2014 HOT WHEELS MAINLINE F CASE - 28 CARS WITH LOTS OF VARIATIONS SPOTTED ON: 29.JANUARY.2014
Since most of you have seen the contains of all the cars in this F Case series, but i have been doing alot of research on this wave as some of you might have seen the videos posted by mushedroom in youtube, as he has been crazy about the car called The Homer (LIME GREEN), the cartoon mobile in the long run TV series The Simpsons. Just because of that car, he went & purchased 3 different codes for F cases just to get it. So, it is very interesting to watch his videos just to see all the contains inside these 3 boxes that he has purchased and also did a comparison to this wave (F Cases). Not every case in F Cases has The Homer car. Before i start to list down all the new, recolor, regular & SUPER Treasure Hunt$ cars in this wave, let's take a look on these videos for UNBOXING F Cases. If you have seen these videos, you can skip this part and move on to below to read some more information regarding this wave, ok. You can also download them and do some comparison to it as you might miss out some interesting cars as well, ok. Check it out.
UNBOXING F CASE CODE: FFD by mushedroom
UNBOXING F CASE CODE: FFB by mushedroom
UNBOXING F CASE CODE: FFJ by mushedroom
UNBOXING F CASE CODE: FFP by Diecastic1
UNBOXING KMART DAY F CASE CODE: AFB by Derek Twigg
UNBOXING KMART DAY F CASE CODE: AFC by ZoomZoomToys
I only show these videos above for you all so that you can compare it and hopefully doesn't miss out any interesting cars you might miss out, ok. One interesting thing i wanna point out is that now NOT ALL CASES has the regular Treasure Hunt! This is not good thing for anyone that has bought the whole case. So, let's get down to it. In this case, you will find the 6th Regular Treasure Hunt of 2014 called Loop Coupe (LITE GREY). Check it out.
From left to right, all cards starts with INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD, U.S. LONG CARD & INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION.
2014 #121 LOOP COUPE (LITE GREY)
As for the
6TH SUPER TREASURE HUNT$:
2014 #241 '55 CHEVY BEL AIR GASSER (SPECTRAFLAME DEEP BLUE)
As for the INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION, i have not yet found a clear picture for you but i have a small picture which almost looks like the real SUPER TREASURE HUNT$ INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION.
The reason i mentioned 'looks like real' for this edition is because the car inside the blister is the REAL ORIGINAL SUPER TREASURE HUNT car but the card itself is not. The above pic is a CUSTOM MADE. Here's a small guideline for you to identify which is which ones, alright.
The one on the left side is regular version and the right side is the super TH$. The car printed on card has a few differences not like any other super TH$ cars which you can identify their differences of the wheels straightaway. Hopefully i can find a clear version of the INTERNATIONAL short card edition soon and post it here to share it with you, ok.
2014 #3 SURF BUS (YELLOW)
2014 #8 WHEEL LOADER (YELLOW+BLACK)
2014 #22 TOYOTA SUPRA (BLUE)
2014 #27 PORSCHE 993 GT2 (RED) ~ NEW CASTING IN MAINLINE SERIES!
2014 #38 LAFERRARI (RED) ~ NEW CASTING!
For this casting, i have found 3 different BUBBLEs/BLISTERs for INTERNATIONAL long card edition. Take a look from left to right, they are:
1. Slight Curve at right side blister & a little bit of L shape curve at left bottom side of the blister.
~ I didn't know how to called this blister, that's why either i explain it here or you just look at the blister shown above, ok.) hehe .. :)
2. FIT-TO-CAR #2 SHAPE BLISTER.
~ Why this blister is called #2 is because this blister is not fully fit the car as there is another type which almost looks like this shape of the blister. Let me show you.
This is the 2013 #199 Scion FR-S (METAFLAKE RED) car model which uses the same blister as this #2 blister. The rear left side of the blister is flat. The sample of FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER is the one shown below.
This is the one that uses fully wrap the car to be fitted in this blister shape - FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER.
3. N SHAPE BLISTER.
~ I called this the N shape blister is because it is fully square on top and has 2 curves at both end bottom of the blister.
For U.S. LONG CARD EDITION, it only has one shape blister, which is the N SHAPE BLISTER.
Now, for the INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION, there is 3 types of shape blisters.
1. Slight Curve at right side blister & a little bit of L shape curve at left bottom side of the blister.
2. FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER.
~ So, this is the one that i am talking about which has fully wrapped the car in its blister.
3. N SHAPE BLISTER.
At this time, i haven't found the FIT-TO-CAR #2 BLISTER SHAPE for short card edition.
2014 #45 HW PURSUIT (RED+WHITE)
As you can see, the INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION only have one type of shape blister - RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER. The U.S. LONG CARD EDITION has 3 types shape of blisters. From left to right:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
~ The reason i mentioned LONGER is because this type of blister is to fit longer cars as there is another type which is more shorter.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
3. RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
~ Haha.. This is harder than i thought just to named a few of this blister shapes. A more clear pics to show you the exact shape of these blister shape shown below.
At this time, i only manage to find this one type of blister shape for INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #54 ARACHNOROD (ORANGE+BLACK)
For INTERNATIONAL CARD, only has one type of shape found at this time - RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER. As for both U.S. LONG CARD & INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION, only found one type of shape blister - LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #63 THE TUMBLER - CAMOUFLAGE VERSION
For INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION, there's only one shape found at this time - COMPLETE SHORTER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER. As for the U.S. LONG CARD EDITION, there's 2 types:
1. COMPLETE SHORTER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. PYRAMID SHAPE BLISTER.
~ For this type of shape blister, I called it the PYRAMID SHAPE BLISTER is because both ends has slight curves - right side has slightly bump slight curve and left side is completely flat slight curve. For your info, This piece of shape blister is the hardest and rare to find! :D
For INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION, found 2 types:
1. COMPLETE SHORTER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. PYRAMID SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #72 SPECTOR (WHITE+PINK)
2014 #89 THE HOMER (LIME GREEN) ~ NEW CASTING!
2014 #105 FAST-BED HAULER (BLUE) ~ NEW CASTING!
2014 #124 MAD PROPZ (BLUE+LITE GREEN)
2014 #142 IMPAVIDO 1 (BLUE)
2014 #152 MADFAST (PURPLE)
For INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION, there's only one shape found at
this time - RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER. As for the U.S. LONG
CARD EDITION, there's 2 types:
1. RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION:
~ RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #158 WHIP CREAMER II (BLACK)
2014 #159 RRROADSTER (SILVER)
2014 #173 DRIFT ROD (TRANSPARENT / CLEAR BLUE + BLACK)
2014 #185 CHICANE (RED)
2014 #192 TOYOTA 2000 GT (YELLOW)
All INTERNATIONAL & U.S. LONG CARD has the same type of blister shape except the one that has the YELLOW STRIPE printed on the card, which is extremely rare to find it so far ONLY in JAPAN. Whether it is an ERROR OR VARIANT, it is still remain unclear for now.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDTION:
1. N SHAPE BLISTER.
2. FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #208 '64 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL (BABY BLUE)
INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
U.S. LONG CARD EDITION:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
3. RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
(NOTE: THE #3 SHAPE BLISTER IS THE HARDEST TO FIND! )
INTERNATIONAL CARD EDITION:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
Here's a more clearer view of all 3 types of shape blisters.
Before i move on to the next car, i wanted to elaborate some tiny detail about the BLISTER used in recently released of this year's cars. If you check and look closely on your collection, you might find a small square blister at one side of both corners of a blister. Check it out.
The picture shown above shows the right top side and left bottom side of the blister has this extra small blisters. And this also doesn't mean that all blisters has the same position as well. My guesses are that Mattel might have done this to improve the solidity of the blister. FINALLY! What i just mentioned that all blisters doesn't have the same position, here's another one with different positions. Check it out.
Not just this type of blister (N SHAPE BLISTER) has this small extra blister attached to it. Other types of blisters also have this same feature as well. Check your collection and found out more yourself, ok. Let's move on.
2014 #227 SCION FR-S (SILVER)
2014 #244 '71 PLYMOUTH ROAD RUNNER (METAFLAKE DARK GREEN)
INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION:
1. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
U.S. LONG CARD EDITION:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
3. RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION:
1. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE SLIGHT CURVE + LEFT REAR SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #248 '72 FORD GRAND TORINO SPORT (METAFLAKE BLUE)
INTERNATIONAL LONG CARD EDITION:
1. FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
U.S. LONG CARD EDITION:
1. FIT-TO-CAR #1 SHAPE BLISTER.
2. LONGER SQUARE SHAPE BLISTER.
2. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
INTERNATIONAL SHORT CARD EDITION:
1. RIGHT SIDE L CURVE SHAPE BLISTER.
2014 #250 CUSTOM '64 GALAXIE (METAFLAKE RED)
Alright. I know some of you might get blurry about all these variations spotted at this time. But i can't be sure that there might be more variants that i might miss out. In order to complete a collection such as this needs a large amount of patient and money of course.. hehe. I wanna thanks to all the sellers out there for borrowing your fine taking pics for me to do a full review on all the cars to share it with the rest of the world out there, alright. Really appreciate it very much. It takes me a week or so just to complete this blog just for you all. :D
Oh.. and one more thing, if you did pay attention to those videos i uploaded above, those cases especially the KMART K-DAY CASES which contains 36 cars inside the boxes has some major problems such as intentionally rough cuts opened blisters for the kmart cars ('92 BMW M3-WHITE & SANDBLASTER-FLAT BROWN) and also the '64 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL(BABY BLUE). I think Mattel needs to be more strictly on controlling the quality of the HOT WHEELS card & blister. It is not the fault of the courier services indeed.
If you have something that i don't have here and would like to share it with me and also to all the collectors & viewers around the world, please do so, ok. PM me. Thank you. :D
As you all know now that Mattel has played a new strategy in their marketing of Hot Wheels ever since late 2013 where i first found out about a massive variations on cards and blisters not to mentioned the all kinds of errors (factory faults) and also to the lastest ones, human hairs were found inside the blisters. haha .. :D
So now, i thank you all for viewing my blog & all your times, ok.
I will surely update mores on the upcoming new cases as well as other news.
Good day to you all & take care! See you all soon. :D
