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Check Out the Hot Wheels Halloween 2017 Collection!
We are so close to Halloween season. I can feel it.
Every year, Mattel puts out a line of Halloween-themed Hot Wheels vehicles around, well, Halloween, and it seems that Walmart stores have already begun putting this year’s lineup out onto shelves. Yes. In mid-July.
The man behind blog The Lamley Group just stumbled upon this year’s Halloween cars at his local Walmart, giving us an early peek at the 2017 wave. It looks like eight brand new cars are headed our way for Halloween 2017, including the following spooktastic vehicles:
- ’52 Chevy Truck (black)
- ’71 Plymouth Satellite (gold)
- Olds 442 Off-Road (light blue)
- Muscle Tone (purple)
- Zotic (zamac)
- Scorcher (orange)
- Great Gatspeed (black)
- Ratical Racer (red)
All of this year’s cars have a shared theme, as they each feature tires with skull-shaped rims. Pretty cool. You can check out all of the Halloween 2017 Hot Wheels below!
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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