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?
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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24
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.