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Showing posts with label Die Cast Cars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Die Cast Cars. Show all posts

Friday, February 24, 2023

HW Batman | Batman Forever Batmobile

“Batman Forever” was a surprise following the exit of Michael Keaton as Batman/Bruce Wayne and Tim Burton vacating the director’s chair to helm the third Batman film. Replacing Batman/Bruce Wayne was Val Kilmer, and around that time his popularity with his previous films made him a suitable replacement. But Joel Schumacher as the director for this one was quite an uncertainty in the 1990s.

The same goes for how the fans would take it as something else. With the ‘New’ Batman everything is also different, and the term ‘semi-reboot’ was not yet the catchphrase everyone was used to. Although one thing that has caught everyone’s attention is the ‘New’ Batmobile that Kilmer will be driving in this next Bat-Film.

Tuesday, July 2, 2019

MBX Off-Road | NASA S.E.V. Chariot

07.02.2019 – Every Space Exploration needs a rover since the Apollo missions improvements on manned vehicle has been one of the key elements that became part of each lunar mission to the Moon and unmanned rovers to the surface of Mars. It has been an essential transport and research vehicle.

NASA continues to develop these surface exploration vehicles as part of research and development. Many of these vehicles have been produced as merchandise to bring up the interest in Space Exploration and Matchbox has produced one towards the tail end of 2018 and that is the NASA S.E.V. Chariot!

Friday, September 29, 2017

HW Batman | BvS Batmobile

09.29.2017 – The Batmobile has been as iconic as its driver, Batman. It has become part of the Batman mythology as the Cape Crusader’s primary vehicle. It first appeared in Detective Comics Vol.1 #27 in 1939 as an ordinary red car that evolved throughout the years into a technologically advanced vehicle in black.

Hot Wheels has produced several iteration of the Batmobile from its popular series in the 1960s, based from videogames and other media. But the recent one from Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice takes it to the next evolution.

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Hot Wheels 5 Pack | Batman 2017 Series

09.23.2017 – There have been a handful of 5 packs released by Hot Wheels over the years for the Batman theme and each of those sets have several castings of the related vehicles from various medium that features the cape crusader.

The 2017 series have fewer Batmobiles in this set that were released previously in the mainline. But you’ll find it interesting some of those vehicles that Batman has driven in various medium from comics, TV series or videogames are here.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Hot Wheels Price Hike Heart Breaker!

02.14.2016 – Hot Wheels has become everyone’s collectible die cast cars and a household name for most kids growing up and getting familiar with. They have been a lucrative hobby to for most adults and have been well known by anyone.

For most of the current generation of children getting to know their favorite cars is like a caveman trying to rediscover the wheel. It’s a mass market toy that almost everyone can afford but significant changes in pricing has change all that.

Saturday, December 13, 2014

Dream Tomica: Snoopy!

12.13.2014 – Snoopy and the Peanuts gang are headed to the big screen in 2015. To celebrate the coolness of Joe Cool himself we take a closer look at some licensed collectibles featuring the gang in toy form and they definitely teamed up!

Takara Tomy’s diecast line Tomica cars has been around and recently they expanded their line of cars featuring licensed characters from various properties. This includes Snoopy and the Peanuts gang which released two cars that has the Snoopy Mobile!

Friday, February 7, 2014

Dream Tomica: Initial-D A86 Trueno!

02.07.2014 – Initial D is a popular anime about street racing which features the iconic Toyota AE86 Trueno driven by Takumi Fujiwara. The huge following of the series also put drifting in the spotlight as one of Japan’s racing sports.

Fujiwara who works in his father’s tofu delivery takes the AE 86 as its service vehicle, which honed his driving skills in the series. Dream Tomica a die cast toy line of cars produced the most recent iteration of the iconic car inspired from the series…

Thursday, January 2, 2014

HW City 71 of 250: Mars Curiosity Rover!

01.02.2014 – The Mars Rover Curiosity a man-made marvel that landed in the Gale Crater of the red planet. It’s a car-sized robotic rover which is designed to explore the Martian climate and geology. It is developed by NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL), which is tasked to check any life on the planet.

It was launched in Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011 aboard the MSL spacecraft and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus on August 6, 2012. The Rover’s original two-year mission was extended indefinitely.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

HW City 86 of 250: Max Steel Turbo Racer!

12.21.2013 – The new Max Steel TV series is now airing on Toonami Asia and several toys have already been sighted. Originally Max Steel has his motorcycle that looks like an inspiration from TRON’s Lightcycle.

If you haven’t seen the new show it progress from the new beginning, which is an entirely a reboot of the series. This version of Maxwell McGrath’s origins was retconned to activate his powers he teams up with an alien technology upon merging via “ultra-link” you've got Max Steel a new superhero for this generation.

Saturday, June 1, 2013

HW Imagination 59 of 250: Max Steel Motorcycle!

06.01.2013 – Max Steel is a super spy hero more of a counterpart to Hasbro’s classic G.I. Joe from the 1960s having related to the toy line of 12 inch action figures. Over the years Max Steel has evolved and became more relevant inspired by spy cult like James Bond but with a superhero twist.

The character first introduced in 1999 through a CGI Animated TV series from the same production company in Mainframe Entertainment (Currently now as Rainmaker Inc.) that brought you Beast Wars Transformers and ReBoot to name a few series that they made.

Friday, March 15, 2013

HW Imagination 47 of 247: Red Bird!

03.15.2013 – Previously the Minion Pig one of the villains who stole the eggs from a bunch of Angry Birds got a special spotlight.

As popular as the game that is FREE for download on your mobile phone or tablet they have become iconic.

Spawning merchandise based form the game that also produced a theme for the 2011 animated movie in Rio as well as Star Wars which is gaining interest with the younger generation due to its cute diminutive appearance.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

HW Imagination 35 of 247: Minion Pig!

03.13.2013 – Ever since Angry Birds became one of the most downloadable games on mobile phones and tablets the popularity has soared. The game about these colorful birds takes their anger t whole new level over the pigs who stole their eggs.

The popularity of these characters had spun off sequels even a tie-up that produced Angry Birds Rio based from the animated feature from 2011. Currently everyone has gone addicted to the Star Wars theme that produced merchandise based from the game.