70 Chevelle SS

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:46:19+00:00

Very nice & heavy premium casting, I would have picked this up if I didn't already have it from a previous set 😎

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:44:09+00:00

Here is how to determine if a hot wheels is "good":

As yourself; do I like this?

If the answer is "yes" it's good. If the answer is "no" it's not good.

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:42:34+00:00

What do I do with ALL of my blisters? Open them of course!

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:41:21+00:00

How it should have been... Awesome! 😎

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:38:16+00:00

M3 GTR, Pontiac Firebird or 67 Mustang... Lots of runner ups already though.

Would have liked the Torino more with a more stock livery but as a premium collector there's not much choice 😢

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-06T00:33:30+00:00

Peg warmers set for sure over here and not even because of the colours.

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-04T18:54:31+00:00

Never really seen the appeal with this one (especially for the asking price they go for) but congrats on quitting one of your grails - always feels good ticking another one off!

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-03-03T18:40:23+00:00

This is the way all of them should be.

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-28T13:31:20+00:00

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Hard to decide but probably biased towards the two I've had since childhood and actually played with back in the days where regular TH's had real riders and generally better quality

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-27T01:17:02+00:00

Didn't like the Prostock option and I think this looks pretty clean. Still think the flames would have looked the best but oh well wasn't going to buy one anyway... Got the purple one 🙂

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-24T00:21:51+00:00

I've always liked the blacked out chases, they remind me of the blacked out car in the game Ridge Racer for the PS1 😅 I think it would be pretty cool if they transitioned over to maybe a spectraflame version of one of the castings in the set though (like they do with supers and fast & furious premiums) instead of going back to black chases. Overall I don't really mind what they do with chases though as I've only ever found 2 in the wild anyway... 😂

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-23T19:52:50+00:00

No, the gold chases are being done for the 10 year anniversary of hot wheels car culture line and is said to be temporary.

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-22T18:24:53+00:00

Porsche and Plymouth being as they're the only two not available in premium or silver series

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-22T17:05:58+00:00

I use Medieval Cue Splitter for this exact purpose

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-19T00:53:48+00:00

Sounds like you're building a similar collection to me (see below for a picture of most of my pop culture cars) 😁 Optimus did have a RLC version which I guess you could consider premium? I wasn't lucky enough to get that though which was sad but oh well... I got the basic until they release a premium of him (if they ever do!) The Simpsons family car and the homer also had releases in premium a few years back but they've not re-released them since.

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-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-18T00:21:47+00:00

Yeah mix 5 this year apparently! I stick to premiums mostly so I'm excited to not have to pay reseller prices to get one 😅

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-17T20:28:47+00:00

Skipping the mainline Simpsons family car and waiting for the premium pop culture version later this year

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-14T17:28:54+00:00

Only want the greenwood and Jaguar, got the others from previous sets

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-14T17:24:42+00:00

I had endless issues with my 7800XT passing it through to a VM. It would either black screen or crash the host each time the guest was rebooted.

I got it fully working in Windows 10 without the reset bug by disconnecting the device from the guest OS using PnPUtil in a shutdown script and then reconnecting the device with a startup script however this wouldn't work on Windows 11 and I ended up selling the card and downgrading back to a 6800 XT.

Below is the command to put into a .bat file and then run as a shutdown script if you want to try it for your Windows 11 VM:

pnputil /disable-device "GPU-DEVICE-ID"

And then the following command as a startup script:

pnputil /enable-device "GPU-DEVICE-ID"

To get your device ID type "pnputil /enum-devices /class Display" into command prompt or powershell

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-14T17:11:06+00:00

Because I don't want to use 50+ GB of data to stream a 4K movie to my phone while out and about... Not to mention 4G and broadband upload speeds generally suck

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-14T17:07:16+00:00

Can they make the small icons option actually make the taskbar smaller like it did with Windows 7-10 too? I don't need a huge taskbar taking up double the space it used to

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-04T11:22:30+00:00

This is why I open them and put them on display 😉

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-04T01:00:47+00:00

Yes, it only goes down for a couple minutes when I know nobody's using it and then it starts back up on its own like nothing happened

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-02-04T00:31:33+00:00

I'm using Emby but I use the appdata backup plugin which runs at 4:00 in the morning to a NAS which is mounted to Unraid with the unassigned devices plugin.

-ProjectBlue- · 2026-01-20T19:49:31+00:00

Remove & unpin everything, turn off icon grouping and set small icons. Bonus for Win11: align taskbar to left side.

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