Here is another recent Hot Wheels find. The X-Jet from the Marvel X-Men universe. It is part of the Screen Time TV and movie range within the Hot Wheels Mainline. This is a new casting from 2021 and this is the first colour scheme.
The Hot Wheels Wiki site describes the X-Jet as a supersonic, vertical take-off and landing transport, with cloaking ability.
The model has a metal upper body and twin fins, with the lower fuselage and wings being moulded in plastic. Overall metallic mid-blue. The windscreen is tinted red, as are the engine air intakes.
The only printing on this version consists of two yellow squares on top of the fuselage, just behind the canopy. There is no undercarriage. Like a number of recent Hot Wheels aircraft, the model is provided with a small display stand in the shape of the Hot Wheels ribbon, moulded in clear smoked plastic.
A word of warning: this is a very loose fit, so be careful when you pick the model up.
The aircraft has a downward curved nose, forward swept wings, and two widely-spaced engines.
The underside has plenty of information moulded in to the fuselage and wings. Mattel, Hot Wheels, Marvel, the name X-Jet, copyright date 2020, and Malaysia. Length 80 mm, wingspan 67 mm.
Being a Hot Wheels Mainline model it is much smaller than the Matchbox Sky-Busters, but is still a really nice model.
Paul Adams from New Zealand
I managed to find one.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations. They did not seem to be in the shops for very long, and soon disappeared. Following the blue version, there has also been another variant in black.
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