Random Tooned Hot Wheels Vehicles

[wardster]

TooOld said:

> Lots of cool Hot Wheels Ward ,
> thanks for joining in !!

Thanks, man! Feels good to be active on these boards, again!

> For some reason I really like this one
> . . . I think it's the trailer .

Me, too. I'm not sure what it is, but the whole "deal" on that one, is pretty cool looking. It works.

I know you guys said "without modifications" on the diecasts and collectables, and I'm trying to comply with that, in part by showing the ones that I've shown so far, still in the package ... but you gotta admit that very well-proportioned body style (minus the admittedly really nice trailer) is crying out for some giant slicks; a perpetual wheelie; and a wild-eyed monster, sticking through the roof, and going through the gears?! I broke one package open, to confirm what it looks like, and the red part of that forward body looks and feels like it's actually plastic, to me.

[wardster]

Here's a couple of other ones. I'm including these partly because they have at least partial driver figures in them, which might (if a person was so inclined) make a good start as the basis for a "figure conversion" aka monsterization.

[Jim Richards]

Hadn't seen these two...very cool.

Jim

[Jim Richards]

Another color changing HW, a real "Ratrod"

Don't see a name on it , just Malasia 1988. (I know this is not that old, original casting date) Wardster?

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And just got these (as you know the bug is actually red)



Thanks
Jim

[jffj]

Thanks for the pictures, Wardster & Jim. I can't afford to allow myself to become a collector of these Hot Wheels.... LOL, but I admit that I always check them out when I'm in the stores that have them. Such inspiring creativity! Never saw the Surf & Turf before, and I like it.

On a related note, possibly sculpture related slightly Wardster, there is a hard cover book, called, "The History of Hot Wheels"(?) Not 100% sure of the title, but might work in a search....
Anyway, I saw it in the public library years ago, and it shows the process, in pictures of the creating the original Hot Wheels, with a large 1/10 scale(?)wooden buck, carved to shape, which they then pantograph down to the Hot Wheels size....1/64 or whatever it is. Great book.

[Fletch]

Hey Jffj, 
The HW book I have has all the stuff you were talking about. Called "Hot Wheels 35 years of Speed, Power, Performance and Attitude."
Lots of great pre-production drawings, blueprints, wood bucks and resin bucks etc. 
I think there was another book that came out during the 50th anniversary that may have the same stuff.

[wardster]

Well, I guess it had to happen ... you guys "got me back" for posting images that made some of you want to buy stuff. I just now put a copy on order (only $10.50-ish, used, on Amazon) of the cool HW book that JFFJ and Fletch talked about. Seemed too good not to put that one on order. Or too tempting? Or something? Anyway ... finding out about the creative process was the biggest draw (pun half intended) for me. That stuff was too good not to find out more info about it.

EDIT: Yup, that book was a winner! Definitely! I had to push it aside, or I would get even less done than is the case, already!

[wardster]

Nov 10, 2020 3:53:40 GMT -5 Jim Richards said:

Another color changing HW, a real "Ratrod"

Don't see a name on it , just Malasia 1988. (I know this is not that old, original casting date) Wardster?

You got me, on that one. It probably is a "re-pop" of something from that date: or so I would (randomly) guess, anyway. But I don't consider myself a particularly well-informed collector. I just pick up what I see, that looks cool.

I did have the good luck, back around 2014 - 2015'ish, to have a Kmart store near my home that did "collector's events" on a given date. I'd show up and two other guys would, right when that kicked off. But even then, I'd only buy what jumped out at me. One guy bought less than I did, from all the goodies within the brand-new-and-just-opened boxes than I did (he only wanted stuff that was from TV, I think?) but the other guy, wow, he was loading a big shopping cart full, and doing it in record time, too. Like he walked in, knowing what was going to be available on that release date. He talked like he was re-selling it. I couldn't see him buying that much, for a personal type of a collection. It blew my mind when he said, one weekend, that he had to rush off, because he had some other store he had to hit up, to get MORE of the same basic stuff. My point is: compared to that guy, I'm not a "real Hot Wheels collector" at all! And I feel I am (how did C3PO once put it?) not very knowledgeable about such things. And that store closed, years ago, now. So if I happen to be in one of my tiny town's two dollar stores, I'll look at the toy aisle, from time to time, for Hot Wheels. Nowhere else for me to see any of them, locally, these days.

I will say that the "Shot Wheels" car, as imagined and drawn / painted by Wacky Packages, was pretty awesome looking! do an image search on "wacky packages shot wheels," if you guys haven't already seen that image. It's pretty funny!

[wardster]

Nov 10, 2020 7:24:22 GMT -5 jffj said:

Thanks for the pictures, Wardster & Jim.
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Never saw the Surf & Turf before, and I like it.

You're welcome, JFFJ. Glad to do it. These are fun little "model kits" at a price I can (usually) afford!

On the "Surf and Turf" vehicle ... I just saw one earlier today, in a local dollar store that had just re-stocked their hot wheels cars. They had two 1966 Batmobiles, too. So they may be back on your local store's shelves (pegs?) as well?

[wardster]

As far as I know, I'm pretty much out of toon-style diecasts (Hot Wheels) to show, after these few:







That last one is iffy: some people might see a half-way serious body style with a giant hamburger and fries on it as more "showrod" than "tooned vehicle" ... but others might see it as being properly "tooned," so I included it.


... and at the risk of getting myself in further trouble (this time, for potentially violating the "unmodified" part of the rules) here's an image of an initial mock-up of the front part of the "RV There Yet" vehicle, with the wheels and tires from one of the other tooned Hot Wheels vehicles seen in this message thread (the "Head Starter" racer).

[wardster]

Let's see if I can remember how to post images ... heehee (man, I'm getting slow on some stuff, in my decrepitude / old age!) ... anyway, I just picked this one up, at a local store. "Flinstones Flintmobile" the box art calls it. I don't see a date on the bottom portion, but the back of the box art says it's copyright date 2017, so I presume that's when it first came out. (I could look it up on some of the Hot Wheels fan sites, but then I'd be tempted to go shopping!?)

[jcon]

Nice!!!

[Fletch]

Don't forget the Flintstone's sports car!  It's a Johnny Lightning.

[Starryeyes]

Some really cool looking goodies !!

[plastimatic]

Had not seen this one until today at Target.

Hot Wheels Tooned Twin Mill:



I may have to break it down and repaint it Acid Green, like the one I had sooooo many years ago