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Upon collection of all 4 vouchers, one was able to send away for a special 13th Treasure Hunt, a VW Drag Bus. In 1996 Hot Wheels released one of the hottest surprise castings to ever come out of Mattel's factory. There was some reproduction RLBB made by brightvision not by Mattel and there was even another cheap knock of the brightvision casting.
However the axles were hard to install on the chassis while being assembled and would become detached from the lugs on the baseplate if very hard pressure was applied. In 1999 Hot Wheels Racing signed a licensing deal with five Formula 1 teams to manufacture scale model Formula 1 cars.Ultra Hots wheels, which looked like the wheels found on a Renault Fuego or a Mazda 626, were introduced in 1984 and had other speed improvements. This cut costs, but also reflected that the red lines popularized during the era of muscle cars and Polyglas tires were no longer current. Another celebrating moment was the creation on the Hot Wheels Hall of Fame at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. Specialty: On the cutting-edge of technology, the Sky Fi™ zooms over the modern metropolis: propelled by its futuristic side jets and silent rear tail rotor. Foust smashes the previous world record by an impressive 31 feet at the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500.
Although Bradley was from the car industry, he had not designed the full-functioning versions of the real cars, except the Dodge Deora concept car, which had been built by Mike and Larry Alexander. The Killer Copter first debuted in 1994 in Hot Wheels Color Changers FX - Monster Models, and then came back in the 2007 Hot Wheels Segment Series Aerial Attack after a long absence. Many short segments were created and shown on the web with the drivers (grouped into teams: Teku, Metal Maniacs, the evil Racing Drones, and the stealthy Silencerz) handling many different racing conditions in "realms". His idea was to capture a portion of the huge market for small car models dominated at that time by the British company Lesney Products with their Matchbox cars.Despite the fact that they were very popular, the Real Riders line was short-lived, because of high production costs. As with the low-friction wheels in 1968, this innovation was revolutionary in the industry, and — although far less effective in terms of sales impact than in 1968 — was copied by the competition, who did not want to be outmaneuvered again by Mattel product strategists. Another of his notable designs was the Custom Fleetside, which was based on his own heavily-customized '64 El Camino.
Design Director, Alec Tam debuted the Designers Challenge vehicles featuring designs from real automotive studios like Mitsubishi, Ford, Chevrolet, Lotus and Honda. Among the many futuristic designs Tam thought up for Hot Wheels, some of the collector's favorites include Evil Weevil (a Volkswagen 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). There is no longer a specific segment for New Models, new castings are interspersed throughout the mainline. and 1973 marked a slump for Hot Wheels; few new castings were produced, and in 1973 most cars changed from Mattel's in house " Spectraflame™" colors to less-shiny solid enamel colors, which mainline Hot Wheels cars still use today.
Gilford, who had just left Chrysler, quickly accepted the job of designing the next Hot Wheels models. Due to low sales, and the fact that many of the castings were not re-used in later years, the 1972-3 models are known to be very collectible. Hot Wheels introduces its first line of Character Cars with the launch of Toy Story Character Cars that year.
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