Uh, surprise?!
The Hot Wheels Collector website has sneak peak pics of a Hot Wheels Ecto-1, which is apparently due out this month! So, keep an eye out at your local Toys R Us.
Head over to the HWC site to peep the pics – you’ll have to shuffle through a couple dozen thumbnails of the other Hot Wheels cars due this month to get to the Ecto-1. I’ve included a small thumbnail here under threat of death from above, apparently. If I stop posting, you’ll know it’s because HWC had me whacked.
The car is very much a Hot Wheels rather than a Johnny Lightning, in that the detail is reduced, in keeping with the average price-point of a Hot Wheels car, but that just means more fun for more people, right?
[VIA GB.org / Ecto-Collector]
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This is very unexpected! I’m really looking forward to getting my hands on this.
Can’t wait! I used to have tonnes of Hot Wheels when I was a kid… always wanted an Ecto to go with them…
Now I don’t have them anymore…but I’m still getting this to go with my other Ectos
not bad, can see alot of people hand painting some detail to the roof rack. where is the no ghost on the back?
Hot Wheels is a really low price-point dinky car, Tim. As evidenced by the roof rack, cheaper toy means less detail, hence the missing decal on the back.
Johnny Lightning is a higher end, collector die-cast car, and a lot of detail went into their cars, but Hot Wheels is about letting kids buy a car for a buck.
Oh wow! A must have!!
i soo hope walmart carries theses..ill have my buddy put a bunch aside for me
picky,picky, picky. I’m totally stoked for this. At about a buck a pop you can’t go wrong.
don’t get me wrong, I’m aware of the affordability/detail of Hot Wheels. I’ll probably end up getting at least 3 if I can find em. one to keep in package, one to display with other collectible hot wheels I have and one to customize and add detail to. perhaps another to create ecto 1a or 1b.
I think this ecto has part of the look of the GBVG ecto-1b already with the large tube on the roof. I can wait to find one.
These things are under $1 each.
What an excellent suprise. More GB swag = AWESOME! Can’t go wrong there. I’m in for one, for sure!
More swag that keeps the license in the public eye is a good thing, IMHO!
Cant wait to get a few of these! Hopefully places like wal-mart and target will carry them? Does anyone know if there are any plans for an Ecto-1A 1/18 scale model. Hope they are planning on making one.
Has anyone seen this on TRU’s website? Im gonna buy a couple of these….if i can.
Excelent i`m buying 2 one not to be unpackage and to add to my collection and another for my office decoration… GREAT!!!, the third movie is happening i can feel it!!!
cheers… “”"
I have an ecto 1-A. I thought it was a Johnny Lightning. It looks very detailed with Ghostbusters 2, the only problem is that it’s blue colored instead of white. Don’t know why they did that.
I have an ecto 1-A. I thought it was a Johnny Lightning. It looks very detailed with Ghostbusters 2, the only problem is that it’s blue colored instead of white. Don’t know why they did that.
They had quite a few different colors to the Ecto-1A. One of them was that turquoise blue you’re talking about, another was gold, a green one, then the classic white.
Yup, that was it. Anyway, it was hella detailed compared to the one shown above. Even had the little phone number on it, and the roof was decently painted.
Looking at how plain this one is, I think it makes for the perfect “base” unit on which to do some customizations. The cheap price point, makes that an even better prospect for the customizers out there.
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Any one out there find these at stores besides ebay. These things cost $10 from scalpers. If so what stores should I be looking at?
Still have had no luck finding these anywhere (walmart, kmart, target). Does anyone know where to get them?
As this is a regular hot wheels 1:64 scale die cast, we will start seeing them in all the stores that carry them. It may take a while, and we’ll all freak out when we find the first one, but by August-November, they will be fairly common as stores stock up for Christmas.
Until then, be sure to check the little toy isles at grocery stores and drug stores. Fewer collectors check there and that is where I found most of my hot wheels batmobiles.
As a former employee of both Wal-Mart and Fred’s, I can reveal to you that items like these are, in-fact, stashed away in either the backroom or some storage trailer! Just waiting to be applied to shelves at the proper time. However, being a former employee means that I no longer have excess to these storehouses of wonder…
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i must point out that this is the first ecto 1 in 1:64 ever released all the others were ecto-1a so yall give it a chance maybe just maybe we’ll get a redline highly detailed version
i was quite happy to find four of these as they are rare to find wherever i seem to look one i sold for five dollars to a neighbor
I live in aurora il were do I bye an ecto with out online purchace…i heard toyz r us wut u think…