The Influence of Hot Wheels Designer Jun Imai, Part 1: JDM
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Smack dab in the middle of Hot Wheels' 50th Birthday last week, acclaimed Designer Jun Imai announced he was leaving Mattel for another opportunity. While the brand is still in great hands, Jun's influence the last few years is undeniable. Here is a look at some of the models he is most known for creating, JDM.
Part 2 comes later this week.
My favorite designer....he brought JNC into the mix and inspired liveries for JDM Legends cars...I remember how I found my Mazda RX7 SCAA, white 71 Nissan Skyline with the green racing decals, and the yellow Datsun 510 Wagon...at Giant or Safeway on the pegs....you always come with the great info and the killer cars!
Yes I collect Jun Mai casting from Hotwheels. Just loving it
AMAZING CARS!!!I am stunned!!!Thumbs up for you!!!
Just loving it JDM ......Jun Imai will he return after Ryu Asada 1988-2021 May his legacy lives on
Awesome
Very nice feature.
I want to write this before you do the euro video tomorrow because I think his influence is extremely important for us as car enthusiasts coming back to hotwheels having given up on the brand. I think you, Hot wheels, and dealers/collectors are confused at how these cars could have hung for so long back then but are so popular now. The answer is simple: The toy enthusiasts and car enthusiasts aren't the same crowd. We car enthusiasts gave up on Hot Wheels doing Euro, JDM, hot hatch domestics up until the recent few years. Every one of us had hotwheels as kids but as we grew into our specific tastes (VW/Audi for me) hotwheels had little to nothing to offer but old chargers and camaros. Jun's designs almost single handedly brought me back to collecting and customizing. Merc 190, M1, Alfas, old Veedubs, 2002, CSL... Drifters are collecting the 180sx, or gt86. Sports car enthusiasts want touring cars, rally enthusiasts want subarus, I am in Colorado Springs for work this week and found three R8s at Target, got all of them, if they don't fit in my luggage I'll leave socks behind... even if he didn't make the exact castings I mentioned here, he made something that influenced the car enthusiasts. Jun brought us back.
Thank you, Jun Imai!
Thanks for this sweet video. I love jdm. I m a big jdm hotwheels collector. I think hotwheels need to made a square body 1.8 Toyota 😍😍
When are you releasing the second part of Jun's influence? It would be really appreciated to know about his influence in non-JDM cars.
Thanks
Juz loving 🎱 A collector at heart when Larry Wood Ryu Asada Jun Mai Brandon Vestuskey became diecast icons for Mattel . Thumbs up
I agree the Nissan yanny is awesome.
I'm amazed that we haven't gotten either version of the Mazda RX-7 in Car Culture yet.
Not that I dislike the RX-3 but it's already appeared in Car Culture 3 times, one more time than even the fricking 510 Bluebird.
Steve Brandon i'm still waiting for an FC or RX2 casting.
Still waiting for a premium s2000.
Agreed but at least the S2000 was both a Super Treasure Hunt and a Cool Classics, so that's like half a premium release each (one had Real Riders but a plastic chassis, the other had a metal chassis but plastic wheels albeit really nice ones).
Really appreciate the insight about Jun Imai!
Will hot wheels continue to make more variations of some of these cars (510 ; 620) after he leaves?? Or will they discontinue and stop making them all together?? Thanks
The celica really resemble camaro so much that at first glance i thought it was another camaro casting back in 2013
Yeah I remember seeing the prototype photos and I though it was a new version of the COPO Camaro. It took me a few more looks to realize it was a '70 Celica.
Jun Emai made a lot cool HW castings. Huge respect for the guy. It's amazing to think in 2018 that castings like Datsun 510 were peg warmers a few years ago! And look where we are now! So many great castings. He will deifinitely be missed, so i hope Hot Wheels finds a guy that talented in the future. Bring on Part 2!
hello please tell me a store where you can order these cars I want to make a big order but I do not know where you can order it's not expensive
His cars are definitely some of my favs. Growing up a JDM fan even when I was a kid, it's impossible not to like most of these. That K-day RX-7 is gorgeous I agree, I have my only example in a protector.
Bin the Fantasy crap (kids don't even want them) and produce more of this.
I like collecting fantasy models
NO! Why the heck he is leaving
9:48 I thought you say Yanny
I am very proud of you Langley to release a video of a one of the greatest Hot Wheels designers ever
Would love to see Hot Wheels release premium versions of those 1970s Celicas. Definite yes to a 2000 GT RA25 fast back please...
well.. i still collect hotwheels for the classic muscle.. the golden age of mainlines being ´05 to around ´11
Do a fantasy casting part as well, there are some fantasy castings which are really good made by jun
I’d like to see them too
What is considered a treasure hunt
Wow Jun imai did create lot's of awesome hotwheels car's. I have a lot of those in my hotwheels collection. I will definitely miss Jun imai and his hotwheels designs.
2:05 Takumi!?
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AE86 is one of my first JDM car lol
Nooooo.. Hope their JDM models doesn't slip.
the AE86 has sorta always been well known, it's just a case of boomer hw collectors being boomers. Japanese cars were popular in the US in the 80s and 90s. Even in the 70s the Zs and Celicas were popular stateside. It was never fad, it just took HW collectors half a century.
Hello yeah nice videos.!!!!!
One day I will go to Mattel and apply
XD
Bye Jun
9:55 Excuse me, it’s the Nissan Yanny...
How many subscribers do u have
I will skip part one.