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(More customer reviews)Howlin' Heat was originally released in a dark sand yellow colour as part of the mass produced Hot Wheels range in 2010. Must have sold well because Hot Wheels released it again in the 2011 range sold in supermarkets, department and toy stores everywhere, which means you shouldn't have too look to hard, or pay too much to get one of these for your collection. This time round the colour of the body (or wolf's head) is black, with a red undercarriage and silver teeth. The hubcaps are also red and black.
I love the Hot Wheels creature cars, and the advantage Howlin' Heat has over a lot of other creature cars, is that it still resembles something that potentially could appear on the roads. I mean Fangster, Hot Wheels 2010-179/240 Sharkruiser and other creature cars look great, don't get me wrong, I own them as well, but where the hey does the driver sit in those vehicles. Howlin Heat, even has room for a passenger.
The teeth and side windows (it doesn't actually have a windshield so I guess it probably wouldn't pass a roadworthy certificate after all), are a nice shiny silver colour. In fact the windows are actually reflective mirrors which is handy for the werewolf if it comes across a human it is not sure is its arch enemy, a vampire or not. If they don't reflect the car known instantly to just run them down! The vehicle's rear spoiler also nicely looks like canine ears and it also has sort of a tail marking, where the boot (trunk) would be, if there was one, which there's not. There's no doors either but the lack of these things does add to the werewolf look and the fact that maybe this one, is alive and doesn't need a driver. Or if it does need the driver it just opens its mouth and they get in that way. It also has a reflective panel between the rear spoilers, in the shape of a fish, ghost or something, no idea what's that for, maybe bats flying overhead, if they don't reflect it knows they are in fact morphed vampires. A little Hot Wheels ribbon logo is in front of that shiny thing. I guess this vehicle could also pass more as an unofficial fairy tale wolf vehicle with the red maybe representing little red riding hood's cloak or something. Or we could still say it's a werewolf and the red is blood.
The rear wheels are a lot bigger than the front two, and look good with the car. The front two are your normal cheap mass produced cars, but that's okay since this car is from the normal mass produced range after all, so they did need to keep the costs down. For the non taker out of the blister pack collector, this one comes with a nice picture of the front part of the vehicle which other than having white teeth, looks pretty much like the actual car. Most mass market Hot Wheels vehicles use one of a couple of standard backing cards, so this is a nice bonus! The card is also different from last years Howlin' Heat in that with the previous year it was a picture of the entire vehicle.
Anyway, get one of these while they're still cheap, and if you're reading this years into the future when you can only obtain them online, I'd still get one too.
Another creature car Croc Rod has also been released as part of the 2011 mass produced vehicles range.
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