Christmas

Christmas is a worldwide holiday that lands on December 25th
With the exception of some gift packs with non Christmas decals, Hot Wheels did not release any Christmas theme cars until 1995
#In 1995 the Holiday Cars appeared, with Hot Wheel decorated to look like Christmas ornaments
#In the same year of 1995 Hallmark partnered with Hot Wheels to create Hot Wheels themed Ornaments
#The Holiday Cars kept appearing annually until 2002. In 2003 the only Christmas related items to appear was an ornament from Hallmark, the Christmas Volkswagen Beach Bomb Too from the HotWheelsCollectors.com Series 2, and a Employee Only released set featuring the '67 Camaro & HKS Altezza
#In 2004, things got right back up with the Holiday Rods series with feature Classic cars with Real Riders
#Starting in 2006 the Holiday Hot Rods where introduced exclusively in store (mainly Wal-Mart) with the cars looking Winter / Christmas theme. Starting in 2011 the Holiday Hot Rods included a Happy New Year car in the set, as New Year is a week after Christmas. The first Happy New Year car was a Volkswagen Drag Truck. But the next year, 2012 the Carbonator was used to many fanfare, and thus, has been the casting of choice every year traditionally. In 2020 the line changed its name to Winter Series with cars still themed with Winter / Christmas decals.
On a Side Note:
#In 2020, a Hot Wheels casting named Rockin' Santa Sled was introduced and inspired by the Christmas character, Santa Claus.
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