where I live they are very rare, main reason is collectors have the major stores tied up and the cars are removed before they hit the pegs, once I got to know the staffers in the stores they explain to me what goes on in the store room i also bumped into one very serious collector who has many stores pulling stock for him, the angry bird series cars were also impossible to find i'm yet to find a TH car, yet I could find a Lego Mr Gold
Nice topic. I really don't care what the t-hunts are worth. I collect the stuff I really like. I just love cars, so I collect cars I wish I could own in real life. If anyone has watched some of my videos. You would see that I leave regular t-hunts on the pegs most of the time. I only find super t-hunts 2-3 times a year if I am lucky. I would never leave a super on the pegs either. If I don't like that super, I can always send a RAOK.
I've been to flea markets and seen people with rows of up to 10 STH and all I think to myself is "greedy" not even lucky. I am going to a HW show this Sunday and I hope to find my favorite casting and non are treasure hunts, wish me luck.
Really nice video Mark. Very informative and well shot. I've been an on and off collector since my Mom started getting me Hot Wheels in 1968. Up until this year I had never even seen a TH on the pegs, much less had a chance to buy one. However watching your videos for the last couple of years has given me so much more knowledge about Hot Wheels that this year I found about half of the Treasure Hunts and one Super. Admittedly part of the reason is because Mattel doesn't use the green stripe anymore but even that was something I found out due to your videos. Many Thanks and keep those great videos coming. One last thing, I couldn't agree more with your advice to be PATIENT! By following this advice I've saved myself a ton of stress and added years to my life. So far there's only been a couple of cars I've wanted but haven't been able to find and I'll be able to get those eventually on Ebay or at a flea market for a couple of bucks. Hope you and yours have a great Thanksgiving!
Been going through a bunch of stuff I pulled out of my parents garage, including 200-300 Hotwheels, and I've identified four Treasure Hunts from the lot. Obviously not worth much since nothing's got the packaging anymore, but it's still kind of neat to know they're a bit different from the rest.
Mark thanks for this I'm a collector myself and I have 3 treasure hunts but I remember I had blaze rod and I think it was the treasure hunt version but I don't know where it is. Thx for the videos.
Great video, thank you, you speak a lot of good sense. I used to buy whatever cars I liked, one day I bought a Corvette that turned out to be a super. I did the same thing you did - trekking around the different stores in a daily basis and buying anything that looked like a TH and it was getting silly.Nowadays I don't even know which ones are the THs, every so often I see one I want and I'll just buy it off eBay along with a few others to make postage costs more agreeable. Takes away the fun of finding one on a peg but so many people are collecting now and buying four or everything that I've found there has been less fun to be had recently anyway.Thanks again.
What many people don't get or comprehend is that is that: 1- There is one treasure hunt in each box.. 2- there are one or two pieces of each other car in each box.. It is not like there is one treasure hunt in a box of 72 same cars.. Or between two other cars with 36 and 35 each. :^)0- And honestly, some treasure hunt pieces never matter to me.. :o)
Great video Mark. After collecting for over 20 years I always try to convey the same thing to starting collectors. Thanks for talking about it. Great job! :)
Yeah, I still have the TH Box Set and it's about time for it to find another home. I have started gaming I need to buy a computer that can handle streaming!
Its real easy to get caught up in the Treasure Chase. And forget the basic castings that in most cases are far better than a TH. I still love finding them (gives you a small rush) but love finding Jetsons, Love Bugs, ect. Awesome vid and very informative!!
Speaking of younger collectors, I am one. I saw that ToysRus had cases on top of the shelves and I asked an worker to open one and I will stock the pegs. I ended up finding the Dodge Demon Super Treasure Hunt in the case. :) That was the first time I have ever found a Super in a store and I have been collecting for 3 years...
So after off and on looking for 19 years, I walked into target yesterday at Noon and found 2 regular treasure hunts sitting on the pegs. Nothing great of course, but 2 2017 Arrow Dynamics, but they will always be special to me now. Now I can cross that off my list, and as you say, stop worrying about finding Treasure Hunts, because Frankly, its too time consuming and more of a headache. It was a relief though, and they will be forever in my collection. I had to open one of them though 😄
what are you doing with 10 fangsters? i got in to these cars due to war game called gaslands, id hate to customize something a rare .. got the collecting bug from card games.. its a strange beast
I used to play with my hot wheels by lining them up. I play with them more now than then. Now I buy the thing and put a car on it and make sure the car dosent get a scratch. The worst condition car I've done is 4 scratches.
I'm from England and same rules apply, Treasure hunts are only good if they are a real Brand car. I sell basic Ferrari, Lamborghini etc.. for much more than the treasure hunts. Supers on the other hand are hard to get as we have less cases total over the country. They can sell for quite a lot. KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDS. Always check in to see what's heading out way next
Hello! I have recently gotten a 5 pack from the HW LEGENDS series. ( I think that's how they are called) In the Baja Truck, on top of the front tire it was written HWGRFX, and I couldn't find out what that means. Does any one here know?
Hey Racegrooves! I'm just wondering how can I find these treasure hunts without resorting to EBay? How hard will it be for me to find Super treasure hunts or normal treasure hunts at Walmart?
My girlfriend use to work at Mattel. She has a 12 car 1996 Treasure Hunt box set. I'm trying to price it out but I'm having trouble. What would be the surest way to price this set accurately? Thanks
Hey RaceGrooves, just want to say I really like your videos and I've been collecting Hot Wheels (Casually) over the past 3 years. Started off with my Girlfriend and I going to stores and just passing by the Hot Wheels isle and a Nissan GTR (09 Release, also one of my favorite cars) caught my eye. Months passed by and I would pick a few up based on cars I liked. Ended up marrying my Girlfriend and we have a 1year old son. I made the excuse to buy more Hot Wheels for when he gets old but some of the ones I picked up are really for me lol. Now that my son can pick out what he wants whenever we pass by the Hot Wheels isle I go through the pegs and pick a few out and hold them up for him to see. And I ask him to pick one of the obes I'm holding up. He picks one then I rearrange them differently and tell him to pick again. If he picks the same one thats the one we take for him and I pick another one for me or my wife does. If I see a TH I will pick it up, even if its a basic. We haven't been so lucky to find any Supers but we're always on the lookout for them. My son's collection currently consists of 36 cars that he's picked out. He's not old enough to play with them with out supervision but every now and then I open one up and play around with him. I look forward to continue collecting cars I like with my son as he gets older. I might never be able own and afford all my dream cars but I can afford their $1 Hot Wheels counterparts. So if you're ever by the Cudahy Kmart or South Gate Target and you see a Young Man holding up some Hot Wheels for his Infant son to pick, we'd love to talk Cars :)
Hey race groves do you have a 2012 or 2011 datsun 240z tresure hunts and I was wondering why hotwheels supers are so expensive and also my dad has a 30 super treasurehunts
I couldn't be bothered with treasure hunts, I buy what I like. I'm an old man so when a kid came over to buy some old hotwheels I let him tell me what the prices should be because I had no idea. He had a lot of knowledge because he was a young kid and was really into it. I let him take my super treasure hunt for a couple bucks, it was the green mustang. His dad and me smiled at each other, did my heart good to see a young kid so excited. What good is a hot wheel to an old man? are you going to take it with you or let some kid get more out of it than you ever will.
I collect all Camaros and dodge challengers all of them. but what do you think of people who buy all of the treasure hunts and find about 500 to 600 in one year do you think they are greedy???
This could have been your best video, and that's saying something. I found a treasure hunt today, the Subaru WRX STI. And I just wanted to know more about treasure hunts as a whole. I've only found three in total and I don't know a lot about them. But this was a great video and I hope you do more like this one. I'm still on the hunt for a super treasure hunt, but I'll find one eventually. Keep up the awesome work!
Im starting to think that HW Showroom are kinda like treasure hunts cause im noticing that Showroom are rare to find now, so is there a chance that you could show a video of just HW Showroom. ???
The Kaz-Man has done it again with this awesome video! Great advice from a great person! I used to hunt just like that. When the store opened and everything. Now, I just casually collect and hunt.
RaceGrooves, Your videos are probably the most informative Hot Wheels videos I have viewed on TH-cam. Keep up the good work! I'm writing because I have a question for you. Since I am trying to collect only treasure and super hunts, I need something special to store them in; I need a large UV protected container for carded, individual plastic carded covers, and individual plastic loose covers, but I don't know which are the best or where to buy. Google is simply not helping me... I have tried Protech and did not like them. Protecto Paks don't look good because of the shaved off corners on one side. Thanks, Shane
Sorry, since I don't really use protectors, I don't have any recommendations for individual protectors. For storage, I would recommend Hot Cases (black) hotcases.com/
Thank you! I guess since I am trying to collect "chase" cars, I have another question about a certain code on the card. This code is an imprinted code located on the far left side of the card to the far upper end. This code seems to be the same on cards that came from the same case, and is different when cards are from the same case letter, but not the same case. I'm wondering if when I try to find a mainline edition of a super (to contrast the super with and possibly sell), this code would be most desirable to be the same. In other words, should the mainline edition of the car come out of the same exact case as the super?
I know you dont like to talk about Treasure Hunts but I think you should.Give the people what they want first then talk about whatever else you like.Im new to collecting hot wheels and im enjoying your Treasure Hunt Videos very much as well as your knowledge.Stay in the Hunt Race Grooves!
Could you do a christmas video? I'm excited for the holidays and wanted to ask if you could make a christmas themed video in the future. I'm a subscriber and love watching your videos.
cool. So I actually have the Super Treasure hunt mach mustang...probably the only treasure/super treasure hunt I will own since I'm not inclined to buy on ebay or elsewhere for the dollar cars...finding what I want in the stores is fun. still waiting for that first time I come across Herbie....for a buck in the store on the beg. so Regular treasure hunts still have that flame circle thing?
awsome vid very educational. In the video you made your feelings clear on value of basics & super hunts but what about errors? how much would you pay for errors? should super hunt errors be worth super moo-la. basic errors can be one of a kind.
Sad story, back in 1995 I found two camaros on the peg. I traded one for the classic cadillac. A few years later I decided to get out of the hobby and sold the other camaro for 125.00. I looked on ebay after the sale and it was averaging about 300+. Now I just looked and one is selling for 550.00.
Hi RaceGrooves im back into Hotwheels so keep up the good videos you should do a video of similarities and differences of pavement pounders and trackin trucks
I live in Singapore and I am 11 years old. Finding a treasure hunt in my country is very rare.Supers are even rarer.Fortunately, I was able to find Treasure hunts but no supers. On one time in December 2013 I searched the pegs and I found a super! How awesome!
I live in Romania and had the chance to open 100 cases at once. Yes 100, a store here got all the 72 car cases out and let me run wild. I found countless regulars but only 3 Super Ford Ranchero Hunts. So they are hard to find.
being in the UK, i'm lucky to find every t-hunt, some stores keep old stock and don't up date until either at christmas or when there a bit low, finding a basic t-hunt is nice, $upers, well so far since i started collecting again i've found 2, one from 2012, and one for 2014, unlike you USA ppl with a whole isle of hotwheels, we got a small area, think of a section of certain hotwheels, see how big that area is? that's how much we get in the UK, the rest is MB corgi, cheap toys, but its better that way, unless your an ebay seller, then you get gready and sell normal basic cars for like 3 times what they are going for in shops, i like t-hunts but i'm not going to be some guy that gose into a store and buys only the t-hunt and the $uper,
so the Super treasure hunt will have the TH on it and the basic treasure hunts will have that flame thing?. I'm trying to learn more since I actually came across that mustang Mach the other day. I thought the TH is just the basic Treasure Hunt.
Mark, are there any differences between the HW's playsets vs. The Matchbox sets? Does Matchbox even make any? It seems that all I find are the HW's ones. Thanks for the awesome vids! Brian.
Great video RaceGrooves.I have been getting kinda bored with treasure hunts lately because in the past three weeks I have found seven treasure hunts not including the two Prototype H-24 I left on the pegs because I already have three and one Bad to the blade I left since I have and only want one.
Cool video..I was 9 when the 95 treasure hunt set came out..my grandma always got jcpenneys catalogs I wanted that set sooo bad..but at 9 seemed like so much. Didn't know that it be worth what it is today...
TheScooterdude80 I didn't start collecting until 1998. It would have been nice to find 95's! Even the hunts that I did find, I didn't sell very many of them unless I had multiples.
I would think the "Silver Cuda" that was changed to the red version should carry more value too. i would assume if they made the first (for argument sake we'll say 1000) 1000 are all silver i would assume they probably only made 9000 with the red which would maybe put them at a lower production amount than the others aside from the silver?
here in Chile (south America) it's pretty difficult to find Supers…almost imposible…but regulars are sometimes easy and you can find 2 or 3 on the pegs. It's kind of frustraiting to go to 5 or 6 places and be able to talk to the staffers and they let me open the cases and see what it's inside before they put it on the pegs and in one week i had the chance to open at least 15 B cases (2014) and didn't found any Super Sandblaster…sad and disapointing but it's our reality.
I wonder how many Treasure Hunts actually make it to the unopened collection stages. If there are 70,000 STH's, how many people got them, played with them, and tossed them in the garbage at some point. I didn't care about supers until I got deep into collecting very specific vehicles and I wanted all of them for those makes/models.
the pink rear loading (surfboards) beach bomb, as I understand it, only around 30 were produced (assorted colors) 2 pink ones. Cars were only prototypes because mattel employees (as I understand it) were asked to take them home for their children to play with consequently their kids did not like that the cars were not pushed through the supercharger rollers because the cars were to thin therefore the cars were never produced in the mainline assortment.Giving birth to the sideloading(surfboards) beach bomb.
Great info there Mark. Yeap, collectors of just about anything sometimes end up paying crazy prices for what they 'percieve' as a valuable item. Like the Camaro in that TH set and not all the others. As you say, it's just what people will buy. Me? Just before Xmas, and to my surprise, I gleaned 2 Treasure Hunt '11 Corvette Grand Sports from my local Halfords (a UK car spares/accessories and bicycles store). Paid normal price. But since I got back from visiting the family, I'm thinking, all my cars must run on the track or I can't justify 'em. So I'm going to have a bit of fun this afternoon and take them back to the store, the manager knows about collectors and hunts etc. So, seeing as some similar are on sale on ebay for just £1.50 and £2.75 I'll just swap these for some regular cars in the bin and let someone else have the TH fun, if they even know about it. :¬)
+wordreet Swapped 'em for two HW Flames cars, a black 67 Chevelle 396 and a 69 Dodge Coronet Superbee in green. Picked up a few more cars too, just because.
where I live they are very rare, main reason is collectors have the major stores tied up and the cars are removed before they hit the pegs, once I got to know the staffers in the stores they explain to me what goes on in the store room
i also bumped into one very serious collector who has many stores pulling stock for him, the angry bird series cars were also impossible to find
i'm yet to find a TH car, yet I could find a Lego Mr Gold
Leo - I have several duplicate treasure hunts. Can I send you a few? It's the least I can do after you sent me that Lego Star Wars set.
Nice topic. I really don't care what the t-hunts are worth. I collect the stuff I really like. I just love cars, so I collect cars I wish I could own in real life. If anyone has watched some of my videos. You would see that I leave regular t-hunts on the pegs most of the time. I only find super t-hunts 2-3 times a year if I am lucky. I would never leave a super on the pegs either. If I don't like that super, I can always send a RAOK.
Agreed! Some collectors that I know just go overboard with this hobby. Kind of like they're competing.
wow, you are very lucky. In 8 years of collecting, I only have 2 normal T-Hunts.
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@@rafachu2010 seriously? I have a couple 2021 TH models and a few under 2021
I've been to flea markets and seen people with rows of up to 10 STH and all I think to myself is "greedy" not even lucky.
I am going to a HW show this Sunday and I hope to find my favorite casting and non are treasure hunts, wish me luck.
Good luck
Really nice video Mark. Very informative and well shot. I've been an on and off collector since my Mom started getting me Hot Wheels in 1968. Up until this year I had never even seen a TH on the pegs, much less had a chance to buy one. However watching your videos for the last couple of years has given me so much more knowledge about Hot Wheels that this year I found about half of the Treasure Hunts and one Super. Admittedly part of the reason is because Mattel doesn't use the green stripe anymore but even that was something I found out due to your videos. Many Thanks and keep those great videos coming.
One last thing, I couldn't agree more with your advice to be PATIENT! By following this advice I've saved myself a ton of stress and added years to my life. So far there's only been a couple of cars I've wanted but haven't been able to find and I'll be able to get those eventually on Ebay or at a flea market for a couple of bucks.
Hope you and yours have a great Thanksgiving!
Been going through a bunch of stuff I pulled out of my parents garage, including 200-300 Hotwheels, and I've identified four Treasure Hunts from the lot. Obviously not worth much since nothing's got the packaging anymore, but it's still kind of neat to know they're a bit different from the rest.
Mark thanks for this I'm a collector myself and I have 3 treasure hunts but I remember I had blaze rod and I think it was the treasure hunt version but I don't know where it is. Thx for the videos.
It was an awesome day when I found 4, FOUR Super Treasure Hunt's in one store. My God!
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Thank you all! That's an unforgetable experience!
2013 ones: 1 XB, 1 Supersnakes, 1 El Camino, 1 Bone.
Great video, thank you, you speak a lot of good sense. I used to buy whatever cars I liked, one day I bought a Corvette that turned out to be a super. I did the same thing you did - trekking around the different stores in a daily basis and buying anything that looked like a TH and it was getting silly.Nowadays I don't even know which ones are the THs, every so often I see one I want and I'll just buy it off eBay along with a few others to make postage costs more agreeable. Takes away the fun of finding one on a peg but so many people are collecting now and buying four or everything that I've found there has been less fun to be had recently anyway.Thanks again.
What many people don't get or comprehend is that is that:
1- There is one treasure hunt in each box..
2- there are one or two pieces of each other car in each box..
It is not like there is one treasure hunt in a box of 72 same cars..
Or between two other cars with 36 and 35 each. :^)0-
And honestly, some treasure hunt pieces never matter to me.. :o)
Great video Mark. After collecting for over 20 years I always try to convey the same thing to starting collectors. Thanks for talking about it. Great job! :)
Fast forward some nine years later and that '67 Camaro has quadrupled what you quoted in this video!
Yeah, I still have the TH Box Set and it's about time for it to find another home. I have started gaming I need to buy a computer that can handle streaming!
Found my first treasure hunt by accident yesterday, along with 3 mclaren p1s and a gtr anniversary edition. Found a bunch of other good finds as well
Interesting how the topics keep coming back up! Super video still worth the watch!
Its real easy to get caught up in the Treasure Chase. And forget the basic castings that in most cases are far better than a TH. I still love finding them (gives you a small rush) but love finding Jetsons, Love Bugs, ect. Awesome vid and very informative!!
Speaking of younger collectors, I am one. I saw that ToysRus had cases on top of the shelves and I asked an worker to open one and I will stock the pegs. I ended up finding the Dodge Demon Super Treasure Hunt in the case. :) That was the first time I have ever found a Super in a store and I have been collecting for 3 years...
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So after off and on looking for 19 years, I walked into target yesterday at Noon and found 2 regular treasure hunts sitting on the pegs. Nothing great of course, but 2 2017 Arrow Dynamics, but they will always be special to me now. Now I can cross that off my list, and as you say, stop worrying about finding Treasure Hunts, because Frankly, its too time consuming and more of a headache. It was a relief though, and they will be forever in my collection. I had to open one of them though 😄
I swear that I’ve heard his voice on a different channel something like lucky penny shop. But this is the first time I’ve seen his face
Nah, Lucky Penny is not my channel. I do have other channels such as Track Time
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what are you doing with 10 fangsters? i got in to these cars due to war game called gaslands, id hate to customize something a rare .. got the collecting bug from card games.. its a strange beast
I wonder how many clueless kids destroyed these things ha ha!
When I was a kid I destroyed 3 :)
probably a lot of kids
haha, unfortunately I was one of them...
I used to play with my hot wheels by lining them up. I play with them more now than then. Now I buy the thing and put a car on it and make sure the car dosent get a scratch. The worst condition car I've done is 4 scratches.
I kept them in sealed bags one inside one bag
I'm from England and same rules apply, Treasure hunts are only good if they are a real Brand car. I sell basic Ferrari, Lamborghini etc.. for much more than the treasure hunts. Supers on the other hand are hard to get as we have less cases total over the country. They can sell for quite a lot. KEEP UP THE GREAT VIDS. Always check in to see what's heading out way next
I have drift king treasure hunt and I was wondering if I should open it or not
Hello! I have recently gotten a 5 pack from the HW LEGENDS series. ( I think that's how they are called) In the Baja Truck, on top of the front tire it was written HWGRFX, and I couldn't find out what that means. Does any one here know?
By the way, great video! Keep the good job
Hey Racegrooves! I'm just wondering how can I find these treasure hunts without resorting to EBay? How hard will it be for me to find Super treasure hunts or normal treasure hunts at Walmart?
Here's my video on How To Find Treasure Hunts!
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Great video. Enjoyed your take on the treasure hunts. Thanks!
Where do you go to get to a collectors show?
What is the song? 0:06 20:32
Music credits are in the outro.
But like a music credits outro or intro
can u make a vid on just showroom and workshop cars because thats what i mostly like to collect
@Racegrooves should the red night shifter with the 03 on the side have yellow and black wheels in the back and silver in the front
Does anyone know the official policy of super T-hunts in the UK? I've never seen any and have heard they aren't available here. Is this correct?
Nice video and very infomative. I learned and enjoyed it. Thanks.
hey I got 5 super th in Walmart and that were the agera r, ford GT , Acura nsx in gold, but I purchased these 3
I have the red version of the grey plymouth. Is it wort anything
Hi.. have you review greenlight greenmachine? Please review greenlight also. How rare is greenmachine?
here are a couple Green Machine videos
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My girlfriend use to work at Mattel. She has a 12 car 1996 Treasure Hunt box set. I'm trying to price it out but I'm having trouble. What would be the surest way to price this set accurately?
Thanks
Travis T. Send it to me and you won't have to be bothered with it. LOL
Make an offer
I'll send it right over lol
Hey RaceGrooves, just want to say I really like your videos and I've been collecting Hot Wheels (Casually) over the past 3 years. Started off with my Girlfriend and I going to stores and just passing by the Hot Wheels isle and a Nissan GTR (09 Release, also one of my favorite cars) caught my eye. Months passed by and I would pick a few up based on cars I liked. Ended up marrying my Girlfriend and we have a 1year old son. I made the excuse to buy more Hot Wheels for when he gets old but some of the ones I picked up are really for me lol. Now that my son can pick out what he wants whenever we pass by the Hot Wheels isle I go through the pegs and pick a few out and hold them up for him to see. And I ask him to pick one of the obes I'm holding up. He picks one then I rearrange them differently and tell him to pick again. If he picks the same one thats the one we take for him and I pick another one for me or my wife does. If I see a TH I will pick it up, even if its a basic. We haven't been so lucky to find any Supers but we're always on the lookout for them. My son's collection currently consists of 36 cars that he's picked out. He's not old enough to play with them with out supervision but every now and then I open one up and play around with him. I look forward to continue collecting cars I like with my son as he gets older. I might never be able own and afford all my dream cars but I can afford their $1 Hot Wheels counterparts. So if you're ever by the Cudahy Kmart or South Gate Target and you see a Young Man holding up some Hot Wheels for his Infant son to pick, we'd love to talk Cars :)
Your spot on racegrooves.i have tons of basic treasure hunts but only four supers.
Hey race groves do you have a 2012 or 2011 datsun 240z tresure hunts and I was wondering why hotwheels supers are so expensive and also my dad has a 30 super treasurehunts
I couldn't be bothered with treasure hunts, I buy what I like. I'm an old man so when a kid came over to buy some old hotwheels I let him tell me what the prices should be because I had no idea. He had a lot of knowledge because he was a young kid and was really into it. I let him take my super treasure hunt for a couple bucks, it was the green mustang. His dad and me smiled at each other, did my heart good to see a young kid so excited. What good is a hot wheel to an old man? are you going to take it with you or let some kid get more out of it than you ever will.
There pretty common if you stock the shelf and look through them all first right out of the box, and extremely rare if your just a customer.
I collect all Camaros and dodge challengers all of them. but what do you think of people who buy all of the treasure hunts and find about 500 to 600 in one year do you think they are greedy???
In my city we have over 1,000 collectors making it hard to find treasure hunts it gets ridiculously hard at times to even see one
Where did you buy that car pack
This could have been your best video, and that's saying something. I found a treasure hunt today, the Subaru WRX STI. And I just wanted to know more about treasure hunts as a whole. I've only found three in total and I don't know a lot about them. But this was a great video and I hope you do more like this one. I'm still on the hunt for a super treasure hunt, but I'll find one eventually. Keep up the awesome work!
Will you make more monster jam videos please
Im starting to think that HW Showroom are kinda like treasure hunts cause im noticing that Showroom are rare to find now, so is there a chance that you could show a video of just HW Showroom. ???
Could you do a video on zamacs?
If you search for RaceGrooves Zamac, you can find half a dozen videos that I have made on Hot Wheels Zamacs.
BTW could you do power pipes vs power pistons for JNR?
How can you identify treasure hunts out of tha package from tha early years?
The Kaz-Man has done it again with this awesome video! Great advice from a great person! I used to hunt just like that. When the store opened and everything. Now, I just casually collect and hunt.
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RaceGrooves,
Your videos are probably the most informative Hot Wheels videos I have viewed on TH-cam. Keep up the good work! I'm writing because I have a question for you.
Since I am trying to collect only treasure and super hunts, I need something special to store them in; I need a large UV protected container for carded, individual plastic carded covers, and individual plastic loose covers, but I don't know which are the best or where to buy. Google is simply not helping me...
I have tried Protech and did not like them. Protecto Paks don't look good because of the shaved off corners on one side.
Thanks,
Shane
Sorry, since I don't really use protectors, I don't have any recommendations for individual protectors. For storage, I would recommend Hot Cases (black)
hotcases.com/
Thank you!
I guess since I am trying to collect "chase" cars, I have another question about a certain code on the card. This code is an imprinted code located on the far left side of the card to the far upper end. This code seems to be the same on cards that came from the same case, and is different when cards are from the same case letter, but not the same case. I'm wondering if when I try to find a mainline edition of a super (to contrast the super with and possibly sell), this code would be most desirable to be the same. In other words, should the mainline edition of the car come out of the same exact case as the super?
Shaney No, people don't pay attention to those codes.
I know you dont like to talk about Treasure Hunts but I think you should.Give the people what they want first then talk about whatever else you like.Im new to collecting hot wheels and im enjoying your Treasure Hunt Videos very much as well as your knowledge.Stay in the Hunt Race Grooves!
Could you do a christmas video? I'm excited for the holidays and wanted to ask if you could make a christmas themed video in the future. I'm a subscriber and love watching your videos.
very nice video,now I know what the get.Oh,and please do a video on blue cards and different types of cards,and do a video on hot wheels blimps.
i open all my cars...so will these be worth after years if i put my cars for sale without package?
I am a collector and I have a few treasurehunts. like, 16? They are very hard to find for me.
how much is a chrome mustang and camaro worth please? both are in excellent shape
bmf00 Here's a video response. th-cam.com/video/xGR_5K2La5M/w-d-xo.html
Can you make a on your fave cars
cool. So I actually have the Super Treasure hunt mach mustang...probably the only treasure/super treasure hunt I will own since I'm not inclined to buy on ebay or elsewhere for the dollar cars...finding what I want in the stores is fun. still waiting for that first time I come across Herbie....for a buck in the store on the beg. so Regular treasure hunts still have that flame circle thing?
Where in the store did you find that!
Hi racegrooves can you pick up hollowback and do a video with wavy tracks
Fantastic video. 5 Stars A++ great vid. Just the explanation I was looking for. Got to show this to some of my friends.
How do you know every hot wheel car
Great reminder, Mark! It's about enjoying the hobby. :)
Thanks for the information.
Yup!!
awsome vid very educational. In the video you made your feelings clear on value of basics & super hunts but what about errors? how much would you pay for errors? should super hunt errors be worth super moo-la. basic errors can be one of a kind.
should also note cause of how popular the 1995 67 camaro is it has plenty of counterfeits being sold on ebay
Sad story, back in 1995 I found two camaros on the peg. I traded one for the classic cadillac. A few years later I decided to get out of the hobby and sold the other camaro for 125.00. I looked on ebay after the sale and it was averaging about 300+. Now I just looked and one is selling for 550.00.
can you do a video on just semi trucks and my name is devin smith and i started collecting also love your videos
You can have buick gnx?
Nice touch with the comment's with precieved value vs time involved
Its rarely to see TH at my local Walmart. but tons of basic cars but i hope one day to find a TH in my local Walmart :)
I was at a swap meet last weekend & saw a Treasure Hunt Trans Am for $8, I regret not picking it up. Let's hope it's there this weekend.
I started collecting 2013 and started noing about treasure hunts and Ben looking for one since early 2016.
Hi RaceGrooves im back into Hotwheels so keep up the good videos you should do a video of similarities and differences of pavement pounders and trackin trucks
I have a 07 mustang the checkmate one is that rare?
I live in Singapore and I am 11 years old. Finding a treasure hunt in my country is very rare.Supers are even rarer.Fortunately, I was able to find Treasure hunts but no supers. On one time in December 2013 I searched the pegs and I found a super! How awesome!
I have heard that Supers are hard to find internationally. Congrats on finding some basics!
Thanks!
how to identity what year is the hot wheels
I live in Romania and had the chance to open 100 cases at once. Yes 100, a store here got all the 72 car cases out and let me run wild. I found countless regulars but only 3 Super Ford Ranchero Hunts. So they are hard to find.
creative512 Unde asta?
Jack London in tm, dar acum ceva timp 😊
Wassup! =)
i know this is a older video but so informative and insightful. thank you so much. subbed
Are basic treasure Retail for the same price as the other cars.
Yes, Treasure Hunts are packed in the same case as regular cars. They are the same price and they have the same barcode.
I live in Singapore and there is very little choice of hotwheels and
I only found 2 treasure hunts for
6 years
being in the UK, i'm lucky to find every t-hunt, some stores keep old stock and don't up date until either at christmas or when there a bit low, finding a basic t-hunt is nice, $upers, well so far since i started collecting again i've found 2, one from 2012, and one for 2014, unlike you USA ppl with a whole isle of hotwheels, we got a small area, think of a section of certain hotwheels, see how big that area is? that's how much we get in the UK, the rest is MB corgi, cheap toys, but its better that way, unless your an ebay seller, then you get gready and sell normal basic cars for like 3 times what they are going for in shops, i like t-hunts but i'm not going to be some guy that gose into a store and buys only the t-hunt and the $uper,
so the Super treasure hunt will have the TH on it and the basic treasure hunts will have that flame thing?. I'm trying to learn more since I actually came across that mustang Mach the other day. I thought the TH is just the basic Treasure Hunt.
Correct. Most 2013 and 2014 Supers have the TH tampo. What do regular Treasure Hunts have?
I found a Ford Fiesta Treasure Hunt at a grocery store, and I didn't even know it was a treasure hunt. I bought it because I liked it!
Mark, are there any differences between the HW's playsets vs. The Matchbox sets? Does Matchbox even make any? It seems that all I find are the HW's ones. Thanks for the awesome vids!
Brian.
awesome video.. I love the treasure hunts...
the top-left car with the red painted rims is a Redline car and is worth a lot of money
Great video RaceGrooves.I have been getting kinda bored with treasure hunts lately because in the past three weeks I have found seven treasure hunts not including the two Prototype H-24 I left on the pegs because I already have three and one Bad to the blade I left since I have and only want one.
I found a basic treasure hunt of the blade Raider in red in HEB
Cool video..I was 9 when the 95 treasure hunt set came out..my grandma always got jcpenneys catalogs I wanted that set sooo bad..but at 9 seemed like so much. Didn't know that it be worth what it is today...
It was nice back in 1995 when no one knew what a treasure hunt was. I still have my old hunts I dont sell them.
TheScooterdude80 I didn't start collecting until 1998. It would have been nice to find 95's! Even the hunts that I did find, I didn't sell very many of them unless I had multiples.
Thanks for sharing this information.
I would think the "Silver Cuda" that was changed to the red version should carry more value too. i would assume if they made the first (for argument sake we'll say 1000) 1000 are all silver i would assume they probably only made 9000 with the red which would maybe put them at a lower production amount than the others aside from the silver?
You are correct! The Silver Cuda was very limited!
here in Chile (south America) it's pretty difficult to find Supers…almost imposible…but regulars are sometimes easy and you can find 2 or 3 on the pegs. It's kind of frustraiting to go to 5 or 6 places and be able to talk to the staffers and they let me open the cases and see what it's inside before they put it on the pegs and in one week i had the chance to open at least 15 B cases (2014) and didn't found any Super Sandblaster…sad and disapointing but it's our reality.
Can you do a video on hot wheels import nights
I wonder how many Treasure Hunts actually make it to the unopened collection stages. If there are 70,000 STH's, how many people got them, played with them, and tossed them in the garbage at some point.
I didn't care about supers until I got deep into collecting very specific vehicles and I wanted all of them for those makes/models.
how about international? Does international cases get Super Treasure Hunt?
Rob Manni i found one on ww case on the store
what is your most rare hotwheels one only please answer it
the pink rear loading (surfboards) beach bomb, as I understand it, only around 30 were produced (assorted colors) 2 pink ones. Cars were only prototypes because mattel employees (as I understand it) were asked to take them home for their children to play with consequently their kids did not like that the cars were not pushed through the supercharger rollers because the cars were to thin therefore the cars were never produced in the mainline assortment.Giving birth to the sideloading(surfboards) beach bomb.
ps the pink rear loading beach bomb recently sold for somewhere north of 75,000 dollars
Off topic question, anyone know what store that I can get a hot wheels Ferrari 458 Italia in black?
Plain_RBLX i bought it with another 4 ferraris in special ferrari set
Great info there Mark. Yeap, collectors of just about anything sometimes end up paying crazy prices for what they 'percieve' as a valuable item. Like the Camaro in that TH set and not all the others. As you say, it's just what people will buy.
Me? Just before Xmas, and to my surprise, I gleaned 2 Treasure Hunt '11 Corvette Grand Sports from my local Halfords (a UK car spares/accessories and bicycles store). Paid normal price.
But since I got back from visiting the family, I'm thinking, all my cars must run on the track or I can't justify 'em. So I'm going to have a bit of fun this afternoon and take them back to the store, the manager knows about collectors and hunts etc.
So, seeing as some similar are on sale on ebay for just £1.50 and £2.75 I'll just swap these for some regular cars in the bin and let someone else have the TH fun, if they even know about it. :¬)
+wordreet Swapped 'em for two HW Flames cars, a black 67 Chevelle 396 and a 69 Dodge Coronet Superbee in green. Picked up a few more cars too, just because.
One person told me that the only cars worth buying are those made in zamac. He told me they valued over time. It is true?
Nope. Here's another video for you. "How Much Is My Car Worth"
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