The Resellers on eBay are atrocious with the prices for The Homer
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 24, 2014 19:10:01 GMT -5
Oh I know. Every week I would look in my local flea market with the resellers and they never had it. The finally I found it. It was in those shipper displays at TRU. The Resellers on eBay are atrocious with the prices for The Homer We have no one to blame but Mattel for this. They'll put 3 or 4 of the fantasy cars in a case, but only 1 homer/highly sought after car in a case. Or in the case of the Homer 1 per every 2 cases.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 24, 2014 19:42:00 GMT -5
The Resellers on eBay are atrocious with the prices for The Homer We have no one to blame but Mattel for this. They'll put 3 or 4 of the fantasy cars in a case, but only 1 homer/highly sought after car in a case. Or in the case of the Homer 1 per every 2 cases. I solely collect the street cars and TV and Movie cars The fantasy cars, I could care less about. Matchbox is getting the same way, they pack the Fantasy cars more than the street cars. The same thing goes for their Skybusters line, which is 99.9% fantasy aircraft instead of civil aircraft and commercial airliners. Although they make a lot of military planes
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 24, 2014 22:33:00 GMT -5
We have no one to blame but Mattel for this. They'll put 3 or 4 of the fantasy cars in a case, but only 1 homer/highly sought after car in a case. Or in the case of the Homer 1 per every 2 cases. I solely collect the street cars and TV and Movie cars The fantasy cars, I could care less about. Matchbox is getting the same way, they pack the Fantasy cars more than the street cars. The same thing goes for their Skybusters line, which is 99.9% fantasy aircraft instead of civil aircraft and commercial airliners. Although they make a lot of military planes A fantasy car to me should be something that might be possible. Like the School Bus with the monster truck wheels that is in the new cases of Matchbox is fine to me. But when its a car that has a rat face, who does that appeal to? I dont want it, and I wouldnt want my son playing with anything rat shaped.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 24, 2014 22:34:46 GMT -5
I solely collect the street cars and TV and Movie cars The fantasy cars, I could care less about. Matchbox is getting the same way, they pack the Fantasy cars more than the street cars. The same thing goes for their Skybusters line, which is 99.9% fantasy aircraft instead of civil aircraft and commercial airliners. Although they make a lot of military planes A fantasy car to me should be something that might be possible. Like the School Bus with the monster truck wheels that is in the new cases of Matchbox is fine to me. But when its a car that has a rat face, who does that appeal to? I dont want it, and I wouldnt want my son playing with anything rat shaped. Or shaped like a toilet or a hot tub, or a shark
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 24, 2014 23:10:46 GMT -5
A fantasy car to me should be something that might be possible. Like the School Bus with the monster truck wheels that is in the new cases of Matchbox is fine to me. But when its a car that has a rat face, who does that appeal to? I dont want it, and I wouldnt want my son playing with anything rat shaped. Or shaped like a toilet or a hot tub, or a shark Exactly! I can see why Mattel does it, it's nice to have a fantasy car but when they pack way more fantasy cars in a case instead of real cars I get pissed. PLus I hate that we have a car shaped like a rat, or a shark, or a toilet, or a hot tub, yet we have little to no SUVs/Sedans. It seems like a Mattel hotwheels case is 50% fantasy cars, 30% Mustangs/Cameros/Corvettes, 19% the rest of the real cars, and 1% the Hollywood car (Homer, Red Bird, Kit, Ateam van ect).
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 25, 2014 7:40:12 GMT -5
Or shaped like a toilet or a hot tub, or a shark Exactly! I can see why Mattel does it, it's nice to have a fantasy car but when they pack way more fantasy cars in a case instead of real cars I get pissed. PLus I hate that we have a car shaped like a rat, or a shark, or a toilet, or a hot tub, yet we have little to no SUVs/Sedans. It seems like a Mattel hotwheels case is 50% fantasy cars, 30% Mustangs/Cameros/Corvettes, 19% the rest of the real cars, and 1% the Hollywood car (Homer, Red Bird, Kit, Ateam van ect). One of things that tick me off is that they have so many cars, and yet they release the same ones year after year. For Instance the BMW 2002 that came out about two years ago was a major bin/shelfwarmer because they released it a second year straight. There's a ton of cars that doesn't get made very often that I need for my collection. here is a Comic Con Invisible Jet that goes for a lot of money. If this was released with the regular cars, this would have been shortpacked to no end
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Post by Halloween King on Jul 25, 2014 9:41:30 GMT -5
Exactly! I can see why Mattel does it, it's nice to have a fantasy car but when they pack way more fantasy cars in a case instead of real cars I get pissed. PLus I hate that we have a car shaped like a rat, or a shark, or a toilet, or a hot tub, yet we have little to no SUVs/Sedans. It seems like a Mattel hotwheels case is 50% fantasy cars, 30% Mustangs/Cameros/Corvettes, 19% the rest of the real cars, and 1% the Hollywood car (Homer, Red Bird, Kit, Ateam van ect). One of things that tick me off is that they have so many cars, and yet they release the same ones year after year. For Instance the BMW 2002 that came out about two years ago was a major bin/shelfwarmer because they released it a second year straight. There's a ton of cars that doesn't get made very often that I need for my collection. here is a Comic Con Invisible Jet that goes for a lot of money. If this was released with the regular cars, this would have been shortpacked to no end I kind of lost my train of thought yesterday. I was going to say that those kinds of cars (the wonder woman jet) should make up at least 20% of mattel's case. Ideally to me the case should be 20% Hollywood themed cars, 60% real cars (NON camero/mustang/corvette), 15% Mustang/Camero/Corvette, and 5% fantasy. The only real flaw with what I want though is that it would kill the Retro entertainment line Mattel has, which is never at retail anyway. And lord knows Mattel would rather have you pay 6 dollars for a ghostbusters car instead of 1 dollar.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 25, 2014 9:59:13 GMT -5
One of things that tick me off is that they have so many cars, and yet they release the same ones year after year. For Instance the BMW 2002 that came out about two years ago was a major bin/shelfwarmer because they released it a second year straight. There's a ton of cars that doesn't get made very often that I need for my collection. here is a Comic Con Invisible Jet that goes for a lot of money. If this was released with the regular cars, this would have been shortpacked to no end I kind of lost my train of thought yesterday. I was going to say that those kinds of cars (the wonder woman jet) should make up at least 20% of mattel's case. Ideally to me the case should be 20% Hollywood themed cars, 60% real cars (NON camero/mustang/corvette), 15% Mustang/Camero/Corvette, and 5% fantasy. The only real flaw with what I want though is that it would kill the Retro entertainment line Mattel has, which is never at retail anyway. And lord knows Mattel would rather have you pay 6 dollars for a ghostbusters car instead of 1 dollar. Yeah but the retro entertainment line got us an Authentically painted A-Team Van with the same style of wheels and BF Goodrich tires that the TV series one has. The Basic one couldn't provide the extra authenticity due to budget. Also when I am grocery shopping with my mom, I like to count the amount of Mustangs in the dump bin which is a ridiculous amount.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 30, 2014 20:17:49 GMT -5
I went to the farmers market today and found a Mercedes-Benz 2.6 and an Isuzu Vehicross
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Post by Gangrel-Brood on Jul 31, 2014 8:25:35 GMT -5
Mattel Shop has a new Mighty Minis playset listed, but it isn't showing in-stock.
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Post by JC Motors on Jul 31, 2014 16:13:14 GMT -5
My Walmart put out a new dump bin with 1,000 cars in it. No Homer. There was a ton of Zamac (raw unpainted) cars that are exclusive to Walmart
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Post by PJ on Aug 4, 2014 5:15:31 GMT -5
After months of searching I FINALLY found The Homer! Mattel is so dirty putting only 1 of these per every other case. I still haven't found it yet. It's pissing me off Is that the Simpson's car? Green with domes? I saw that a week or so ago at TRU, but I still can't find the latest Barris Batmobile.
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Post by JC Motors on Aug 4, 2014 7:02:25 GMT -5
I still haven't found it yet. It's pissing me off Is that the Simpson's car? Green with domes? I saw that a week or so ago at TRU, but I still can't find the latest Barris Batmobile. yes it is
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