Welp, another Wednesday, another frenetic week (actually, 2!) of Hot Wheels hunting! And a few Matchboxes and a Johnny Lightning, as well! While nothing major has changed at the track, there are a couple of very small updates to the diorama I’ll point out here while spending more time looking at the stuff that didn’t make the diorama but did make my mountainous collection of cars!
The biggest news of the week actually had nothing to do with Mattel, but rather with today’s electronic equivalent! On the evening of June 5 I went out to Parker to see J after work. We planned to goto dinner at this new Mexican place that just opened up the street from his haus so I braved the driving rain, piloting The Cylon through the storm to arrive safely, after which, naturally, the rain stopped: it only lasts long enough for you to drive through it! As we were watching the sunset rainbows and getting ready to go back out, he told me, “I have something cool to show you, but I have to show you later, because if I show it to you now, you won’t want to leave the house.”
Ah, June 5! I should have known! Yes, the biggest news the world over that day was the long-awaited release of the Nintendo “Switch Deux,” and Jason showed the same prowess with video game hunting that he does with Hot Wheels, when he just showed up at his local Costco early that day and picked one right up like it was no big deal! All over the country people were camping out in front of big box stores trying to snag one, and my Hunter just walked in and grabbed one off a shelf like it was just a thing, and it goes without saying that he got it with the one-IMHO the only-game that matters: MarioKart World!
So it turned into a late night, because 4 margs later we were walking through the local Tarjhey, since we had to do some Hot Wheels hunting after dinner! It helps work off the calories, you see! By nightfall we were just cracking open MarioKart World, and by the time we went to bed that night- around 1:00am!-I had a whole mess of new blister packs to tear into when I got home from work the next day, since we didn’t have much time to open many of those purchases that night: we were too busy Karting!
Of course I couldn’t stay away from that game, so that weekened I was back for more, which also meant…more Hot Wheels! Imagine! Dinner that night was at a local sushi place we hadn’t yet tried but will definitely be hitting again, and this time for our “calorie walk-off” we hit a local WallyWorld. Since I was with “The Hunter” we hit it at exactly the right time and dove into a 4-sided black and yellow display bin set up for The Hot Wheels Legends Tour, which most Wallyworlds are promoting with cool little knicknacks like water bottles, license plate frames, and T-shirts. “The Hunter” hit the jackpot yet again, and I brought home 15 more cars (sheesh, where am I gonna put all these things???)
So that Sunday I had to start opening at least some of them, and here’s a couple that did make it to Drag City!
Hindsight is always 20/20 and I wish I’d bought a couple more copies of a couple of these new releases, but I’m so sodden with Hot Wheels now that saying “I should have bought more” sounds insane. Of course, there’s always the counter-point: that there’s no such thing as “too many Hot Wheels!” Because…what do we always say here at Drag City? Altogether now…
I love the people sitting in that Chevy convertible. Some beautiful and really neat models you guys found! That GTO, Porsche, and I love that El Camino!
Thx! Well now that I have another die-cast enthusiast in my life we never stop looking! It won’t change the world, but it sure is fun! I got a whole mess of 1:64 3D-Printed figures on order to dress up some of these “tableaus” too, so even more good stuff is coming!