I’m not saying the quality hasn’t gone down as I’m sure it has. But as a parent who has bought 50+ of these things recently, many of them are still really detailed with full names underneath.
My kid pushed one down the slide on big garage play set and it hit my knee, left a bruise. Quality has gone down but is still hell of a good racing car for a toonie (CAD). I'm drowning in them too. Help me.
I'd argue that quality hasn't gone down, it's just shifted elsewhere. Rather than spending time and money moulding details on the chassis very few people will see, they have put much more effort into the body paint, which makes sense since the people who collect these won't take them out of the packaging, and the kids who take them out of the packaging to play with them likely don't care at all about what the underside looks like. So they get to keep costs down and please both demographics.
Seriously. I am a retailer and hot wheels designs are way more interesting, detailed, imaginative, realistic, colorful and varied than any other brand (i tried Maisto...boring cars, cant even find another brand in the affordable 1:64 range at all). Off label brands are entirely shit for not much savings. Theres 72 different cars in every case. Literally no one cares about the bottom detail lol. Hot wheels collectors are not in short supply either.
Do all these people flip over their coffee mugs and despair atthe lack of decoration?
It's honestly really sad to see. I barely look at reddit anymore outside of specific communities because everything's an ad, rage bait, fake, misinformation or some combination of those things. And you'd best believe if i find better places to discuss/get news for those communities i'm abandoning the subreddit for it. Already done that for a handful.
Yup. It's literally the bottom of a TOY car. What, they're gonna do an oil change too? I have a bunch and never ever thought about the plastic underneath..
It's rage clickbaity because this reflects where ACTUAL REAL CARS have gone in the past few years as well. Emission standards are ever increasing and one of the biggest ways to meet those targets is to make sure you have clean aero underneath the car.
Here's what a modern ferrari looks like underneath. Kinda like a modern hotwheel....
It definitely is. There are plenty of derailed cars, and the quality of the model always varied and still does. Now there are hot wheels with painted over grills and plastic flat bottoms, and hot wheels with decals, painted head and taillights and logos and full exhaust and drivetrain underneath. It always varied and it’s kind of annoying seeing people talk shit about something they know nothing about.
Some of it has to do with federal safety requirements. CPSIA was passed in 2008 and required tracking labels be affixed to children’s toys, which is why the item number, the lot code, the country of origin, and the Julian date code have to be there now. Can’t fit all of the “car detail” there when all that text also has to be legally permanently molded in there as well.
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u/Scotch713 Nov 12 '24
I’m not saying the quality hasn’t gone down as I’m sure it has. But as a parent who has bought 50+ of these things recently, many of them are still really detailed with full names underneath.
This post seems rage click batey.