Hot Wheels Parcels - Self Xmas Present 01

Knowing that I had a couple of parcels headed towards the parcel forwarding company I use in Portland, I decided to have a look around eBay and other online stores in order to play catchup on some items I was after. Eventually some parcels arrived and without wanting to be faced with customs and import taxes for having a very large parcel, I split the shipment and sent four parcels on their way to New Zealand leaving the rest to wait for stragglers and late purchases to arrive.

All these parcels can also be considered Christmas presents to myself, however I have opened them well before "the big day".

Rather than split the shipment into each parcel as ordered, the shipment will be split based on the brand's received in the entire shipment - presenting the Hot Wheels portion of the parcel

With word from the New Zealand supplier I had gotten the rest of my Heritage from that he had run out of full sets and could not supply the Nissan Skyline, I decided to head to eBay and Toy Peddler and eventually purchased a set of six along with an extra Skyline for DCTV, along with another item (to be featured in another blog post). Overall, while it took a bit longer to arrive in New Zealand, the cost was significantly less than purchasing from the local importer. In hand the cars I thought I may part with actually look better than I thought they would and still may have a future in the collection.

In looking for "something extra" I found a seller who had a "reasonably priced" (for a Ferrari) Ferrari Speed Machine I had been wanting to add to my collection. Looking at the sellers other listing, he had one other Speed Machine that I had already but not on USA packaging so it was added to the parcel and finally I decided to add a 100% Black Box collectable to the order.

After a few false starts and delays to the ever growing list of website issues, the HWC team finally decided on a date for the sale of the 55 Gasser, one of the hottest items for the year. As expected the sale turned into a massive [insert swear words here] with the purchase taking over an hour for people to complete. While not a huge Gasser fan, it was an item I was still on the fence about getting, even as I got out of bed to complete the sale but I eventually decided it would be a gap in the collection I would want to fill and getting it on the secondary market would cost an arm and a leg, along with probably a kidney and lung as well...