2013 Comes to an End

With the release of the Neo Classics Blown Delivery, Series 12 of the Red Line Club from 2013 finally comes to an end. We got there, but boy was it a struggle!

With at least 6 new backorder dates appearing throughout 2014, the car was finally released a couple of days after Christmas. Once the car got here, everything was as it should have been and you can tell that Mattel had been listening to our concerns about quality as the bubble around the car was back to being a form fitting bubble, unlike the earlier 2013 Real Riders Blown Delivery.

The weekend before Christmas, HWC announced another sale of left over items from the store, and with that sale another returning item that had been previously sold out. Unlike the last sale for Cyber Monday, this item wasn't going to be on sale or qualify for free postage but would come with a free car.

The item in question was the 2012 Holiday Car - another Blown Delivery, while the free car would be the 2014 J Case Super Treasure Hunt, the 64 Nova Station Wagon. HWC Gary did warn us that there would be limited numbers available, and at 4.55am on Saturday 20th December 2014 I was up, ready with the page ready to do a mad refresh as we got closer to 5am (8am Pacific Time, 19th December 2014 - time zones).

At 5am, I was able to add the Blown Delivery to my cart and flew through checkout and then went to check out if the item had sold out. I was actually able to almost get through checkout again but stopped myself due to financial limitations and not being able to remember if it was a one per order limit or a one per order and account limit.

In hand the Holiday Blown Delivery is excellent, as the majority of Red Line Club cars are and it is very good to have at least one Holiday car after the disaster that was the 2013 Holiday Car.