Happy Holidays 56 Ford.
#1 Hot Wheels Pontiac
#1 Hot Wheels Car
#1 Hot Wheels Pontiac promotional salesman car. This car was handed out as a promotional item from Mattel salesman to their accounts to try and promote Mattel's premium (limited editions) business. Car came loose or in a plastic baggie. Very Limited!
Click below for different views of the car
view #2-drivers side
view #3-rearend
view #4-frontend
1999 Mattel Employee Christmas Car
1999 Mattel Employee Christmas Car, designed by Larry Wood and given to employee's by Larry.
Beleive me when I say these Christmas cars by Larry are one of the hardest items to come by in the Hot Wheels line-up!
Pictures borrowed from-Roarin Rods Web Page.
Mattel Employeee Xmas Car 1994.
Mattel Employeee Xmas Car 1994. This car was designed by Larry Wood and presented to Mattel employees by Larry. Just over a 100 were made. Most of the ones I have seen are loose with no box. The car is VUM (vacuum metalized) Green to Smokie color with Gold 7 spoke wheels. The front of the car reads, "Seasons Greetings '94".
1999 SEMA SHOW 57 Chevy PROMO
Hot Wheels SUTC Passion
This Hot Wheels Passion was made to celebrate the opening of a joint venture with Mattel and the Shanghai Toy Company, located in China. I only know of 2 of these cars that made it back to the United States. I was told that only a VERY few of these Passions were made and that ALL of them were handed out on the day of dedication in June of 1999. This is definitely a VERY RARE Hot Wheel car.
"Hot Wheels" 1989 Happy Holiday 57 Chevy
1989 57 Chevy
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This 57 Chevy Hot Wheel was for special Mattel employees.
It is the rarest of all the Hot Wheel Christmas cars.
Including a white and green version of this car only 20 were made.
Hot Wheel-Special Launch Ferrari - 1 of 300
Special Launch Ferrari
The Hot Wheel Car in the picture (click on link) is a 1:64th scale Pewter 1999 Ferrari 360 Modena, mounted on a wooden base. It was produced in a very limited quantity of only 300 and was distributed at the unveiling of the 360 Modena (Geneva press event). Most of the 300 Hot Wheel Cars were given to members of the automotive press.
1991 "Hot Wheels" Employee Flashfire
Employee Flashfire
Heres a Hot Wheels employee car from 1991 very few were made and its an extremly rare Hot Wheels car to find today. This car was made for "Team Malaysia". On the very back of the car it has "PPD", it stands for "Penang Product Development", right rear has "MTSB" this stands for Mattel Tooling Sdn. Bhd., and the left rear has "MMSB" which stands for Mattel Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.. The front of the car has a big "91" on it for 1991. Both sides of the car has "Team Malaysia" on it.
Mattel "Hot Wheels" Employee MBK Camaro
MBK Camaro-Front Package View
MBK Camaro-Back Package View
MBK Camaro-Side View of Car
MBK stands for Mattel Bangkok. This special, and EXTREMELY RARE Hot Wheels Gold Camaro was produced to celebrate the opening of the MBK Plant which opened in June of 1998 in Thailand. This plant was formerly a Matchbox Plant. As you can tell this car is packaged in a 30th Anniversary type package. The back of the package is definately one of the most decorative packages Hot Wheels has ever made! Most of these cars were given to Upper Management Employee's at the MBK Plant with a couple making it back to the U.S. for some of the Mattel Top Brass.
Let me tell you a little secret about management employees overseas. They have no idea what these cars are worth to us CRAZY Hot Wheel Collectors on the outside. Most employees go home and give these cars to their children to play with. Can you believe this?!?! I desperatly tried to get a Mattel employee overseas to adopt me after seeing his childs toy-box full of prototype and one of a kind, Hot Wheel Cars. I don't think there was a single regular issue car in this kids whole toy-box full of cars! Needless to say, I was unsuccessful in the adoption attempt. When trying to come up with a production figure on this car I was just told "not many". I know this isn't much help, but I only know of less than 6 that exist here in the U.S., with most of them belonging to Mattel employees. Roof of car has "MBK Dedication June 1998" on it, Hood of car has "Mattel Bangkok Limited" and the Hot Wheels logo on it, and the back spoiler has 2 small Hot Wheel logos on it. Car also has some Tai writing on it in 3 places. Inside blister reads "Dedication for MBK Mattel Bangkok Limited June 1998".
Mattel "Hot Wheels" Employee Happy Birthday Cars!!
Chevelle
Viper
Countach
This is where the Happy Birthday Cars originate from.
Here's what I can tell you about the Hot Wheels Birthday Cars.
These cars were made for Management Birthday gifts. Very few are made. The person in charge of making them stated that around 200 are made. These cars are sometimes given to other prominent V.I.Ps besides Mattel Management. I was told Vice President Al Gore was given a few cars and among them was a Birthday Car (I bet Mr. Gore gave them to one of his children).
1997 was the HB Viper, 1998 the HB Countach, and 1999 the HB 1970 Chevelle SS.
The picture of the Hot Wheels plant was taken inside the 12 foot wall and security fence that surrounds the plant. This picture shows one of the loading docks where the cases of fresh Hot Wheels are loaded on a truck and shipped out.
There is no possible way for you to get inside this place unless you work there or have been invited to visit. Security is unbelievable!! When your in the toy business you can't have your secrets getting out.
No pictures are permitted inside this building by anyone! I wish I could show some of the Hot Wheel manufacturing processes and how clean and nice the working conditions are at Mattel, but right now I can't. I am working on it though!
Mattel "Hot Wheels" Employee MVOA Bus!!
There seems to be some misconceptions over this Hot Wheels Bus. MVOA stands for MATTEL VENDERS OPERATION ASIA. A stands for Asia not Anniversary. There were approximately 100 made, not 12 or 20. The Graphics on this bus are WATER SLIDE DECALS, not stickers or tampos. I hope this helps clear up some of the misconceptions on this little VW GEM!
MVOA VW Bus
MVOA VW Bus and Case
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