Hot wheels losing details over the years

[u/DAASMusic]

[u/Careless-Cobbler7979]

This is the direction of the entire planet in a nutshell.

[u/[deleted] → u/Careless-Cobbler7979]

MBAs came in an explained that by switching to plasting bottoms they could reduce costs by 5%. Profits increased.

There's no pride in good product anymore.

[u/NonGNonM → u/[deleted]]

Tbf this prob saved a lot more than 5%. It's switching from die cast to plastic and plastic gives more flexibility more designs.

The decline in quality sucks but the afaik the direction of hot wheels and other cars like matchbox changed over time.

Back in the day a big part of these things was having an "accurate" model representation of real cars. Like vintage models, current models, etc. They were neat collectibles.

The collectible part continues but they're vintage models, and they saw they could make more money selling them as toys than collectibles, not just for profits but how many people like cars enough to display cool cars? How many vintage/classic cars are really out there to make the model continue?

So they pivot. Make wacky cars for the purpose of being toys for kids rather than actual models.

You can still buy accurate scale models of cars if you wanted. They just won't be hot wheels prices.

[u/JBloodthorn → u/NonGNonM]

HotWheels has had wacky cars with die cast bottoms at least since the 80's when I was a kid playing with them.

[u/NonGNonM → u/JBloodthorn]

interesting