While digging through the Hot Wheels bins at Mariano’s, our 9-year-old spotted a car shaped like a traffic cone—strange, but irresistible.
Its name: Cone Shaker.
At first, we joked about using it as a mini traffic cone for Hot Wheels races. But then we discovered its secret talent: it stacks. The bottom of the car is hollow, perfectly sized to hold the top of another Cone Shaker. I rolled in the store aisle in laughter.
Stackable Hot Wheels. The Mattel designers are pretty good at incorporating playful functionality into the Hot Wheels. But I haven’t heard of stackable Hot Wheels.
The description on the package does a good job of describing all the play possibilities with the cones.
They’re cones! Stack ’em, rack ’em, and line them up. Cone Shaker™ cruises through the cone zone as it re-directs traffic, helps with soccer drills, and puts in a hard day’s work at the construction site.
We had to get this car! Since they stack, we definitely needed two. We searched and searched the bins. Finally, my daughter found another one. The long-lost pair. These two cars can work together to fulfill their destiny.
Can we stop at two? Once you have two, it’s begging for a third. Then a fourth. We’ll see how many I can find at various stores in the coming months. Now the challenge begins: how tall can we build a Cone Shaker tower? At $1.29 each, this could become an ongoing quest.