From Target - Maybe New Hot Wheels Central

I don't know about your neighborhood, but where I live, Walmart is hit & miss at very best, when it comes to premium Hot Wheels.  

While I don't hunt anymore, trying to quit collecting, I still buy cars from here & there(hehe...).  Today, I wanted to pickup some pastries & only the Target store was nearby.  I go in, and I still always check the pegs even if just casually.....  Now that Mattel's holding events at Target, maybe the Hot Wheels powerhouse Walmart has some serious competition here.  I saw so many different premium/culture series Hot Wheels at Target today I've only seen before online:

I'm fond of the Back to the Future III DeLorean.  After picking up two fun looking mainlines for my nephews, I was going to get it for myself.  I changed my mind, only brought back pics:

Love these frigging wheels.  Very cool.

Top notch detailing.  Speaking of top notch detaling, while I didn't get this one either, I wish I was still actively building a collection:

Beautiful car..... and no joke, as I was leaving the aisle, I find this thing  hanging on a wrong peg:

I was stoked.  This was one of the few recent releases I actually wanted.  Never guessed I'd actually find it.  If you look in this blog, you'll see I have quite a few gassers in my collection.  :)

25 in Existence: TLV Silver Prize Nissan Cedric Custom

After 400 releases & 3 million cars sold, to thank their fans, Tomytec gave away just 25 gold chrome cars + black leather keychains as the "gold prize" & 25 silver chrome cars + keychains for the silver prize.  Sucks if you won just the keychains amirite.  50 lucky..... bronze prize winners received brown leather keychains.

I've had the pleasure of sharing three uber rare TLV chrome cars on this blog so far, and they've all belonged to the super TLV collector I know from GTPlanet: GroupB, who also happens to be unbelievable wealth of automotive knowledge.  If you owned one or two of these cars, you are super collector in my book.  Jeebus.  He's got four now.  First three:

Nissan Wrecker

Nissan Junior Pump

Nissan Diesel 680

Oh, yeah.  Tomytec likes their Nissans. lol  Here comes #4: The silver prize Nissan Cedric Custom.  

While Tomytec call this silver chrome, as you can see, it's a pretty dark color.  According to GroupB, it's black.

 

Left is the box the Cedric comes in.  You may think we go little overboard with the coverage on these limited keytags & their production numbers, but since the start, my motivation has been to record as much information on these prizes as possible.  When I first found out about these chrome cars, I could only find blurry photos online, and they were in Japanese.  Information on rare/obscure TLVs are hard to come by sometimes, especially from English language sources.  Okay, maybe sometimes my "Engrish" shows.  Fair. lol 

Anyway, exactly how many of these leather keychains were made available:

Thanks for the breakdown on that GroupB, and again, special, special thanks for the opportunity to share this with TLV collectors around the world.  "1 of 100" chrome TLVs were amazing.  Only 25 of these silver/black chrome Cedric Customs were given away.  Not much I can add to that.  1 of 25, not sold in stores.  Epic.