Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Black & Gold - TWIN MILL 2/6

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Each vehicle features Real Rider wheels, unique packaging and graphics and is a longstanding favorite of collectors and racing fans of all ages. If they were going to go plastic with this model for the mainline, it would be unfortunate, but fine.

I think they are most certainly “testing the waters” with this plastic junk as a 50th Anniversary model. If they refuse to carry Hot Wheels if they can’t be sold for a dollar Mattel isn’t going to ‘please the fans’ if it means losing over half of their distribution. Hot Wheels also held the ' Hot Wheels Legends 50th Anniversary Tour' where the Hot Wheels team travelled to several states in the USA to hold real-life car shows to find the next car to be 'immortalized as a Hot Wheels Die Cast'. As I’ve said so many times before, I understand the constraints Mattel has to work within, but you’d think for this specific instance they could make the sacrifice.When you pick an iconic HW model to highlight, a model that up until not to long ago had an all metal construction and an opening hood, remove a lot of the great features, then showcase it, it just feels like a big swing and a miss. Cards are in excellent shape and may have minor irregularities from factory packaging - no major damage. With unique and realistic cars, fantastic decos and the most beautiful tires for the real enthusiast! Suddenly I wish I had the last release of the Camaro, so I could put together an all plastic Camaro to go with my all plastic Amazoom. HW picked it because they’d have a jihad against them declared by fans of old school Hot Wheels cars if they didn’t.

When a metal base and hard, plastic wheels are used with some new castings, they give some original redlines a run for their money on gravity track races. I would pay more if it were metal, but I’ll agree that this cost cutting crap is getting ridiculous. I mean, hell, they could have just said “screw the cost differential” JUST this once, just for this occasion! It is a challenging way to collect but fun as well, because I am forced to prioritize and there is nothing in the collection that I won’t absolutely love. In 2018, Hot Wheels celebrated their 50th Anniversary by releasing several special series including the Black and Gold Series.Some of the most sought after collector models ever produced, such as the Bone Shaker, the Twin Mill. the manager assured me new inventory was to arrive, but it was just a case or maybe two on the pegs which didn’t last too long.