Thanks for the explanation, I didn’t know what they were. I only collect what I like. Chase, Treasure Hunts don’t care, not in for the money. Scalpers are despicable and they really tear up the shelves and packaging.
I only buy a chase piece if I like the car. Green or gold wheels and gold trim doesn't appeal to me. Buying a Chase online for a ridiculous price makes zero sense to me. The thrill is in the hunt for me. When you find a nice piece on the pegs for the same price as a mainline, that's a good day. Chase pieces are meant to be a surprise or a reward for the collector not an income source for scalpers. Cheers !
I was gonna type a comment but you already spoke for me! It's so fun when you earn it and find it the fun way. Most employees at stores have no clue so they put it on the shelves for us to find and it's such a thrill.
When I was a kid it was a real thrill just to buy a nice looking car. Now everyone's gone mad raiding boxes on pallets to find a chase car. The toy shelves are a mess because everyone wants that treasure or super treasure hunt. I think adults today act worse than kids.
Great video, congrats on your finds. That 57 chase piece is really sweet. Its all corporate mumbo-jumbo and a way to get into our minds as consumers. I have no problem with it, on a stressful day i have found supers, Chase's, green machines and ultra reds and felt like whatever was bugging me at the moment just seem to disappear, i believe they are limited because lately i just haven't had any luck. The ones that elude me are the ultra chrome corvette treasure hunt, the primered chevelle from fast and Furious premium series and the entertainment series Yellow pizza planet truck from Toy Story, surprisingly i have came across plenty of gold bone shakers from the 50th Larry Wood Series.
I'm the same way, whatever appeals to me is what I pick up, most of the time it's a muscle car, sometimes it isn't... I've started easing into the 80's & 90's model cars as of late, but my focus is on oddball 30's-60's stuff some 70's.
There’s a super treasure hunt in about every 3rd or 4th case of hot wheels. There’s a regular treasure hunt in damn near every other case. Key is to know what your looking for and stay vigilant. You WILL find them..... in time.
I think it was first used in sports card collecting as per chase cards, company’s are randomly seeding uniform cards, autographed cards and etc. to get collectors interested in their Brand and their card packs
Thanks for the info I’m late to the party and i painted the rims back to chrome on a lowrider “gypsy rose 64 Impala “ ruined it to some but I’m never gonna sell it. Just starting a collection
I found the R32 GTR and RX7 STH this year; I also found 2x RS1600 Ford ID Chase Cars too. My most recent find was a Johnny Lightning White Lightning Firebird (pretty much all White except the convertible top). Just have to keep your eyes open. Avoid special trips...just take opportunities to look if you are already there for some other purpose. I too have had to pay the scalpers but I always get them from the desperate ones that sell lower than anyone else:)
Don't forget in 1999 Matchbox came out with the 2000 decal somewhere on the car which was 1 of 1000 very limited it was their idea of a treasure hunt. Also Matchbox in 1996 came out with a 1997 Edition called the 75 challenge they were gold painted cars they were just like Hot Wheel treasure hunts they were 1 of 10000 just like the treasure hunts, I've been collecting Hot Wheels and Matchbox since 1968 I was in second grade when is sweet 16 Hot Wheels first came out now I'm 60 years old, I haven't opened a Hot Wheel or a matchbox in almost 30 years. I have thousands of cars. Before that all we had to play with was Tootsie toys, yes I still have them and collect them also. It's a fun hobby but I don't know what I'll ever do with all of them, that will be my son's problem, I would get diecast cars for my son for Christmas and he would look at me and say Dad is this just a look at or can I open it and play with it? I said yes I had to buy two of every car, including Johnny lightnings. It's a fun hobby keep up the great videos
I will guess another collector has shared this figure already, but the Greenlight Green Machines almost always represent 2% of the regular run (on some low production runs (like 4250 or less - with some issues of the Black Bandit series) the GMs may repesent 10% of the regular run. For another example, I have a Hobby Edition 1970 GTO that is limited to 1000 pcs and I was told the GMs reoresent 10% of the run. If another collector has more info on this please add to or correct this. Cheers and happy hunting! That's my guess, is the reason I did this search tonight - that collectors CHASE the rarities...
I believe what the last comment stated: the hunt is the best part, and getting rewarded the Chase or treasure! I found many of all out in the wild and bought online. The online buy's aren't my fav. But sometimes you have to do it that way. For instance, I wanted a super treasure hunt from back in '06, I didn't start collecting Chase/treasure hunts until this year. But been collecting for twenty! Go figure
I just bought 2 Greenlight green machine 60s dodge trucks, I only collect dodge trucks and power wagons, I got the green machines simply because they are a different color than the rest of them. I really don’t care about brand or chase or green, I just want all the 1:64 dodge sweptline and power wagons I can find, I’m not reselling and I don’t pay no exorbitant prices. I see some people on eBay advertising regular green trucks as green machines, just because they are a shade of green paint, but conspicuously not the metallic paint…
I love the green light green body ones don't care for the ones but funky tires auto World Ultra Reds are my favorite and then probably the Hot Wheels super treasure hunts don't care for m2 to fragile and have never found a white lightning and they go for too much on eBay nice video though
Why no Johnny Lightning White Lightning? As far as I know, most diecast manufacturers limit their production runs on chase vehicles to 2% to 3% of the overall run of any type and or color of vehicles they make.
Yea, I completely forgot to mention White Lightnings; (plus I didnt have an example on hand to show.) I honestly didn't try to leave JLs out on purpose. Thanks for watching and leaving your comment!
I found 8 El viento regular Treasure hunts at one fred meyer no super and at another i found an audi advant super hunt but no regulars so you never know...bI passed a few m2 chase cars earlier because i didnt even know about them until this video but im going back tomorrow morning and grabing them.
I agree, it’s gotten out of control with collectors going after chase cars or treasure hunts. All I want is a nice toy vehicle that has nice detail and great quality. It has become a crazy addition with some collectors that gotta beat everyone else to get chase or treasures to the point that they will buy boxes of vehicles at the stores and not let anyone else get a chance at buying g a car they want or to at least complete a collection. Everybody let’s all share and enjoy the collecting hobby and to the toy vehicle companies out there make more limited edition vehicles that don’t have crazy weird colours that really shouldn’t be on a vehicle. To me a chase or treasure vehicle does not look good with red tires or yellow tires or tinting widows strange colours or chrome gold interior that looks silly to me. Anyways I like to try to have a nice collection and if I can complete it I’d be happy with that but I won’t bother with going crazy trying to buy boxes of vehicles just to see if a treasure or chase is in the box cases that stores get before they put them on the shelf. Plus a chase or treasure should only be limited to one per person so someone else might get a chance at finding one. So many times I’ll go to my nearby store and hot wheels, M2, AW and other toy vehicles are all dis organized and shelfs a mess after people go through them to get want they want and I see the looks on employee faces when they gotta clean up the mess collectors leave behind. I will always put things back where they belong on a shelf to make work more pleasant for the employees. Okay I’ll stop ranting on about this but just had to say my thoughts and hope I haven’t offended anyone. Let’s all enjoy and share our love for the hobby
You should check out Heavy Metal One64 Channel he has a lot of Chase pieces... A Hot Wheels candy striper Gasser sold for $910 on eBay a few weeks ago, it was number 120 of 4000, right now there's a white lightning Zinger, I think it's a 55 Nomad for sale for 499, I would never pay that much, even if I had the money to spend, but I guess it depends on how bad you want it and how much money you have to spend / waste
GREENLIGHT GREEN MACHINE: Only two percent of the cars from each production run are Green Machine versions. GreenLight includes them in every scale it produces: 1:64, 1:24. To put that in perspective, if GreenLight runs 5,000 pieces of a vehicle, 100 of those will be Green Machines. Exception are 1/18 were done very early, but no longer. And the new "evergreen" models that are open production have a Green Machine in every new cases.
Greenlight is 2% of the production run m2 usually say write on them Auto World is 3% but their production run is far less than anyone else's and who knows with the Hot Wheels Super Treasure Hunt they will never say but I would have to imagine it's probably between 30 and 50000
Saying how they used to tell you when they only made ten thousand and they even told us when they made 25,000 of them when they first started doing supers
I don't have many error cars; and I know what you mean about the prices! But, that doesn't mean anyone is paying those prices for them. Lol thanks for watching and commenting!
I didn't know anything about M2 chase cars ,was at mejiers and had 3 in my hands the super rare ones smh if I only watched more videos now I will ,LoL. Happy hunting.
Not a fan of "chase" diecast, but hey, to each his own, right? I remember Racing Champions NASCAR, both 1/64 and 1/24 scale having the "Chase the Race" series in the early 2000's. I think they had 4 or 5 different levels based on the diecast vehicle and whatever else came in the package. thediecastguide.com/nascar-diecast-for-sale/nascar-diecast-2001-ertl-racing-champions-nascar-2002-preview-22-ward-burton-caterpillar-dodge-intrepid-chase-the-race-series-164-die-cast-trading-card-moc-out-of-production/ LOVE the little sound effects especially the "Golden glow" sound effect! LOL
I thought too that Racing Champions offered chase cars, and I think that is where the term actually came from, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for the link, Alan!
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm hearing alot of information that pertains to me, I probably own nearly 1,000 1:64 diecast models, and I've always thought most of the models with the oddball wheels were just not attractive, and never knew they were collectors, I knew about the silver stickers that say 750 models, but never knew if it wasn't actually marked in a way on the package that it could be a collectable! I fo have 1 question though, I own a few actual Treasure Hunt Editions that say Treasure Hunt on the card, I didn't hear you mention that.
Yea, those are the older THs where it used to say right on the packs treasure hunt etc. I just didn't have an example at that moment when I filmed the video plus I was showing current models. Thanks for watching & commenting, Daniel!!
I was unaware the older models we're the only ones that said treasure hunt.... I do own a few. Keep bumping this, and the next week or so I will post at least 1-2 that we're the older ones. I know somewhere in a box I have at least 1 really cool original batmobile treasure hunt. I just have so much stuff boxed up hidden away that I'll have to find them.
When it comes to Greenlight, the actual chase is for a series where the quality is okay (at least for the 1/64 miniatures). I don't have enought money to buy those limited-series specials just because of those ugly green components.
I hunted religiously for 2 years and never found a single super th, I even had it worked out so the employees were let me fill the pegs... i quit and sold off what little i obtained. hopefully the rest of you have better luck🤞
I have found 2 super treasure hunts in stores on the same day. 2 lamborgini aventador Js.....the only 2 ive ever came across! Ill trade my double for the right super treasure hunt if anyone is interested
Thanks for the explanation, I didn’t know what they were. I only collect what I like. Chase, Treasure Hunts don’t care, not in for the money. Scalpers are despicable and they really tear up the shelves and packaging.
I only buy a chase piece if I like the car. Green or gold wheels and gold trim doesn't appeal to me. Buying a Chase online for a ridiculous price makes zero sense to me. The thrill is in the hunt for me. When you find a nice piece on the pegs for the same price as a mainline, that's a good day. Chase pieces are meant to be a surprise or a reward for the collector not an income source for scalpers. Cheers !
Well said; I agree only buy what you really like! The thrill is in the hunt, thats for sure.
I was gonna type a comment but you already spoke for me! It's so fun when you earn it and find it the fun way. Most employees at stores have no clue so they put it on the shelves for us to find and it's such a thrill.
Johnny lightning white lightning‘s were the first to do Chase pieces
GO JL! 😃
When I was a kid it was a real thrill just to buy a nice looking car. Now everyone's gone mad raiding boxes on pallets to find a chase car. The toy shelves are a mess because everyone wants that treasure or super treasure hunt. I think adults today act worse than kids.
I agree with 100%; thanks for watching and commenting!
That's why I stopped collecting
m2's nowadays, sometimes they put gold rims on non chase, and chases dont even have gold traces anywhere on em
Cool
I found the porche 356 outlaw at cvs. Last week.
Great video, congrats on your finds. That 57 chase piece is really sweet. Its all corporate mumbo-jumbo and a way to get into our minds as consumers. I have no problem with it, on a stressful day i have found supers, Chase's, green machines and ultra reds and felt like whatever was bugging me at the moment just seem to disappear, i believe they are limited because lately i just haven't had any luck. The ones that elude me are the ultra chrome corvette treasure hunt, the primered chevelle from fast and Furious premium series and the entertainment series Yellow pizza planet truck from Toy Story, surprisingly i have came across plenty of gold bone shakers from the 50th Larry Wood Series.
I don’t collect chases, but I do keep the ones I like. It does feel awesome finding them on the pegs though.
I'm the same way, whatever appeals to me is what I pick up, most of the time it's a muscle car, sometimes it isn't... I've started easing into the 80's & 90's model cars as of late, but my focus is on oddball 30's-60's stuff some 70's.
There’s a super treasure hunt in about every 3rd or 4th case of hot wheels. There’s a regular treasure hunt in damn near every other case. Key is to know what your looking for and stay vigilant. You WILL find them..... in time.
I think it was first used in sports card collecting as per chase cards, company’s are randomly seeding uniform cards, autographed cards and etc. to get collectors interested in their Brand and their card packs
Very true, I think you might be right about that. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for the info I’m late to the party and i painted the rims back to chrome on a lowrider “gypsy rose 64 Impala “ ruined it to some but I’m never gonna sell it. Just starting a collection
I found the R32 GTR and RX7 STH this year; I also found 2x RS1600 Ford ID Chase Cars too. My most recent find was a Johnny Lightning White Lightning Firebird (pretty much all White except the convertible top). Just have to keep your eyes open.
Avoid special trips...just take opportunities to look if you are already there for some other purpose.
I too have had to pay the scalpers but I always get them from the desperate ones that sell lower than anyone else:)
Don't forget in 1999 Matchbox came out with the 2000 decal somewhere on the car which was 1 of 1000 very limited it was their idea of a treasure hunt. Also Matchbox in 1996 came out with a 1997 Edition called the 75 challenge they were gold painted cars they were just like Hot Wheel treasure hunts they were 1 of 10000 just like the treasure hunts, I've been collecting Hot Wheels and Matchbox since 1968 I was in second grade when is sweet 16 Hot Wheels first came out now I'm 60 years old, I haven't opened a Hot Wheel or a matchbox in almost 30 years. I have thousands of cars. Before that all we had to play with was Tootsie toys, yes I still have them and collect them also. It's a fun hobby but I don't know what I'll ever do with all of them, that will be my son's problem, I would get diecast cars for my son for Christmas and he would look at me and say Dad is this just a look at or can I open it and play with it? I said yes I had to buy two of every car, including Johnny lightnings. It's a fun hobby keep up the great videos
Fantastic stuff,,
I will guess another collector has shared this figure already, but the Greenlight Green Machines almost always represent 2% of the regular run (on some low production runs (like 4250 or less - with some issues of the Black Bandit series) the GMs may repesent 10% of the regular run. For another example, I have a Hobby Edition 1970 GTO that is limited to 1000 pcs and I was told the GMs reoresent 10% of the run. If another collector has more info on this please add to or correct this. Cheers and happy hunting!
That's my guess, is the reason I did this search tonight - that collectors CHASE the rarities...
I just picked up 2022 batmobile treasure hunt,nice
I got lucky and was able to go thur some orders before set out in stores for sale.
I knew the chase were limited, but had no idea how limited
I believe what the last comment stated: the hunt is the best part, and getting rewarded the Chase or treasure!
I found many of all out in the wild and bought online. The online buy's aren't my fav.
But sometimes you have to do it that way.
For instance, I wanted a super treasure hunt from back in '06, I didn't start collecting Chase/treasure hunts until this year. But been collecting for twenty! Go figure
I don"t even bother with "chase" cars and you are right Green wheels or tires are just ugly and Weird. I only buy if I really want the car.
I just bought 2 Greenlight green machine 60s dodge trucks, I only collect dodge trucks and power wagons, I got the green machines simply because they are a different color than the rest of them. I really don’t care about brand or chase or green, I just want all the 1:64 dodge sweptline and power wagons I can find, I’m not reselling and I don’t pay no exorbitant prices. I see some people on eBay advertising regular green trucks as green machines, just because they are a shade of green paint, but conspicuously not the metallic paint…
Very nice explanation...I had a good idea about the 1/43 scale limited edition models but had no information about the 1/64
Thanks a lot 😁👍
You're very welcome! Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Impressive collection you have, wow!! I have a few dozen nice 1/43rd cars displayed... but nothing like you! I subscribed to your channel
@@Pedal2Metal_on_TH-cam I appreciate it 😁
Johnny lightning was the first to come out with the chase car then HotWheels and so on
not a huge fan of chase cars unless its a casting that I collect then I have to have it to have every variation but i wont spend big money to get it
Chase cars is "SCALPPERS INCOME" companies can now sell full cases to gotta have it collectors, sales, marketing $ always is !
That Porsche is sick
Greenlight was 2% of production and they use to number them and have to total production on the packages
2%; that is interesting info, thank you!
I love the green light green body ones don't care for the ones but funky tires auto World Ultra Reds are my favorite and then probably the Hot Wheels super treasure hunts don't care for m2 to fragile and have never found a white lightning and they go for too much on eBay nice video though
I completely forgot about auto world's chase cars!
Why no Johnny Lightning White Lightning? As far as I know, most diecast manufacturers limit their production runs on chase vehicles to 2% to 3% of the overall run of any type and or color of vehicles they make.
Yea, I completely forgot to mention White Lightnings; (plus I didnt have an example on hand to show.) I honestly didn't try to leave JLs out on purpose. Thanks for watching and leaving your comment!
I don't know what's still a chase but i don't chase for diecast I collect what i like keeping up my budget on line
Go to (ZA3 collectibles) youll see what greenlight chases and regular was produced..you can alternate threw the vehicles real cool stuff
cool, I'll have to check that out, thanks for the info!
I found 8 El viento regular Treasure hunts at one fred meyer no super and at another i found an audi advant super hunt but no regulars so you never know...bI passed a few m2 chase cars earlier because i didnt even know about them until this video but im going back tomorrow morning and grabing them.
Thanks man this was super helpful
I agree, it’s gotten out of control with collectors going after chase cars or treasure hunts. All I want is a nice toy vehicle that has nice detail and great quality. It has become a crazy addition with some collectors that gotta beat everyone else to get chase or treasures to the point that they will buy boxes of vehicles at the stores and not let anyone else get a chance at buying g a car they want or to at least complete a collection. Everybody let’s all share and enjoy the collecting hobby and to the toy vehicle companies out there make more limited edition vehicles that don’t have crazy weird colours that really shouldn’t be on a vehicle. To me a chase or treasure vehicle does not look good with red tires or yellow tires or tinting widows strange colours or chrome gold interior that looks silly to me. Anyways I like to try to have a nice collection and if I can complete it I’d be happy with that but I won’t bother with going crazy trying to buy boxes of vehicles just to see if a treasure or chase is in the box cases that stores get before they put them on the shelf. Plus a chase or treasure should only be limited to one per person so someone else might get a chance at finding one. So many times I’ll go to my nearby store and hot wheels, M2, AW and other toy vehicles are all dis organized and shelfs a mess after people go through them to get want they want and I see the looks on employee faces when they gotta clean up the mess collectors leave behind. I will always put things back where they belong on a shelf to make work more pleasant for the employees. Okay I’ll stop ranting on about this but just had to say my thoughts and hope I haven’t offended anyone. Let’s all enjoy and share our love for the hobby
I have went threw the big boxes before in the back room one time...amd did not find one super....they are almost impossibale to get a store
You should check out Heavy Metal One64 Channel he has a lot of Chase pieces... A Hot Wheels candy striper Gasser sold for $910 on eBay a few weeks ago, it was number 120 of 4000, right now there's a white lightning Zinger, I think it's a 55 Nomad for sale for 499, I would never pay that much, even if I had the money to spend, but I guess it depends on how bad you want it and how much money you have to spend / waste
GREENLIGHT GREEN MACHINE: Only two percent of the cars from each production run are Green Machine versions. GreenLight includes them in every scale it produces: 1:64, 1:24. To put that in perspective, if GreenLight runs 5,000 pieces of a vehicle, 100 of those will be Green Machines. Exception are 1/18 were done very early, but no longer. And the new "evergreen" models that are open production have a Green Machine in every new cases.
Racing champions have gold strike cars that are chase. Autoworld has ultra red chase cars
I completely forgot about the red chase cars!!
I would add a photo of my super th but I can’t seem to figure out how to add a photo on here
Found a 1970 Ford Fairlane 500 only it’s actually a 57 not a 70. You think it’ll be worth anything?
Greenlight is 2% of the production run m2 usually say write on them Auto World is 3% but their production run is far less than anyone else's and who knows with the Hot Wheels Super Treasure Hunt they will never say but I would have to imagine it's probably between 30 and 50000
Saying how they used to tell you when they only made ten thousand and they even told us when they made 25,000 of them when they first started doing supers
I used to collect McFarlanes Sports Figures and they also had "Chase or Variants" figures. I used to drive all over town looking for them, good times!
You should do a error car video. Some of those are crazy priced on ebay.
I don't have many error cars; and I know what you mean about the prices! But, that doesn't mean anyone is paying those prices for them. Lol thanks for watching and commenting!
I didn't know anything about M2 chase cars ,was at mejiers and had 3 in my hands the super rare ones smh if I only watched more videos now I will ,LoL. Happy hunting.
Hey Elton 🙂 Sappy Hunting...
Awesome chase car's you reviewed congrats thumbs up.
Thank you, Samuel!
I always found them in the store , until everyone started being a expert online about how to find a chase
Never found super treasure hunts in 20 years looking
hello .can someone tell me what makes a die cast car collectible ?
Low production volume... on that paint scheme that is...
Like anything else, its worth what people are willing to pay and how bad they want it depends that.
Big like!!! ;)
Thank you, I appreciate that!
Not a fan of "chase" diecast, but hey, to each his own, right? I remember Racing Champions NASCAR, both 1/64 and 1/24 scale having the "Chase the Race" series in the early 2000's. I think they had 4 or 5 different levels based on the diecast vehicle and whatever else came in the package. thediecastguide.com/nascar-diecast-for-sale/nascar-diecast-2001-ertl-racing-champions-nascar-2002-preview-22-ward-burton-caterpillar-dodge-intrepid-chase-the-race-series-164-die-cast-trading-card-moc-out-of-production/ LOVE the little sound effects especially the "Golden glow" sound effect! LOL
I thought too that Racing Champions offered chase cars, and I think that is where the term actually came from, if I'm not mistaken. Thanks for the link, Alan!
M 2 depends on casting how meny released..
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm hearing alot of information that pertains to me, I probably own nearly 1,000 1:64 diecast models, and I've always thought most of the models with the oddball wheels were just not attractive, and never knew they were collectors, I knew about the silver stickers that say 750 models, but never knew if it wasn't actually marked in a way on the package that it could be a collectable! I fo have 1 question though, I own a few actual Treasure Hunt Editions that say Treasure Hunt on the card, I didn't hear you mention that.
Yea, those are the older THs where it used to say right on the packs treasure hunt etc. I just didn't have an example at that moment when I filmed the video plus I was showing current models. Thanks for watching & commenting, Daniel!!
I was unaware the older models we're the only ones that said treasure hunt.... I do own a few. Keep bumping this, and the next week or so I will post at least 1-2 that we're the older ones. I know somewhere in a box I have at least 1 really cool original batmobile treasure hunt. I just have so much stuff boxed up hidden away that I'll have to find them.
Sounds like you from Pennsylvania
When it comes to Greenlight, the actual chase is for a series where the quality is okay (at least for the 1/64 miniatures). I don't have enought money to buy those limited-series specials just because of those ugly green components.
Walmart employees and Toys "R" Us employees take all the good cars that's why we never see them
I hunted religiously for 2 years and never found a single super th, I even had it worked out so the employees were let me fill the pegs... i quit and sold off what little i obtained. hopefully the rest of you have better luck🤞
I've only found one treasure hunt on pegs. And i found a m2 camaro with green metallized wheels. 750 pieces world wide ? yea right.
it makes me wonder... Thanks for watching and commenting!
Super T H been told 1 in 5 cases
The biggest problem is shithead employees. Most of the time STH's never make it to the shelf.
I have found 2 super treasure hunts in stores on the same day. 2 lamborgini aventador Js.....the only 2 ive ever came across! Ill trade my double for the right super treasure hunt if anyone is interested
I don't like them a green wheels on a gray car yuck
Me neither; I dont get it TBH.
I LEFT EVERY ID BEHIND BECAUSE I DID NOT LIKE THE CAR