Hot Wheels Rewards

One of the perks of being a Red Line Club member, is that if you purchase a car during the early access period you get Reward Points (typically 3 points, but sometimes only 2). At the end of the year the club advises of a special edition Rewards Car that you spend your accumulated points on, and also offers older items from the club store.

In early November the club announced the 2014/2015 rewards period and due to the website change, it had its fair share of issues - the PDF wouldn't work for some users (and even Mattel), and the Excel file brought in to fix the PDF was also problematic and eventually plain text emails were requested as the main communication method of advising what was required.

Eventually the box of in stock older items I order arrived at the shipping forwarder facility and arrived with other items as previously reported on via Youtube and this blog and in essence this parcel can also be considered as another Christmas presents to myself, however opened well before "the big day".

The only issue with only having older items to offer along side the made to order rewards car is that I have been purchasing those older cars during the year and/or already received the cars I was after in 2013 when I completed my first year of being an RLC member. Thus the selection of available cars only had a few items of interest and as a result, I had a few options (a) order way more of the rewards car then I really needed, (b) order cars I already had and try to either sell them or open them or (c) order cars I wouldn't normally consider adding to the collection.

I decided to go with adding cars I wouldn't normally consider adding to the collection, which in this case means adding Hot Wheels own creations (aka, fantasy cars) to the collection.

Sadly there was one issue with the rewards parcel, and I was sent an incorrect item - the Custom Otto in replica 1968 packaging. While a very nice Hot Wheels item, I already had several from a purchase several years ago and due to the size of the packaging did not need any more.