They told me mid Feb.

 

Why are the wheels so big? Otherwise I really like it.

 

Larger wheels in back, forward rake, chopped roof, big engines, exhaust, etc. It's part of the Hot Wheels "look". If we kept it completely stock, it wouldn't be a Hot Wheels. It'd be something else.

Besides, many of the cars made (excluding adult collector vehicles) have track performance requirements. The larger wheels help with that, and kids/ track play is a large part of the business.

 

Are these part of the 2011 series, or is there a 2012 series? I have had no luck in finding this car, but I have noticed that every store that I check has 2011 series cars. There are some neat 2011 cars out there, like the '87 GN and the '92 Mustang GT, but alas, I have come up empty handed on '85 IROC cars.

 

They are 2012 Models,I found 9 at a Walgreens of all places !!! And it helps to live in California


Dave

 

Thnx man you ROCK !!! Now to figure out the case codes lol


Dave

 

Ive only found the 2012 Irocs at one Toys R Us store in my area.Picked up 4 so far

 

i havent got the 2012 iroc yet...i will have to look for it. i have the iroc one with side pipes and grafics. the 80's collection teal one, johny lightning white camaro. a couple dub city ones...nice collection some of you have

 

Saw the Hot Wheels at Target today and picked one up. Very cool.

 

I ended up buying an 85 Iroc hotwheel on ebay. Today I bought (3) from Target for way less! DAMN I should have waited right!? :-P

 

they need to release another one in blue

 

since they have the mold, I expect many more colors/variations.

 

 

I bought all mine except for one... I have not seen one good one in the store yet. All I see is 2011 editions. I think I need to unload all the one out and hide them to get some of the new ones out for sale. I even found one HW today from 2009 still on the hanger... crazy!

 

I saw one from 2k9 as well. I told the manager about it. She said its all corporate controlled. I also thought about stuffing a crap load of them somewhere. Yeesh!

 

If you're a KITT fan- you may be interested to see this:

http://www.hobbytalk.com/bbs1/showthread.php?t=352501

 

here is what I have. Some where I also have an unopened Johnny Lightening Camaro cop car, but I cant remember where I put it.

 

and most of my f-body model collection

 

and some more, last 2 are some of the ones I built and some die cast I have. Will only let me attach 3 images in one post. so sorry for multiple posts.

 

Knight Rider KITT is starting to show up on ebay. keep any eye out for these.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Knight-Rider...item2ebb488120

 

Bought the 2012 85 IROC in Target yesterday ($1.07). There were probably a half dozen more on the rack.

JamesC

 

I finally got my Hot Wheels 85 IROC from Ebay 2.40 and 2.60 shipping. I'm happy

 

Sorry but $15.50 so far? Some have gone into the $25+ range. Not going to happen with me, more will show up. I am still looking for one though.

 

Word "Around" is they will hit late this month early next !!

Check Toy's R Us first

Dave

 

i still cant find the red iroc no way ill be able to find knight rider

 

Found mine at wall mart

 

I sorted through 500-600 cars in a dump bin yesterday. 0 thirdgens :-( . I did get a back-to-the-future Delorian . That was kind of cool.

 

my apologies for the double post, but I have something on my chest that I want to get out.
why are there 40 of some crap vehicle and none of the one I (or anyone)want! Why make hundreds of the plain ones, and 2 or 3 of the ones we want! You can't tell me this makes sense to anyone. You could hire a child and ask them which ones to make a lot of and which ones not to. It doesn't make any sense at all.

I'm done ranting now.

 

Those are what we call "peg warmers". They should have made just as many IROCs, but, to your point, the desirable ones sell first. The problem is nobody really knows what will be a peg warmer until it's too late.

And we do consumer testing with kids, mom's, etc.

 

oh for the love of Pete. Put me in the test group, he'll make me the test group. I will clear this mediocre bullsnot. More good stuff, less junk.

 

 

Ive found all of my 6 Irocs at toys r us.None of the other stores (walmart,target..etc)have anything newer than 2011 series cars

 

last night at Wal-Mart I met a guy who was camping out the boxes of inventory that they were going to stock the shelves. He said that hot wheels put out cars by the case code. The case code is the last letter on the top back of the card. If memory serves our iroc is case code D. Once they move to the next case code, they don't go back and make the older case codes. So basically, what there is now is all there will be.

 

I will have to keep an eye out for these. I am more of a 1:18 collector, but I would love to pick up one for my son. we need some 1:18 third gen's I have the sun star version but it sucks quite frankly.

 

did you look at green light collectables yet?

 

Hadn't seen them before. Looks like they make some good quality third gen firebirds that I will have to add to the collection. I would still really like a good IROC or 91-92 Z28 Camaro in 1:18 though.

 

I haven't seen any. But will let you know if I find one.

 

just got this from wall mart. Anyone else notice the mistake?

 

yes wrong model z28 in photo.

Another mistake is that horrendous mold theyve been peddling for the last 10 years, but that was intentional

 

I'm glad i am not the only one that saw something off about the photo/car.

 

I know when I saw the box art of a 2nd gen but a 3rd gen in the box I just had to get it for some reason

 

I just picked up six of them at Toys R Us. They all vary slightly from each other. Three of them have some of the tail light paint on the bumper cover, one of them is missing the black impact body molding stripe and the red paint varies a little on each car. Found them at the first place I tried after about five minutes of looking thought I was going to come up empty and have to go somewhere else. I would have to say they were the best looking Hot Wheels cars at the store (most of them are really bad). I looked at all the cars and the only other cars that I bought were a 2012 ZL1 and two '68 COPO. Figured for a dollar a piece I would start a little Camaro collection. I really love my 1990 5.7 G92 IROC-Z and Thirdgen.org's vast amount of information from injector swaps to Hot Wheels.Thank you TGO and members.

 

I just bought that mixed up one and a few of the new red iroc, I actually have an opened one to tinker with lol.

 

Just wanted to let you know that I hated you. I have been to 7 stores, multiple times each, and have still only found 1.

Congrats to you on your good luck!

 

Evidently, Mattel doesn't feel the need to send those cases to south Georgia, because I have been looking in every store that carries them since this thread started and still have yet to find one. I have found 4 Treasure Hunts, but no IROCs, so I guess its not all bad.

 

Found 2 at a San Antonio Toys R Us yesterday, after a month of looking. I will say it was kinda frustrating to have found a Treasure Hunt GT-40 before finding the New Release IROC-Z!
I plan on leaving one MIB, and opening the other, drilling out the rivets to take it apart, and painting the interior and touching up the body, such as the headlights, tail lights, underside, and any paint errors. I've done this before on the Back To The Future DeLorean, including painting a tiny flux capacitor on the back wall between the seats. The finished result is almost on par with a Johnny Lightning release in terms of detail!
BTW, noticed they got the underside incorrect on the IROC-Z. It was molded with a true dual exhaust, which no factory 3rd gen ever had. The way it's sculpted on the underside isn't even remotely physically possible on a 3rd gen. Sloppy research or lack of attention to detail on Hot Wheels part?

 

It's Hot Wheels. We don't do stock exhausts....

In all seriousness, I don't put stock exhausts on any cars I work on. To date I've worked on 16 different castings (in stores), and not one of them has an oem stock, single tube exhaust. There's even a 4 banger car I worked on coming out later this year, and it too has a true dual exhaust.

 

^ for real, you guys look a little too much into a 99¢ toy.

In other news I picked up 2 more. Got 4 now.

 

Just want to say I found yet ANOTHER Treasure Hunt car (the Tyrell P34) before I've found any other IROC-Z's...really, Hot Wheels??

 

I got mine online. If I see anymore in stores then ill more than likely pick them up.
my mistake also include paint on the bumper from the tailight. Its kinda funny how they go into detail enough to put the 5.0 liter h.o. but can't finish the stripes or at least black headlight buckets.