You should never stop mentioning how bad the printing process used by Mattel for their premium products is. How are they going to ever change if we keep quiet about it? This is premium and it looks ugly. Heck! it even looks worse than their silver line, or anything coming out from the competition, in that price range. Majorette could teach them a thing or two about how to make it look good without breaking the bank.
I think it has to do with any mattel car made in thailand. Mattel makes the disney pixar cars and thailand and the printing quality on those cars look terrible also
@@hinkleprincess interesting that you should mention Thailand, because that is also were the Majorette factory is and they sure have a better printing process than Mattel.
Okay, I’ve always scratched my head about the obsession around the kislux book totes and their practicality, but this one is adorable!! Congratulations
I think a big part of the problem is Mattel has so many different lines and series now everything gets watered down. Then you get mismatched pairings and castings in sets that doesn’t make much sense. As a result the days of wanting, or needing, a full set of a premium release or every RLC are basically gone. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing! And I agree with the comments about the hobby cooling down. I noticed the price of the Corolla chase has been cut in half on eBay over the past few weeks. So we got that going for us! Keep us the great work and asking the hard questions like why continue to screw us with the sh*tty tampos?! 😊
I think bringing back a certain prancing horse into the premium Hot Wheels lineup (seriously, Mattel, it's time to sublicense Ferrari even if it means paying another toy manufacturer every time you put one out) would greatly revive my own lagging interest in Car Culture. Also, chroming the rims more often. If you check premiums from any early 2010s premium series like Garage, Vintage Racing, Slick Rides (the logo series that became Nostalgia/Pop Culture), or the original Boulevard, while they didn't always get chrome rims (especially if the rims are supposed to represent carbon fibre rims), a much higher percentage of them got chrome compared to today, and I can only presume the scarcity of chrome rims today is a cost-cutting measure. A little chrome does go a long way into making an otherwise lacklustre premium release look classy. I don't know if the Hot Wheels scalper bubble is beginning to burst here in Ottawa but I am definitely seeing more premiums left on the pegs compared to this point a year ago. However that BASF (homage) livery BMW M1 Procar is definitely eluding me and it's easily the car I wanted the most out of the last several Car Culture waves. I also couldn't find that BMW 2-pack from around the beginning of the year.
Tbh, I totally agree with you on the Car Culture situation. It’s been a while since I’ve been looking eagerly to get any of the newer sets on the pegs or even on ebay. I’d rather save and buy actual 1:64 diecasts made by brands like Mini GT, Tarmac, LCD and INNO.
RE Exotic Envy. I was told on good authority by various hobby dealers that there was an error with the 71 Porsche. On some models the words Good Year ended up Good Yea. Mattel subsequently attempted to recall cases and pulled cases from being released. They then opened up every single case to check the Porsches and were supposed to replace with the correct version. Every case was then then double factory sealed with a sticker placed on all 6 sides of each case box. It has been reported that some cases were then missing Porsches replaced with other cars vs correct versions. It’s also been reported that some cases with error Porsches did make it to market. While my 2 cases had no chases I did get all 4 Porsches I should have.
I never buy full sets anymore, they do the same crap too much, that Mclaren was in several sets last year and peg-warmed like crazy, I skip it now. Never find chases around here, I used to try, but it's a waste of gas and time, STH's get hoarded as well so haven't seen one in years, no joke. Keep on reviewing diecast honestly, we'll keep watching! Cheers!😄❤👌
Yes the color of the kislux is beautiful and it is a great decision, maybe one day they will add feet and straps. It would be nice to have a bigger bag during the colder months when we have to store gloves, beanies, scarves, etc…
Wow! Pretty deep question! I think it started with a bang! and then when the excitement died out, they improved the deco and then they brought out a chase to spice things up! But yes we do see a lot of repeating themes, like slide street, exotic envy, japan historics etc. Another thing I have seen is, hot wheels takes 1 casting and immediately runs it in car culture, team transport and boulevard, not to mention they will make slight changes and do a repeat in either the walmart dioramas or the two pack car culture at targets... the variety of cars is coming down
Please keep mentioning the dot matrix printing. A premium line model ought to look premium. Dot-matrix like printing is not premium. Hopefully, one day, Mattel gets the message.
I think you’re spot on and so don’t really get why you bother buying them! 😂 Apart from the terrible paint, surely it’s time to complain about the plastic-looking generic rims that haven’t changed in several years. Whilst the competition is making model-specific rims, HW - with all its economies of scale - still relies on the same set of wheels that just don’t match the cars (their take on the Fuchs wheels for example seriously let down their 911s in a sea of awesome 911s out there on the market).
Your complaints are valid and honest, especially since we are paying $6.50ish per car. These things should be damn nice for that price in my opinion. These two sets are somewhat boring in appearance in my opinion. Both car colors and card art is dark and neutral except for the Porsche ant Toyota. The cars don’t carry any gotcha factor for me. I’m a huge Mustang fan and while the casting is great, the boring battleship grey deco is boring and very disappointing. That’s my personal opinion. Thanks for the vids and keep em coming. FYI that fucking dot matrix shit irritates me too.
Championdjk, while it's true that Mattel is phoning it in with these releases - these diecast are fine at their MSRP. The main problem is that with Hot Wheels being a fad item presently you can't find any of these at retail and they are absolutely NOT worth reseller prices.
Personally, I never found interest in Car Culture. They just never offer any cars I am interested in, and when they do it is in some crazy livery. They have so much potential, the execution just isn’t there.
Could be getting boring for you because you bought them easily and didn't have to hunt for them. I just buy what I like and can find. I don't need to get the whole set if there's only a few I want. Last good set I did want all was the Spectacolare set. Anymore I get more excited about Auto World and Mini GT releases. And some M2.
I like to get the all new or new to premium models in these sets. The repeats I'll stay away from unless it's something really cool like the color, logos or wheels that set them off. Hardly seen any Exotic Envy sets in store and I think the choice of vehicles could have been way better for the set. The Slide Street set is hitting the most I have seen for Car Culture in a while. I think it's an alright set. I would like to see less repeats of stuff and more unique choices of castings, sort of like Boulevards except you gotta be pretty lucky to find those these days!
I like the porsche, love the bmw. I agree about the Aston Martin. Didn't bother opening mine. I think minigt and pop race are way cooler than hot wheels.
My thing with the exotic set is that I don’t really picture an old 911 or a Pro car fitting the “Exotic” theme. The bmw should be in a race set or something. The other three fit the theme, but the Reventon is just okay and the Aston is hideous like you said. The Mclaren 👍🏻
The price increase at least where I live really put me off with matchbox collectors and hotwheels premiums in general. I do find some models interesting but could not justify the price they're asking for. It's hard to find in retail and resellers add 50% - 200% or more profit. I have only bought minigt's this year but I wish minigt would make more older cars and older racing cars like the Lincoln La Carrera Panamericana.
I agree with comments here about HW mailing it in. I think they make too many lines and sublines that nobody wants and they tend to repeat models way too much. Far too many peggers in the mainlines.
Interestingly (in my opinion) the two Premium sets you're reviewing are the worst and the best of HW Car Culture. Exotic Envy 3 is a lazy, tedious set. They didn't even bother to put the Porsche logo on the front of the car. By contrast Slide Street 2 is one of the best Premium sets bar none. All are scale models of real world cars ( the Nissan Z is a drift car fitted with a GTR engine, the Corolla is Ryan Tuerk's 1000bhp drift Corolla) and (again in my opinion) the whole set is super cool and is exactly why I buy Premiums. Enjoying the new style tropical videos 😊
Some of these are OK. I just don't buy many of these anymore. I'm more into premium brands like Mini Gt, Tarmac or other brands like that. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, they are. - Some terrible model/livery selection has been going on recently. It's literal years since I've wanted to get a full set of a series. This third Exotic Envy series...who thought an Orange Reventon was a good idea, on a car that was known for being designed after stealth aircraft? Did nobody at Mattel notice how the Aston Martin V12 Speedster mainline was a massive pegwarmer? I collect Aston Martins, but I don't have any of that casting because it's just FUGLY. They wanted a speedster... and chose this one over the McLaren Elva, imagine that. And a Porsche 911 is NOT 'exotic'! It's a cool car, but the 911 is the most common sports car in the world. Want a Porsche in the Exotic Envy range? Put out a premium Carrera GT. They can do it right, the BMW proves it, but they choose not to. - They are too expensive; as a Japanese businessman would say, the cost-performance is not good. These cost £9 here, where mainlines are £1.50-£2.40. Yes, they have metal bases, rubber wheels, but why are they 4-6 times more than the mainlines, when they are not 4-6 times better? - They keep repeating models, like in Fast and Furious, the silver Chevy Nova keeps coming back, or Deutschland Design had the same Audi S5 in different colours, then it was in Boulevard and now here it is again in World Tour. So many RTR mustangs. TheMcLaren F1 pops up in Jay Leno series and now it's back in Exotic Envy 3. You have tens of thousands of cars you could make, I don't want to buy the same cars several times in quick succession. - They keep putting out relatively new mainlines as premiums, like the McLaren F1 or the LBWK Huracan. If I just got the mainline, my interest in buying it as a premium is lower, especially if the livery is the same. I love that Huracan but I'm not buying another near-identical one just because it's there. Couldn't you do the choc chip camo in desert or woodland colours? - Chases suck. Reserving black for chases is a terrible idea, black cars are too popular for that. I'd like a black GR Corolla, I genuinely would buy that if I had the chance; I'll get this yellow one if I see it but that's a big if. But I have never seen a chase, and I probably never will; I definitely won't be able to afford to buy one. Another part of Mattel's enthusiastic, crappy embrace of artificial scarcity. The printing resolution is not a massive deal to me but it's not ideal. I heard that the reason is that it's a new process that allows them to print every side of a car, and that's a real advance that's worth allowing them to work the kinks out. But the no.1 problem for me: Mattel's shitty distribution methods mean I can't find premiums. The supermarket I shop at recently started stocking them, and it has lots of Exotic Envy 3 (never the Porsche) and nothing else; the toyshop on the retail park I rarely go to has some, but I barely ever have a chance to go there. By contrast seven shops near me have mainlines. British Amazon doesn't sell them, and most other online shops charge a fortune for delivery. I used to live in Japan and Japanese Amazon sold individual, specified Hot Wheels premiums and mainlines no trouble, prime delivery on release day or even earlier. Hey, Mattel, makers of the world's most popular toy, maybe co-ordinate your business with the world's biggest retailers a bit better? Amazon killed all the toyshops, you need someone to sell your products, guys... And where are the new premiums? Where are the silver series semi-premiums? I want to buy them, but nobody sells them here. Mattel are sending cases to UA-camrs to build hype, and then they aren't in the shops. I'm suffering from hype fatigue, I'm sick of not having realistic chances of actually buying these things.
I remember when HW came out with the Car Culture set in the beginning, I was excited for pretty much all the cars in the various sets. But now I don’t collect all the cars in the sets. Firstly I don’t have the space and/or money to get it shipped to Denmark from the US. Secondly I think there’s to many repeats or carry over from previous Car Culture sets. Yes the cars come in various colors and such. And then there’s the color scheme. I don’t always like the colors or the color scheme. Let’s take the GR Corolla. I like the car, just not fan of the RainX and the yellow color scheme, so I don’t buy the car. Why couldn’t they paint the car in the original colors from the Toyota factory or some other plain normal color. And not some racing scheme. If the Toyota GR Corolla had come in a more neutral color, I probably would’ve bought the car. But now I don’t like the color, so I don’t the car - even though I like the GR Corolla IRL. However I did buy the chase GR Corolla, because I love the black car.
Agree with you on the dot matrix paint jobs, they are terrible. Mattel needs to get rid of machine they've purchased & go back to how they were doing it before. I'm 55 & my eyes are shot, I need glasses to see. Even without my glasses on I can see good enough to see how bad the paint quality is. The Porsches mustard & ketchup colors are actually the German flag colors😂. I think the CC series still has some life in it. It depends on the set I guess. I don't care for the exotic envy set & the slide street2 is ok. I want to be excited about the upcoming JH4 & Modern Classics but there's only a few castings between the 2 I'm looking forward to seeing. Yeah I guess it's getting a little boring when I'm only looking forward to 1 or 2 castings in each set.
Yes it is, I'm fed up with those black wheels which look cheap and don't let the collector really appreciate their design, it is all about saving money, where has chrome gone? They hardlly ever use it and for most cars this feature used to give a premium touch.
Ooh-provocative title! You ask me, part of the problem is that they come out so often. And interspersed with Boulevard and F&F, it just seems like I'm constantly desperate to find the next case. Who has time to enjoy them?! And there's so much repetition: Slide Street 2, Japan Historics 4, Modern Classics 4, etc. Obviously, there's some room for greater originality here. One of my favorite CC sets was that Toyota set. I'd like to see more CC releases that really have an obvious and distinctive theme. That said, I think it's pretty obvious that you've been losing interest in Hot Wheels for some time now.
@@jasonmoses6207 very good point. The frequency of premium releases dilutes the excitement. Its hard not to lose interest a little when there are other brands out there to get excited about that make really good scale replicas
Please keep on being critical in poor dot matrix graphics on Hot Wheels Premiums. Mattel needs to step up on quality on premium diecast. It’s even worse when they use poor quality dot matrix graphics on RLC or Matchbox Collector Series cars. The Arsham Porsche 930 & recent Matchbox BMW M3 have poor quality graphics which is awful for $70 and $25 cars , which is why I passed on them. I only buy. 2-3 castings that I really like on Car Culture and Boulevard cars. I haven’t been a completionist in the last 5 years, I just buy what I like. Really liked 1st Exotic Envy set especially Lamborghini Essenza and EB110. My favorite Mustang RSR was the Boulevard Penzoil livery car from a couple of years ago.
Car culture is definitely getting boring. I think boulevard has stolen the thunder for collectors. Not to mention they don’t come up with new themed assortments there’s going to be another modern classics and Japanese historic s. They also have way too many premium lines.
Car Culture has definitely been underwhelming so far this year. That Exotic Envy [3] set is unbelievably bland (that Aston Martin... 🤮), and that 400Z is a BAD HW casting so it brings down Slide Street 2 (though the other 4 are quite nice). World Tour, which is the next mix out, is bland as well (did we really need another VW Golf MkVII or Audi S4?). However,, JH4, Race Day [3], Modern Classics [5], and Terra Trek ate lookong really good.
what’s getting boring is the same shit every day, JDM, JDM, JDM, it’s the same thing, also with stores scalpers, and all that jazz, once in a while, I’ll go to my Hot Wheels, meet, and haggle real good to get what I want at the right price but I never support overpaying, because that’s just feeding in to what they’re therefore, LMAO and I don’t give them that satisfaction
I am going to answer this before I even watch. Yes!!!While I certainly buy them all (only retail by the case as you know) I do agree they are already boring. The quality of the paint doesn’t bother me as much as it does you but I do wish they would get more creative with the actual models. How many more of these same models do we need? Let’s get some different stuff. BTW the same issue plagues the premium F & F releases. Enough already. Now with that said I think the the past 4-5 sets of Blvds have been banging (is that the correct young people term?) and are far better than the car culture stuff. Still could use some model variety but overall way better.
I don't think Car Culture is getting tired. But some of the sets certainly haven't been consistently exciting. Exotic Envy stands out particularly. This last set was just... meh.
From when I started back collecting in 2013-2014 time frame. Yes car culture was dope when it first hit the scene. 10 years later omg that is a long time. Yes it’s getting boring. I would be excited for Blvd cars but soon as they hit pegs or even on the pallet they are gone. To be real Mini gt is slowly taking my collection over now. I still get the sets don’t get it twisted because I’m a set completion person but once I open them they go into a jammer and that’s it gone. I wish someone would do a hot wheels podcast or diecast podcast because I willing to bet a lot of people who been collecting for a long time would say the same thing. The new collectors are sucking the Mattel well dry. I also hate to say it but the car culture series is starting to become the fast and furious line boring
Agreed this set is boring.....nobody wants The Aston Martin version of the Aventador J which needs to be black holed never to be produced again. Just give us a Aston GT12 for goodness sake!! or how about Just give us the first premium ONE-77....a million dollar Aston that has never gone premium and never given us a cool paint job like the speedster in this set. Another thing HOW IN THE WORLD are we yet to see A Lamborghini AVENTADOR SVJ COME ON!!!! Then you have the Liberty walk Huracan but why the same livery as the mainline why not change the color. BMW is the best car in the set as far as execution and cool factor-used to be a Lamborghini project that was abandoned and then purchased by BMW. Porsche horrible color choice.McLaren good choice.
If these were the price of mainlines. I still wouldn’t buy them. Most models are cars that I already have other better HW versions off. LWK Lamborghini is dull Grey, the new Toyota is ruined with Rain X design.
I have noticed that the various set's often include the usual suspects 🙄 the so called popular castings 🙄 they don't give variety 🙄how many skyline or Porsche do you want 🙄 there are 1000s of cars out there 🙄
How could you possibly leave out the part of every slide st car is a real car in real life. And the horrible RTR liveries you mentioned was Adam Lz and Chelsea's bc racing formula drift cars. Or an older one would be Vaughn gittin Jr.
When you make millions of copies of the ugly cars and they just sit on the pegs because no one wants them yes it gets boring. Why don't hotwheels learn their lesson?
Car Culture is more hit or miss than ever before. Exotic Envy always is a miss for me, this one more than the others. Slide Street is a pretty neat idea maybe if they do it again it will be overplayed. Need more outside the box ideas - rally, vintage v8 racing, old imsa liveries, Baja trucks, lowriders maybe.
Over all not a fan of this Exotic Envy set. The Porsche is nice. Lambo is not my kinda car. I HATED the BMW, damn that is horrible. Looks like the Target logo gone mad. That green thing is hideous. Mclaren F1 is nice, No complaints there. The Slide set is a winner for me, all are keepers. Thanks for putting these videos out there.
I don’t even care about buying them or looking for them. Car Culture is boring. I’m also getting tired of the rlc, overpriced and quality issues. I passed on that ugly Nissan pickup truck
You should never stop mentioning how bad the printing process used by Mattel for their premium products is. How are they going to ever change if we keep quiet about it? This is premium and it looks ugly. Heck! it even looks worse than their silver line, or anything coming out from the competition, in that price range. Majorette could teach them a thing or two about how to make it look good without breaking the bank.
I think it has to do with any mattel car made in thailand. Mattel makes the disney pixar cars and thailand and the printing quality on those cars look terrible also
@@hinkleprincess interesting that you should mention Thailand, because that is also were the Majorette factory is and they sure have a better printing process than Mattel.
Truth
I actually would prefer that way so we can still troll those fomos buying these “premium” junk😂
Stating facts in not complaining, keep it up
Okay, I’ve always scratched my head about the obsession around the kislux book totes and their practicality, but this one is adorable!! Congratulations
My Favorite Is The GR Corolla ❤
same here
I think a big part of the problem is Mattel has so many different lines and series now everything gets watered down. Then you get mismatched pairings and castings in sets that doesn’t make much sense. As a result the days of wanting, or needing, a full set of a premium release or every RLC are basically gone. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing! And I agree with the comments about the hobby cooling down. I noticed the price of the Corolla chase has been cut in half on eBay over the past few weeks. So we got that going for us! Keep us the great work and asking the hard questions like why continue to screw us with the sh*tty tampos?! 😊
I think bringing back a certain prancing horse into the premium Hot Wheels lineup (seriously, Mattel, it's time to sublicense Ferrari even if it means paying another toy manufacturer every time you put one out) would greatly revive my own lagging interest in Car Culture.
Also, chroming the rims more often. If you check premiums from any early 2010s premium series like Garage, Vintage Racing, Slick Rides (the logo series that became Nostalgia/Pop Culture), or the original Boulevard, while they didn't always get chrome rims (especially if the rims are supposed to represent carbon fibre rims), a much higher percentage of them got chrome compared to today, and I can only presume the scarcity of chrome rims today is a cost-cutting measure. A little chrome does go a long way into making an otherwise lacklustre premium release look classy.
I don't know if the Hot Wheels scalper bubble is beginning to burst here in Ottawa but I am definitely seeing more premiums left on the pegs compared to this point a year ago. However that BASF (homage) livery BMW M1 Procar is definitely eluding me and it's easily the car I wanted the most out of the last several Car Culture waves. I also couldn't find that BMW 2-pack from around the beginning of the year.
@@SteveBrandon a little chrome will get you home haha
Tbh, I totally agree with you on the Car Culture situation.
It’s been a while since I’ve been looking eagerly to get any of the newer sets on the pegs or even on ebay.
I’d rather save and buy actual 1:64 diecasts made by brands like Mini GT, Tarmac, LCD and INNO.
RE Exotic Envy. I was told on good authority by various hobby dealers that there was an error with the 71 Porsche. On some models the words Good Year ended up Good Yea. Mattel subsequently attempted to recall cases and pulled cases from being released. They then opened up every single case to check the Porsches and were supposed to replace with the correct version. Every case was then then double factory sealed with a sticker placed on all 6 sides of each case box. It has been reported that some cases were then missing Porsches replaced with other cars vs correct versions. It’s also been reported that some cases with error Porsches did make it to market. While my 2 cases had no chases I did get all 4 Porsches I should have.
The color of that 240sx in real life is called Moss Metallic. It’s a factory color, one of the best colors for that gen
I never buy full sets anymore, they do the same crap too much, that Mclaren was in several sets last year and peg-warmed like crazy, I skip it now. Never find chases around here, I used to try, but it's a waste of gas and time, STH's get hoarded as well so haven't seen one in years, no joke. Keep on reviewing diecast honestly, we'll keep watching! Cheers!😄❤👌
Yes the color of the kislux is beautiful and it is a great decision, maybe one day they will add feet and straps. It would be nice to have a bigger bag during the colder months when we have to store gloves, beanies, scarves, etc…
The Corolla is a nice casting “Rain X” livery is HORRIBLE. I’ll wait for a clean version.
I like it, and I got the chase too fortunately so it’s awesome to have clean one too
Wow! Pretty deep question! I think it started with a bang! and then when the excitement died out, they improved the deco and then they brought out a chase to spice things up! But yes we do see a lot of repeating themes, like slide street, exotic envy, japan historics etc. Another thing I have seen is, hot wheels takes 1 casting and immediately runs it in car culture, team transport and boulevard, not to mention they will make slight changes and do a repeat in either the walmart dioramas or the two pack car culture at targets... the variety of cars is coming down
Please keep mentioning the dot matrix printing. A premium line model ought to look premium. Dot-matrix like printing is not premium. Hopefully, one day, Mattel gets the message.
I think you’re spot on and so don’t really get why you bother buying them! 😂
Apart from the terrible paint, surely it’s time to complain about the plastic-looking generic rims that haven’t changed in several years. Whilst the competition is making model-specific rims, HW - with all its economies of scale - still relies on the same set of wheels that just don’t match the cars (their take on the Fuchs wheels for example seriously let down their 911s in a sea of awesome 911s out there on the market).
Actually scored the slide street set today at target
Your complaints are valid and honest, especially since we are paying $6.50ish per car. These things should be damn nice for that price in my opinion. These two sets are somewhat boring in appearance in my opinion. Both car colors and card art is dark and neutral except for the Porsche ant Toyota. The cars don’t carry any gotcha factor for me. I’m a huge Mustang fan and while the casting is great, the boring battleship grey deco is boring and very disappointing. That’s my personal opinion. Thanks for the vids and keep em coming. FYI that fucking dot matrix shit irritates me too.
Championdjk, while it's true that Mattel is phoning it in with these releases - these diecast are fine at their MSRP. The main problem is that with Hot Wheels being a fad item presently you can't find any of these at retail and they are absolutely NOT worth reseller prices.
Boring indeed, you've nailed it well DJK!!!
HEY kislux I have been watching you for years and im so proud of where you have made it! I love you so much! Also thanks for making my day
@@LelahDimuzio wtf is a kislux?
Personally, I never found interest in Car Culture. They just never offer any cars I am interested in, and when they do it is in some crazy livery. They have so much potential, the execution just isn’t there.
Could be getting boring for you because you bought them easily and didn't have to hunt for them. I just buy what I like and can find. I don't need to get the whole set if there's only a few I want. Last good set I did want all was the Spectacolare set. Anymore I get more excited about Auto World and Mini GT releases. And some M2.
@@michaelelmore5103 good points
Car culture only makes sense if your buying them at actually price, If you’re paying double digits, ur better off with another brand
I like to get the all new or new to premium models in these sets. The repeats I'll stay away from unless it's something really cool like the color, logos or wheels that set them off. Hardly seen any Exotic Envy sets in store and I think the choice of vehicles could have been way better for the set. The Slide Street set is hitting the most I have seen for Car Culture in a while. I think it's an alright set. I would like to see less repeats of stuff and more unique choices of castings, sort of like Boulevards except you gotta be pretty lucky to find those these days!
I like the porsche, love the bmw. I agree about the Aston Martin. Didn't bother opening mine.
I think minigt and pop race are way cooler than hot wheels.
All dat kislux bags sssssoooooooo gorgeous
Japan historics 4 looks good
My thing with the exotic set is that I don’t really picture an old 911 or a Pro car fitting the “Exotic” theme. The bmw should be in a race set or something. The other three fit the theme, but the Reventon is just okay and the Aston is hideous like you said. The Mclaren 👍🏻
@@CorysDieCastDen great callout
totally agree with the pixelated graphics on that yellow Porsche. Hate cars that have those style graphics.
My favorite releases so far this year have been in F&F.
The price increase at least where I live really put me off with matchbox collectors and hotwheels premiums in general. I do find some models interesting but could not justify the price they're asking for. It's hard to find in retail and resellers add 50% - 200% or more profit.
I have only bought minigt's this year but I wish minigt would make more older cars and older racing cars like the Lincoln La Carrera Panamericana.
I just scored a street slide 2 Chase 2023 Toyota Corolla on the rack
En el momento en que vi el bolso kislux , supe que tenía que tenerlo.
lol I like the M1 best and also hate open top cars
I agree with comments here about HW mailing it in. I think they make too many lines and sublines that nobody wants and they tend to repeat models way too much. Far too many peggers in the mainlines.
I agree 100% on all of it
Based opinion, I respect you.
Great video shoot anymore they good wheel doners lol but at the rate stores keep raising prices almost be not worth it for the wheels lol
Nice work, djk :)
@@byrnedoyle7539 thanks boss!
Yes ...! Just went after the chase..!🤔
I don’t miss a day a week kislux This show..
Interestingly (in my opinion) the two Premium sets you're reviewing are the worst and the best of HW Car Culture. Exotic Envy 3 is a lazy, tedious set. They didn't even bother to put the Porsche logo on the front of the car. By contrast Slide Street 2 is one of the best Premium sets bar none. All are scale models of real world cars ( the Nissan Z is a drift car fitted with a GTR engine, the Corolla is Ryan Tuerk's 1000bhp drift Corolla) and (again in my opinion) the whole set is super cool and is exactly why I buy Premiums. Enjoying the new style tropical videos 😊
Some of these are OK. I just don't buy many of these anymore. I'm more into premium brands like Mini Gt, Tarmac or other brands like that. Thank you for sharing.
mini gt cars are getting really bad now
Yes, they are.
- Some terrible model/livery selection has been going on recently. It's literal years since I've wanted to get a full set of a series. This third Exotic Envy series...who thought an Orange Reventon was a good idea, on a car that was known for being designed after stealth aircraft? Did nobody at Mattel notice how the Aston Martin V12 Speedster mainline was a massive pegwarmer? I collect Aston Martins, but I don't have any of that casting because it's just FUGLY. They wanted a speedster... and chose this one over the McLaren Elva, imagine that. And a Porsche 911 is NOT 'exotic'! It's a cool car, but the 911 is the most common sports car in the world. Want a Porsche in the Exotic Envy range? Put out a premium Carrera GT. They can do it right, the BMW proves it, but they choose not to.
- They are too expensive; as a Japanese businessman would say, the cost-performance is not good. These cost £9 here, where mainlines are £1.50-£2.40. Yes, they have metal bases, rubber wheels, but why are they 4-6 times more than the mainlines, when they are not 4-6 times better?
- They keep repeating models, like in Fast and Furious, the silver Chevy Nova keeps coming back, or Deutschland Design had the same Audi S5 in different colours, then it was in Boulevard and now here it is again in World Tour. So many RTR mustangs. TheMcLaren F1 pops up in Jay Leno series and now it's back in Exotic Envy 3. You have tens of thousands of cars you could make, I don't want to buy the same cars several times in quick succession.
- They keep putting out relatively new mainlines as premiums, like the McLaren F1 or the LBWK Huracan. If I just got the mainline, my interest in buying it as a premium is lower, especially if the livery is the same. I love that Huracan but I'm not buying another near-identical one just because it's there. Couldn't you do the choc chip camo in desert or woodland colours?
- Chases suck. Reserving black for chases is a terrible idea, black cars are too popular for that. I'd like a black GR Corolla, I genuinely would buy that if I had the chance; I'll get this yellow one if I see it but that's a big if. But I have never seen a chase, and I probably never will; I definitely won't be able to afford to buy one. Another part of Mattel's enthusiastic, crappy embrace of artificial scarcity.
The printing resolution is not a massive deal to me but it's not ideal. I heard that the reason is that it's a new process that allows them to print every side of a car, and that's a real advance that's worth allowing them to work the kinks out.
But the no.1 problem for me: Mattel's shitty distribution methods mean I can't find premiums. The supermarket I shop at recently started stocking them, and it has lots of Exotic Envy 3 (never the Porsche) and nothing else; the toyshop on the retail park I rarely go to has some, but I barely ever have a chance to go there. By contrast seven shops near me have mainlines. British Amazon doesn't sell them, and most other online shops charge a fortune for delivery. I used to live in Japan and Japanese Amazon sold individual, specified Hot Wheels premiums and mainlines no trouble, prime delivery on release day or even earlier. Hey, Mattel, makers of the world's most popular toy, maybe co-ordinate your business with the world's biggest retailers a bit better? Amazon killed all the toyshops, you need someone to sell your products, guys... And where are the new premiums? Where are the silver series semi-premiums? I want to buy them, but nobody sells them here. Mattel are sending cases to UA-camrs to build hype, and then they aren't in the shops. I'm suffering from hype fatigue, I'm sick of not having realistic chances of actually buying these things.
I remember when HW came out with the Car Culture set in the beginning, I was excited for pretty much all the cars in the various sets. But now I don’t collect all the cars in the sets. Firstly I don’t have the space and/or money to get it shipped to Denmark from the US. Secondly I think there’s to many repeats or carry over from previous Car Culture sets. Yes the cars come in various colors and such. And then there’s the color scheme. I don’t always like the colors or the color scheme. Let’s take the GR Corolla. I like the car, just not fan of the RainX and the yellow color scheme, so I don’t buy the car. Why couldn’t they paint the car in the original colors from the Toyota factory or some other plain normal color. And not some racing scheme. If the Toyota GR Corolla had come in a more neutral color, I probably would’ve bought the car. But now I don’t like the color, so I don’t the car - even though I like the GR Corolla IRL. However I did buy the chase GR Corolla, because I love the black car.
Agree with you on the dot matrix paint jobs, they are terrible. Mattel needs to get rid of machine they've purchased & go back to how they were doing it before. I'm 55 & my eyes are shot, I need glasses to see. Even without my glasses on I can see good enough to see how bad the paint quality is. The Porsches mustard & ketchup colors are actually the German flag colors😂. I think the CC series still has some life in it. It depends on the set I guess. I don't care for the exotic envy set & the slide street2 is ok. I want to be excited about the upcoming JH4 & Modern Classics but there's only a few castings between the 2 I'm looking forward to seeing. Yeah I guess it's getting a little boring when I'm only looking forward to 1 or 2 castings in each set.
Yes it is, I'm fed up with those black wheels which look cheap and don't let the collector really appreciate their design, it is all about saving money, where has chrome gone? They hardlly ever use it and for most cars this feature used to give a premium touch.
Ooh-provocative title! You ask me, part of the problem is that they come out so often. And interspersed with Boulevard and F&F, it just seems like I'm constantly desperate to find the next case. Who has time to enjoy them?! And there's so much repetition: Slide Street 2, Japan Historics 4, Modern Classics 4, etc. Obviously, there's some room for greater originality here. One of my favorite CC sets was that Toyota set. I'd like to see more CC releases that really have an obvious and distinctive theme.
That said, I think it's pretty obvious that you've been losing interest in Hot Wheels for some time now.
@@jasonmoses6207 very good point. The frequency of premium releases dilutes the excitement. Its hard not to lose interest a little when there are other brands out there to get excited about that make really good scale replicas
Car culture is taking the Garage cars path. Cool at first then just got overdone
Please keep on being critical in poor dot matrix graphics on Hot Wheels Premiums. Mattel needs to step up on quality on premium diecast. It’s even worse when they use poor quality dot matrix graphics on RLC or Matchbox Collector Series cars. The Arsham Porsche 930 & recent Matchbox BMW M3 have poor quality graphics which is awful for $70 and $25 cars , which is why I passed on them. I only buy. 2-3 castings that I really like on Car Culture and Boulevard cars. I haven’t been a completionist in the last 5 years, I just buy what I like. Really liked 1st Exotic Envy set especially Lamborghini Essenza and EB110. My favorite Mustang RSR was the Boulevard Penzoil livery car from a couple of years ago.
Car culture is definitely getting boring. I think boulevard has stolen the thunder for collectors. Not to mention they don’t come up with new themed assortments there’s going to be another modern classics and Japanese historic s. They also have way too many premium lines.
Ill never understand the cars with the giant white meatball on the sides. I know what its for, it just doesnt look good.
Car Culture has definitely been underwhelming so far this year. That Exotic Envy [3] set is unbelievably bland (that Aston Martin... 🤮), and that 400Z is a BAD HW casting so it brings down Slide Street 2 (though the other 4 are quite nice). World Tour, which is the next mix out, is bland as well (did we really need another VW Golf MkVII or Audi S4?).
However,, JH4, Race Day [3], Modern Classics [5], and Terra Trek ate lookong really good.
yes. to answer your question it is getting tired
what’s getting boring is the same shit every day, JDM, JDM, JDM, it’s the same thing, also with stores scalpers, and all that jazz, once in a while, I’ll go to my Hot Wheels, meet, and haggle real good to get what I want at the right price
but I never support overpaying, because that’s just feeding in to what they’re therefore, LMAO and I don’t give them that satisfaction
I bought BASF blank casettet tapes back in the day. They didn't make those, they had their name on them?
@@Foamyhead13 I just remember that line from commercials back in the day. Not sure what exactly they made… but yeah I remember tapes
I also remember that slogan. I didn't expect you to know, I guess I was just dating myself and trying to be funny. Great videos as always.
Oh yeah, the only one I got was the S14.
I am going to answer this before I even watch. Yes!!!While I certainly buy them all (only retail by the case as you know) I do agree they are already boring. The quality of the paint doesn’t bother me as much as it does you but I do wish they would get more creative with the actual models. How many more of these same models do we need? Let’s get some different stuff. BTW the same issue plagues the premium F & F releases. Enough already.
Now with that said I think the the past 4-5 sets of Blvds have been banging (is that the correct young people term?) and are far better than the car culture stuff. Still could use some model variety but overall way better.
I don't think Car Culture is getting tired. But some of the sets certainly haven't been consistently exciting.
Exotic Envy stands out particularly. This last set was just... meh.
Hot wheels compared to current brands is basic in all lines (mainline, premium, RLC, etc) paint, alloy molds, details are obsolete and horrible.
From when I started back collecting in 2013-2014 time frame. Yes car culture was dope when it first hit the scene. 10 years later omg that is a long time. Yes it’s getting boring. I would be excited for Blvd cars but soon as they hit pegs or even on the pallet they are gone. To be real Mini gt is slowly taking my collection over now. I still get the sets don’t get it twisted because I’m a set completion person but once I open them they go into a jammer and that’s it gone. I wish someone would do a hot wheels podcast or diecast podcast because I willing to bet a lot of people who been collecting for a long time would say the same thing. The new collectors are sucking the Mattel well dry. I also hate to say it but the car culture series is starting to become the fast and furious line boring
Agreed this set is boring.....nobody wants The Aston Martin version of the Aventador J which needs to be black holed never to be produced again. Just give us a Aston GT12 for goodness sake!! or how about Just give us the first premium ONE-77....a million dollar Aston that has never gone premium and never given us a cool paint job like the speedster in this set. Another thing HOW IN THE WORLD are we yet to see A Lamborghini AVENTADOR SVJ COME ON!!!! Then you have the Liberty walk Huracan but why the same livery as the mainline why not change the color. BMW is the best car in the set as far as execution and cool factor-used to be a Lamborghini project that was abandoned and then purchased by BMW. Porsche horrible color choice.McLaren good choice.
Whole HW collection is getting boring
I miss diecast weekly….thats all I’m sayin’
If these were the price of mainlines. I still wouldn’t buy them. Most models are cars that I already have other better HW versions off. LWK Lamborghini is dull Grey, the new Toyota is ruined with Rain X design.
Nah. Collectors complain too damn much.
There hasn't been an iconic car since the 80s. Everything looks the same runs the same.
I have noticed that the various set's often include the usual suspects 🙄 the so called popular castings 🙄 they don't give variety 🙄how many skyline or Porsche do you want 🙄 there are 1000s of cars out there 🙄
How could you possibly leave out the part of every slide st car is a real car in real life. And the horrible RTR liveries you mentioned was Adam Lz and Chelsea's bc racing formula drift cars. Or an older one would be Vaughn gittin Jr.
When you make millions of copies of the ugly cars and they just sit on the pegs because no one wants them yes it gets boring. Why don't hotwheels learn their lesson?
It's Hotwheels- yes its boring.
Car Culture is more hit or miss than ever before. Exotic Envy always is a miss for me, this one more than the others. Slide Street is a pretty neat idea maybe if they do it again it will be overplayed. Need more outside the box ideas - rally, vintage v8 racing, old imsa liveries, Baja trucks, lowriders maybe.
@@josephruggeri2982 all good ideas
You are losing interest because the cars are getting boring. I’m shipping the next set World Tour out to you this week.
Hoping to like that set more than these two
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Over all not a fan of this Exotic Envy set.
The Porsche is nice.
Lambo is not my kinda car.
I HATED the BMW, damn that is horrible. Looks like the Target logo gone mad.
That green thing is hideous.
Mclaren F1 is nice, No complaints there.
The Slide set is a winner for me, all are keepers.
Thanks for putting these videos out there.
The BMW is a legitimate racing livery. BASF livery there are still race cars that have had that livery in the modern day
@@Peterd1900 Thanks, very interesting. I would never thought to have tried to look it up as a legitimate livery.
I don’t even care about buying them or looking for them. Car Culture is boring. I’m also getting tired of the rlc, overpriced and quality issues. I passed on that ugly Nissan pickup truck
Yes. Boring cars. They need to mix it up more. I left ALL the Slide Street 2 cars on the pegs. 🥱