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What with Star Wars and Hot Wheels partnering up for the first time I thought I would bring this up.

They have announced an exclusive that will be at SDCC 2014 (http://kinja.roadandtrack.com/darth-vader-is-the-first-star-wars-hot-wheels-car-1586658951). To quote the article "I'm going to spend so much money on this shit."

I am going to be in the market for one of these exclusives and I am already anticipating the first retail release slated for this fall. I am planning on completing this line from the beginning.

I'm in it for the Star Wars but I am also curious if there are any Hot Wheels collectors here.

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Raises paw, yeah I'm a Hot Wheels collector. While no where near obsessive as some, I can live without treasure hunts, if I have money left in my budget after minimates I try to keep up with the Mainline cars.

I've also been lucky in being able to get all the DC and Power Rangers character cars, but I skipped the Sponge Bob and Muppet sets. I'm also looking forward to the Star Wars sets as well as the Marvel characters.

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Are Marvel cars upcoming or have they done some already?

They haven't been released yet. When announced I figured they would be out prior to Star Wars but it seems that the two series will likely overlap. So far they've shown seven out of twelve planned characters.

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C3POR2D2HotWheels.JPG

Seemingly two more SW themed Hot Wheels. I'm not a Hot Wheels fan but the moonbuggyish R2 is kinda cute.

I posted that image and a thought was bouncing around my head..what did that C-3PO remind me of!

then it clicked...Spaceballs :)

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^ Thats interesting. In the Star Wars Insider article they said that they were going to keep scale of characters in mind. So R2 and Yoda will be small buggy-esque sized while Chewbacca would be a large hauler vehicle. With that in mind I wonder why C3-P0 would be that large.

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It's a good thing these little buggers are so cheap, I bought a dozen over the weekend!

A trip to the airport to drop off my girlfriend and her family meant I got to stop at multiple Wal Marts on the way home and check out there stock. I just wish their flight wouldn't have left at midnight so that I could have hit up some TRU's so I could have looked for Minimates as well.

For now I am sticking to the main line and only getting cars that exist in reality, mostly European sports cars and American muscle cars.

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Hey, sweet, fellow HW collectors! I collect mainline mostly, focusing on the Japanese Nostalgic Car/JDM Legends style stuff. Pretty much any Japanese import I will probably pick up. I also tend to go after Batmobiles and the Fast and Furious series (have the full set of the original F&F series). I'll post my collection sometime, I mostly collect for me but also tend to keep some around for speculation purposes (toon/media/older models and supers as available)

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