Hot Wheels Basic Car, 1:64 Scale Hot Wheels Car for Kids & Collectors, Modern & Classic Vehicles for Play or Display, Plastic & Die-Cast Toy Cars - 05785

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Besides keeping different cars in the playset realistic and proportionate, there’s even a more significant reason behind the scale. Diecast cars are expressed in scale measurements—for example, 1:64, 1:32, 1:16, etc. You may be curious to know how the scale works in diecast cars.

Anderson, Paul Scott (February 7, 2021). "Hey, kids! Meet the new Hot Wheels Mars rover!". Earthsky . Retrieved November 29, 2022. Whitener, Whitney (September 28, 2023). "Mattel's New 'Hot Wheels Let's Race' Coming to Netflix". Animation World Network . Retrieved October 1, 2023. You need to scale Hot Wheels to understand the size of the diecast car about the real-life car. However, this information may not be necessary if you only want to have fun with your diecast cars.

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Holderith, Peter (26 November 2020). "Radical Front-Mid-Engine Pontiac Trans-Am Wins This Year's Hot Wheels Legends Tour". The Drive . Retrieved 7 December 2020. Scale in a diecast vehicle refers to the size of the miniature model compared to the original car. That means if the scale of a diecast car is 1:48, it means the car is 1/48th the size of the original vehicle. In 2006, a Series 3 line of Classics was introduced, again containing 30 models with multiple colors of each vehicle. Models included the '69 Pontiac Firebird, a Meyers Manx dune buggy, and the Richard Petty '70 Plymouth "Superbird". Edward, Kyle (December 9, 2019). "Small Cars, Big Dreams: '57 Nash Metropolitan Wins Hot Wheels Legends Tour to Become Next Die-cast Collectible". Forbes . Retrieved 5 November 2020. saw the release of 247 cars, beginning with the 2012 New Car Series which includes the Lamborghini Aventador, Ford Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca, KITT from Knight Rider, and the ever-popular Scooby-Doo Mystery Machine. 2012 also saw the release of two vehicles from the Angry Birds video game franchise, consisting of the Red Bird and the green Minion Pig.

Takahashi, Dean (September 28, 2017). "Osmo combines iPad app and toy cars with Hot Wheels MindRacers game". GameBeat. VentureBeat . Retrieved May 4, 2023. Mattel's Hot Wheels Racing finalizes licensing agreements with top five Formula One race teams". PR Newswire for Journalists. 1999-10-11 . Retrieved 2006-10-16.For buildings, I recommend O/S-sized Plasticville buildings or Department 56 and Lemax buildings. For roads and sidewalks, you can use road pattern tape and HO scale sidewalks meant for model trains. Further reading D'Alessandro, Anthony (January 23, 2023). " 'Hot Wheels': Mattel-Warner Bros-Bad Robot Pic Revving Up With Scribes Dalton Leeb & Nicholas Jacobson-Larson". Deadline Hollywood.

Von Bogart, Angelo (August 31, 2009). Hot Wheels Classic Redline Era: Hot Wheels - Birth of the Redline. Krause Publications. ISBN 978-1440221705. If you have understood the mathematical formula I explained earlier in the article, and if you are a little bit good at math, you know that you can multiply the dimensions with 64 to measure the size of a real-life car. Theoretically, it's absolutely right. Skopp, Sam (November 21, 2019). "Relive Your Childhood With Hot Wheels Infinite Loop". The Gamer . Retrieved May 11, 2023.

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To do the math, find out the length of the real thing. Usually a Google search takes care of that. Then convert the length to millimeters. If you can’t find the length, get some other measurement from the real thing, like the width or the wheelbase. Kit, Borys (September 25, 2020). " 'Hot Wheels' Movie Finds Its Writers (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved September 28, 2020. The 94 Bugatti EB110 SS, Turbo is 4400mm long. Now, measuring the Hot Wheels 94 Bugatti EB110 SS, Turbo Yellow will be approximately 65mm. Besides Hot Wheels, Matchbox is another popular diecast car manufacturer today. Therefore you may also be curious about what scale are Matchbox diecast cars. Through the years, Hot Wheels cars have been collected mostly by children. However, since the late 1990s, there has been an increase in the number of adult collectors. Mattel estimates that 41 million children grew up playing with the toys, the average collector has over 1,550 cars, and children between the ages of 5 and 15 have an average of 41 cars. Most believe the collecting craze started with the Treasure Hunts in 1995. Mike Strauss has been called the father of Hot Wheels collecting; he has organized two collectors' events each year in some form since 1986. The first event was the Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Convention, normally held each year in the fall. The convention occurred in various locations around the country until 2001, when the first Annual Hot Wheels Collectors Nationals was put together. Since then, the Conventions are held each year in southern California. The Hot Wheels Collectors Nationals rotate among cities outside of California during the spring. Strauss has also published the quarterly Hot Wheels Newsletter since 1986 and was one of the first to unite collectors all over the world. He also writes Tomart's Price Guide To Hot Wheels, a book listing history, car descriptions and values, which is used by almost every collector to learn more about the hobby and their collection. Strauss sold his collection in 2011 and retired from the Hot Wheels Newsletter.

Miller, Aaron (January 8, 2016). "16 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HOT WHEELS". Thrillist Media Group . Retrieved December 12, 2016. In 2009, with no recent developments, the film was put into turnaround, and the rights were handed over to Warner Bros. Pictures. Joel Silver took over producing with Matt Nix writing the script. [38] Some cars have 4-digit date codes on the base. These date codes are more specific than the 3-digit codes as they indicate the day a car was made instead of just the week. For the 4-digit codes, the first 3 digits indicate the day of the year and the last digit is the year. A date code of 1987 would indicate the car was made on the 198th day of 2017 (July 17). A code of 0250 would be the 25th day of 2010 (or 2020; depending on the car).

In late January 2019, Mattel Films and Warner Bros. Pictures agreed to partner on a Hot Wheels film. [45] Another designer, Paul Tam, joined Wood and Gilford. Tam's first design was the Whip Creamer. [13] Tam continued to work for Mattel until 1973. Among the many fantastic designs Tam thought up for Hot Wheels, some of the collector's favorites include Evil Weevil (a Volkswagen Beetle with two engines), Open Fire (an AMC Gremlin with six wheels), Six Shooter (another six-wheeled car), and the rare Double Header (co-designed with Larry Wood). In real life, cars aren’t always the same size, and this is exactly how each scale preserves relativity.