Ever wondered about Hot Wheels’ color choices? A recent peek into their office revealed a dazzling display of car bodies, each labeled with Pantone hues. Surprising, yet inspiring, it’s a fusion of creativity and design standards!
Translating the braille on the Hot Wheels car, and exploring more engaging phrases for use in braille
Does Batman have an insurance policy on his Batmobile?
Little did I know, that there would be another reason for me to purchase this fun toy.
Dr. Lightning Chrome Gremlin Fireball Hero Those are some of the auto-generated usernames when you sign up for an account at play.hotwheels.com. You can’t type in your own username. Instead, click the “Surprise Me” button. Hot Wheels will show a random name combination. Furious Wizard Powerhouse Pipes Crunchy Chief Or if you want a little …
Sometimes when I go errand shopping at Target, I’ll photograph the contents of my bag at the self checkout. It’s fun seeing the collection of the stuff you regularly pick up. Fun to me anyways. I should photograph the inside of our fridge some day. I’d love to see a photograph of the inside of …
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What’s shinier than the 110-ton Chicago Bean? Why a Hot Wheels Heavy Tanker Truck! With its reflective chrome tank, this Hot Wheels is quite the photogenic truck. Sheer power with eight exhaust pipes rising up behind the stout cab. Oversized fenders over the wheels. I couldn’t avoid buying this toy at Target this week (along …
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Hot Wheels has produced some crazy crossovers. Toaster trucks, GoPro cars, and Hot Dog racers may be totally cool; but the coolest car ever has got to be the Bubble Matic™. Bubble Matic™ Today while shopping at Target, I could not avoid this wonderful car with a functioning bubble blower! You pull up the bubble …
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I have a backlog of videos to post to YouTube. About once a week, I’ll post a new video. Here’s one showing the big collection of Hot Wheels cars available at a Shelbyville, Indiana flea market. The end of the video got cut off due to my batteries croaking. But you get the idea. It’s …
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Gross sales in the last quarter: +20%: Hot Wheels (worldwide) +12%: Fisher-Price pre-school toys (worldwide) +6%: Barbie (worldwide) -1% Mattels girl division (worldwide) -5%: Barbie (in just USA) -10%: American Girl (worldwide) No word yet on Hasbro with Transformers Source: Barbie fails to bewitch kids in America. Word on the street says that there is …
Hotwheels makes some nice die-cast metal cars. Matchbox on the other hand makes all very crappy ones. It’s embarrasing the stuff that matchbox puts out. Then much to my surprise, I just found out today that hotwheels and matchbox are made by the same company, Mattel. WHAT!? So basically here’s what happens over at Mattel. …
