Hong Kong Recap - Hot Wheels

Over the next week (or two) there will be a series of blog entries regarding my finds (or lack of finds) from my recent trip to Hong Kong.

I was warned before heading over to Hong Kong that Hot Wheels had only a small presence in the country and that Matchbox was basically not sold in the country. For the most part, this turned out to be very true - Toys R Us had some nice areas devoted to Hot Wheels but the range of cars at the stores were somewhat small with mainline cars being several cases behind what was being found in New Zealand as I left. In saying that, I did see examples of the Ford Performance 8 car set, the Gran Turismo 8 car set and some character cars that I had not seen in person before.

My only purchase was a single car - and was quite by accident.
I cam across a small wire bin (aka, a dump bin) at an out of the way Toys R Us store and started flipping the cards. One of the flips revealed a car that I was not expecting to find - a Super Treasure Hunt Bad Mudder 2. It wasn't in the best shape, but one can never leave a Super behind