Tomica Mooneyes Collection

どこにいったかわからなくなっていましたが積んである本の裏に落っこちてました。 pic.twitter.com/OgvQbMWZFX

— F60 (@F60BB) May 18, 2019

When I used to actively collect Hot Wheels & minicars, this is one of the sets I had laid my eyes on.  I had forgotten all about it until I saw this tweet from the Japanese collector I know.  Awesome frigging box!  

Little bit underwhelmed?  Well, in my view & F60 mentions this in one of his tweets as well, but it's a surprise in itself to see a set like this from Tomica.  Recently, a mainline Matchbox featured Mooneyes livery, and I was bit taken by that one as well.  In 1/64 genre, when I think of "Mooneyes", it's all Hot Wheels & M2 Machines.  Anywho, this part is the real treat.  This set, out of the box:

 "Skyline"

 "bB"(Scion xB in the U.S.)

"Datsun Truck"

"Glory Rod - Gloria"

Special thanks to @F60  You can checkout hit Twitter account full of hot wheels & minicars here.  He collects EVERYTHING.  No wonder we get along.  :D

 If you like Mooneyes livery, try using the search box on the top left corner of this page, too.  I'm sure I have few cool Mooneyes vehicles in this blog.  :)

Fresh Dump Bin at Walmart: ZAMAC Mad Mike '95 Mazda RX-7

Fresh dump bin, but there was somebody ahead of me already.  You've heard the horror stories of two collectors going thru bins & pegs at the same time, but I don't think I've ever had horrible experience at that.  If anything, majority of the time, it's cordial & pleasant.  It was no different today.

Since I don't even know what the new releases are or Treasure Hunts are anymore, I let the guy ahead of me do his thing.  I just browsed around him, and did find couple of cars I think I want to keep for myself:

Nova Wagon Gasser?  This is a obvious win.  Sorry the glare's kinda in the way.  Here's the stock photo:

Another keeper I think is this Miata.  It is SWEET:

Heck yeah, dude.  Also picked up few cars for the peeps & random eBay customers.  Already giving away the red 300ZX to customer who bought this from me tonight.  If you buy from me on eBay, make sure to message me right away before the order is processed(link towards top-right of the blog).  Mention the blog, I will throw in a freebie.  ;)

Edit:  Sorry.  You guys probably rather see the ZAMAC RX-7, which I didn't feature in this post at all.  Here are some pics.  Sorry.  :D

Wowza!

Matchbox Nissan Titan Warrior Concept

I saw this one at Walmart, I had to get it.  I'll just share this here, then gift it in the near future to random eBay customer.

Shop my eBay items.  If you are reader of the blog, use the "contact seller" & say Minicarpics Blog.  You will receive a bonus gift with your order.  Contact me immediately after the purchase(or even before).  Thanks guys!

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.