Aug 7 2012, 11:34 PM, updated 14y ago
You are most welcome to share your 1:64 scale HotWheels collections and take part in any discussion about anything related to HotWheels!
RULES AND REGULATION
1. Please use a spoiler when quoting pictures or any other car brand
2. Please restrain yourselves from any flaming (or anything similar).
3. Keep this thread clean.
4. Sharing is caring.
5. Unreleased hot wheels cars are prohibited from the thread.
SOME HOTWHEELS TERMINOLOGY:
1. ERROR - Hot Wheels with mistake, this either referring to error in car or the card. Error could be wrong wheels, tampo, window, wrong car in card, etc.
2. DEFECT - the same as ERROR... they are both UN-intentional and is NOT mass produced. ..
3. VARIATION - Derivation from the same model, most of the time is variation of colour and tampo.
4. TAMPO - Painted designs that are pre-applied to castings through a pad press process.
5. WAVES - Assortment of the models in each carton. Mattel arrange the assortment according to the wave code in size of 72 cars in a carton. Collectors always refer new wave to new models out to market.
6. DEAD CASE - Means the box/case of 72 hotwheel cars did not contain any Treasure Hunt/$ cars.
7. CASTING - General term that refers to the Hot Wheels model.
Happy hunting!
Hot Wheels reference sites:
http://www.southtexasdiecast.com/hwguide.html
http://www.hotwheelscollectors.com/
http://www.hotwheels.wikia.com
This post has been edited by kukubeh: Aug 8 2012, 10:07 AM
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