As a Monster Jam fan, Hot Wheels will always have an important legacy in collector's collections, and even when it competed. Sad Spin Master took over for Monster Jam, but at least Mattel has their own brand.
Fun toy history fact: Mattel was one of the first brands to revolutionize the new era of toys. Most toys before this were more things to fiddle with, like yo-yos and slinkies. Mattel brought in toys that were actually meant for something, like toy cars and the famous Mattel thunder-burp, the first toy gun ever, and the marking of the start of the new era. I actually have one! So yeah there’s a quick history lesson Yall :)
I'm sure that dolls and action figures already existed. As did OTHER explicitly "toy" vehicles. They didn't make nothin' new, they just gave it a kick in the ass is all.
Oh my fucking god the nostalgia, the memories. I used to collect tons of hot wheels cars when i when younger, and i have like 400+ of them stored inside my closet in a huge box. I remember my young-self liked way more realistic/down-to-earth design cars rather than the goofy ahh ones.
Damn, I have in total like 31 cars, and I have never once buy a realistic car because I've always thought to myself "if I wanted to realistic cars, I would've bought matchbox"
I 100% remember the hot wheels pop tarts, they had a literal print of a hot wheels car on them similar to how a birthday cake or something would be, it would get all smudged up when your 8 year old hands or mouth ran across it. I remember they also had a Halloween theme one with the same idea. Completely forgot all about these until I saw them again
I like to see the Twin Mill and the Bone Shaker as sort of "friendly rivals". I put those two cars side by side and I just get that friendly rivalry vibe. To put it simply, The Bone Shaker is the Ken Masters to The Twin Mill's Ryu. Then there's the Rodger Dodger. Definitely in my top 3 Hot Wheels car designs.
So about the hot wheels eggos, They actually existed, I actually ended up having my mom buy them at a walmart sometime when I was really young, like pre-school and kindergarden levels of young when I was obbsessed with hot wheels as a toddler. The box was the exact same as in the picture, with the two eggo hot wheels in the picture on every single waffle. I legit forgot about this until this video came up too which goes to show how obscure the eggos were. They existed at some point 100% sometime in the late 2000's.
This video was my introduction to the channel, and lemme just say it’s wholesome af, love every minute of every video; it’s serotonin for me, thank you for the fun content
Oh my god nostalgia. I still have like 5 buckets of hot wheels in my bedroom (some are other brands, but most are hot wheels) and when i saw some that i own i was like “hey! I know that one!”
I remember one of my friends throwing a ton of hot wheels in the air for no apparent reason and how the little metal cars started raining down, crashing on my and my best friend's face and head. still haunts me to this day 10/10 would recommend
My favorite Hot Wheels line was the Acceleracers line. Not only on do the movies go hard, but the car designs goes so hard too. The Teku with the sleek technological looking cars. The Metal Maniacs with the aggresive designs. The Racing Drones with the robotic transformers. The Silencerz with the secret agent lab organization vibes.
The Thomas Car (Loco Motorin’) is so cool. It was released exclusively in 2020 to celebrate 75 years of the Railway Series, the book series the Thomas the Tank Engine show is based on. It’s by far my favourite fictional Hot Wheel design.
Silly hot wheels are one of the toys that defined my childhood. We got coupons for them all the time so my mom bought me at least one pretty much every week for several years, and I had hundreds at one point. Eventually Lego replaced hot wheels as my favorite toys, but they were still loved for many years. I get nostalgia every time I see kids playing with hot wheels cars now :)
In the late 90's/ early 2000's Hotwheels was heavily involved in NASCAR merchandise at the time and had a few collabs. Some were pretty tame like putting race car designs on vintage cars, but others were WAY out there, like putting designs on golf carts, Radio Flyer wagons, Helicopters, RVs, ATVs, school busses, boats, and just about everything else that moves
I think an underappreciated element of these things are the weird cars they make for the little track toys. You can get them dinosaur themed, there were cars specifically made for shooting at a shark, and I seem to vividly recall a line of more futuristic looking cars that were built to go down this little track thing built like a city with a giant guy that punched down some buildings or something on the track.
thanks for the nostalgiac throwback polygon, I had completely forgot about these lol as a kid I collected every car I could and have hundereds of them lying around collecting dust
I remember back in 2005 or something mcdonalds had a line of hot wheels cars that were super high quality and had lights in them. Like they actually included a toy that was probably close to the value of a regular happy meal itself, I was pretty amazed as a kid tbh.
Holy shit, I used to have one of those rare McD's variants, specifically the Lightning Speed one at 8:25. I think I buried it in my grandparents' old backyard somewhere in my old hometown.
As a HW collector and a lover of memes I can tell you that this video is everything I could ask for, shoutout to my boys the Fatbaxs!!! Back in 2004 I got at least 4 of those cars, I really loved how absurd they were, the green Silhouette is my favorite. Also shoutout to the Super Treasure hunt line, rubber is very important. The cars have rubber wheels and shiny paint and can be found hidden in the same boxes as the regular cars, it's always fun to go out hunting and see what you can find
Treasure hunting has become my latest obsession and I blame yall for it lmao. Approximately one in 10,000 cars is an ultra rare Treasure Hunt or Super Treasure Hunt variant with fancy paint and tires, they're just randomly hidden among boxes of HW cars. It's like hunting for shiny pokemon in real life. Help me.
@@LuvzToLol21 Unless they changed it, one in every 15 boxes should have a Super TH and each box of 72 cars has a basic TH, a couple of weeks ago I went hunting for fun and found two basic TH I didn't have! I never shy away from asking if they got more cars in the back, that's a very exciting part of it lol it's great to see more and more people enjoying the hobbie!!!
I can't believe you didn't show off the Hot Wheels car that was designed specifically to have a GoPro on it. It's probably one of my favorite cars, simply because the POV vids fucking slap.
fun fact: the laser microwave clip is from styropyro (named after how napalm is made I think) in which he absolutely toasted a piece of bread using high powered lasers uwu
i played with hotwheels so much and remember having some rare ones, but i got rid of most of them and i regret doing that so much now. Ive bought a couple new ones just for nostalgia. Loved those things
My favorite Hot Wheels to collect are off road vehicles and big ass trucks. I got a Dodge Macho Power Wagon with Batman on the side and a super cool Dodge Challenger with an American flag paint job and the engine jutting out of the hood. And an all silver Suberu BRAT. Those are some of my faves and I keep them on my dresser. Now I’m interested in the Hot Seat with the rat and the Sudster with the crocodile. Thanks for bringing those to my attention!
Back in the far back year of 2003, hot wheels made possibly the best children's movie ever (despite the ps2 lookin ahh graphics), Hot Wheels Highway 35. I found it on vhs at a thrift store when i was 2 years old, back in 2007, and honestly not only did it get me into hot wheels, but is probably the sole reason i love cars so much. Even if you don't care about hot wheels I'd still recommend you give this movie (and it's sequel series, Acceleracers) a watch.
I don't collect Hot Wheels but other micro brands. I can't stress enough how much the style of this video resonates with me as a collector! It's basically ADHD in a nutshell. Even if you don't have it - if you're a collector of basically ANYTHING, you just have to vibe with this video!!! 😁
I was big into Hotwheels in the early to mid 2000's. I had, like, 10 of those "fatbacks" and other wacky designs like models that looked like they were raindrop versions of older models or bulbous, cartoony versions. I had ones that transformed into skateboarding robots with guns. I had tiny little magnetic ones that had tiny magnetic sets and tracks. But my weirdest "normal ones" where a blimp and a helicopter. Yeah... Don't know why I bought those. My favorite is, and forever will be, the Maelstrom. With the Vulture as a close second. Sadly, I moved when I turned 18 and my (admittedly not very well taken care of) collection was lost in the transfer somehow. The only one I still have is my old, blue Maelstrom that I had kept in my pocket. Thanks for reading all that! God bless you! (Edited for grammar correction)
I grew up during the "Beat That" and Battle Force 5 eras of Hot Wheels from the mid-2000s into the early 2010s. Always good to see more Hot Wheels content on the site. Never see a lot of it unfortunately.
4:27 *I HAD ONE OF THOSE!!* I was what, about tree or four years old at the time? I remember being so confused by this car that it get carved in my memory as the ghost it looked like...😓
Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is one of the most well-known philosophical concepts in history. As such, it only makes sense that numerous filmmakers would try to incorporate this philosophy into their movies. But what exactly is it? And why does it work so well in the context of filmmaking? We’ll look at this concept as well as several films that have incorporated it excellently. It’s time to find the sun. Virtually all philosophy descends from Plato. And this particular piece of philosophy routinely comes up in discussions of how humans perceive reality and whether there is any higher truth to existence. This is a concept pondered and considered for thousands of years and we're still nowhere closer to an answer. Naturally, this is great material for literature and film. We'll go through this allegory in detail with examples from movies that were clearly inspired by Plato's cave. First things first - what is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"? Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" is a concept devised by the philosopher to ruminate on the nature of belief versus knowledge. The allegory begins with prisoners who have lived their entire lives chained inside a cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects. These cast shadows on the opposite wall. The prisoners watch these shadows, believing this to be their reality as they've known nothing else. Plato posits that one prisoner could become free. He finally sees the fire and realizes the shadows are fake. This prisoner could escape from the cave and discover there is a whole new world outside they were previously unaware of. This prisoner would believe the outside world is so much more real than that in the cave. He would try to return to free the other prisoners. Upon his return, he is blinded because his eyes are not accustomed to actual sunlight. The chained prisoners would see this blindness and believe they will be harmed if they try to leave the cave. Despite being centuries old, the allegory is appropriate for filmmaking. After all, the audience watches images on a screen. We’re meant to believe it to be real, but we know it’s false. Only when we step out of the theater back into reality can we take what we’ve learned in the cinema and apply it to our lives. But don't just take our Allegory of the Cave summary at face value. You would greatly benefit from reading it yourself.
Hot Wheels managed to bring out the inner petrol-head in me. Something that I didn't even think was possible. Looking back on my 2000's collection, I think most of my collection consisted of old school muscle cars, like the 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback. I used to have a metal flake green one back in the 2000's, but I lost it along with the rest of my sets and cars. I re-started my collection in 2018 and it has grown exponentially ever since. I even found a new Mustang to replace the one I lost 20 years ago. :)
My dad was a full on carnivore when I was younger, so we'd go to target like every day to get meat. They had a dollar bin of hot wheels and i got one every time. I remember I had that fidget toy thing and I'd bring it in the bath because it was light blue. Anyways, I don't know where it is now.
3:32 NASCAR fan here. That is the exact paint scheme used by Ricky Craven driving in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2002 to 2004. He had only two wins and not a lot of good finishes, but had one memorable finish in particular. In the final laps of the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, Ricky Craven ran down race leader Kurt Busch getting side by side with him coming out of the last turn. Craven beat Busch to the finish line by only 0.002 seconds. It was the closest finish in NASCAR history at the time and is still tied for that honor.
My modern favorite Hot Wheels models are Custom Small Block, and Brickin' Trail. These are building block vehicles that you can mix, and match parts to create new vehicles, plus, there's Brickin' Speed, a race car that ties into the unique play pattern of the other two. Also, I love the Corvette, and I always collect more than one example of each new release, and color.
Surprised you didn't use any footage from Hot Wheels Unleashed, but it's nice to see those classic games! Great video! Also, my favorite Hot Wheels would be the Roadbeast Ballistik! Maybe I just thought Banji was a cool character as a kid, and that just stuck with me?
I love hotwheels unleashed too but i just kept it simple and used world race. I will do a video on hotwheel games soon tho where i talk about all of them
I really love hot wheels and own more than 120 of them, AND WHEN I SAW THE TITLE IT’S SO ACCURATE, I LOVED TO BUY THOSE WEIRD ONES AS A KID. Sick video!
I was a 5 year old hot wheels mega collector I've amassed countless hot wheels through out my 16years and ill count down the 5 that I can remember off the top of my head. 1: the shark car (blue) 2: the Yoda car 3: a purple van with flames on it. 4: a rare golden car I got from a mystery set And 5, the carbonator.
I only have one Hot Wheel, and it's one I got in 2004 from a McDonald's Happy Meal. It used to light up from the inside when a switch was flipped on the bottom of the car, but even though the battery's now dead and unreplaceable, it's still my favorite style of Hot Wheel. I had to do some research to figure this out, but it's a 2004 McDonalds-exclusive Hyperliner from the Blings series. I love the boxy style and huge wheels.
Yoo I got one of these when I was a little kid and my family was on vacation in the US. It was the coolest thing ever. I don’t know if I lost it, but when I checked my bag back at home, the car was gone. I’ve never gotten my hands on one of these again.
You know, this should be a great format for a documentary series of 2000s or so toys. Like, Bakugan or Beyblade Or Lego. Seriously, I found you today and I already LOVE the editing and jokes, it's brilliant!
Everytime I watch a video by you I forget you're the same person, so it's nice to know I'm already subscribed lol. Thanks for inciting another hyperfixation for me (even tho I'm on adhd meds and that shit rarely happens anymore)
Gods, I remember the 2008 speed racer ones! They were my favorites as a kid, and one thing that wasn’t mentioned was the fact they had cool weapon attachments if you got them in larger packs, like sawblades and the like! They went into little slots on the bottom and were neat as heck.
i had the original Dodge Deora that i found in box in a charity shop for 30p, i traded it at school a year later for a chinese made brick game, which oddly still works 22 years on
The Hot Wheels car, Coupe Clip, is a keyring (/keychain depending where you live). I thought it looked stupid when I first saw it too, till I realised that's what it was supposed to be. And it has been on my keys since then, I think its pretty cool now.
I wasn't a big collector of Hotwheels but when I was growing up, I had something similar they were called Disney Racers and they also had weird designs maybe that could be an idea for another video someday.
i love these types of videos, you should do more. its always fun to hear you talk! first it was about the meaning of weirdcore and now its about hotwheels, seems as if youre evolving. awesome.
I have a massive collection of hot wheels, ranging from the 1970s to now, and I've come across some weird ones recently 😅 The sidekick, introduced in 1972, is my oldest hot wheel, and it's pretty weird. ABOVE the passenger seat there is a massive engine, I wouldn't be surprised if it was supposed to be a V18 or something, and it has a driver's seat on a metal panel that slides outside of the car. (The "Sidekick" part)
This was a really fascinating and entertaining video.👍 I just want to say about the Baker's Dozen donut cars is that I don't believe they were marketed specifically to girls, but rather the pink box was to emulate the prevalent use of pink donut boxes along the American West Coast.
Made a new hotwheels video about every single hotwheels video game! Come check it out: th-cam.com/video/VxGE9o8sO8w/w-d-xo.html
Hot wheel
10th liked and 2st comment
U forgot the halo car
Alright.
I have
One MASSIVE line not mentioned are the monster trucks hotwheels makes for Monster Jam. Seriously, there's so many of them.
Yeah i love monster jam too, maybe ill talk about them someday
As a Monster Jam fan, Hot Wheels will always have an important legacy in collector's collections, and even when it competed. Sad Spin Master took over for Monster Jam, but at least Mattel has their own brand.
My name❤
I remember seeing them in stores and I thought they make the cars into reality not knowing that Monster Jam is an establish thing..
at home i have roller toaster,purrfect speed,sharkruiser,golden batmobile
Fun toy history fact: Mattel was one of the first brands to revolutionize the new era of toys. Most toys before this were more things to fiddle with, like yo-yos and slinkies. Mattel brought in toys that were actually meant for something, like toy cars and the famous Mattel thunder-burp, the first toy gun ever, and the marking of the start of the new era. I actually have one! So yeah there’s a quick history lesson Yall :)
Hi
thunderburp sounds like a disney sitcom
What a shitty name for such a world-first lmao
I'm sure that dolls and action figures already existed. As did OTHER explicitly "toy" vehicles.
They didn't make nothin' new, they just gave it a kick in the ass is all.
Who tf even Reed the whole thing
Polygon Donut could talk about… I don’t know, Heinz Ketchup for twenty five minutes and it would still be interesting.
Pongon better make this
you're saying that as it ketchups aren't interesting
New dolygon ponut video confirmed? 🤨
Same with air
PURPLE KETCHUP!?
“I believe I’ve made myself clear, *SHIFTING SFX*” got me way too good😂😂
I love the combination of actual information and insanity
229 likes and no replies let me fix that
Ok
@@frankdayrit7148 could you be oh so kind enough to help me look for the people who asked?
Unlike most video essays, this guy doesn't sound like he's belittling me
Oh my fucking god the nostalgia, the memories. I used to collect tons of hot wheels cars when i when younger, and i have like 400+ of them stored inside my closet in a huge box. I remember my young-self liked way more realistic/down-to-earth design cars rather than the goofy ahh ones.
I have an entire box of 'em
They are not in good condition because
They are stored in one place.
Goofy ahh ones 😆
i only have 5, jealous
I had like 3 100-car boxes but the goofy ahh cars were my favorites
Damn, I have in total like 31 cars, and I have never once buy a realistic car because I've always thought to myself "if I wanted to realistic cars, I would've bought matchbox"
I 100% remember the hot wheels pop tarts, they had a literal print of a hot wheels car on them similar to how a birthday cake or something would be, it would get all smudged up when your 8 year old hands or mouth ran across it. I remember they also had a Halloween theme one with the same idea. Completely forgot all about these until I saw them again
Obligatorynice astolfo pic comment
Sauce for that profile pic is 372886
Literally was the same as the regular brown sugar cinnamon from what I remember
ive seen your profile pic and it funni
I like to see the Twin Mill and the Bone Shaker as sort of "friendly rivals". I put those two cars side by side and I just get that friendly rivalry vibe.
To put it simply, The Bone Shaker is the Ken Masters to The Twin Mill's Ryu.
Then there's the Rodger Dodger. Definitely in my top 3 Hot Wheels car designs.
I found this guy yesterday and I'm loving this man's energy.
Yeah he’s so hype 😳😳
This isn't even like his normal form normally he's even more chaotic LOL
Same
He's got that charismatic energy.
Is he a man?
Someone needs to make a 13 hour documentary about every hotwheel
I WOULD IF I HAD THE TIME
What you do
As a hotwheels collector, I agree
@@PolygonDonut then have the time
If we're adding construction toys into the mix, how long do you reckon that segment would be?
So about the hot wheels eggos,
They actually existed, I actually ended up having my mom buy them at a walmart sometime when I was really young, like pre-school and kindergarden levels of young when I was obbsessed with hot wheels as a toddler.
The box was the exact same as in the picture, with the two eggo hot wheels in the picture on every single waffle.
I legit forgot about this until this video came up too which goes to show how obscure the eggos were.
They existed at some point 100% sometime in the late 2000's.
Was the taste different?
@@HuskyGamersUNITE yea for some reason I thought collab version taste better but no just the box
i also remember seeing a pack of theese in my freezer when i was six i am 12 currently so i am thinking they are from 2017 or 2016
i remember them tasting like regular waffles and me being dissapointed
The funny thing is, i was into hotwheels less but into lego more, so i ate the lego eggos at one point in my life
This video was my introduction to the channel, and lemme just say it’s wholesome af, love every minute of every video; it’s serotonin for me, thank you for the fun content
Polygon is definitely one of my favorite youtuber because of the *wacky* edits and stuff
He sounds like he’s smiling when he speaks in his videos
@@slam.p i suspect that he actually does
@@slam.p you can hear that he's enjoying the subject he's talking about! I wish all TH-camrs would be more like him!
@@chez-berger same!!
not to mention his sudden catgirl transformations
Oh my god nostalgia. I still have like 5 buckets of hot wheels in my bedroom (some are other brands, but most are hot wheels) and when i saw some that i own i was like “hey! I know that one!”
brooooo same
Same.
Bro I have 4 king sized containers and all that's in there is hot wheels and hot wheels tracks.
Bruh i have around 75 of them and a lot of them are from 1996-2019 boxes
“I believe I’ve made myself clear”
**hot wheels car turns clear**
That stuff funny as HECK
oh hello there
The fact that Donut put atombomb baby in the background for the beginning was amazing and reminded me of fallout 4
i lov fallout 4
@@PolygonDonut honestly one of the most replayble games out there
@@PolygonDonut Me too 😄
I remember one of my friends throwing a ton of hot wheels in the air for no apparent reason and how the little metal cars started raining down, crashing on my and my best friend's face and head. still haunts me to this day 10/10 would recommend
Sounds kind of painful
@@therunawaykid6523 dont worry! it very much was!
My favorite Hot Wheels line was the Acceleracers line. Not only on do the movies go hard, but the car designs goes so hard too.
The Teku with the sleek technological looking cars.
The Metal Maniacs with the aggresive designs.
The Racing Drones with the robotic transformers.
The Silencerz with the secret agent lab organization vibes.
Hey we same!
Also one thing
THEY LIGHT UP!!!
@@Madude62 the McDonalds ones
@@wakspacific6928 Sadly, the light version is cheaper than the original ones.
But I dont care, They are (the LED car) all cool af!
Same bro specially for the silencerz
I love how half of these clips contain 10 total pixels, really adds to the aesthetic
The cool part about the wheelchair car is it’s based off the wheelchair used by wheelz, a professional stuntsman in the Nitro Circus
I love listening to polygon ramble about things you can tell he cares about a lot. Keep doing what you love
THANK YOU!!
@@PolygonDonut wow. I didn't expect Yoy to see this. Thank you for taking time out of your day to reply to my comment.
it feels like listening to a friend infodump about one of their interests while you just zone out and listen and i love it
@@jaredcondit9888yoy?! 🥶🥶🥶🥶🤯🤯🤯🤯🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
@@PolygonDonute
I literally enjoyed everything about this video, I even enjoy that you had hot wheels world race footage in the background
Thank you!!!!
The Thomas Car (Loco Motorin’) is so cool. It was released exclusively in 2020 to celebrate 75 years of the Railway Series, the book series the Thomas the Tank Engine show is based on. It’s by far my favourite fictional Hot Wheel design.
Yes, I like that one, too.
Same
Eh. The Rail Rodder was a lot more badass. You want a cool as hell HW train though, look up the West Coast Flyer under the Rapid Transit line.
10:12 This is one of the Loco Motorin varients. This also has a special push along coupling on the back so you can connect it to other push alongs.
Silly hot wheels are one of the toys that defined my childhood. We got coupons for them all the time so my mom bought me at least one pretty much every week for several years, and I had hundreds at one point. Eventually Lego replaced hot wheels as my favorite toys, but they were still loved for many years. I get nostalgia every time I see kids playing with hot wheels cars now :)
In the late 90's/ early 2000's Hotwheels was heavily involved in NASCAR merchandise at the time and had a few collabs. Some were pretty tame like putting race car designs on vintage cars, but others were WAY out there, like putting designs on golf carts, Radio Flyer wagons, Helicopters, RVs, ATVs, school busses, boats, and just about everything else that moves
I found at a local craft store, the Richard Petty Team 43 RV model.
I had a hotwheels nascar car and a hotwheels train
7:07 "KITTY HOT WHEEL, MEEOOOOO-"
Always liked Cat-a-Pult. A rather heavy car with such compact design kinda fascinated me.
I think an underappreciated element of these things are the weird cars they make for the little track toys. You can get them dinosaur themed, there were cars specifically made for shooting at a shark, and I seem to vividly recall a line of more futuristic looking cars that were built to go down this little track thing built like a city with a giant guy that punched down some buildings or something on the track.
Another example could be those cars that would split in half on certain tracks, I forget the name of them though...
thanks for the nostalgiac throwback polygon, I had completely forgot about these lol as a kid I collected every car I could and have hundereds of them lying around collecting dust
8:12 they totally missed the opportunity to make a Big Mac Buns of Steel
But that was back in the day.
As someone who always loved the real world inspired cars but with exaggerated features.
Those collab designs got me laughing my ass off like HOLY.
I remember back in 2005 or something mcdonalds had a line of hot wheels cars that were super high quality and had lights in them.
Like they actually included a toy that was probably close to the value of a regular happy meal itself, I was pretty amazed as a kid tbh.
Was it the Acceleracers cars?
@@spidertron575 yes they were!
@@johnturner3455 Knew it
WHAT?! HIGH QUALITY HAPPY MEAL TOYS?!
I still have a few light light up cars from around that time and I still remember running them on my tracks in the basement with the lights off.
9:10 I think it did. I do remember my parents coming home with something that looked like this before
*NEW* hotwheels:making basic and modern vehicles than epic ones
*OLD* hotwheels:making weird vehicles that were so badass and epic collabs
i would love to see more videos about random things' histories in this kind of video format
Same!
Holy shit, I used to have one of those rare McD's variants, specifically the Lightning Speed one at 8:25. I think I buried it in my grandparents' old backyard somewhere in my old hometown.
So maybe someone will find an valuable treasure somewhen.
I have Lightning Speed.
Thats why those toys just disapear into the void lmao, we be doing sum crazy shit with them
@@karolkarol5788my hover deloreain disappeared into the void 5 years ago and reappeared 2 years ago
I also still have this at my grandparents house and I didn’t know it was that rare 😮
As a HW collector and a lover of memes I can tell you that this video is everything I could ask for, shoutout to my boys the Fatbaxs!!! Back in 2004 I got at least 4 of those cars, I really loved how absurd they were, the green Silhouette is my favorite. Also shoutout to the Super Treasure hunt line, rubber is very important. The cars have rubber wheels and shiny paint and can be found hidden in the same boxes as the regular cars, it's always fun to go out hunting and see what you can find
thank you :)) I will make more hotwheels videos soon about other things
@@PolygonDonut Yoooo, more Hot Wheels videos? I'm in!!
Treasure hunting has become my latest obsession and I blame yall for it lmao. Approximately one in 10,000 cars is an ultra rare Treasure Hunt or Super Treasure Hunt variant with fancy paint and tires, they're just randomly hidden among boxes of HW cars. It's like hunting for shiny pokemon in real life. Help me.
@@LuvzToLol21 Unless they changed it, one in every 15 boxes should have a Super TH and each box of 72 cars has a basic TH, a couple of weeks ago I went hunting for fun and found two basic TH I didn't have! I never shy away from asking if they got more cars in the back, that's a very exciting part of it lol it's great to see more and more people enjoying the hobbie!!!
I can't believe you didn't show off the Hot Wheels car that was designed specifically to have a GoPro on it. It's probably one of my favorite cars, simply because the POV vids fucking slap.
Totally had that Crunch Bar Camaro! Amazing work on this video! It was engaging, entertaining, and a blast of nostalgia.
Thank youu
I had the Hershey Funny Car. Both are from the same series, which also had a Reese’s Miata and a Butterfinger Mustang Convertible!
fun fact: the laser microwave clip is from styropyro (named after how napalm is made I think) in which he absolutely toasted a piece of bread using high powered lasers uwu
cool i just found it on twitter i didnt know that
i played with hotwheels so much and remember having some rare ones, but i got rid of most of them and i regret doing that so much now. Ive bought a couple new ones just for nostalgia. Loved those things
My favorite Hot Wheels to collect are off road vehicles and big ass trucks. I got a Dodge Macho Power Wagon with Batman on the side and a super cool Dodge Challenger with an American flag paint job and the engine jutting out of the hood. And an all silver Suberu BRAT. Those are some of my faves and I keep them on my dresser.
Now I’m interested in the Hot Seat with the rat and the Sudster with the crocodile. Thanks for bringing those to my attention!
Back in the far back year of 2003, hot wheels made possibly the best children's movie ever (despite the ps2 lookin ahh graphics), Hot Wheels Highway 35. I found it on vhs at a thrift store when i was 2 years old, back in 2007, and honestly not only did it get me into hot wheels, but is probably the sole reason i love cars so much. Even if you don't care about hot wheels I'd still recommend you give this movie (and it's sequel series, Acceleracers) a watch.
Acceleracers based
@@PolygonDonut on god
I loved Acceleracers.
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I don't collect Hot Wheels but other micro brands. I can't stress enough how much the style of this video resonates with me as a collector! It's basically ADHD in a nutshell. Even if you don't have it - if you're a collector of basically ANYTHING, you just have to vibe with this video!!! 😁
thank you :))
I was big into Hotwheels in the early to mid 2000's. I had, like, 10 of those "fatbacks" and other wacky designs like models that looked like they were raindrop versions of older models or bulbous, cartoony versions. I had ones that transformed into skateboarding robots with guns. I had tiny little magnetic ones that had tiny magnetic sets and tracks.
But my weirdest "normal ones" where a blimp and a helicopter. Yeah... Don't know why I bought those.
My favorite is, and forever will be, the Maelstrom. With the Vulture as a close second.
Sadly, I moved when I turned 18 and my (admittedly not very well taken care of) collection was lost in the transfer somehow. The only one I still have is my old, blue Maelstrom that I had kept in my pocket.
Thanks for reading all that! God bless you!
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RIP COLLECTION 😭
A few years back, my mom donated all my hot wheels, even the expensive ones 🥲
@@janicedeprospero3669 I know your pain.
@@nuttbag6658 I think i might make a seperate world race video, could be cool
I GOT A HOT WHEELS AD 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱
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Fun Fact: The "Tide Pod Twin Mill" was based off of Ricky Craven's NASCAR Tide Car, aka the Tide Ride
I grew up during the "Beat That" and Battle Force 5 eras of Hot Wheels from the mid-2000s into the early 2010s. Always good to see more Hot Wheels content on the site. Never see a lot of it unfortunately.
4:27 *I HAD ONE OF THOSE!!*
I was what, about tree or four years old at the time? I remember being so confused by this car that it get carved in my memory as the ghost it looked like...😓
I can't be autistic about transformers AND hot wheels man, I'm gonna turn into a car liker and lose my queer card
Bro, same thing here
Oh buddy ive got good news for you
@@Myah_sheeWAIT SHIT LMAO
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@@adamshafeeq8685 why are you on this channel bro
3:56 So nostalgic. I will never forget the battle force 5 cars 😌
GRIP lore
I really need to rewatch BF5
Holy shit I remembered those things used to watch it
Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” is one of the most well-known philosophical concepts in history. As such, it only makes sense that numerous filmmakers would try to incorporate this philosophy into their movies. But what exactly is it? And why does it work so well in the context of filmmaking? We’ll look at this concept as well as several films that have incorporated it excellently. It’s time to find the sun.
Virtually all philosophy descends from Plato. And this particular piece of philosophy routinely comes up in discussions of how humans perceive reality and whether there is any higher truth to existence.
This is a concept pondered and considered for thousands of years and we're still nowhere closer to an answer. Naturally, this is great material for literature and film. We'll go through this allegory in detail with examples from movies that were clearly inspired by Plato's cave.
First things first - what is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"?
Plato’s "Allegory of the Cave" is a concept devised by the philosopher to ruminate on the nature of belief versus knowledge. The allegory begins with prisoners who have lived their entire lives chained inside a cave. Behind the prisoners is a fire, and between the fire and the prisoners are people carrying puppets or other objects. These cast shadows on the opposite wall. The prisoners watch these shadows, believing this to be their reality as they've known nothing else.
Plato posits that one prisoner could become free. He finally sees the fire and realizes the shadows are fake. This prisoner could escape from the cave and discover there is a whole new world outside they were previously unaware of.
This prisoner would believe the outside world is so much more real than that in the cave. He would try to return to free the other prisoners. Upon his return, he is blinded because his eyes are not accustomed to actual sunlight. The chained prisoners would see this blindness and believe they will be harmed if they try to leave the cave.
Despite being centuries old, the allegory is appropriate for filmmaking. After all, the audience watches images on a screen. We’re meant to believe it to be real, but we know it’s false. Only when we step out of the theater back into reality can we take what we’ve learned in the cinema and apply it to our lives.
But don't just take our Allegory of the Cave summary at face value. You would greatly benefit from reading it yourself.
i feel smart just reading this
Wrong vid?
Wow, this comment made me dumber!
I do quite enjoy Plato.
Sorry this is the wrong video
3:13 this is a certified 💀 classic
Theres a hotwheels race competion in my country
And this one get banned somehow along with chevy pick up and go pro car
"I believe I made myself clear"... Daaaamn that triple invisibility pun hit me like a truck
I still collect hotwheels, and I'm 21 years old. Hotwheels was my childhood. And I love cars in general.
Hot Wheels managed to bring out the inner petrol-head in me. Something that I didn't even think was possible. Looking back on my 2000's collection, I think most of my collection consisted of old school muscle cars, like the 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback. I used to have a metal flake green one back in the 2000's, but I lost it along with the rest of my sets and cars. I re-started my collection in 2018 and it has grown exponentially ever since. I even found a new Mustang to replace the one I lost 20 years ago. :)
After watching this i got hit with the remembrance of the best hot wheels show that ever existed, Battle Force 5. Truly a masterpiece of its time
Honestly i love this kind of videos
The vibe you get is like you're at a Friend's house (or school) and you're talking about how cool are your toys
The donut cars being sold as a baker’s dozen is pretty funny
8:33 I actually have one of these. My grandfather gave it to me when I turned 12.
WHAT?!?! ME TOO!!! MY GRANDMA GAVE IT TO ME WHEN I WAS 7!!!!!!!!
You should check out the invisible boat mobile hot wheel, it’s my favorite one.
i cannot see
yo the emos father car is pretty cool,and invisible
My dad was a full on carnivore when I was younger, so we'd go to target like every day to get meat. They had a dollar bin of hot wheels and i got one every time. I remember I had that fidget toy thing and I'd bring it in the bath because it was light blue. Anyways, I don't know where it is now.
I think we had the same one with the same color
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The amount of hot wheels cars I killed in the bath via rust has to be in the double digits.
@@ding1466 wait, they can RUST in the bath?
@@spingleboygle guess the protective coating and paint can wear off
3:32 NASCAR fan here. That is the exact paint scheme used by Ricky Craven driving in the NASCAR Cup Series from 2002 to 2004. He had only two wins and not a lot of good finishes, but had one memorable finish in particular. In the final laps of the 2003 Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, Ricky Craven ran down race leader Kurt Busch getting side by side with him coming out of the last turn. Craven beat Busch to the finish line by only 0.002 seconds. It was the closest finish in NASCAR history at the time and is still tied for that honor.
My modern favorite Hot Wheels models are Custom Small Block, and Brickin' Trail. These are building block vehicles that you can mix, and match parts to create new vehicles, plus, there's Brickin' Speed, a race car that ties into the unique play pattern of the other two. Also, I love the Corvette, and I always collect more than one example of each new release, and color.
Surprised you didn't use any footage from Hot Wheels Unleashed, but it's nice to see those classic games! Great video!
Also, my favorite Hot Wheels would be the Roadbeast Ballistik! Maybe I just thought Banji was a cool character as a kid, and that just stuck with me?
I love hotwheels unleashed too but i just kept it simple and used world race. I will do a video on hotwheel games soon tho where i talk about all of them
Someone clip the Pongon 'YIPEE!' ( 7:14 )
I love the absurd designs, all of them, so remarkable
6:41 when the Hot Wheels gets forklift certified
I really love hot wheels and own more than 120 of them, AND WHEN I SAW THE TITLE IT’S SO ACCURATE, I LOVED TO BUY THOSE WEIRD ONES AS A KID. Sick video!
5:16 nah ah thats definitly liquid Plutonium
That’s definitely acid…
Speed racer is unironiclly my favorite movie, I’ve watched it since I was three
Your reactions on the creature hot wheels were phenomenal lol
"Sharky hot wheel! Yippee!!"
I was a 5 year old hot wheels mega collector I've amassed countless hot wheels through out my 16years and ill count down the 5 that I can remember off the top of my head.
1: the shark car (blue)
2: the Yoda car
3: a purple van with flames on it.
4: a rare golden car I got from a mystery set
And 5, the carbonator.
9:53 I found this one at the industrial section at Walmart
2:37 i gagged at that 60 fps gif
I only have one Hot Wheel, and it's one I got in 2004 from a McDonald's Happy Meal. It used to light up from the inside when a switch was flipped on the bottom of the car, but even though the battery's now dead and unreplaceable, it's still my favorite style of Hot Wheel. I had to do some research to figure this out, but it's a 2004 McDonalds-exclusive Hyperliner from the Blings series. I love the boxy style and huge wheels.
Sounds very cool
Yoo I got one of these when I was a little kid and my family was on vacation in the US. It was the coolest thing ever. I don’t know if I lost it, but when I checked my bag back at home, the car was gone. I’ve never gotten my hands on one of these again.
@@coneundflo5942 I foutd a few for sale on ebay, but there's no guarantee the batteries have any power left.
You know, this should be a great format for a documentary series of 2000s or so toys. Like, Bakugan or Beyblade
Or Lego.
Seriously, I found you today and I already LOVE the editing and jokes, it's brilliant!
Thank you so much!! I already have some more similar videos in the works :)) also nice ideas, i love bakugans and beyblades
Everytime I watch a video by you I forget you're the same person, so it's nice to know I'm already subscribed lol. Thanks for inciting another hyperfixation for me (even tho I'm on adhd meds and that shit rarely happens anymore)
Im always on some kind of hyper fixation lmao, i take it out by making videos on them like this. Actually puts the mental illness to good use LOL
@@PolygonDonut Isn't there another Yoda Car but with Yoda's head with wheels ?
Gods, I remember the 2008 speed racer ones! They were my favorites as a kid, and one thing that wasn’t mentioned was the fact they had cool weapon attachments if you got them in larger packs, like sawblades and the like! They went into little slots on the bottom and were neat as heck.
I wish they had more tracks sets
Man I wasted 11 minutes of my life watching this masterpiece of a informative documentary.
we need a part 2, to touch on the literal hotwheels movie
World race lore 💀
@@PolygonDonut exactly. its some deep shit man
Dont foeget the hotwheels x Forza Horizon collabs
Why are you forgetting Acceleracers?
I’m sorry what? There was a hot wheels movie???
6:30 as a mexican i think car-de asada is the best fucking name you could give a taco shaped car
i had the original Dodge Deora that i found in box in a charity shop for 30p, i traded it at school a year later for a chinese made brick game, which oddly still works 22 years on
6:54 wtf has science done
9:08 can confirm I remember these, my mom said she remembers me getting mad if she didn't buy the one with the hot wheels on it when I was like 7 or 8
I KNEW THEY EXISTED YES!!!!
The Hot Wheels car, Coupe Clip, is a keyring (/keychain depending where you live). I thought it looked stupid when I first saw it too, till I realised that's what it was supposed to be. And it has been on my keys since then, I think its pretty cool now.
I have one myself. They also come in Cherry Red.
I have one aswell lol
I wasn't a big collector of Hotwheels but when I was growing up, I had something similar they were called Disney Racers and they also had weird designs maybe that could be an idea for another video someday.
i love these types of videos, you should do more. its always fun to hear you talk! first it was about the meaning of weirdcore and now its about hotwheels, seems as if youre evolving. awesome.
Thank you!! :)))
@@PolygonDonut ofcourse!! you're my favourite content creator :')
@@somesunnerguy awaw thank you, glad you enjoy :)
@@PolygonDonut can you do beybalde next?
@Evening Inchworm thats awesome
3:51 funny😂
10:34 wdym bro that goes hard as hell
I have a massive collection of hot wheels, ranging from the 1970s to now, and I've come across some weird ones recently 😅
The sidekick, introduced in 1972, is my oldest hot wheel, and it's pretty weird. ABOVE the passenger seat there is a massive engine, I wouldn't be surprised if it was supposed to be a V18 or something, and it has a driver's seat on a metal panel that slides outside of the car. (The "Sidekick" part)
8:40 Actually this car was available again in 2003 for the World Race McDonald's sets. Still a McDonald's exclusive, but not as rare as you'd think
This is what makes hotweels awesome though, the fact that there are so many different kinds of cars.
8:18 remember when there were toy ads for McDonald's? I honestly do not know if they even give out toys anymore
The Twin Mill was and still is my favourite Hot Wheels car - amazing to see they made a life-size replica!
I need more of this. This is just a really well-done video
Thank you!!!
This was a really fascinating and entertaining video.👍
I just want to say about the Baker's Dozen donut cars is that I don't believe they were marketed specifically to girls, but rather the pink box was to emulate the prevalent use of pink donut boxes along the American West Coast.
Yeah maybe, i just wanted to jab at sexist marketing most toys have LOL
it's rare that a single video on a channel makes me want to instantly sub, this was the exception. This is my kind of content for sure
THANK YOU!!!
Once i underestimate the donut racer then after i realized he’s the best on the track, love him