Hot Wheels Elite 1:18 Ecto-1 - So very confused

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Hi, all. I bought what I thought was an Elite Ecto-1 from eBay. I haven’t opened it because it’s a sealed box, so I can’t be sure what’s inside, but the box art is odd.

From what I understood, the Elite came in a black box with the “Hot Wheels Elite” logo on it and the car’s name in red. The cheaper Heritage version came in a red box with the standard Hot Wheels logo and the car’s name in white. What I’ve got here is a black box with the standard logo and the name in white. O_o

It was sold as an Elite, but the photos on the box don’t have the level of detail I’d expect. So what do I have here? If it’s not an Elite in there I’m going to have to open a dispute… I’ve been scouring the internet for hours and I can’t find any reference to this. Is it a re-issue?

Here’s a photo:

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Was the “elite” branding only used on the Ghostbusters 2 Ecto-1A? There are many such listings of this particular box on ebay but none specifically mention the word elite.

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Hey, I appreciate the idea. It was definitely used on Ecto-1, though. That’s interesting… I wonder if this is the box for the non-Elite edition outside the US. EBay here doesn’t have a single one in this box, but it does have a bunch of black box Elites. And the ones I found on Google images were from European sites.

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Yes thats quite possible. i cannot find any red boxes on uk ebay (only germany… and even that might have been a us import)