Fun with Hot Wheels

Hot Wheels specs its car colors with Pantone colors

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!

Hot Wheels Name Generator

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 …

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Photographing the inside of our shopping bags and refrigerators

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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Chicago Bean and Hot Wheels "Fast Gassin"

A fun pair: a reflective tanker truck by the shiny Chicago Bean

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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Bubble Matic Hot Wheels Experimotors car

Bubble Matic: possibly the most incredible Hot Wheels crossover ever

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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Hot Wheels are selling like hotcakes!

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 …

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matchbox vs. hotwheels die-cast cars

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. …

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