Version: 30 September 2026 · Provider: see imprint
1. Membership
Membership is free. Anyone aged 16+ with a valid email address can join. For chat you additionally confirm in your profile that you are at least 16. One account per person; member names must not impersonate brands or people.
2. Community conduct
No spam, insults, harassment, unapproved shop advertising, illegal content or sharing other people’s personal data. Trades are made solely between members; we are not a party and accept no liability. Tip: ship insured and start with small trades.
3. Reports and moderation
Report content and members via “Report”. We review reports promptly and may remove content and suspend accounts, and inform affected users where required (Digital Services Act). Contact: wheelwonderland@gmx.de.
4. Member photos – license
By uploading and confirming the usage rights – via the checkbox in the upload dialog, or by email for older submissions – you declare that you took the photo yourself and own all rights in that photograph, that no people are recognizable and that no third-party rights are infringed. You grant the operator of Wheel Wonderland the non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free right to publish, edit (e.g. crop) and make the photo publicly available on this website and its related channels (e.g. YouTube, social networks). You will be credited with your member name. There is no right to publication; we check that the photo shows the right model.
Uploader's responsibility: We only publish photos to which the uploader holds all necessary rights. Uploading photos taken by others – in particular from the internet, marketplaces, manufacturer or retailer websites, social networks or other collectors – is not permitted, not even in edited form. The uploader is solely responsible for the uploaded content and warrants that the photo is free of third-party rights, in particular copyright, trademark, personality and property rights. If a photo infringes third-party rights, the uploader indemnifies the operator against all third-party claims asserted because of that infringement, including the costs of a necessary and reasonable legal defence. The operator will inform the uploader of any claim without undue delay and give them the opportunity to comment; no acknowledgement will be made without prior consultation. Further statutory claims remain unaffected.
What the warranty does not cover: It concerns your own photograph. Rights in the design of the vehicles and packaging shown, and in the trademarks visible on them, stay with their owners. Your warranty does not transfer those rights and cannot stand in for them – nobody who buys a model can. We show the image in order to identify the model in the database.
Review and removal: Photos intended for a model page are reviewed by hand before they are published. Images in the Collector Showcase, by contrast, are public as soon as they are uploaded; instead of a prior review they are subject to: upload by signed-in members only, logging of the rights notice in the exact wording shown, removal of metadata, a daily limit, and a report function open to every visitor, no account needed – reported images are reviewed and can be hidden immediately. Photos attached to a trade offer are visible only to signed-in members in the exchange and never appear on model pages. We may refuse publication and remove published photos at any time without giving reasons, in particular where an infringement is indicated. Rights holders can send a complaint informally to wheelwonderland@gmx.de; we review reported content promptly and remove it where the complaint is justified (Art. 16 DSA).
4a. Hints about model data
You can tell us that a detail is wrong or add a missing variant. Send us only what you have checked yourself – on the car, the card or the base. Do not send text, tables or images from other websites, not even in edited form. We check every hint and decide alone whether and how to use it; there is no entitlement to have it adopted. For the text of your hint you grant us the non-exclusive, royalty-free right to use it for maintaining the database. No attribution is given.
4b. Ratings after a trade
After a confirmed trade each side may rate the other once – with stars and a short text. The rating appears with your member name on the rated member’s profile. Rate only what you experienced yourself and keep it factual: insults, untrue factual claims and statements about third parties do not belong there. We do not review ratings in advance, but we remove them on report where they breach these rules. If you delete your account, the ratings about you are deleted; those you wrote remain without your name, because they belong to the reputation of the member they describe.
5. Liability, warranty and availability
Information without warranty. This database is a private fan project. Model data – name, toy number, collector number, series, year, case letter, Treasure Hunt status, colour – comes partly from community sources and partly from our own unboxings. Despite careful maintenance it may be incomplete, outdated or wrong. We give no warranty as to accuracy, completeness or timeliness.
No purchase or investment advice. Nothing on this site is a recommendation to buy, sell or trade. Rarity information says nothing about an achievable price. Case mixes vary by region and production run; our contents lists refer solely to the case we opened ourselves.
Decisions at your own risk. We are not liable for damage arising from the use of this information, such as mistaken purchases. Liability for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and for breach of material contractual duties remains unaffected.
External links. The operators of linked external sites are responsible for their content. No infringements were apparent when the links were set; we remove links promptly once we become aware of any.
Availability. We aim for reliable operation but cannot guarantee it.
5a. Trademarks and independence
Hot Wheels® is a registered trademark of Mattel, Inc.; “Treasure Hunt” and “Super Treasure Hunt” are product names used by Mattel. This is not an official Hot Wheels site and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, reviewed by or sponsored by Mattel, Inc.
All vehicle, manufacturer and brand names – such as Porsche, Ferrari, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan or Toyota – are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used on this site purely descriptively, to identify and make searchable the die-cast models shown. This implies no claim to those trademarks and no commercial connection to the manufacturers.
Rights holders who object to a mention or depiction can contact us informally at wheelwonderland@gmx.de. We review every objection promptly.
6. Costs
Using Wheel Wonderland is free: the database, the member area and every feature. There is no paid offer, no trial period and no automatic renewal. You will never incur any cost without your explicit consent. Should we add paid features later, we will announce them beforehand; separate terms with prices, withdrawal information and a cancellation button would apply to those.
7. Termination
You can delete your account at any time (members area → Profile). We may suspend accounts that violate these terms.
8. Governing law
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods; mandatory consumer protection laws of your country remain unaffected.