"We don't want to make cool wheels for your cool BMW or Porsche," the U-HOTs designer told us. These are meant to be an antidote to car-culture sameness. The quintessential old-school Hot Wheels ...

The Hot Wheels Legend Tour, which cruised into Houston in September, is finishing its 2024 competition Saturday at its Global Grand Finale. Ten custom-made cars remain in the competition, including ...

More than just plastic bricks, the new Mattel and Hot Wheels Brick Shop sets also include metal pieces, extra accessories, and a matching die-cast. Lego and Mattel have enjoyed each other’s company in ...

Gardner, Kan. — The toys many people played with as kids came to life this weekend, when the Hot Wheels Legends Tour parked in the metro. For the first time, the tour rolled into Gardner, Kansas. It ...

I was one of the lucky dogs who got to tour Mattel’s Hot Wheels design center. Here’s how it went. Back in 1968, Mattel’s Elliot Handler started Hot Wheels to compete against Matchbox cars. Over the ...

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If you have some old Hot Wheels sitting around, you may have a way to make extra money. Depending on the model, some collectors may shell out big bucks — think tens of thousands of dollars. Several ...

As any collector will gladly tell you, there are too many Hot Wheels cars to count. Mattel has been making them since 1968 and cranks out 50 new models in 400 color and graphics packages every year, ...

As a boy, Bruce Pascal reveled in testing the limits of his Hot Wheels. He might squeeze a firecracker into one of the miniature metal cars and set it off, or flatten one with a hammer to see whether ...