Have you seen the next Super Treasure Hunt for the 2027 Mainline series? It\u2019s a Shelby GT500 in Spectraflame Gold! It\u2019s the seventh one we\u2019ve learned about for next year, and the third to represent a car manufacturer from the USA. We just had a STH Mustang earlier this year!<\/p>\n
It was obviously a different casting (the Mustang GTD), but that\u2019s not to say Mattel won\u2019t often reuse the same design over and over again. Seeing repeat collectibles isn\u2019t typically an exciting moment, unless you couldn\u2019t score them on their first appearance.<\/p>\n
But is simply changing colors while maintaining the theme bearable after a certain point? I recently showed you a fairly confusing Silver Series set <\/a>for 2027 that was aimed at fans of The Fast and the Furious universe. The S15 and R35 GT-R were somewhat interesting, but not exactly what you\u2019d call \u201clore accurate\u201d.<\/p>\n You can only have so many replicas of the cars from the movies, even if you keep changing the wheels once in a while. Changing the colors altogether could hurt the sales, so using alternate versions of the iconic liveries seems to be the way forward for Mattel. We\u2019ve seen it several times before, including in the ZAMAC-like anniversary set.<\/p>\n And now here we are again. Reading the comments on Social Media about the new Nitro Grid set will take a while, and I recommend a bucket of popcorn while you\u2019re at it. The Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX is number 1 of 5 for the set, and two of its variations since 2023 were reference to Sean Boswell\u2019s car from Tokyo Drift.<\/p>\n As someone pointed out, this set feels like a mix between Fast and Furious and Neon Speeders<\/a>, and it might as well been called Neon Grid instead. The Evo is one of two cars in the set that will be rocking the Star 5-Spoke wheels, alongside Erwin\u2019s 1996 Acura Integra GSR (#3 of 5). The latter is a Silver Series exclusive release, as opposed to the Evo which has had premium iterations as well.<\/p>\n