Scooby-doo Mystery Machine Johnny Lightning Die Cast Review

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(More customer reviews)Johnny Lightning has outdone all other manufacturers when it comes to the Mystery Machine. Their 1:64 sized (standard everyday Matchbox, Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightning etc size) Mystery Machines are the same as the drawings of the van in the classic Scooby Doo cartoon series. Other manufacturers such as Matchbox just repaint any old van and try and pass it off as the Mystery Machine. You'll find Matchbox's one in Matchbox TV Heroes 5-Pack Scooby Doo. Matchbox has quite a few vehicles in other five packs as well with Scooby Doo show characters and scenes icons on them, some are quite good so they are worth checking out but if it's the Mystery Machine that actually looks like the Mystery Machine that you're after, you've got to go with Johnny Lightning.
Since obviously after investing all the money in designing and making the mould there's no way you can pass the Mystery Machine off as other vehicles, so the vehicle has been released by Johnny Lightning quite a few times. I would not doubt it will be done in the future as well. The versions out there are from Hollywood on Wheels Release 3 are the ones that are the ones that people who just want vehicles that were in TV programs and not promoting them. One is the same colour one as the one for sale here, but with no dog or other character on the roof. The other is a darker green one again with no character on the roof. Those two are the hardest and most expensive to obtain. They also have roof racks which the ones with characters on them don't.
Four more were released in Hollywood on Wheels Release 5. One was sort of a shiny looking tacky looking metallic dark green colour again with no character on the roof and roof racks. One was the one for sale on this page, the light colour with Scooby on the roof but no roof racks. The other two were again the same colour this time with either a zombie or Shaggy on the roof and no roof racks.
There was also a version with the roof racks that has no paint on it at all so looks like metal. It was released in the Hollywood on Wheels Raw release. Unless you're really into Scooby Doo and collecting all the Mystery Machines you'll probably want one of the others. That one is pretty rare and hard to find too.


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Matchbox 5 Pack Diecast Cars - Scooby-Doo (with Dune Buggy) Review

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(More customer reviews)Okay, maybe they aren't the all-metal Made in U.K. little cars of my childhood, but they are still pretty sturdy, and have some nice features. This set features Scooby Doo insignia on off-road vehicles, purchased because they feature Scooby Doo, a favorite cartoon character. The cars are still made partially of metal, but the chassis are made of plastic, and they are Made in China now (of course). Still, not a bad little set of cars for imaginary travels and adventure, the details are good, and the decals are truly great for such miniatures. Overall, Matchbox cars are still a good deal!

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Disney / Pixar Toy Story 3 Hot Wheels Die Cast Vehicle Turbo Chunk Review

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(More customer reviews)Turbo Chunk is the hardest to find of the 8 Hot Wheels Toy Story 3 character cars and therefore due to supply and demand the most expensive to obtain from online auctions and sellers. I'm guessing there's only one or two of these in a shipment box sent to stores with obviously the majority being for the more popular characters Wheelin' Woody, Rex Rider and Blastin Buzz. When you see the Turbo Chunk vehicle in the flesh (well metal) you can sort of understand why Mattel didn't have confidence to take the gamble of producing a lot of these things and hoping people would buy them. It's pretty much just a light orange semi truck without a trailer.
The only thing that links it at all to the toy character in the movie, besides the colour I guess, is the stalagmite type bumps on the roof of the cab. That's it nothing else. They could have at the very least put the stomach face thing from the character on the front grill of the truck. All that's there is a shiny reflective rectangle that's the same material they put in the windshield and side windows and what they made the engine out of. His arms with the distinctive hands could have extended backwards behind the cab maybe palms open where the rear wheel is. Really there's a lot of things that could have happened in the design faze. It's almost like they had decided and designed the other seven vehicles and then someone said, well you know we really should have eight vehicles and with no time left to design anything someone just grabbed a truck, said "Let's just paint it orange and put some triangles on the roof and pass it off as this character".
With nothing really identifying this vehicle as the character you've pretty much got to leave it in the packaging so people know what it is. The packaging isn't designed to be able to be opened without being destroyed, which is another negative for this item. Unless you absolutely have to collect every car in the series, I'd give this one a miss, especially if you can't get it for more than a few dollars.


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Toy Story > Hotwheels: Hamm on Wheels Die Cast Vehicle Review

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(More customer reviews)Hamm on Wheels is one of the better character cars representing the characters from Toy Story 3. I think this was originally designed to appear in the normal mass produced vehicles due to some of the design, and I would have bought it from there as it is a great representation of pigs on wheels and as good as most of the other creature cars Hot Wheels has brought out. As a representation of the specific money box character from the Toy Story movies though, I think it's good but could have better. I would have liked to have seen Hamm's oversized nose on the front of the car, it's a prominent feature of his character on screen and it really needed to be on the car and should be where the grill is. I think the engine and massive exhaust pipes were there when this was just in the regular mass produced range faze of design. The exhaust pipes didn't need to be there, which would also have kept the consistency with the other 7 vehicles in this series. If they wanted to include an engine maybe it would have been better to resemble the top of a coin or a note. The windshields would have also represented Hamm more if they were round like his eyes.
I would have also liked to see the belly cork that keeps the money in on the undercarriage or something since this was also a major part of his character.
The thing though that annoys me the most about this is that they scrapped the wheels with the gold hubcaps with the cent and dollar sign symbols and just grabbed some from the mass produced range. Now if this was sold in the mass produced range that would have been fine but these vehicles retailed for about six times the price so Mattel should have absorbed the few extra cents it costs them to mass produce and put them on these cars. Mattel and Hot Wheels did similar things with Wheelin' Woody, Rex Rider and some of the other cars too which I don't think is right since buyers did pay a premium price for these at the checkout and leaving them the same as their prototypes would have justified that.
But Hamm on Wheels is what it is and it's still a great car. The packaging it comes in is pretty good. There is a nice image of the character in the bottom right corner, I would have liked to have not seen the 3 in the Toy Story 3 logo so it could represent all three and any future movies but you can't have everything.

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