Sunday is not a fun day.

[@Ian_McRae]

Gigantoid. I Like it. Somehow I don't think it will be the final name

[@Chris_Hood]

_And hit the pegs before church lets out!_ Yeah, I'd get that Cupra even if it was a fantasy car. I'm not overly keen on the colourway, but still huzzah for a 2025 first edition! Perhaps we'll even see more SEAT brand cars in the future. Monteracer, that permanent denizen of 20 packs. Thanks Netflix for inflicting that casting onto the pegs, we're all sooo grateful for that.

[@jodezero]

Interesting finds. The Cupra looks like a Civic hatchback and Subaru WRX had a love child! 😅😂

[@marcoantoniomarquezperez2652]

Cool. You scored an X-Raycers Monteracer. That one made it's debut in 2016 in Chrome. It hasn't been in the mainline in quite a few years, but has always been present in 10 pack exclusives and Mystery Models. I be looking out for that one and all the other 9 X-raycers. I'll get the CUPRA racer ,because it's the first edition/new model of the casting. I also like the color. I might retire it after a couple more versions, but I always try to score that first debut appearance.

[@Josh_Quillan]

Looks like my comment fell over after all, I thought something was iffy. Attempt 2: The Cupra e-racer ran in and apparently dominated a now-defunct electric touring car racing series which never attracted any more than 3 teams for a total field of 6 cars. It wore an iridescent blue-purple and bright yellow livery very similar to the model, so this is one of those releases that represents a real car. Cupra as a brand is a spin-off from SEAT (Sociedad Espanola de Automoviles de Turismo), a low-cost Spanish car firm that used to licence Fiat designs but is now VW-owned, that's a brand of choice for European hot hatch lovers who want a cheap, well-made and tuneable car. Cupra was their sports brand, like Hyundai N or BMW M, but for whatever reason it got promoted to its own marque, which at present seems focused on...slightly more costly small crossovers base on VW platforms, only with a more aggressive logo. Sigh.

[@bsea35]

Seattle hasn’t even got the “P” or “Q” cases yet and we probably won’t, they’ve jumped right to the “A” case already. Very slow here.

[@rogersweeney7071]

This is Monday & my local Target did receive one case, 72 piece, of 2025 B case. First off, I was there present in the toy aisles. The Hot Wheels pegs were almost empty. I was observing as three teenagers were doing the stock. One of them popped around the corner and started pegging the B case HW. I was first on scene at the pigs and as going through I noticed there was no regular treasure hunt or super treasure hunt. Yep you probably guessed it, The employee is the scalper in this case. Now on another matter, this is a question for you. Many collectors keep their Hot Wheels carded because they believe the value will stay high on that particular Hot wheel. Now because you are famous at using loose Hot Wheels, here's the question: Which Hot Wheels retain a good value after being uncarded and loose? I'm asking about monetary value not personal value.

[@GigantoidArchive]

Our Target and Walmarst have extremely crooked employees too. The boxes always come out of the back room with folded flaps. They're either selling them directly or pulling them for resellers that have a relationship with them or whatever. I will add your question to the Friday questions.

[@michaelharrington223]

Never understood why Hot Wheels just doesn't put the year which the car was released and if it has a number on it it puts so much other crap on there that no one cares about at least we could have that so we don't have to research everything. Instead we get some random letters starting from 2008 and some number of the week it was released seems stupid.

[@marcoantoniomarquezperez2652]

If you know how to read the bases you would know that basically everything you want to know is on the base. For example the B12 and S16 that you see actually tells you the year and month the car was produced. The year the casting was released is also almost always on the base. IF not the actual year that you have the code so you can look it up. Even the blisters sometimes tell you information about the car.

[@Josh_Quillan]

@@marcoantoniomarquezperez2652 Clearly OP knows that. The question is why is it encoded as 'B12' like it's a gun's serial number being stamped into carbon steel and not '2009.03.24' , which is to say a real human-readable date? I don't want to have to consult a spreadsheet and week planner-type calendar every time I wonder when a model was released; but for some reason they think the country it was made in is so important that they spell it out in full each time. If you ever drill out the rivets and open your cars, you'll find more inexplicable mystery shit inside, like big raised letters and a rectangle embossed on the top of the chassis where they are not intended to be seen. When you look at how other manufacturers handle markings, you start to see that how Mattel usually does it is just their own weird choice. They could decide to make adding car logos, like on the DeLorean, standard, or indicate scale, or even list car stats like Siku do, but they just enjoy being cryptic.