2016 Hot Wheels Entertainment

Hot Wheels Retro Entertainment (officially just called Entertainment since 2014) has been one of my favourite Hot Wheels series to collect since its introduction in 2013 and has added many cars into the collection. With the reduced number of waves in 2015, I thought the line was on its last legs but thankfully I was wrong as the 2016 release list was published over at Hot Wheels Collectors.

Sadly, the first two mixes of 2016 were mostly rehashes from previous years (a business decision I can understand) and so my rush to import the cases from the USA was reduced as there was a good chance that with the new case assortment code they would be marketed as "new" to distributors meaning they would be sold in New Zealand - well the first wave anyway.

Reading through one of the posts on a New Zealand Hot Wheels Facebook group, I noticed that someone had posted an image of the first 2016 Entertainment wave being found at "The Warehouse" (New Zealand's version of Walmart), and so I made plans the next day to head to those stores at lunch and after work to see what I could find. Later that evening I also received a text message from a collector friend who happens to work at the small Warehouse store just down the road from home advising they had received a case of Entertainment.

The next day, after making my way through 3 branches of the Warehouse, I had my Mix A requirements - a full set along with an opener of the Batman v Superman Batmobile, along with a set for spankymark72 and a set for another New Zealand collector who is currently out of the country.

*Waits for Mix 2*