Hot Wheels

dlofnep

Anybody remember Hot Wheels dinkies, that you could put in hot water and they changed colour?

I Love Tea

Ha yea I remember them, I think I had one or two. They also did car that had a panel on the side that you could turn around to make the car look like it had been crashed

dlofnep

I Love Tea wrote: »

Ha yea I remember them, I think I had one or two. They also did car that had a panel on the side that you could turn around to make the car look like it had been crashed

Haha, yeah! I had one of the crash ones too There was a track you could get for it that they drove around, and when they hit each other - the crashed side would flip around.

Ruu_Old

Only time I got one was when I saved up tokens+cash from Kellogg's Cornflakes boxes. I got a green monster truck that changed colour (though not very well ).

Brendog

no....I had a normal childhood with TV and Playstaion/Nintendo 64/Sega

dmaxontour

dlofnep wrote: »

Anybody remember Hot Wheels dinkies, that you could put in hot water and they changed colour?

You can get them now. My son has one, go tit the other day (not sure where from thoguh).

si_guru

dlofnep wrote: »

Anybody remember Hot Wheels dinkies, that you could put in hot water and they changed colour?

FFS that was what??? 2 years ago?

I had the Starsky and Hutch car when it came out the 1st time.

All my Hot Wheels cars were redlines - google it. But Matcbox (in a box) and Corgi Juniors were more common.. along with Majorette.

dlofnep

si_guru wrote: »

FFS that was what??? 2 years ago?

No, about 25 years ago.

dlofnep

Brendog wrote: »

no....I had a normal childhood with TV and Playstaion/Nintendo 64/Sega

Cool it new guy. I grew up with Atari 2600, Commodore 64, NES and Sega Master System. You're not impressing me!

Brendog

dlofnep wrote: »

Cool it new guy. I grew up with Atari 2600, Commodore 64, NES and Sega Master System. You're not impressing me!

^^^^^ don't act like your not impressed!

dlofnep

Brendog wrote: »

^^^^^ don't act like your not impressed!

I'm not, so there.

mondeo

dlofnep wrote: »

No, about 25 years ago.

Yep I had one of these around that time. They were really good, my neighbour had tons of them. My one was orange and turned green when put in hot water. I have not seen these since I was a kid. If they are still making them like people are saying, I would buy one:p

bullets

On the topic of hot wheels (which I never had) if you dial
back the years a little.

There was Dinky Raceing Cars which I remember
that came with a Tunnel like plastic thing powered by a rubber band and acted like a catapult which fired the cars out of it along a race track.

The Race Track was made from plastic strips that has raised edges so the car would not go off the track. Each section of track was fitted together with a red plastic insert. The tracks were Yellow plastic of others had a kind of american blue white and red look to them.
They would have been about early 80's

They were not record breakers cars which shared some similarities I think they appeared at a later date.

Some nice references here but not what I am thinking about:
http://madmind75.blogspot.com/2010/02/childhood-toys-part-4-toy-cars.html
~B

Was never a huge fan of Hot Wheels. Hated their often exaggerated cars and such. Used to always pick up Matchbox stuff in Toymaster.

Used to have hundreds of cars and trucks, and would make a little city out of Matchbox/Hot Wheels playsets, and would make roads on the carpet using pencils and pens.

bullets

Found Hot wheels copied what I was on about last post :eek::eek::eek:

Here is a video about the type of Track I was on about,
but as a Kid it was Matchbox cars that were used and well
before the time the Brand Hot Wheels were popular or even known in Ireland
(But the hotwheels tracks were out since 1969 so it may have been the ones in my memory copying hotwheels)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIMtS4pMXvo&feature=related