Treasure Hunts are highlighted in green (but you’ll have to discover the Super Treasure Hunts for yourself). There was some reproduction RLBB made by brightvision not by Mattel and there was even another cheap knock of the brightvision casting.

His idea was to capture a portion of the huge market for small car models dominated at that time by the British company Lesney Products with their Matchbox cars. Hot Wheels started offering models based off of 80's economy cars, like the Pontiac Fiero or Dodge Omni 024.When Wood found out about Hot Wheels at a party Rees was holding, Rees offered Wood the job of designing Hot Wheels. Although product information is regularly updated, Aldi is unable to accept liability for any incorrect information. Ultra Hots wheels, which looked like the wheels found on a Renault Fuego or a Mazda 626, were introduced in 1984 and had other speed improvements. In the late 80s, the Blue Card was introduced, which would become the basis of Hot Wheels cars still used today.

There is no longer a specific segment for New Models, new castings are interspersed throughout the mainline. Some limited editions produced in 2006 include a Honda Civic Si sporting a Dropstars logo that was only available at the 2005 SEMA convention and the CUL8R with Faster Than Ever (FTE) wheels which was only available by mail. Unfortunately, testing showed that this early version (now known as Rear-Loader Beach Bomb, or RLBB) was too narrow to roll effectively on Hot Wheels track or be powered by the Super Charger, and was too top-heavy to negotiate high-speed corners. This fun 2 channel remote control helicopter has gyro control, making it easy to fly indoors or out. Some of Hot Wheels' greatest cars, such as the Twin Mill and Splittin' Image, came from Ira Gilford's drawing board.Eric Tscherne and Fraser Campbell along with former designer Paul Tam's son, Alec Tam, joined the design team. new models joined the lineup, Switchback, Zotic, Wild Thing, 1/4 Mile Coupe and 24/7 The special Highway 35 cars were grouped into 5 teams with special graphics and co-molded wheels. One was the 1995 Model Series, which included all of that year's new castings, 12 Models in the Model Series.

Among the many futuristic designs Tam thought up for Hot Wheels, some of the collector's favorites include Evil Weevil (a Volkswagen with two engines), Open Fire (an AMC Gremlin with six wheels), Six Shooter (another six wheeled car), and the rare Double Header (co-designed with Larry Wood).There are now only 5 main Series: 50 HW City Rides cars, 25 HW Imagination Cars, 25 HW Stunt cars, 50 HW Racing Cars, and 100 HW Showroom cars, for a total of 250 cars for the year. No one ever hears it coming, but the impact this copter makes will leave everyone waiting for a sequel! Hot Wheels introduces its first line of Character Cars with the launch of Toy Story Character Cars that year. Treasure Hunts, with Super Hunt variants and an assortment of Team Cars and other mainline releases. Due to low sales, and the fact that many of the castings were not re-used in later years, the 1972-3 models are known to be very collectible.