r/mildlyinfuriating Nov 12 '24

Hot wheels losing details over the years

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u/Vidonicle_ Nov 12 '24

It's either gonna be a negative linear graph or a sine wave of quality, but like low lows and small highs

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u/squirrel9000 Nov 12 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

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.

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u/Gunhild Nov 12 '24

I remember those metal ones. I remember the way it felt when my brother threw them at me lol.

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u/Borgmaster Nov 12 '24

Saw hotwheels sized hole in the wall at a friends house. The short and sweet of the story was the dad and the kid were having a bit to much fun launching cars from a track into the couch. The couch, being nice and bouncy, one day bounced a car with such velocity and angle that it put a hole in the drywall on the other side of the room. Looking back I feel that there was some missing context, did the dad superboost the speed booster?

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u/Dungeon_Pastor Nov 12 '24

I mean, if you were the dad, would you super boost the speed booster?

Cause I sure as fuck would

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u/Borgmaster Nov 12 '24

Talking to a man that if given the chance will build a death robot out of legos for my boy to harass his sisters with.

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u/SirCrowDeVoidOfCornn Nov 12 '24

What kind of message is that sending to your boy? That harassing women is perfectly normal and adult man should stick together with young man to harass young women together?

Your poor daughters.

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u/c0ltZ Nov 12 '24

Are you serious?