
The Treasure Hunts series continued until 2012, while the Super Treasure Hunts were spun off into a "hidden" series in 2012 within the mainline, with random vehicles within the standard mainline segment given the Super Treasure Hunt treatment. Treasure Hunts from 1997 to 2006 featured special wheels (usually Real Riders or something of that sort) later Treasure Hunts featured a logo (usually some variation on the letters "TH") to identify them.įrom 2007, a two-tiered system was introduced while the Treasure Hunt series was retained, new highly-collectible versions of the standard Treasure Hunts were introduced these were stylized as "TREA$URE HUNT$" on the package and are most commonly referred to as " Super Treasure Hunts". This quantity was increased to 25,000 in 1996 before the production quantity was removed from 1997 onwards.

These series could be identified by a green bar with the series name and icon within them.

Hot Wheels introduced the Treasure Hunts series in 1995, featuring a series of twelve vehicles each vehicle was only produced in 10,000 examples. " Treasure Hunt" (often abbreviated as TH) is a term used by Mattel to refer to a number of intentionally-production limited Hot Wheels placed within the mainline.

The logo used since 2013 to identify Treasure Hunts. A typical modern Treasure Hunt, the Raijin Express from 2023.
