I still have every single hotwheel (or like 99.9 percent, may have lost one or two over the years) I've ever had (including matchbox, couple of siku, couple of majorette, and some chinesium ones too)
Theyre all in a huge bin in the basement, though I have some other ones I havent opened yet.
Used to go to Autozone or Pep Boys with my dad and always convinced him to buy me a hotwheel when I was really little, then we'd go back and work on his 80's Tercel or early 90's corolla or Grand Caravan
I am planning on paining this red
>Get pic related as a little kid
>Car has a ridiculous amount of suspension travel, more than any of my other Matchbox cars, clearly it's designed for off road
>Pre-internet days
>None of my books have an XJ220
>Grow up thinking the Jaguar XJ220 is some sort of V12 AWD monster of a rally car
Shit was rad.
Interesting anecdote for you guys:
When I was a kid I was a huge Hotwheels collector, I must have had 300-400 cars as I would buy one basically every time my mom took me to a store that had them. We used to go to this little camp resort near my house and the management always organized little activities for the kids, like frog catching contests and arts and crafts, things like that. But one day they announced a new regular activity: matchbox races. My father and I set up the hotwheels tracks in our house and methodically tested every car I had, recording average speeds across multiple trials and with a variety of track lengths and inclines, until we narrowed it down to the unequivocally fastest of all 400 cars. And I shit you not, neither of us could believe it either, but the fastest down the track in almost all scenarios was a Mac Tonight NASCAR that I had gotten from a happy meal. It wasn't even one of the newest cars, and we even tested some of my dad's old matchbox cars from his childhood collection which we thought would be faster because they were made of solid metal but they just didn't roll as smoothly after so many years.
I ended up dominating that competition, the Mac Tonight car was literally more than twice as fast as any other entrant I ever raced it against. I stopped using it after like three or four events because the races stopped being fun when I knew there was no chance I could lose. My other cars won me a total of about 15 races overall, but eventually I suspect this other kid's dad started doctoring his cars with hidden weights because he basically became a contender overnight and actually dethroned me once with the same old shit car he always used. I took out the Mac Tonight car for the next race to remind everyone that I had been playing with my hands tied behind my back the whole time.
After that last gold medal I retired for good.
hell yeah fucking moonman
I was thinking the same. Whoever they hired a few years back, is doing a good job. I have bought like 20 models the past two years. Ton's of great cars that will please any car enthusiast.
This is what I like about hot wheels and matchbox. They release tons of cool stuff everyone can like. They got the fantasy/fun cars for kids that have play features, they have old muscle cars (67 mustang and charger 500) and classic models (twin mill, boneshaker) for people who grew up with hot wheels back the 70s; and they got the classic japanese sports cars (NSX and Skyline) and super/hypercars that the newer generation are into all being released alongside one another
The car details are getting better and better every year despite the fact they still only cost one dollar to buy
mein aryan moon people
>see Autoart AE86 in nip stores in LA and SF occasionally
>feel severe desire
>$400
>realize I could import a nice set of old school wheels or a leather wrapped 265 mm steering wheel for my actual AE86 for that price
>never get babby AE86
>still want babby AE86
Fucking christ, my life is a nightmare.
>doesn't even have a dashboard cupholder
i wouldn't pay four dollars