Walmart is a player. They ask, Mattel does. They want Fast & Furious exclusively in the US? They get it. They want a ridiculously cool set of zamacs, they get those. They want an 8-car set celebrating Corvette's 60th Anniversary? Done.
So yes, those of us who live in the US near a Walmart (which probably means everyone in the US at this point), we get pretty lucky when it comes to collecting Hot Wheels. We have covered F&F and the Zamacs pretty extensively, so let's jump into the Vettes.
The set is nice, the packaging quite beautiful, but the models are a little on the drab side. Some have been released previously, some are slightly different, and none really stick out. Too bad, because collector favorites like the COPO, Greenwood, and 62 Vettes could have really stood out.
So seeing that this is an underwhelming set, we picked two Vettes to show off. The Z06 is a great casting, but it was a new model last year in the same deco with the same wheels. We went with the '55 because it is a relatively new casting that doesn't look like a lot of its previous castmates, and the '58, because we have never paid any attention to it in the past. So little attention in fact that we have no idea if it has been released in the this deco before.
But there is some evolution to this post, so let's start with a look at the two cars we decided to feature:
Hot Wheels '55 Corvette and '58 Corvette (2013 Corvette 60th Anniversary Walmart Exclusives):
Both look pretty, both are nice castings, and both have been SEVERELY upstaged in the last year.
Look no further than last year's Boulevard version of the '55, its debut:
Yep, same casting, same color, same interior, same deco. But WAY different wheels.
Now the '58:
Two different castings, but there exists similar design queues on the '62, and the regular and Super TH versions are two of the best looking Hot Wheels of 2013.
So we would rather point out a most excellent set that Hot Wheels has given us in the last several months to celebrate Corvette's 60th. It doesn't cover every generation of the Corvette, but it makes some key stops.
Here is what we propose be everyone's makeshift Corvette set of 5 (it will be eight once we get our hands on the final Boulevard Corvettes
Want to make your own set, find them here:
RoadRCR Corvettes
2013 Corvette Supers
