Display Delay

Not sure what Amazon was up to, I had to look at something today that pushed my delivery to Tuesday of next week.

Kind Of Not Hunting

This morning I went on a short hunt but came up short, which is fine because tomorrow my display case arrives. Clearing the space to move my collection into its new location, this display is going to help and add class in one shot.
My office is becoming a museum.

Sometimes Waiting Pays Off

The initial release of Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Display Case with Chevy truck was pretty stupid, with people asking more than double the retail price upon release, now it seems they are available at retail price on Amazon. I have been checking Walmart at 4 locations for 2 months now and if the stores do get them, maybe at Christmas time?
Mine will arrive around the 29th of this month...

 

Scraps I Get

My #2 hunt spot finally got in a delivery of cars yesterday it seems and I took that day off hunting, so when I got there today it was just scraps of a P case. I nabbed 5 cars out of that shipment...

Cracked The Case Of Black And Gold - Nuggets Of Joy

I will work on my video later, its lame as hot cottage cheese but that's how I roll, wobbly. I am still without tools for those who do not know and I am 8 bit on resources ATM. For now it is total cheeseball and bad lighting, the office is slowly getting done and then I will be back to a poser-pro set up.
A gold body Camaro Chase car was in the box to cap off this case opening and it is very gold indeed. Cheersss!

Plan 10 From Outer Nowhere

I did my best to stay up and went for a 45 minute nap, hit 2 Wally Worlds in 1 hour and came up empty. Then I really napped...

This Is The Plan...

It is a work night here and I am off around 3 am, home by 3:45, with bed landing around 4 am. Tonight the plan is to stay up after work and hit the first Wally World hunting ground at 6 am sharp and a second location shortly afterwards. Let's see how this plays out in real life...

Hunting And Naps

One of my local hunt spots seems to have dried up while another continues to get cars, still waiting for a display case. Ebay prices for the display are nuts...

Treasure Hunt And Super Treasure Hunt Explosion

I walked up on H and K cases being dumped today, scoring Treasures out of both cases and Supers out of the H case. I added to the collection in a big way, I might have bought 60+ cars today? The collection grows and a case of Black And Gold are on the way...

Thinking About A Case Buy - Black And Gold

Currently looking at a case of 24 Black and Gold 50th Anniversary cars, included is a Gold Chase Camaro, price seems to be the cheapest I have found and includes shipping. Coin toss later!

 

Zamac Chill Mill

This was an end-cap bin rescue, the card was bent and torn, so I grabbed it up not knowing it is a Wal Mart exclusive. My intensions were to take it apart for the chassis in order to modify an Altered Ego model. Upon doing research and discovery, I decided to keep it in this condition and to continue to look for a donor chassis.

 

 

 

 

Light Hunt Action

I went back to the huge pile and to be honest, not much of a dent has been inflicted, so I skimmed the first few layers, looking for the Fiat 500 Super T-Hunt with no luck as of yet. I passed up on lots of Standard Treasure Hunts in order to give other collectors a chance. I did buy a Barbie Vette Stingray, without noticing the "Barbie" script across the hood is messed up, so I have an "Error" car for trade if you are into those things...

Post Labor Day Breakfast Hunt - N Case Destruction

My number one hunt spot got in over 20 N cases, in an amazing caged pile no less. I shall post a pic later, I will be going back the next few days...

Labor Day Hunt Yields Collection Seeds

I went to a Wally world that is farther than most of the locations I usually hunt at, they had a huge inventory of cars in a 3 section dump bin, a few on pegs and an end cap display that was lightly populated. A few suspect cars missing from the case lots tells me someone hunts there.
I did find a few I liked to increase the collection, still no display cases at any locations and I am in need of 2 or 3...

Operation Bone Shaker - Update

I really only keep up with the Mainline and Mystery Models of the Hot Wheels collection, so sometimes I miss cars released in the Stars and Stripes series or the 50th Anniversary Models(Black Card). So imagine the look on my face when I discovered the Bone Shaker today in the 50th Anniversary series, the memory overload of where I was last at and the time before that looking at the first car on the pegs and not looking behind it, had I only known...
Well, I made the decision to hunt online and I used strict reason to make my purchase, only pay the standard retail and shipping is based on driving a full size pick up with V6 looking for this model in a 20 square mile radius.
It will be at my house on the 8th of September...

 

Operation Bone Shaker

I missed a version of the Bone Shaker. Tomorrow I hunt...

Breakfast Trail Of Treasure

I  decided to check out a local Kohl's, really bad selection and I hit the trail to my #2 hunt spot, still no new inventory. I had to stop back at home to handle a chore, then the idea to jet out to the #1 hunt locale to look for a Fiat 500 Super TH, no luck but 2 more standard Treasure Hunt's were sitting there waiting for a loving home. Grabbed those 2 and a few others to bump the collection, hunt complete...