@@Antosz20000 If America / Capitalism is bad, why are there so many Chinese and Viet communities? Why do Cubans build rafts and attempt to sail to the US while leaving behind relatives and wealth? Because America is great.
As a 58 yr old who still has a few well-abused "Sweet 16" cars , I totally get adults hanging out in the Hot Wheel aisle. For most of my childhood, my Grandma gave me a box of socks for Christmas and birthdays- with several Hot Wheels hidden within. She always had great taste in picking out THE coolest of the new collections, which is why I still have most of them! miss you Grandma...
Very cool grandma! I feel ya! I don't have any grandparents left! 😔😅 I remember playing these little micro machine cars with my grandma! I had tons of stuff for Christmas that year, but I was just absolutely captivated with those little cars! I must of been maybe 3 or 4. Good times, man! 😁 :')
Hot Wheels was the best and brightest part of my childhood during the 2000's. I will never forget 2005 when I opened up an AcceleRacers Swamp Beast Showdown playset on my birthday. Sadly, my childhood collection of cars and sets is long gone, but I did start a new collection around 2018 and it has grown since then. I even started buying the new Track Builder Unlimited stuff Mattel started rolling out. ...and do I need to say anything about Hot Wheels Unleashed?
i dunno, my ibanez with a locking nut pretty much never goes out of tune, i only tune it when i change strings. gibsons are the worst. fenders are so-so (teles seems to stay in tune better than strats).
Marcos Marta That’s how I was introduced to Smash Mouth. Didn’t know it was them that did the main theme for Highway 35 until I watched the music video on the dvd years later
Great video! I'm 44 and just started collecting hot wheels again after about a 35 year hiatus. You're never too old to love hot wheels, or any other toy for that matter!
You know, I've had Hot Wheels cars since 1970. And I always wondered about those wiry little axles. I had no idea they were made out of something intended for a guitar. Thank you for answering this long-standing personal mystery!
I loved the old pop offs. I had the entire set but if you grew up with parents like mine , things like hot wheels cars had an “expiration date”. Can anyone relate?
Ironically, it was Matchbox's realism that made it my favorite. I wasn't much into Hot Wheels' cars. However, that orange track was the game changer for me.
I was eight years old in 68. I grew up in Los Angeles and remember the big Mattel building visible just off the freeway. You couldn't miss it, it was the largest building around and had a bright red sign saying who they were. But the best part, my mother had a friend who worked there. She would sell my mom HW cars for 25 cents. They were never packaged or boxed, always loose. Maybe they had an error or something. I never gave it any thought. I just knew that I had the coolest HW collection in the neighborhood, and that my friends always wanted to come play at my house.. Some very fond memories. 😉
What I remember most about Hot Wheels? My mom would smack me with a track when I didn't behave. Some moms used yard sticks, I've even heard of wooden spoons, but my mom found hot wheel plastic tracks easy to swing and it stung.
The only difference between men and boys is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys. In this case, the price is the same, but the budget is much higher.
I loved them both in the `80s. I`m glad Matchbox is still in business making some old models without big rims. Majorettes seems to be the most advanced these days (doors being able to open, suspension) among manufacturers, but less durable.
To be fair, most of their attempts outside of HW35 and Acceleracers were complete flops. Not holding my breath on this one, but if they take what was good about HW35/AR and bring it with them here, that could be incredible!
My favorite was the Baja Bug which was a bright yellow VW bug with knobby tires and fitted for off road. The tires are actually rubber. I still have it and a few others from my 80s childhood.
I just turned 53 & still love HW! I haven't been buying lately because I don't go into the grocery store anymore thanks to covid. Oh but back in the day, the wife & I would spend plenty of time in the "car" isle at grocery store, Wal-mart, Target. 00
At our school we have a teacher who's wife left him because he was obsessed with his matchbox cars. It's rumored that his collection is worth more than 90,000€
"But when you work with established brands with iconic cars that have a reputation to uphold, you can't mess those cars up" Me looking a the new E-match mustang: "You hear that buddy?"
I was born in 1960 so I had more of the Matchbox cars although I still have my Dodge Deora (with both surfboards) along with several others and a Hot Wheels roundish black case with a center that holds all of the collector buttons that came with the cars. I was careful with my toy cars and even kept the Matchbox cars in their original cardboard boxes. I didn’t smash up my cars like some of my friends would. To this day I take care of my real cars.
3000: hotwheels smashing anti gravity records 10000: hotwheels smashing world record of a trillion toys made Eternaty: hotwheelssmashing record of buying out the whole world Eternaty 2: hotwheels buying out the whole galaxy milky and all other multiverses
I used to find chores to do around the house, just so my Dad would give me a new Hot Wheels. by the time I was around 13/14 I had around 6 5-gallon buckets full of them. Good times.
I go to Toy area all the time when I have money to waste. A Mom and her kid look at me weird especially if I'm with my daughter searching on the hot wheels area.
I actually made a nonprofit called SGT Hot Wheels. It started when I was overseas, now I give out free cars to kids at car shows, let them play on the old tracks, and have free raffles of military ammo cans filled with Hot Wheels. The kids love it, the parents reminisce, and everyone has fun!
Fun fact - the name 'matchbox' came from children/their parents in the olden days making homemade toy cars being made of a literal matchbox for the body and coat buttons for the wheels - the first 'toy cars'. =)
Makes sense, this would be exactly the same way that soapbox derby got its name. Early ride-on size toy cars were often made by attaching wheels to wooden crates including those used to carry soap thus the name in the early days the things were literally soap boxes or other random crates on wheels. Of course, the same thing happened there as happened with the matchbox cars other people saw those primitive toys seemed fun and went to work trying to one-up the competition with something that looked cooler, worked better, or both.
Absolute tosh, the name derived from the idea that the toys would fit inside a matchbox; the first vehicles were very much smaller than the current ones.
Mattel later bought out Matchbox. My late (and former) brother in law, Ryu Asada, had a lifelong love affair with cars and went to grad school to study car design. He landed his dream job -- as a designer at Mattel-owned Matchbox, then later joined the Hot Wheels team. Ryu became a legend in the Hot Wheels world. Remember the Roller Toaster and the rest of the food-themed cars? That was Ryu.
Fun fact: Mattel nearly lost their licensing contract with Chevy after Mattel caught wind of the Corvette C4 concept car, jumping the gun and releasing the car much earlier before the design for the 'vette was finalized, and sold it in stores for a while in the 80s.
Shit I think i might have one of those White with purple windows and some painted on vynil things on the doors The front looks C4 but the back looks C5 and everything else looks a bit...off Going of memory rn but its one of my favorites so I'm pretty sure I'm discribing it right
I grew up in the 90s still using my dad's original Hotwheels tracks. I'm not sure if we still have them, but I can't wait to build tracks with my kids someday. My brother and I always tried to build the biggest jumps that we could.
ive noticed that cars from 5 packs or special series roll better, because they are made in a different country than the normal hot wheels for some reason
This was good, I enjoyed this. Remember my dad hauling out a huge box stuffed full of orange track; he had scored big at a garage sale. We had to build the track outside it was so huge! I also remember him putting stickers on my Hot Wheels sets, telling me to take care of my toys, and don't rush into playing when you are assembling. He had a great passion for building model kits, and I enjoy that myself today.
The fact that Matchbox still exists while being owned by Mattel is actually pretty cool to me. They still let the people buy them for the brand, thus actually profiting from new customers.
i remember my dad modifying the "super launcher" with higher voltage so the cars went faster, needless to say, after some accidents, it was scrapped, i love this cars
@@RockstepBMX I've been a gamer since before that meant explaining "no, neither PC nor console" and there are certainly worse hobbies to get into. Gaslands is particularly newbie-friendly, but there are miniatures games out there for almost every genre and niche. Have fun!
Mom: when are you ever going to sell your 500 hot wheels car Collection 14 year old me: never they are my prized possessions and definitely not selling my $90 Bugatti Veyron
Yeah, the Veyron is really going up in value. Originally you could bought it for $1 (Like Most Hot Wheels) years ago, now people selling it for hundreds.
When I was a kid, my dad would surprise me by hanging a new hot wheels on the dining room light fixture every now and then. I stopped collecting when the Gameboy became my main entertainment. Almost 20 years later, I started collecting hot wheels again because my coworkers have their own little collection to flaunt at work. I'm glad I can experience nostalgia and the same level of excitement that I felt when I was a kid.
Reminds me to a scene back when I was a kid. I was 5 or 6 years old, and my father and I had a little chat on the telephone while he was at work (we did it sometimes when he Had time). My mother reached me the phone and I talked with him. There he said: "I've got a little surprise for you, go your room and look under your pillow." I did how he said and was the happiest kid... Under there was a silver Auburn with dark red fenders, still got it today, but not in the mint condition as I ripped it out of the box that day. Always was one of my favourites, still today. Even today, with 25, I check out this little models when I see them. It's funny, when a young woman in your age looks at decoration or something and next to her stands her best friend, almost diving in a paper bucket, just to make sure he doesn't unsee one model.
I still have my Hot Wheels collection I had as a kid. A lot from the early 70's up to the 90's. Now my kids play with them and collect new ones. Cool stuff.
I still have my dads old hot wheels he just shoved them in our closet but I took a few out to display on my dresser next to my collection I have about 20-30 mustangs and a ton of Porsche’s Audi’s and various muscle cars
i had a lot from the 90s and gave them all away when i was feeling "grown" now my grown self wishes i wasnt such a dumb ass because most of those hotwheels didnt mean the same to that kid and they just ended up in the yard
I'm 17 now, I don't get the crazy ones anymore but still get the realistic ones if I see a nice one. edit: coming back to this comment whenever I get a yt notif and seeing all the other ppl that still collect them puts a smile on my face
LEGO is expensive, big, fragile and requires assembly. Hotwheels are small, cheep and ready to go, and they've been around for longer. I'm guessing hw has sold more cars than lego has sold sets. Though lego has certainly gained a lot of momentum in the last decade or so, much more than it used to have in the past.
Hotwheels are the best selling toys in the world with over 4.3 billion TOY CARS shipped , that does not include tracks, playsets , or even their short lived airplane stunt sets
I actually have been stocking up to do customs. Going to be doing some research soon to find out what materials I need. Also going to be doing custom decals and maybe selling them for modelers to use as well. I'm super excited to get started and have been watching videos for inspiration.
I dont know but as a kid I loved hotwheels, until I saw tomica cars! something about the realism and variety of even utility vehicles got me hooked :-)
I’m 54 and I have just started collecting die cast cars again. Plain and simple, they just make me HAPPY! I also love the hunt, and respect all the hard work that goes into making them.
I might've been strange but I tended to more into realism when I was a kid so tended to go for MBX over HW (not that they were as avalible back then in my town). Matchbox weren't without their own wacky stuff, look up something called a Matchbox Motorway, it is essentially a way to race your toy cars like slot cars and will pretty much take anything with a base that the clip is able to attach to as the working are in the track and side buildings, they can take bigger models too as I've seen Models of Yesteryears used with one as an alternative to a Christmas tree train. Mines sadly got a sickly PSU so doesnt run that fast anymore and overheats when load is added triggering a thermal cutout.
You're not strange, nothing wrong with being into realism. I never cared for Hot Wheels for that reason, they basically caused the decline in quality of MBX.
Although many friends and family criticized me for being childish and wasteful cause of going through and buying HW cars as a grown young adult, I still love doing so... And I already had about 30 to 40 of those cars in my collection...
I stopped buying Matchboxes when they started butchering them to accommodate the "Superfast" wheels in order to compete with Hot Wheels. To their credit, Hot Wheels tires seem to have proportions close to actual tires while the Superfast tires look like bloated blobs.
I can tell you that matchbox cars blow up way better than hot wheels when you strap a bunch of cherry bombs to them but nothing blows up better than a ninja turtle.
I'm 33 and I still browse and pick out a few Hot Wheels from time to time. I sadly lost my entire collection from when I was a kid, and I had some really cool ones too. I stopped collecting for years after that, but eventually got back into it again. Great video!!
I found an orange track set at Zellers when I was 10 and begged my mom to buy it for me. 11 years later I’m still hanging unopened hot wheels packs on my wall and collecting as many as possible👍
Bburago was always better and over in the "continent of Ferrari" aka Europe, and here Bburago wiht exception of UK was king so Ferrari didn't give a dip about tiny Hot Wheels... problem was that Bburago still was sold "cheap" to compete but they didn't skimp on the quality ending with Bburago went broke and got bought up by Maisto's parent company. Bburago still kept the Ferrari's but while the newer models are more detailed they clearly suffers from the "Made in China" compare to when they where made in Italy with example of bad paint (chips off easily if not treated with utmost care)
As someone who has been collecting hot wheels for a long time, I’d like to say….. 1) great episode! 2) at least you don’t spend all day and night on websites looking for harder to find variations, like some of us do. C) you forgot to mention that premium cars come with rubber wheels 4) my favorite hot wheels is the GMC MOTORHOME and I have over 50 variations of it. And the 57 Chevy which I have over 120 variations of.
i guess i was supposed to go cheaper i bought 10 different 20 packs cost me over $180 and thats not counting the 37 different single packs i bought lmao over $220 total
"Why do you still buy toy cars? You're not a kid!" "Why are you so concerned with what I do in my spare time? We're not in high school!" Why yes the couch is quite comfy why do you ask?
I think my favorite childhood Hotwheels was this black Ferrari F40 my older brother gave me... it's still around today but in horrible condition, so I might do a bit of customization to bring it back to its former glory
Before I click the video: “ How HOT WHEELS Beat out MATCHBOX” After I clicked the video “How a failed guitar design saved Hot Wheels” And now when I check it they changed it
The fact that the Deora existed in the very first batch just proves why I think it’s the true mascot of Hot Wheels. It’s just that iconic. (World Race and Acceleracers no doubt helped its popularity.)
I am old enough to have been there when they started. I even joined the Hot Wheels club and my favorite car was the Club Boss Hoss, Chromed Mustang. Which I still have.
I have some of the originals. the Beatnik Bandit, Custom Fleetside, Custom Eldorado, and the Custom Camaro. I also have the Chaparral from 1969, the T-4-2 from 1971, two of the Dodge vans from '74, and I one of the fire trucks from '75. not the fire eater though.
No way! I have that! But gold! It’s in my closet, and I found it in the sand box at school in first grade! I loved it ever since! I just looked up your car and realized that we have the same one! Awesome!
wait like the cars actually are faster than another? they all dont roll the same speed? say i buy 40 hot wheels all brand new out of the box and i set up a 3 lane track and race 3 at a time all the cars and it was timed with a laser so its exact. eliminate all variables so even the push to get them to go down the ramp is done by a machine, it passes a laser to start the timer then passes a laser at the end to end the timer. do the cars really vary in performance? i would have thought they are all just the same.
I love collecting Hot Wheels. ❤️ although at 20, I’m very selective in collecting. I don’t buy any car anymore. I’d buy exotic super cars and Japanese icons. Could include rally legends.
I generally prefer any real car model, especially American Muscle and Porsche, over original Mattel designs, although some are really plausible as a real ride, like the legendary Bone Shaker hot rod.
In college, every one of the officers and seniors in my fraternity had to come up with a challenge for the pledges. I gave the pledges hot wheels they had to keep on them at all times and occasionally had them race them down a track to get special privileges. They started taking them apart and adding weight to them like boy scout pine wood derby cars, good times
there is some youtubes channels of custom diecast cars racing, that you can send your modded cars to race! my favourite channel is 3dbomaker diecast racing league.
Kid 1: Hotwheels is better
Kid 2: Matchbox is better
Mattel: Both give me money anyway.
mattel: [laughs in capitalist]
So, Siku is in Family Hand since 1954.
@Christopher lmao are you 12?
@Christopher "Thank god i live in the usa!" ~ definately not millions of americans living in poverty
@@Antosz20000 If America / Capitalism is bad, why are there so many Chinese and Viet communities? Why do Cubans build rafts and attempt to sail to the US while leaving behind relatives and wealth?
Because America is great.
Parents: "why you still buy toy cars?"
Me: "it is called collecting, and it's art"
I can't afford the real thing 😭
i smell facts
Any of yall ever get a spanking with a section of that orange track ouch
@@curtslatton5188 yo wtf even my dad didn't beat me with my own toys.
EDIT: he beat me with his fists
A fine addition to your collection
As a 58 yr old who still has a few well-abused "Sweet 16" cars , I totally get adults hanging out in the Hot Wheel aisle. For most of my childhood, my Grandma gave me a box of socks for Christmas and birthdays- with several Hot Wheels hidden within. She always had great taste in picking out THE coolest of the new collections, which is why I still have most of them!
miss you Grandma...
thats really cool! what a cool grandma
Very cool grandma! I feel ya! I don't have any grandparents left! 😔😅 I remember playing these little micro machine cars with my grandma! I had tons of stuff for Christmas that year, but I was just absolutely captivated with those little cars! I must of been maybe 3 or 4. Good times, man! 😁 :')
I'll give you 20$ for them , yes ?
Hot Wheels was the best and brightest part of my childhood during the 2000's. I will never forget 2005 when I opened up an AcceleRacers Swamp Beast Showdown playset on my birthday. Sadly, my childhood collection of cars and sets is long gone, but I did start a new collection around 2018 and it has grown since then. I even started buying the new Track Builder Unlimited stuff Mattel started rolling out.
...and do I need to say anything about Hot Wheels Unleashed?
@@SRGIProductions acceleracers was my childhood
And 60 years later Hot Wheels are still popular and we still don’t have a guitar that never goes out of tune
We never needed one anyways :)
@@beendoneagain you say that until your drummer starts playing as loud as he can when you’re trying to tune
It's more about the tuners than the strings anyway.
Yes we do its called a Telecaster the first as produced Electric guitar ever made (technically a Broadcaster at the time)
i dunno, my ibanez with a locking nut pretty much never goes out of tune, i only tune it when i change strings. gibsons are the worst. fenders are so-so (teles seems to stay in tune better than strats).
K-Mart: "What specialities does this new toy car brand have?"
Mattel: "It can drag race."
K-Mart: _Sold_
I mean it's important for the toy to be able to be played with
*cringes in collector*
I live my life six orange track sections at a time
Actually, I believe it was Penny's, not K-mart.
@@zackburkhart6521 yeah, who would buy thousands of toys and just display them in shelves instead of actually playing with them? Right? Right...?
Hot wheels car: *stays on track while the matchbox crashes*
K-Mart: I’ll take your entire stock
Nice you are an aussie
No I will
That's from Jon Tron
rip kmart
Your comment was stolen
Nolan: "Mattel has announced a full-length Hot Wheels movie?"
Me, an intellectual: Hot Wheels World Race
Yes please! I would love to see the Deora 2 and Plymouth Roadrunner race each other in live action!
Fuck yes im not the only once
me, a transcendent being: Hotwheels: Highway 35
Underdogger - DUDE world race was my shit when i was growing up. the music was so cool lol
Marcos Marta That’s how I was introduced to Smash Mouth. Didn’t know it was them that did the main theme for Highway 35 until I watched the music video on the dvd years later
Great video! I'm 44 and just started collecting hot wheels again after about a 35 year hiatus. You're never too old to love hot wheels, or any other toy for that matter!
Yeah your right I hate that people say once your old you can’t buy toys because it’s weird anyone can buy toys no matter the age
Just do what you want, I am 23 and just started to buy some cars here and there after 10 years of absence!
@@fabiantherager2771 Yup, I'm 75 years young and I still buy them, even though they all cost two $2 dollars over here in Ontario. :) lb
Cool to see that you've started to regain your youth buddy. Feels good eh? :) lb
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"Sir why do u need 20 packs of these?"
Me: its for my son's birthday party
I see you're back Me: yeaaa he told me I forgot a couple packs
yeah.... lol
at some stores, they actually have a limit for how many hot wheels cars you can buy per person.
We don't even ask customers about it. There's just this unwarranted awkward explanation. Like cmon man I don't judge, hobbies are hobbies.
@ill speedylaunch 5 packs per person I believe.
I remember 13 year old me being pissed when my mom said it was time to sell my hot wheels in a garage sell. I hid all my favorites and still have them
The Florida Man dude wtf I can relate completely and I was the same age too
I woulda told my mom I ain't sellin shit
I keep mine 😄
Still have mine to this day! One that I keep on a shelf that’s pretty special too me, is a 1965 Shelby Cobra 427. Mint condition!
Dude I feel so bad for you. I still have all my bags full of them from when I was a kid and even now at 22 years old I’m constantly buying new ones.
Mattel: has 4,000,000,000 cars
Me with the 3 of the rarest cars ever:
*yes it is all coming together*
What car are those?
Nice flex bud
Phantom_Dweeb706 BRUH the
delorian hover car, Plymouth customized and the first animal
Car
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Wrainer nice
You know, I've had Hot Wheels cars since 1970. And I always wondered about those wiry little axles. I had no idea they were made out of something intended for a guitar. Thank you for answering this long-standing personal mystery!
Imagine how epic that is, *goes to professional meeting, sends toy car down race track, gets 50million item sale for new toy*
And that was Penny's, not K-mart.
"check it out it goes on a track"
"We'll take fifty million"
Especially when your boss was skeptical of the whole project, like Mattel executives were.
also maybe Mattel and Warner Bros will making Hot Wheels movie :I
My favorite Hotwheel was the "Color Change" line up years ago. Still have one of the cars, paints almost gone, of a Lamborghini Countach
Oh yeah I remember those things
I loved the old pop offs. I had the entire set but if you grew up with parents like mine , things like hot wheels cars had an “expiration date”. Can anyone relate?
Hardly livin thats kinda fucked up ngl
I used to take baths with them
derek840378 me too lmao, then if get all mad when they got rusty lol
Ironically, it was Matchbox's realism that made it my favorite. I wasn't much into Hot Wheels' cars. However, that orange track was the game changer for me.
Yeah realism was always my goal for me
I agree
I like matchbox still I want more real cars.
same
Hot wheels also has realistic cars!
I was eight years old in 68.
I grew up in Los Angeles and remember the big Mattel building visible just off the freeway. You couldn't miss it, it was the largest building around and had a bright red sign saying who they were. But the best part, my mother had a friend who worked there. She would sell my mom HW cars for 25 cents. They were never packaged or boxed, always loose. Maybe they had an error or something. I never gave it any thought. I just knew that I had the coolest HW collection in the neighborhood, and that my friends always wanted to come play at my house..
Some very fond memories.
😉
When we were young, we got hot wheels so they could go on the track.
When we grew up, we got hot wheels so they could go on shelves
After that we got hotwheels that can fit in garage and that we can drive
yep
Don’t make me say it, I will say it
Engineer Gaming
@Steven Alicea look into hot wheels restorations/customization
@Steven Alicea That’s actually one of the most valuable ones from recent times
Anyone remember when McDonalds used to give Hotwheels in the happy meals? Miss those days...
You mean the plastic ones from 2015?
MaikyTV he’s talking about the metal cars like the speed racer hot wheels promotion around 12 years ago.
@@RealDyllon Oh ok
I remember they came with stickers😹
I have four metal one but one rusted within 1week 😂
Donut needs to partner with hot wheels to make the "Lighting" collection or the "buff horses" set
this
And the Pumphrey 500
junebugfan88 liked and commented so it’ll be at the top
The up and down headlight edition
I’d buy em
What I remember most about Hot Wheels?
My mom would smack me with a track when I didn't behave.
Some moms used yard sticks, I've even heard of wooden spoons, but my mom found hot wheel plastic tracks easy to swing and it stung.
Me and my Dad started collecting Hot Wheels when I was 12
I'm 29 now and were still going lol
How many did u collect
@@shashisharma424 oh god honestly we've never counted, we've sold some stuff over the years but still anything cool or special
@@Heavymetallord1 oh ! That means u have collected a lot of them
Any rough idea
I started when I was 5 with 20 now I'm 12 and have over 350.
when talking about the hotwheels you forgot to mention that the earliest ones had a suspension on them
@ARGON GAMING Yeah I saw that, but it was so fast of a clip that I almost missed it. And he didn't comment on it either.
@ARGON GAMING I noticed. OMG I wish I had one that has that. :(
There were also the California Customs which had rubber wheels. Probably other sets that had this as well. But I don't know.
I had a GTO with suspension... it was my favorite!
those were the worst when you tried to straighten them
The only difference between men and boys is the size of their shoes and the price of their toys.
In this case, the price is the same, but the budget is much higher.
Sure
I think the prices get higher... Because you'll want to get a real car and move on to buying car parts along with hot wheels 😎😎😎
Free Tube - go on then, how does the quote go?
@@zerg9523 I edited it already. I didn't include the "size of your shoes" part.
There Is No Spoon - ahh okay... if thats the case, i prefer your version, f that guy.
I loved them both in the `80s. I`m glad Matchbox is still in business making some old models without big rims. Majorettes seems to be the most advanced these days (doors being able to open, suspension) among manufacturers, but less durable.
oh yes! majorettes was the best!! glad they're still good!
spoken by an accountant
11:28
"Wait they're making a hot wheels movie?"
Acceleracers fans: "First time?"
Highway 35* acceleracers was the sequel
I think they mean a live action one
To be fair, most of their attempts outside of HW35 and Acceleracers were complete flops. Not holding my breath on this one, but if they take what was good about HW35/AR and bring it with them here, that could be incredible!
donut needs to review the cars in hw35/acceleracers
@@Jman-ut8hr That could be fun to watch.
Who else grew up collecting hot wheels? 🙋🏼♂️
I spent all my allowance on them back in like 2008
I still do fuck you mean grew up smh.
you know i have that big briefcase filled with hot wheels.
that and watching acceleracers
They're way too expensive here.
Can LEGO please invest in their own “will-it-hurt-if-I-step-on-this” testing machine?
they will probably make them hurt even more
@@heroslippy6666 They'll put nails in them.
@@twistedyogert I've stepped on nails, they don't hurt very much, now legos on the other hand...
Stepping on sharp pieces of bones that your dog chewed up hurts even more.
"New Lego made of shards of bones, for ultimate stepping pain"
My favorite was the Baja Bug which was a bright yellow VW bug with knobby tires and fitted for off road. The tires are actually rubber. I still have it and a few others from my 80s childhood.
Omg!! I have the same one, it was my first hotwheels
All the rubber wheel collection was awesome, and popular in my area growing up, so they were hard to source, making them more desirable. ❤
"You're a 26 year old man".
Me, a 36 year old man: Still looking at Hot Wheels.
42 year old here. I still buy them.
gotta keep the boy in us alive somehow
I'm 55 and still grab some almost every time I'm at the store.
I just turned 53 & still love HW! I haven't been buying lately because I don't go into the grocery store anymore thanks to covid. Oh but back in the day, the wife & I would spend plenty of time in the "car" isle at grocery store, Wal-mart, Target. 00
There's no age for Hot Wheels.
At our school we have a teacher who's wife left him because he was obsessed with his matchbox cars.
It's rumored that his collection is worth more than 90,000€
so he told all his pupils why his wife left him.... you are full of shit
@@tommurphy4307 He never said the teacher told the kids that, the kids might have found out through hearing their parents gossip.
@@uhtred7860 Exactly. People say shit before thinking shit
@@tommurphy4307 I mean, yeah, I'm a teacher and it can happen. It's not uncommon to open up to your students.
@@tommurphy4307 spill the tea sis 💅🏽
"But when you work with established brands with iconic cars that have a reputation to uphold, you can't mess those cars up"
Me looking a the new E-match mustang:
"You hear that buddy?"
Ganceann As in what the real thing or a toy
*both*
@@rau4329 yes
I was born in 1960 so I had more of the Matchbox cars although I still have my Dodge Deora (with both surfboards) along with several others and a Hot Wheels roundish black case with a center that holds all of the collector buttons that came with the cars. I was careful with my toy cars and even kept the Matchbox cars in their original cardboard boxes. I didn’t smash up my cars like some of my friends would. To this day I take care of my real cars.
2020: hot wheels smashing toy records
2050: hot wheels smashing automotive records
2051+: Smashing speed records
3000: hotwheels smashing anti gravity records
10000: hotwheels smashing world record of a trillion toys made
Eternaty: hotwheelssmashing record of buying out the whole world
Eternaty 2: hotwheels buying out the whole galaxy milky and all other multiverses
@@35SF what
If it ever could happen.
Eventually in the next 100000000
Planet hotwheels buying out every company and every thing ever
I used to find chores to do around the house, just so my Dad would give me a new Hot Wheels. by the time I was around 13/14 I had around 6 5-gallon buckets full of them. Good times.
I put mine on my wall. I'm 16. ~$400 investment total.
I also had several 5 gal buckets full 👍👍
I did that too! Although I had a phase where I was just too lazy when I was like 10 and I've stopped since.
This is bringing back good memories from the 80s. My favorite was a red corvette I got with a mcdonalds happy meal.
I once got a circle tracker from McDonald's once and me being a stupid ass wanted to smash it all up then cry about it
Wasnt the title called “how a guitar string saved hot wheels”
Just noticed that
Ya lol
Current title seems wrong. I don't understand it
@@0hjaa3.06 Y'all just don't pay attention SMH. Starts at 3:10.
Take your Ritalin and watch it again. It's called knowledge retention.
It was like that when I clicked it and then it changed and it’s been 4 hours
As a collector, I can confirm I started drooling at the sight of the isle of hot wheels
"The most important test is how much it hurts when you step on it in the middle of the night"
*We feel it every night... and still suffer for it*
772 i step on them and slip and fall on my back
i stepped on one once and my foot got cut open
So what kind of hot wheels car do you step?
@@hard_satania926 cant recall, but I know it had a spoiler on it
hey my comment was censored
Me in a mall: Hey look! A twin mill
My brain: buy it.
Me: yeah, but wh-
Brain: *JUST DO IT*
you gotta
at 26yrs old, i can relate 100% too this.
I go to Toy area all the time when I have money to waste.
A Mom and her kid look at me weird especially if I'm with my daughter searching on the hot wheels area.
clayton ep 😄
I have 3 in different colours and 18+ year old cars in a 200+ collection me and my brother work on.
I actually made a nonprofit called SGT Hot Wheels. It started when I was overseas, now I give out free cars to kids at car shows, let them play on the old tracks, and have free raffles of military ammo cans filled with Hot Wheels. The kids love it, the parents reminisce, and everyone has fun!
Plan to hit up the Caribbean?
I do it in Minnesota.
Joe Hawkins where
@TH-cam Commentor I wish I could, but it would be frighteningly expensive.
@@noodle_boy Minnesota
I loved them both. I loved the realism of Matchbox, and the imagination of Hot Wheels
IKR!!
Even the realistic hot wheels cars look better than matchbox
@@DCT97 I don't know how many hot wheels ive bought that have no tail lights though...
Fun fact - the name 'matchbox' came from children/their parents in the olden days making homemade toy cars being made of a literal matchbox for the body and coat buttons for the wheels - the first 'toy cars'. =)
Makes sense, this would be exactly the same way that soapbox derby got its name. Early ride-on size toy cars were often made by attaching wheels to wooden crates including those used to carry soap thus the name in the early days the things were literally soap boxes or other random crates on wheels. Of course, the same thing happened there as happened with the matchbox cars other people saw those primitive toys seemed fun and went to work trying to one-up the competition with something that looked cooler, worked better, or both.
Absolute tosh, the name derived from the idea that the toys would fit inside a matchbox; the first vehicles were very much smaller than the current ones.
Confusion
@@7Qchap agreed thank you for knowing the hobby
@@7Qchap I've heard this too. It was made to fit inside a matchbox.
Mattel later bought out Matchbox. My late (and former) brother in law, Ryu Asada, had a lifelong love affair with cars and went to grad school to study car design. He landed his dream job -- as a designer at Mattel-owned Matchbox, then later joined the Hot Wheels team. Ryu became a legend in the Hot Wheels world. Remember the Roller Toaster and the rest of the food-themed cars? That was Ryu.
A lot of cars have Ryu’s rides on them and recently got an s2000 with a plate of R.Asada and was wondering. This sheds a lot of awesome insight
RIP Ryu. Some of my favorite designs have been from him. ♥️
Wow! Very Interesting!
Ryu also made his own Hot Wheels wheel design, the RA6
Yeah sure freaking Ryu Asada was your brother in law, sure.😒😒
Fun fact: Mattel nearly lost their licensing contract with Chevy after Mattel caught wind of the Corvette C4 concept car, jumping the gun and releasing the car much earlier before the design for the 'vette was finalized, and sold it in stores for a while in the 80s.
bruh
Shit I think i might have one of those
White with purple windows and some painted on vynil things on the doors
The front looks C4 but the back looks C5 and everything else looks a bit...off
Going of memory rn but its one of my favorites so I'm pretty sure I'm discribing it right
Its suprising that it isnt rare
In 90's
I grew up in the 90s still using my dad's original Hotwheels tracks. I'm not sure if we still have them, but I can't wait to build tracks with my kids someday. My brother and I always tried to build the biggest jumps that we could.
I remember crying my ass out just to get one of these
HONESTLY SAME.
Same
Same
brat lol
@@FacTi0n no
Hotwheels cars just roll better, especially if you get the ones with larger rims and wider wheels
Gotta be the hot wheels w the stance😂
During the winter times you can put winter tires and they will roll even better! 😉
The newer expensive ones with rubber wheels roll REALLY nice
ive noticed that cars from 5 packs or special series roll better, because they are made in a different country than the normal hot wheels for some reason
@@wobbly.muffins5239 yeah
Hot wheels: stays on track
Businessman: Now this is an investment
Stonks
Free real estate!
Envestmeant
This was good, I enjoyed this. Remember my dad hauling out a huge box stuffed full of orange track; he had scored big at a garage sale. We had to build the track outside it was so huge! I also remember him putting stickers on my Hot Wheels sets, telling me to take care of my toys, and don't rush into playing when you are assembling. He had a great passion for building model kits, and I enjoy that myself today.
Hotwheels: **buys Matchbox**
Also Hotwheels: *S T O N K S*
Mattel owns both
Stanks
NICE!!!!
@@maximaldinotrap
I know they do.
I watched the fricking video
The fact that Matchbox still exists while being owned by Mattel is actually pretty cool to me. They still let the people buy them for the brand, thus actually profiting from new customers.
i remember my dad modifying the "super launcher" with higher voltage so the cars went faster, needless to say, after some accidents, it was scrapped, i love this cars
The whole reason I had kids is so I could buy Hot Wheels and not feel like a weirdo
Nice
🤣
No longer need offspring as an excuse. May I refer you to the Gaslands rules? gaslands.com/
@@richmcgee434 Welp, time to start a new hobby.
@@RockstepBMX I've been a gamer since before that meant explaining "no, neither PC nor console" and there are certainly worse hobbies to get into. Gaslands is particularly newbie-friendly, but there are miniatures games out there for almost every genre and niche. Have fun!
As a kid, I never had those orange tracks. We made our own roadways on the dirt floor! Good times! 💪🏼
Me: buys a HotWheel every time I go to any grocery store that has hot wheels...
I work at a grocery store myself, and I'm always buying as many, or very few Hot Wheels that I can find.
So hard to pass up!!!
Me: buys Maisto, Matchbox and hotwheels whenever I go to the grocery store and the toy shop
Yes
Why cant you just say "I buy one every time I go to a grocery store" .... ?
Mom: when are you ever going to sell your 500 hot wheels car Collection
14 year old me: never they are my prized possessions and definitely not selling my $90 Bugatti Veyron
Yeah, the Veyron is really going up in value. Originally you could bought it for $1 (Like Most Hot Wheels) years ago, now people selling it for hundreds.
I got a Veyron for two bucks a yard sale
I mean i have the black and red bugatti veyron it's a bit beat up but still it was my first hor wheels car
I have a classic truck worth $128 but it should have been $150 but it's a little scratched up and used but it still rolls
I'm trying to buy a used Bugatti for $60
When I was a kid, my dad would surprise me by hanging a new hot wheels on the dining room light fixture every now and then. I stopped collecting when the Gameboy became my main entertainment. Almost 20 years later, I started collecting hot wheels again because my coworkers have their own little collection to flaunt at work. I'm glad I can experience nostalgia and the same level of excitement that I felt when I was a kid.
Reminds me to a scene back when I was a kid.
I was 5 or 6 years old, and my father and I had a little chat on the telephone while he was at work (we did it sometimes when he Had time). My mother reached me the phone and I talked with him.
There he said: "I've got a little surprise for you, go your room and look under your pillow."
I did how he said and was the happiest kid...
Under there was a silver Auburn with dark red fenders, still got it today, but not in the mint condition as I ripped it out of the box that day. Always was one of my favourites, still today.
Even today, with 25, I check out this little models when I see them.
It's funny, when a young woman in your age looks at decoration or something and next to her stands her best friend, almost diving in a paper bucket, just to make sure he doesn't unsee one model.
I had that same set with the clamp, the loop and the jump you were talking about at the end! Hotwheels were a big passion of my childhood!
That moment when you realize they are both owned by Mattel
Kibbs 325 that moment when that’s it’s in the video
@@I.M.N.L that moment where a monuments moment of realization occurs
@Corn On The Colb Hot Wheels can be very realistic too
@Corn On The Colb I actually prefer the realism of hotwheels. They do make some crazy cars but the ones based off real cars are pretty nice.
What about Tomica? Those are pricey but realistic.
I still have my Hot Wheels collection I had as a kid. A lot from the early 70's up to the 90's. Now my kids play with them and collect new ones. Cool stuff.
Modern HWs sucks
I still have my dads old hot wheels he just shoved them in our closet but I took a few out to display on my dresser next to my collection I have about 20-30 mustangs and a ton of Porsche’s Audi’s and various muscle cars
Audi's werent made until the yr 2000s
i had a lot from the 90s and gave them all away when i was feeling "grown" now my grown self wishes i wasnt such a dumb ass because most of those hotwheels didnt mean the same to that kid and they just ended up in the yard
wvusmc I sold mine 2 years ago and I’m regretting not picking out all my favourite cars
I'm 17 now, I don't get the crazy ones anymore but still get the realistic ones if I see a nice one.
edit: coming back to this comment whenever I get a yt notif and seeing all the other ppl that still collect them puts a smile on my face
Me too mate I am 17 too
@@jojorabbit61 yall are still kids. of course you are
I’m 32 I still get the realistic ones.
I'll be turning 40 next year. I spend $30-$100 a month on hotwheels still.
@@douglasmurphy6705 you gotta chill bro
I always liked the detail put into Matchbox cars.
0:36 : best selling toy in the world
LEGO: am I a joke to you ?
LEGO is expensive, big, fragile and requires assembly. Hotwheels are small, cheep and ready to go, and they've been around for longer. I'm guessing hw has sold more cars than lego has sold sets. Though lego has certainly gained a lot of momentum in the last decade or so, much more than it used to have in the past.
Hotwheels are the best selling toys in the world with over 4.3 billion TOY CARS shipped , that does not include tracks, playsets , or even their short lived airplane stunt sets
ThreeDaysOfDan actually Barbie is
qbanz no LEGO is actually the largest tire manufacturer on the planet.
@@KimonFrousios i wish lego wasn't as expensive as it is
Who else collects them still or even make customs?🔥
I collect them too✌
Yeah me too
I actually have been stocking up to do customs. Going to be doing some research soon to find out what materials I need. Also going to be doing custom decals and maybe selling them for modelers to use as well. I'm super excited to get started and have been watching videos for inspiration.
i sadly dont anymore... but my favorite one when u was a kid was a blue ford Shelby, it looked cool.
@@EasterlyArt that's really cool! I'm also making customs (and showing how I do it on youtube), it's a nice hobby to have!
Teacher: How did you learn about cars?
Me: Hot wheels 🚗
This has to stop
Me
True that’s how I learned
Same in here baby
Seeing that I own a few of those original release designs puts a smile in my face.
"A full length Hot Wheels movie."
There's already been five, you know.
Keyword is live action, and honestly, I'd love to see live action hot wheel cars. That'd be sick.
I love how hot wheels made Speed Racer cars
Good ol Acceleracers
not live action
ACCELERACERS AND HIGHWAY 35 QRE 👌🏻👌🏿
8 year old me: Wow those Hot Wheels look so cool
Tomica: Am i a joke to you?
They are also realistic and open
@@jululugz2893 an Asian version only
Tomica cars looks great, I still have some in my home.
and when you compare their TLV to hotwheels, but I guess hotwheels isn't targeting the same customers as Tomica.
I dont know but as a kid I loved hotwheels, until I saw tomica cars! something about the realism and variety of even utility vehicles got me hooked :-)
"It looks great when its tiny." That's not what she said.
@[GD] hiyarus Thanks!
#tinydick
If you've got enough money you can get her to say stuff worse than that.
@[GD] hiyarus true true
Someone had to say it. Thank you.
I’m 54 and I have just started collecting die cast cars again. Plain and simple, they just make me HAPPY! I also love the hunt, and respect all the hard work that goes into making them.
I might've been strange but I tended to more into realism when I was a kid so tended to go for MBX over HW (not that they were as avalible back then in my town).
Matchbox weren't without their own wacky stuff, look up something called a Matchbox Motorway, it is essentially a way to race your toy cars like slot cars and will pretty much take anything with a base that the clip is able to attach to as the working are in the track and side buildings, they can take bigger models too as I've seen Models of Yesteryears used with one as an alternative to a Christmas tree train.
Mines sadly got a sickly PSU so doesnt run that fast anymore and overheats when load is added triggering a thermal cutout.
I agree
You're not strange, nothing wrong with being into realism. I never cared for Hot Wheels for that reason, they basically caused the decline in quality of MBX.
Where the collectors at?🙋🏽♂️
Heck yeah I've been collecting hot wheel since my uncle gave me a lot of old hot wheels when I was younger.
Hell yeah brother. Always hunting for that next TH or super.
I only collect 1/18 scale now, but it all started with Hot wheels and Matchbox as a kid in the 80s :)
right here homie
Yes
no matter how old you are, you slow down when you pass the hot wheels section
Although many friends and family criticized me for being childish and wasteful cause of going through and buying HW cars as a grown young adult, I still love doing so... And I already had about 30 to 40 of those cars in my collection...
i can't go into a target or any other store with a toy section without checking to see if they have any jdm hot wheels cars I might want lol
Target usually has the crappy fake cars. I have waay better luck at the grocery stores.
I am doing same with jdm but rn im looking for more supercar, and especially mclarens (i am a huge fan)
I do the same thing...my wife doesn't even comment anymore...
100%
Nerf section or lego section also some of the two most grown up toys, also the speed champions are also worth 13 dollars
I’ve always collected both!! I loved Matchbox for the extra realism touches like painted headlights and more realistic decals
I stopped buying Matchboxes when they started butchering them to accommodate the "Superfast" wheels in order to compete with Hot Wheels. To their credit, Hot Wheels tires seem to have proportions close to actual tires while the Superfast tires look like bloated blobs.
hotwheels always doesnt paint either the front or the rear headlights of the cars, idk why but it just makes it less detailed
I have renault Trezor concept matchbox
@@sakshamarora4376 I have the 2022 Renault Megane Matchbox
I can tell you that matchbox cars blow up way better than hot wheels when you strap a bunch of cherry bombs to them but nothing blows up better than a ninja turtle.
I'm 33 and I still browse and pick out a few Hot Wheels from time to time. I sadly lost my entire collection from when I was a kid, and I had some really cool ones too. I stopped collecting for years after that, but eventually got back into it again. Great video!!
I found an orange track set at Zellers when I was 10 and begged my mom to buy it for me. 11 years later I’m still hanging unopened hot wheels packs on my wall and collecting as many as possible👍
"How HotWheels beat out MATCHBOX"
Only early birds know this title.
It still has that title but it changes when I click on the video
@@JuanJimenez. Same here.
The title changes when we clicked the video, had me confused a little bit lol
Nobody out heat's the wheels
Losing the rights to replicate Ferrari, was a huge loss to Hot wheels and Ferrari
Bburago was always better and over in the "continent of Ferrari" aka Europe, and here Bburago wiht exception of UK was king so Ferrari didn't give a dip about tiny Hot Wheels...
problem was that Bburago still was sold "cheap" to compete but they didn't skimp on the quality ending with Bburago went broke and got bought up by Maisto's parent company.
Bburago still kept the Ferrari's but while the newer models are more detailed they clearly suffers from the "Made in China" compare to when they where made in Italy with example of bad paint (chips off easily if not treated with utmost care)
I still got my Ferrari Hotwheels from the 90’s in the original packaging 😍.
Thank god I got a few decent hot wheels Ferrari’s
I had 458 ferrai and i think i still have it and i hope its not scratched
On the bright side, hot wheels Ferrari’s now command huge prices on the collector’s market
As someone who has been collecting hot wheels for a long time, I’d like to say…..
1) great episode!
2) at least you don’t spend all day and night on websites looking for harder to find variations, like some of us do.
C) you forgot to mention that premium cars come with rubber wheels
4) my favorite hot wheels is the GMC MOTORHOME and I have over 50 variations of it. And the 57 Chevy which I have over 120 variations of.
how much have u spent loll sounds like alot
God bro you could've gotten a real car
But real cars are not as satisfying!🏎️
You don't understand diecast collecting do you?
12c4
nvm me im just looking on an 1 year old comment
By the way, thank you for showcasing the original Deora as much as you did. It was my very first Hot Wheels car and remains a personal favorite. :)
And how forget the animated series like Acceleracers, the best series they made.
True. Acceleracers made my childhood
That one weird guy 100% couldn’t agree more, that was it when I was a kid
they also made a second show called hero force 5
@Air Wolf Pilot 017 aww shiiiiit. you right. i was going off of memory so pretty likely id be off
I love Hotwheels but hate the greedy "collectors" trying to make a living off the hype.
True. Ive been buying the last 3 years and cant find any TH yet..
@@bojackson6714 Me too
Bo Jackson I found 2 and I threw em outside in the woods i don’t care about em lol
@@blackaf1s37 thats fine at the end of the day they are just metal
@@blackaf1s37 shit i dont either but damn maybe i wanna make some damn money off a TH...i collect only muscles anyways
44 years old...guilty of getting odd looks from parents when I'm analysing the hot wheels display for goodies lol
mazcati you're the weirdo who goes through the pegs not letting the kids look at them....congratulations loser.
Kurtis Monasterski And you’re the weirdo who sits on their computer all day talking shit about people’s hobbies cuz you don’t have any
@ItzClexz haha nice roast
@@kurtismonasterski9644 and proud of it too.
Ehh... You're 44, they're probably thinking you're buying it as a present for some kid :)
I'm 55 and have been playing with hot wheels for 50 years. Thanks for taking the time and putting in the effort to make this video.
They also made an animated movie called Acceleracers, very underrated
I freaking agree
@@JohnAgustinScuderia458595 Too bad didn't continue it 😐
wish they would have finished it :(
Me after seeing this: *goes to target to buy 30 bucks of hotwheels*
That's funny because I did the exact same thing the other day...
i guess i was supposed to go cheaper i bought 10 different 20 packs cost me over $180 and thats not counting the 37 different single packs i bought lmao over $220 total
"Why do you still buy toy cars? You're not a kid!"
"Why are you so concerned with what I do in my spare time? We're not in high school!"
Why yes the couch is quite comfy why do you ask?
Me: draws porn
highschooler: ohmygawd your fuckin weird
college: hey that's cool
Why are you so Mercedes? (Im just trying to be funny)
I think my favorite childhood Hotwheels was this black Ferrari F40 my older brother gave me... it's still around today but in horrible condition, so I might do a bit of customization to bring it back to its former glory
6:18 “...to make sure no part of the car is going to scrape on a loop”
*laughs in zotic*
a good amount of realistic cars scrape on the track
Don't forget about Pikes Peak Celica. RIP Front Splitter
would med evil scrape?
I thought zotic was a lambo when i was 5, its still a cool ass car tho
Yeah my reanult sport rs scrapes on the loop and so does my premium r34
Before I click the video: “ How HOT WHEELS Beat out MATCHBOX”
After I clicked the video “How a failed guitar design saved Hot Wheels”
And now when I check it they changed it
It’s an addiction
I still have to restrain myself from getting hot wheels
Yes I find old hotwheels cars in the dirt or sometimes I like to steal 1 of my nephew
I still to this day have both my collection from when I was younger and constantly add more everytime I go to the store!!!
AS_EV4D3R_ 1 I have to restrain myself from buying them haha I have so many and incredibly i know which ones I don’t have haha
My dad.
I broke myself out of this addiction, actually Sonic the Hedgehog broke me out of it but I still buy a few here and there
The fact that the Deora existed in the very first batch just proves why I think it’s the true mascot of Hot Wheels. It’s just that iconic. (World Race and Acceleracers no doubt helped its popularity.)
I am old enough to have been there when they started. I even joined the Hot Wheels club and my favorite car was the Club Boss Hoss, Chromed Mustang. Which I still have.
I have some of the originals. the Beatnik Bandit, Custom Fleetside, Custom Eldorado, and the Custom Camaro. I also have the Chaparral from 1969, the T-4-2 from 1971, two of the Dodge vans from '74, and I one of the fire trucks from '75. not the fire eater though.
No way! I have that! But gold! It’s in my closet, and I found it in the sand box at school in first grade! I loved it ever since! I just looked up your car and realized that we have the same one! Awesome!
'67 Mustang Fastback was UNDEFEATED on the four-lane race track
hotwheels.fandom.com/wiki/%2767_Mustang
I have the 1972 Chevy LUV. That's my fastest.
wait like the cars actually are faster than another? they all dont roll the same speed? say i buy 40 hot wheels all brand new out of the box and i set up a 3 lane track and race 3 at a time all the cars and it was timed with a laser so its exact. eliminate all variables so even the push to get them to go down the ramp is done by a machine, it passes a laser to start the timer then passes a laser at the end to end the timer. do the cars really vary in performance? i would have thought they are all just the same.
At my 28 years of age, I can say that collecting Hot Wheels is something that will stay with me forever.
It's hard not to check out the new hot wheels cars when I'm at the store lol always looking for that "one" then talk myself out of buying it lol
my favorite thing about hot wheels cars was the "suspension" effect of the wheel. I didn't know it was due to the guitar strings, but now I do.
bruh i noticed it bc of u
im dead serious i didnt know that
I love collecting Hot Wheels. ❤️ although at 20, I’m very selective in collecting. I don’t buy any car anymore. I’d buy exotic super cars and Japanese icons. Could include rally legends.
David Paulo same I still go the hot wheel section but I am selective and get the real life scale models
I'm lucky cause when i was a kid, the Hotwheels I bought cars and never expected they're icons of different car styles.
I generally prefer any real car model, especially American Muscle and Porsche, over original Mattel designs, although some are really plausible as a real ride, like the legendary Bone Shaker hot rod.
As long as it is not shitty in my eyes im good. I don't collect their custom models unless it catches my eye
Same, I go for really detailed tampos and good proportions, most any real life car might catch my eye. No garish graphics though.
9:46 perfect way to avoid a copyright strike 🤣
In college, every one of the officers and seniors in my fraternity had to come up with a challenge for the pledges. I gave the pledges hot wheels they had to keep on them at all times and occasionally had them race them down a track to get special privileges. They started taking them apart and adding weight to them like boy scout pine wood derby cars, good times
there is some youtubes channels of custom diecast cars racing, that you can send your modded cars to race! my favourite channel is 3dbomaker diecast racing league.
That's pretty gay.
As a 38 year old collector, I frequently run into other adults perusing the die cast cars. They will often ask if I've seen anything good. Haha