HWEP: Show Off Your Trades!

"hethoughtofcars" (hethoughtofcars)
04/14/2014 at 17:15 • Filed to: HWEP, Hot Wheels, Chasing Die-Cast Cars

For this week's upcoming Chasing Die-Cast, I was hoping to list a few of the trades that went down over this last week on the HWEP.

This was easily one of the best weeks for me, as I managed to trade for a couple of !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!

Courtesy GRawesome I picked up the Curiosity rover..........

for an '87 Toyota Pick-Up.

MR Benjamin Rolland dubbed this color "Prosthetic Limb Brown," a pretty apt description I'd say...

For awhile there, I was Oppo's '87 Toyota Pick-Up dealer! I !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! from Dinger's Ghost (Z4 M GT and MINI Cabrio) and Frosted (a slew of cars! Just check out the post...)

I also grabbed the Homer, courtesy of my first trade with CiiNubbin

for the Hot Wheels Boulevard version of the Pontiac Fiero:

What trades did you make over the last week? Was your week as good as mine? Also, any news of note? Did you complete a trade with someone new? Come across any new or notable die-cast while going through the pegs?

DISCUSSION (29)

Frosted > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 00:20

I got a slew of stuff and feel quite bad that I owe so many people so many cars. Trying to make a list of all the cars I owe at this point cause there's so many.

EL_ULY > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:19

i'll make a post in the next hour or so :]

EDIT: crap, I have them at home and I wont get home til way late :(

EL_ULY > EL_ULY
04/14/2014 at 17:22

when is the post coming out?

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:23

Check your available blogs, not sure if you want to use either one of them, but just in case... I'll gladly turn them over to you. (Both are untouched other than having been established).

Sn210 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:39

Kinja'd!!!

trades, all of 'em!

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 17:41

Wow! That's very, very cool! I'm sure that we would want to use HWEP. I'm not entirely sure how it works.....Would others be able to post?

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:49

You're an admin for both of em, not sure if you'd want them, but this way you all can sort of have your own space. Check this post for instructions on how to add and control moderator controls. I'm rather busy this week, but I can try to assist with stuff if you want. I can also completely turn control over to you and make you the owner there. You can add new users as you see fit.

To add users just add their Kinja account in the manage users area. So to add you, I typed in hethoughtofcars and clicked add.

You can modify the images for the header and the mobile (small square image which is currently my avatar - it defaults to the owner's avatar) and the name that is displayed (not the address, those are set, but the names are malleable) and the title tag.

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:53

Essentially it's just like any other community blog. (Oppo, photography, observationdeck, etc).

(And as an aside, I created the one with the abbreviation to avoid any potential issues with the name, as well as the other one in the same manner, but with a more obvious name).

Frosted > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 17:58

Kinja'd!!!

Got these today from this cool dude Jeff Simmons! I laughed at the xB ad pretty hard.

Sn210 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 18:01

wait, did you guys just create a separate blog for die-casts?! El Uly, Mycarneverruns and myself were trying to figure out how to do that...

philipilihp > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 18:21

Yo can you add me to those blogs? We finally have a spot! Lol

Oh and that 918 is money, as is , as my son calls him, Mr. Car:

Kinja'd!!!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 18:33

Oh... and consider it yours... Do whatever you would like with it. (I just wanted to check with you before I did anything).

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 18:35

Thank you!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 18:37

No problem, You're now the owner of HWEP, I'll keep the other one just sitting there, just in case, but if you ever need it, you're an admin there as well.

hethoughtofcars > philipilihp
04/14/2014 at 18:39

You have been added!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 18:45

And one final thing... You might want to change the name... it currently looks like hot wheel sex change program (maybe it's just me).

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 18:48

Lol. I noticed that too!

Gamecat235 > Sn210
04/14/2014 at 19:02

I did. And I chose Jeff at "random"* I'll leave everything else to him as he's now the owner of it and I don't even have admin permissions there. It's not directly tied with Jalopnik like Oppo, but it's a Kinja Group Blog... =)

*it wasn't really random. I choose him based off his posts on the subject.

philipilihp > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 19:31

i see and its awesome!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 19:40

For my own curiosity (and for the record, I truly don't care if you did, I would have asked you to do so eventually), did you remove me as an admin or did it happen automatically when I changed ownership?

I would like to know for any future occasions when ownership is transferred.

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 19:41

It happened automatically.

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 19:46

Awesome. Good to know.

For the record, to make someone an admin, just check the box there next to their name once they've been added. Only admins can access the manage blog tools and add new authors.*

(*if you want to add other admins to assist with those items - adding new authors being chief among them).

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 19:47

Cool. Thank you again!

Sn210 > Gamecat235
04/14/2014 at 19:49

sweet! Thanks! Like I said a couple of us were trying to figure it out, we think we've got enough die-cast content to support a stand alone blog. Jeff's been kicking ass with the weekly die-cast posts.

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
04/14/2014 at 20:16

Ohhh... one more moderator tip... to make a picture big... once you're in the post itself, if the picture is large enough, click the star in the upper right corner to change it to blue to "embiggen" the picture. =)

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
05/23/2014 at 07:10

Hi Gamecat! I was wondering if it might be possible to grab the domains lald.kinja.com and/or liveandletdiecast.kinja.com ?

We've found that the name Live and Let Die-Cast! is more all encompassing of the forum (and hobby) and that for new people to the site, HWEP doesn't automatically mean anything. HWEP.kinja.com has been super popular in the little over a month since you've setup our domain. We are up are closing in on 100 authors I believe, and we have also branched out into a Facebook page and Twitter account.

Anyway, hopefully you can help us make this happen! Your assistance is greatly apprecitated!!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
05/23/2014 at 09:30

If they are available, you could do it yourself. I posted the instructions a month or so ago. http://gamecat235.kinja.com/how-to-create-…

If you need any help, or you'd rather not do it, I can definitely assist. The only difficulty would be the transition. I'm pretty sure that once a blog is established, it can't have its URL changed. So you'd have to move to the new blog.

hethoughtofcars > Gamecat235
05/23/2014 at 11:57

I was able to set it up! Thanks for the help!! I was also wondering if there is anywhere I could find metrics on our blog, how many visitors per day, time of day, number of posts. Is any of that, or anything that would help us see what is going on with the blog?

Thanks again!

Gamecat235 > hethoughtofcars
05/23/2014 at 12:07

https://www.quantcast.com/hwep.kinja.com…

http://hwep.kinja.com/stats/graph/pa…