I used to collect a bunch of Hot Wheels. Remember having at least 20-30 of them and an awesome case in the shape of a steering wheel.
It was all but a distant memory until I saw this today.
Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
Posts: 10376
Posted:
Nov 24 2010 10:22 pm
The plastic tracks made great improvised weapons.
Dr. Strangelove
Joined: Dec 30 2010
Location: Salt Lake City
Posts: 104
Posted:
Jan 03 2011 05:39 pm
I used Hot wheels to fill the car chase scenes in the movies I made as a kid.
The amount of explosions and fires in my movies increased exponetially with age.
Knyte
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Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
Posts: 6749
Posted:
Jan 03 2011 06:55 pm
It looks like the vast majority of those car are the cheap plastic dollar store cars. Look at the lackluster paint and the fact that the windows are painted silver instead of clear plastic. The plastic ones probably travel in the tracks better as they don't have anywhere near the weight of Hot Wheel / Matchbox cars.
"Ever wondered what it would be like to ride inside a Hot Wheels car as it raced through loops of orange track? Sadly CES is still devoid of any shrink ray technology, so instead Mattel has gone and crammed a video camera inside their 1:64 scale Hot Wheels vehicles giving you a first-person perspective view of what it would be like to ride in one. Its limited on-board memory can only capture about 12 minutes of VGA-quality video which can be offloaded to your PC via a USB connection, or watched on a tiny LCD display located on the underside of each car. Available sometime in the Fall of this year for $59.99."
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