

Next month at the San Diego Comic-Con, Hot Wheels will unveil its new line of Star Wars-themed vehicles, the first of which, the Darth Vader car shown here, will be available for purchase at the show…

From roadandtrack:

Star Wars is coming to Hot Wheels, and the full line of new die-casts will be unveiled next month at the San Diego Comic-Con. Hot Wheels just teased the big announcement on Twitter:

Guess what’s inside this Star Wars & Hot Wheels #SDCC package! All will be revealed in Star Wars Insider #150 on 6/10 pic.twitter.com/O6sT4uyltj

— Hot Wheels (@Hot_Wheels) June 5, 2014

But you don’t need to wait until June 10 for issue #150 of Star Wars Insider magazine to hit local comic shops or bookstores. Subscribers have it now, and a friend sent us the photos you see here. That’s the Darth Vader car that will be shown at Comic-Con as a life-size, street-legal, one-off custom build. The toy version of it is what show attendees will be able to buy on-site in the black box that Hot Wheels tweeted.

The die-cast car comes packaged in a display case shaped like Vader’s lightsaber:



