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Anonymous Thu 21 Aug 2025 22:39:21 No.11536711 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11536773 >>11536788 >>11537449

What made them so popular? They are not the best, they are not the most detailed, they are not even faithful to real cars yet somehow they have the biggest appeal.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Aug 2025 23:49:55 No.11536773 Report

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>>11536711
Idk when I was a kid I preferred Matchbox for details and accuracy. I thought the Hot Wheels made up cars were super ugly but maybe they appealed to many people and when they got those, they just stuck with getting Hot Wheels instead of other brands

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Aug 2025 00:05:08 No.11536788 Report

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>>11536711
not a collector, but it's fun seeing tiny cars with wacky designs. I also assume it's a shared desire that REAL car collectors have, without the money you lose from those prices including maintenance

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Aug 2025 16:21:50 No.11537449 Report

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>>11536711
Transport yourself back to the far off year of 1964. What are your options?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Aug 2025 16:42:06 No.11537470 Report

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I had a ton of Hot Wheels and Sizzlers as a kid. I've just rediscovered them and I think they are getting back to that creative design format that made them popular to begin with.I really love the new stuff, but they just need to produce simple tracks and not all this gimmick crap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 22 Aug 2025 18:52:35 No.11537564 Report

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>>11537449
Matchbox
Auto World
Corgi
Tootsie
Buddy L
Dinky
Tonka

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Anonymous Sat 23 Aug 2025 02:32:16 No.11537941 Report

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Because Hot Wheels is cool. That's it.
Look, here are some examples.
Matchbox 70s Nissan, some cheap Chink car, Maisto Mercedes, random Volvo and Pontiac similar to OP.
While they are mostly good looking replicas of real cars, the Hot Wheels one stands out with flashy paint and cool flame prints.

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Anonymous Sun 24 Aug 2025 17:12:47 No.11539412 Report

Quoted By: >>11541306 >>11542636 >>11543189 >>11562138

>>11537564
I was born in 64, I had all these lines. I still have a few Gerry Anderson toys from Dinky.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 25 Aug 2025 03:51:09 No.11539945 Report

Quoted By: >>11543609

They're cheap and plentiful with both real world and fantasy car designs so they appeal to both kids and collectors. Hot Wheels (and Matchbox for that matter) has an incredibly low barrier of entry because you could walk into basically any store that sells toys and find them for less than $2 a car.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Aug 2025 03:23:40 No.11541306 Report

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>>11539412
that blue t2 is kino

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Aug 2025 08:17:07 No.11542636 Report

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>>11539412
I just saw shows like Joe-90, Captain Scarlett and the Mysterions on MeTV Toons. I wasn't born until 67 so I missed out on those. Damn!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 27 Aug 2025 20:13:04 No.11543189 Report

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>>11539412
i had that one on the far left at one point when i was little and managed to break the mechanism in short order.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 28 Aug 2025 02:51:25 No.11543609 Report

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>>11539945
Used to be cheap. Tariffs are making them more and more expensive.

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Anonymous Thu 28 Aug 2025 18:01:24 No.11544284 Report

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for me its the crashy ones with destruction physics

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Anonymous Thu 28 Aug 2025 18:48:49 No.11544329 Report

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>>11544284
Crack-Ups were dope.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 29 Aug 2025 16:47:59 No.11545305 Report

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>>11543609
$1.19 at Walmart. 79 cents at the dollar stores. I don't see any tariffs making them more expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 30 Aug 2025 04:06:12 No.11545935 Report

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>>11543609
Mainlines ARE cheap. Of course collector-centric lines like Premium and Silver series are going to be more expensive, but your average blue card Hot Wheels car will be at most $1.19. It is a little more expensive than it used to be, yes, but it's still more than affordable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 03 Sep 2025 06:32:33 No.11550830 Report

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because its cool. especially before 2010. hotwheels original design is super cool back then. sweep coupe, 1/4 mile coupe, the stingray corvette, back then when i was a child, i dont care about the accuracy. i care about if the car is fast

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Sep 2025 20:17:51 No.11562138 Report

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>>11539412
>That S.H.A.D.O Interceptor
Based. One of the few good things my dad ever did was give me his old one, albeit heavily chipped and missing the rocket. Sadly I don't have it anymore. Could have used that thing as a weapon though, solid chunk of metal that it was.

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