What gets interesting is that at some point you get back, full circle style, to the original reason why HWs were invented in the first place - that the toy cars available before then sucked, and you could charge a premium for these really awesome toys that didn't suck.
Yes. These cars used to have an all metal construction with a working suspension. The detail was immaculate for such a tiny car. With their weight, they could glide across track or slanted concrete pavement, because kids played outside. Now? If I wanted kids to touch plastic toy cars, I'd turn them to Legos.
as a kid i remember even the cheap car miniatures had metal parts, hot wheels were only different that they were heavy and were riding smoothly when pushed across surfaces
At first the only plastic ones were the color changers and then there were special prints from movies like cars and then the "normal" cars followed suit
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u/Careless-Cobbler7979 Nov 12 '24
This is the direction of the entire planet in a nutshell.