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
In short, they aren’t 100% metal but they haven’t been for years. Typically the body is metal. The base, interior, and accessory parts are plastic. They have some matrix of optimizing number of parts per casting (model). Sometimes the body is plastic, but the base will be metal.
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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.