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Regular Cards Differences

 When i started collecting the only think i cared was the casting/model of the car, i wasnt looking at price, date, series, packaging, i was just looking at the car inside, if i liked it i bought it. This wasnt because i didnt care about all those details, it was because i didnt know anything about any of them. I had no idea how many were released or in how many color variations, i didnt know about the value as a casting in the series and most of all i didnt know anything about the packaging of the car.

 Hot Wheels series differ them self besides the price and castings used, by packaging, blisters (the see thru plastic bubble covering the car) and card artwork. As i said in my previous post most of the series released from Hot Wheels, especially the adult collectors series are only released in USA.
The only line that is released all over the world is the regular/mainline release, consisting in approximately 240 + castings per year, split into different series and sub series. Probably to make a difference between the place of making of that specific line, because of laws and politics of a specific country the packaging on these mainlines also differ among them.



 Home of Hot Wheels, US cardboard and artwork for 2012 has the long size card, with the model graphics big above the blister and with the new "Scan or Text" logo  near the pegs hanger on the front, series and year on the bottom of the card and number and name of the casting on the side of the card.

The back of the card has the casting model again , some information about the specific model , like year of release for the real licensed model, designer and so on, followed by the "Scan or Text" application (this application allows you to add the specific model by typing the code given or scan it to a virtual collection on HotWheels.com, making it easier to track your collection), collector number and lastly licensing, copyrights and warnings only in English.




US Cards and Artwork

 International countries like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica and many other countries besides European countries get about the same artwork on the front of the card, with the same details for the 2012 year, with the only difference being the missing "Scan or Text" logo near the pegs hanger. That application is only available in US.

The back of the card has the biggest change compared to the US one, where the big spot hold by the "Scan or Text" application is now filled with warnings in different languages, Spanish, French, Portuguese and of course English and with a little text that tells you to "Look for All the 2012 Vehicles!". There is no collector number and the space with the information about the car model is now filled with a text on those four languages that tells you, "with a parents permission" to check their site, HotWheels.com.

International Cards and Artwork

European Cards and Artwork