Hot Wheels vs. Matchbox
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Plenty has happened with miniature toy car companies over the years. This video gives an overview of the market while outlining a rivalry between two of the all-time biggest brands.
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When I was a kid, one of the cereal companies offered a special chrome hot wheels car called the Boss Hoss. For a couple of box tops and some money for shipping, they would send one to you. I am now 63 years old, and still have this car sitting on my desk.
I'm half your age and I actually have a hand-me down of one of those.
My dad got one of those and he handed down his set of cars to me. Thats the top dog of the collection. I’m 27
Yes! I sent for that one too. A very cool H.W. car.
I had one of those too, back in the day.
I’m more amazed your 63 and know how to use RUclips so well.
Matchbox did more realistic cars while hot wheels did like shark cars
My car is a shark. It eats all my money.
@@daveballard8673😂
I have that one
To this day that's the formula
or a toilet, or a hotdog. Hotwheels can get pretty far out there. Matchbox if I'm making a train set, hotwheels for fun!
Matchbox was the superior choice for me as a kid. I liked the realism. HotWheels were too crazy and I always thought the quality was less than matchbox cars
I agree. I started with Matchbox. Hot Wheels just felt cheaper and more delicate.
i had the matchbox fire engine, didn't look fast or cool but it would beat any hot wheels on the track due to its larger metal content/mass--loved that thing
real
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Hot Wheels cars were often so crazy looking they broke my immersion during toy roleplaying sessions. >_>
Scalpers, the bane of Hot wheel collectors
I stopped collecting because of them and gave everything to a friend’s kid. Every model you’d want would be sniped by employees or friends of employees in my area. It’s not even speculation like every car culture set comes 2 full sets to a box and there was many times Id stop in while on the road at like opening of target/walmart or wherever and there’d be 2 of every mode but one in the set. The most desirable and scalpable model everytime. They wouldn’t even bother completing the set just grab the one they can screw people with.
Scalpers used to tip Toys R Us workers to go back and bring out full boxes before the shelves needed to be restocked.
And any popular toy brand *cough cough* lego
My dad felt this comment on a spiritual level
I had both growing up. Hot Wheels were used for fun and excitement with their tracks. Matchbox were used for serious playing. Like driving on pretend roads, obeying traffic rules etc.
When I think about it, very rarely were they played with together.
I did the same.🙂 It was fun.
Matchbox was a little goated I think but Hot Wheels was absolutely goated bossman.
I like that!
"Serious playing" 👍
This is correct. Hot Wheels was GTA or Forza; and Matchbox was more driving simulator. Micro Machines were for when you *really* needed to sneak a toy car to school.
@@BasedWarGoose well said. 😀
I'm 45, and I much preferred Matchbox as a kid. I only wanted stuff that look like real cars on the road and not some fantasy toy looking thing.
same, I never wanted the batmobiles and all that. matchbox also made more average cars that hotwheels never did. you had a good chance at getting a matchbox version of someone you knows car.
Same here. I'm 48 and only played with Matchbox. Always wanted a van with the tear drop window but never found it 😄
I'm 47 and feel the same. I preferred the realism of matchbox cars vs the more fantasy based hot wheels. I feel like matchbox was more popular with our generation and hot wheels became more popular later.
Yeah kids hate toys and fantasy that makes sense
Yall probably ate corn flakes and watched the saturday morning news too, huh?
I grew up in Japan so I played with mainly Tomicas and some Matchbox, Hotwheels, and Majorets.
Tomica cars have suspension and a lot of details on the car and it's cheap as well. So it's the best diecast car. 🙂
@@user-td9ym9vh4rTomica tend to add detail nicely, whereas some Hotwheels or Matchbox cars have misprints or paint chips. But I have all of them and love all of them.
Does that include ChoroQ as well? I don’t know how popular they are in Japan still, but I remember playing a few of the games on the PS2 back in the day.
@@AbandonedRavenChoroQ is still popular in Japan and some are now collectibles. Yes, they are in the same group as Tomica as both are product lineups from the same parent company, Takara Tomy.
They sold Tomica’s in the States under the name Pocket Cars, this was back in the 1970’s, they were my favourites, MatchBox was 2nd, I still buy Tomy N gauge trains as an adult!
I'm 49 yrs old and I've been collecting Hot Wheels and Matchbox for 31 years, thanks for this video, brought a smile to my face.
I love that! Never stop collecting!
The jingle I remember the most was, “Hot Wheels! Beat That!”
Ha ha nice!
I don't remember that, but I remember the episode of Powerpuff Girls when Buttercup made Blossom's hair look like a Hot Wheels racetrack. 😂❤
Just compare a 80's Matchbox and Hot Wheels to see the difference. Quality of the cast details and paint.
o yeah the time hot wheels was cool
That was from the ps2 game, right?
@@AccountFromGoogle nope that was the jingle of hotwheels during the early 2000's
In the late 80's I used to eat Hot Wheels cereal for breakfast in the morning. At the time they had a promotion going on where they included sticker packs in the cereal boxes. The top sticker on the sticker pack gave you a chance to win the new California Customs set. One day I opened the cereal box and found I had won. I mailed it in to redeem my prize but the company couldn't send me a complete set so they ended sending me a big box full of a variety of hot wheels cars worth about $300. That day was better than any Christmas morning I can ever remember.
Reading these comments is basically like mainlining 80s nostalgia lol
You mean to tell me they had Hot wheels cereal? And to think all the broken teeth I had from eating actual hot wheels for year 😂
Didn't McDonald's give those out in Happy Meals too? I had a couple of em'.
That’s awesome !
Dude I read the first line and was like ‘wtf’ then I saw the rest lmao
Born in 92, I always opted for Matchbox for the exact reason of their intention, realism.
I always thought that Hot Wheels looked too animated and cartoonish. All a preference, but definitely preferred Matchbox.
Today, it seems that Hot Wheels offers a lot of more realistic cars.
I was eight when hot wheels were introduced, so was already a Matchbox kid. I fell in love with hot wheels too, but retained a preference for matchbox and continued collecting them into adulthood. I had probably 4,000 at one point though I’ve sold some off. I regret selling my hot wheels as a teenager though, as they would now be worth many thousands of dollars. The collector market for Matchbox is much smaller and the prices are a fraction of those for hot wheels of similar eras.
I still have a few rare matchbox items. In the mid-60s they offered a moving van, first in dark blue then in green, with logos for Pickfords moving company. This toy was also used as a promotional item for the Beales Bealsons department store, painted tan with the Beales Bealsons logo. These were only available at the department store, and have long been one of the most desirable Matchbox items. I have two, one in excellent condition and one more played-with. I believe this was Lesney’s first promotional model contract, though other brands like Dinky and the Danish company Tekno had long histories of them.
As a child I never really knew the difference. I just knew I have multiple of those Hot Wheels briefcases full of cars from both companies somewhere in my parents' garage right now 😂
Man, the older kid down the block once pulled out one of those 100 car suitcases and my brain pretty much imploded.
I hope you do Lego vs Mega Blocks next.
More like, "The superiority of Lego and the piddling challenger Mega Blocks"
It'd have to be Mega Blocks vs Duplo
Also, I have not heard the name Mega Blocks in years
@@RemnazuoThe Halo line is actually good from megablock. its a shame Lego refuses to partner with violent videogames.
@@abelruiz1996 I'll be honest, I was surprised to see all the licenses that Mega Blocks has when I read the wikipedia page.
@@TheInkPitOx mega bloks is now owned my Mattel...surprise.
viewer from the UK here. I was born in 1980 and during my childhood Hot Wheels weren't really a big thing here in the UK. You could get them but only in big toy stores and they were expensive as I recall. You could buy matchbox cars at your local corner shop, and to my mind they were far more popular than hot wheels. Hot wheels were seen as a bit chintzy and a bit showy, whereas matchbox were the real deal, and they were cheap, you could buy them in your local shop and they had great detail and were fun to play with. I'm sad that Hot Wheels won out, although I'm not surprised that their popularity in the US eclipsed that of Matchbox. The same commercial pressures that made the Hot Wheels cars more expensive here probably did the same for Matchbox there, and American taste is often a little different to that of Europeans. I still have a collection of Matchbox cars from my childhood, but my 9 year old Nephew uses the term 'hot wheels' to describe any 1:64 scale die cast car now, which I find rather sad.
This was really interesting. In Singapore, the Japanese brand Tomica is also really popular (more so than matchbox). They do have quite a bit of collaboration with popular kids movies and disney, and they have realistic versions of Japanese and Korean cars.
I'm in the U.S. I had one single Tomica car, a Porsche 959 GT race car. It was the "special" car of my collection that I hardly played with to keep it in good condition. I don't know where it even came from, my dad brought it home to me after a business trip back in the 1980's. I still have it and I looked it up and it is fairly valuable for a single open box diecast. It is very nice and detailed and you can remove the back end of the frame to reveal a detailed engine below. I don't think I ever recalled seeing Tomica cars for sale anywhere, but occasionally you would run into one here in there in a friend's collection. I have a few other oddball ones, but that Tomica Porsche was always my prized pick of the collection.
I have one Tomica car, and it’s the Ford Continental Mark IV
when i was a kid, hot wheels were in the Kaybee toys, but matchbox was at the hobby store. hot wheels were all on the pegs on the rack, but the matchbox cars were in a spinning display case and you had to ask the worker to see them; if you wanted to buy one, they would open up a drawer to get one out.
it definitely made the matchbox cars seem more prestigious and valuable.
And they literally came in a box. No bubble cards. The seller had to open the box and show it to you.
When mcdonald's had hotwheels in their happy meals 👌
and Ronald McDonald as a mascot
I liked when they had that happy meal box that had cutouts that could be folded into a track tunnel through the box
I see other 80's kids here
@@Matt-re3or- kids nowadays will never know the magic of the toys that came with Happy Meals.
@@corpsie666 I think I might still have some of the Stompers from the Happy Meal
Totally a Hot Wheels fan- LOVED the car case shaped like the wheel
Here in Asia we also have Tomica which are like hot wheels but are usually more detailed and have suspension
Yes, I have indeed heard about tomica, there also pretty good! And in Europe, we have "Majorette" and that's what I mostly had growing up.
Thinking back on it, my preference for Matchbox cars as a kid might be one of the first times I developed my own "taste" for things. And I just instinctively liked the more realistic Matchbox cars better than the more fanciful Hot Wheels cars. It's not something I thought through ... it was just automatic. And since then I've pretty consistently preferred detailed and aesthetically pleasing but non-flashy or outrageous things of any kind, or any art.
As a poor kid in the 90s, *Matchbox* were my favorite. They were always being sold by the fistful at secondhand shops and garage sales. They had a simplicity that Hot Wheels lacked and added much needed realism to my 6 year old playtime. Regular people didn’t drive around in souped-up sports cars. Plus Matchbox had a better selection of emergency service and work vehicles. And trucks! Most of us had both brands back then, though. Hot Wheels were flashier and fun to race, especially if someone managed to keep all the pieces to their tracks.
I just sold a bunch of mine at a yard sale, and now I've seen this video and wish I'd kept them. :(
I'm also a poor kid who bought bags of Matchbox at thrift stores. Another thing to consider is that a lot of the appeal of Hot Wheels is playing with the big fancy playsets with tracks, which were more expensive and I never had as a kid. I was lucky to get mom to buy me one car for a dollar at the supermarket checkout, I'd never convince her to get me a big playset.
And so those cars I got at the checkout were Matchbox which at least for me were more fun to have
Great video Company man! I think this is one of your best works!
I was a Matchbox kid, mostly because my dad had made a sandbox in the backyard to play in. Matchbox trucks had trucks that were Off-Road trucks. Hot-Wheels trucks couldn't mud run haha.
As a Matchbox fan, I've been waiting for this for a long time
Plastic crap
Diecast isn't plastic
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As a lifelong die cast collector so have I
I always loved Matchbox, all the way back when they had metal chassis
Hot Wheels is flash while Matchbox is class.
As a car enthusiast. I've spent way too much money on these. I had whole totes filled with them as a kid to play with. And I collect them as an adult. I have probably close to 300 right now. Small numbers in the collectors world. I have to play a game to limit myself. I'm not allowed to dig through the racks, I can only buy from the first row. And I'm personally only interested in models of real cars, so I pass on the fantasy ones. But I do enjoy trying to find all the different color ways as well. I'm working on lining my garage wall with them.
My favorite is a red Honda s2000 that perfectly matches my full-sized track prepped s2000.
That's what is great about matchbox, you can get mini versions of the real thing. I also am a modest collector as an adult. The excuse for me is always they are for the boys, but when I buy the boys a couple I buy myself a couple "special" ones as well. Don't know if I have a favorite, but one of my favorites I have had since I was a kid is the "1983" Corvette, which is cool in it's irony in that there was never an actual Corvette made for that model year. My matchbox was made in '82 and was likely in anticipation of a real version that never actually existed.
@@digitalfootballer9032 Is the 1983 Corvette a C4? If so they were assuming GM would get the car to market on time.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453Yes, it is a C4
The most interesting fact I learned from this video is where the word 'dinky car' comes from, which is usually used to describe a tiny toy car that is not hotwheels or matchbox and usually of a lower quality.
As a kid and now, I enjoy both. You nailed it on the difference between the two lines.
I'm 57 from the Philippines. So I grew up on Matchbox and Dinky Toys. My favorite Dinky was the Eagle Spaceship from Space:1999
Kind of fascinated with the dinky cars now because I’ve never heard of them before this video
I was there at the origin of Hot Wheels. I was eight years old. Hot Wheels were designed to race on their own tracks, but Matchbox were not. Matchbox cars were collectable replicas that rolled, but did not race. Neither I nor my friends compared them. They were for different audiences. The competition for Hot Wheels was Johnny Lightening by Topper. I collected both.
The tracks are what made Hot Wheels dominate the market.
Lots of fun until my brother discovered the tracks were perfect for slapping my legs.
@@wellmike I would agree. I grew up in the 70s. Matchbox seemed 'mature' (as the original comment said, they were more about collecting) and Dinky toys seemed to be for really young kids. Having fast cars and plastic tracks that you could build yourself was amazing. Plus, as you said, the bright orange track pieces worked well as swords, spears, etc. haha
I had the Hot Wheels Spiral Speedway as a kid, then I tried running some cheap-s**t toy car I bought at a dollar store through it. I recall having problems getting the car through the revving thing, so I revved it as fast as I could, sent that car through it, and it shot out in pieces and flew across the room. Pretty funny in retrospect. Lol
If you were like me, and your favorite thing to do with your Hot Wheels or Matchbox cars was to smash them to bits with rocks, and then ask mom for more, there were no significant differences between the brands. Those plastic Key Cars didn't last long though. Eventually, my parents figured out that if they bought me plastic model cars instead, I would glue them together, smash them up, and reglue them together for more smashing.
@@perfectallycromulent I used to smash them with my father's work bench clamp. He hated when I did that.
I was born in 1974 and Matchbox is what I grew up with. My favorites were the Planetary Explorer from ‘75, the ‘76 VW Golf with removable surf boards, the ‘76 Swamp Rat, and the ‘77 Jeep CJ6 - which began my love of the Jeep brand. Earlier this year I was finally able to afford my very first Jeep, which has become my daily driver. ❤️
Awesome video
I had matchbox and hot wheels cars growing up, but mainly matchbox cars.
I liked how they were more realistic, and still do
I’m old. Just turned 55 and I still have a of my Matchbox cars from when I was a kid.
Not as old as I am. I'm over 65 and still have many of my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. 😊
You're not old, just "seasoned!" And still having those cars after all these years is impressive. I don't have half of my collection of wrestling figures, and I'd give almost anything to have them again.
I still have my match box / corgi /hot wheels from when I was a kid in those match box carry cases a blue 70’s double stack 2x80’s triple tray and a blue hard plastic double tray
@@agatemaster1998The old carry cases and trays were so much better than the cases they have now.
Good on you guys! Keep your cars my dad kept his, and trust me he did himself a favour i keep them in my collection as he gifted them to me! Love them, don’t let your love die out for them
I always mixed the 2 together when I was a kid. I remember having the Criss Cross Crash playset. So much fun! Miss those days.
I remember having some kind of "tornado" set back in 1999, had those battery charged hot wheels cars with it. good times.
Criss Cross Crash was an excellent set. i was lucky to have it
I've been waiting for a video like this
I had lots of both growing up, loved them both!
Rob Thomas loved Matchbox cars as a kid, which is why he named the band Matchbox Twenty.
Taika Waititi's dad loved Tyco when he was a child.
He wanted to push them around, and he did, and he did
@@EchoMountain47 He used to be up until 3AM playing with them.
He’s also Sinbad’s bitch
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I honestly still have a few opened and unopened Hot Wheels cars tucked away in a drawer, and every year or two remember them and just look at and admire them. I'm 37.
Awesome video Company Man, thank you.
Same here still collecting to this day............I grab about 10-20 a month
You should tell this to a doctor.
yup i still drop like 20 bucks a week on them😅
By the way @companyman114, have you considered Hyundai or Mitsubishi for 'Bigger Than You Know' segments? I feel your diligent historical research could be insightful as they are each larger than one might expect.
@@eirikhaakonson1961 no doctor would care lmfao
I never played with them as a kid, being AFAB and having very little interest in cars or trucks... but recently I bought a copy of the Gaslands rulebook, a "death race" style miniatures game which uses Matchbox/Hot Wheels style cars as playing pieces, and I bought some used ones online to modify. Damn these things are really intricate for itty bitty toy cars. The plastic windows, the moving wheels and hoods... i can see why people were into these. Looking forward to getting a tiny screwdriver set and modifying mine :)
I've always like matchbox better, especially in recent years. Matchbox makes actual lil cars and trucks; while Hot Wheels gets a bit wackier and you end up with a toilet on wheel or a shark car
I could use a toilet on wheels at my age 😂
Now they have 2 variant castings of toilet on wheels! This way they can accomodate forward facing (Hot Seat) and rear facing ones(Gotta Go/Gotta Go 2!
Company Man just does not miss. Another banger
Absolutely love this channel
yes😊
I love playing both of those brands as a kid. I love the adventure and saving the day aspect of Matchbox and the racing, fast paced action of Hot Wheels.
I’ve been collecting Hot Wheels since a kid and still do. I even obsessed over the Hot Wheels movies for a bit. I also really appreciate the more recent recreation of modified real cars from actual people.
Ive basically had hot wheels/matchbox cars my entire life, I amassed 100s of cars when I was a child and I continued to buy them into my adult life. Ive had endless amounts of fun with these over the years, from the time my dad covered the xmas tree in them one year to all the endless racing and even just simply rolling them on a desk I have very fond memories of hot wheels. They also nurtured my knowledge of cars from a young age, I taught myself lots of the makes/models by simply reading the bottom of the car. Scalpers tend to ruin it a lot of the time but the cars have impacted me in such a way where Ill just keep coming back to buy more no matter what
I'm loving the choices of companies you're highlighting lately. These are companies I don't typically think about.
I loved both growing up. Hot wheels sets were for “speed” and Matchbox sets were for “adventures”.
As a 90s kid and a car guy I love both brands and now that I'm a father to a little boy he shares the same love for both hot wheels and matchbox
Honestly the fact the same company managed two similar brands while keeping their individual appeals in tact is impressive
My grandson has about 25 Hot Wheels at my house and many, many more at his house.
Meanwhile, Majorette semi-trucks were my favorite growing up
my family has always called hotwheels and small car toys "dinky cars" or "dinkies", super cool to find out about the origin!
Love it! I hope you do more of these videos that focus more on branding
I used to work at Target, and a guy would come in as we were stocking and loom behind us, waiting to see what we had. It was kind of annoying, but we finally gave in and just let him look through the boxes before we hung them up. I realized eventually that he was trying to start a bonding hobby with his young son, who really didn't seem to care. I'll bet that kid will, some day, remember good times with his well-meaning dad...
That's sad. I wish my dad had tried things like that with me. He just gave up when I didn't care about sports
A wholesome story that for a second I thought it was going to be another scalper horror tale.
He is one of those annoying collectors that also hang out at Walmart.
That dude definitely lied to you lmao
Probably, but seeing his kid next to him made it seem legit... Thanks for the reply!
That orange track was legendary
And hurts also!🤣
I actually preferred Matchbox as a kid, over Hot Wheels. Ironically, thirty years later, I had become a contractor for Mattel and was designing packaging for Hot Wheels toy sets.
I always loved playing with my father's old Matchbox cars whenever I went to my grandmother's house.
2:03 "The company claims that Hot Wheels is the best selling toy in the world based on units"
LEGO: 👀
I don't think the bricks get counted separately
Lego mainly comes in kits, so maybe thats why its less.
At least LEGO is the biggest tire producer in the world :)
Unlike Legos, Hot Wheels aren't ridiculously priced.
I think LEGO is the largest toy company in the world right now due to overall profits since their products are larger and more expensive, but I wouldn't be surprised if Hot Wheels still sells more units because they're small and affordable. You just make less profit per unit when they're small.
You need an updated UPS vs FedEx video. I imagine those two companies have changed quite a bit since 2020. UPS sold their freight line, Fred Smith retired, etc.
UPS vs Fedex vs DHL.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworldthat’s an even better idea, he should’ve talked about DHL to begin with.
The other tie in ( in the USA ) is the relationship between these companies and the USPS . Many times the previously mentioned companies do the long haul and the USPS the last mile.
@@bobroberts2371 UPS has some sort of contract with USPS where a percentage of UPS surepost packages are delivered to the post office by UPS, then delivered to residents by USPS. not all surepost, and no ground, or air.
@@runrafarunthebestintheworld and the effect Amazon has had on all three
I was a Matchbox kid growing up. I had Hotwheels playsets but they would mostly get used with Matchbox cars instead of Hotwheels.
Love your videos man, pretty informational
As someone with extensive experience of running these on tracks, Johnny Lightning made the fastest die cast cars.
Have you put them up against the og redlines?
I’m a lifelong car guy. I loved playing with both growing up. I preferred the realism and normality of matchbox, it’s cool to play with a tiny version of cars I’d see on the road irl.
I always appreciated the fact that i can usually find a fairly accurate version of the different cars that I've owned whith matchbox
I'm old enough to remember when Hot Wheels came out, how revolutionary they were and how they changed the way we played with our toy cars. I was a responsible little driver pushing my Matchbox around on a rug that had roads laid out on it. Mom and Dad would get angry if they caught me running my expensive little cars into each other, scratching the paint. Then Hot Wheels came out with their down-hill race tracks with loops and jumps and their flashy little custom hot rods to race down them and crash into each other and they were everything a little 6 year old car maniac like me ever dreamed of! Still love and collect them both
I was a matchbox kid - I loved the realism , I had a few hotwheels too but my matchbox cars were my favourites
same here!
I have both i literally never understood taking sides. They both miniature toy cars who had cars that had doors opened and hoods opened. it's not that big of a deal.
@@pp3k3jamail If its not that big of a deal - Why are you commenting????? People have different tastes in things - Get over it
@@pp3k3jamail Hot Wheels tends to do modified cars, performance models and race cars, MBX does boring trim levels. Even when both brands do the same car the Hot Wheels one tends to look like a custom modified version.
@@shanelynch7757 I'm commenting because it's a free country and I can comment if I want to b+tch
My mom’s an elementary school teacher, and hot wheels are still some of the most popular toys students request for the reward box
Liked before I even watched. These were a HUGE part of my childhood.
I grew up playing with Matchbox!
I actually preferred matchbox over hot wheels for matchbox having more “regular style” cars & having a car city out of toy building blocks
I'm a big diecast fan and collector, myself, so seeing this video come up put a big smile on my face.
What's really something is just how vast the diecast car market is and has been for decades.
You also had Topper's Johnny Lightning line (later acquired by ERTL, then Playing Mantis, Tomy (more on them further down in this comment), and now the rights are owned by Round2 (more about them below, as well), but still manufactured by Tomy, IIRC), there was also Tomy's Tomica line (in it's earlier years, sold in the US as Pocket Cars), Corgi (including their Hot Wheels competitor, Whizzwheels, a part of the Corgi Juniors line, formerly Husky), Racing Champions (mainly known for their NASCAR diecast, now solely sold in their Mint lineup), France's Majorette, Zee Toys/Zylmex, Welly, MotorMax, etc.
Nowadays, you've also got brands like Jada Toys (now owned by Simba Dickie, who also owns Majorette, and Jada distributes Majorettes in the US market), Castline Inc.'s M2 Machines, Greenlight, Mattel's Disney Cars line, as well as the aforementioned Round2...
Round2 was founded by former Playing Mantis owner Thomas Lowe, and started with their self-made Auto World line, and over time acquiring the rights to the Johnny Lightning, Racing Champions, as well as the AMT model kit brand (which had previously been bought by Lesney in 1979).
To be honest, I think the topics of Johnny Lightning, and in connection, Round2 LLC, as well as Tomy (also known as Takara Tomy, as they were the result of a merger between Takara and Tomy) could be great material for future videos. Maybe a Tomy video could even have a segment on the joint venture between Takara and Mattel on the first generation of Transformers.
Tomica mishandled JL so badly, which is disappointing because it could have gone so much better.
These vs videos are great. Because you get a better view of what companies did right and wrong
Growing up I remember having both. I had more hot wheels, but matchbox was definitely cooler. I guess I could say the detail gave them a cleaner and more distinguished look
I’m almost 37 and I’ve been a cat enthusiast since I was born. I had tons of toy cars and plenty from each company. I typically preferred Hot Wheels because the cars felt heavier/sturdier and were definitely smoother when rolled. I was also big into custom paint jobs and stuff which hot wheels catered more towards. I also thoroughly enjoyed my Matchbox cars as well though. I’m glad both companies are still around.
I'm definitely more of a Matchbox guy thanks to a childhood of calling every toy car by that name. But Hot Wheels will always hold a special place in my heart thanks to that awesome Saturday morning cartoon's theme song.
They were all called “dinkys” when I was a kid even though the brand was long gone.
I was a huge Matchbox fan as a child. I am 48 now.
You and me both... If you wanted a car with 4engines out front, you got a hotwheels, if you wanted authentic, ya had matchbox.
And Matchbox seemed to be better made. Hot Wheels always seemed cheap to me with flimsy axles.
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@@BleachDemon707 Wow what is wrong with you? I feel sorry for you. You must really hate yourself.
@@BleachDemon707I want a medal. A solid gold one preferably. Mail to : Turd Ferguson, PO box 69, Intercourse, PA. Thanks.
This was awesome!!
I was a Matchbox kid growing up and still collect to this day. Ive lost count of how many i have. I have a few rare ones, a Volkswagen Golf that was released for a short time in a green color that was incorrect, a ford f-550 released in an incorrect hue of green and a Boeing 787 dreamliner that is hard to find. There was even an article about it relating to a special needs kid that was super wholesome.
Mattel needs to revive the Acceleracers franchise, give us Acceleracers 5, and put the existing films on streaming services.
Johnny Lightning die cast cars were amazing .
Yeah but they were too expensive 😭
Great show, I enjoyed watching. Thanks.
I had some Hot Wheels growing up but Micro Machines were more my jam. You could do a similar comparison video on Transformers versus GoBots, though I don’t know if anybody under 40 years old remembers or had ever heard of GoBots lol. They were basically the “we’ve got Transformers at home” meme. They were cheaper and didn’t seem as cool, but when that’s all your mom would buy you at the store, you’d take what you could get 😂
As a kid i loved matchbox but as an Adult i collect Hot wheels, They make Adult collectable versions now called (Hot Wheels premium / real riders) These are designed for adults with metal/metal chassis, rubber tires and detailed paint and details. Exact replicas of an original car/ race car. A complete game changer in my eyes, they dont just make crazy fantasy cars anymore guys
If you like adult collectables brands like Inno64 and Tarmac Works make the different Hot Wheels high end lines look like toys. Only the old 100%s line compares to the more serious 1:64 scale model brands.
Having grown up in the 70's, i had a lot of both brands of cars, but somewhere in the mid-70's, Hot Wheels got to feeling like they were cheaping out. When they did away with the original Redline wheels, the suspension got sloppier and they didnt go as fast. They also started making cars with plastic chassis, lowering their weight and raising their center of gravity, which further compounded their sluggish performance. Matchbox cars had more consistent quality during that period, and usually had more moving parts than Hot Wheels, i.e. hoods, trunks, or doors that could open. For that reason, I was more of a Matchbox collector as a kid.
Now we get Mattel Land with a hot wheels themed roller coaster
finalleeehhh.. an epsiode ive been waiting for.. thanksss
I have both toys... Mtchbox is more from my father's time and Hot wheels is more from my time. But I have both and always respected the realism that matchbox had.
No way?! You have BOTH toys?! Wow...🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Early 70s kid. I wondered even then who was playing with Matchbox as they were so outclassed by Hot Wheels.
After a long tour of duty in my mother's fifth grade homeroom, my Hot Wheels collection came back to me in my late 20s when she retired. You were a gem, Mom. RIP.
That kid staring blankly at the TV eating popcorn...I think we've all been in that exact spot many, many times.
Reminds me of when my mom threw away all my Hot Wheels and later on I suck outside in the rain to retrieve my favorite ones from the trash can.
Diecast cars, WOOO❗️
Billet cars are better IMO.
Corgi was the most desirable cars because they were the most realistic. Matchbox was not as good but still ok. Hotwheels was for kids that didn't play with cars but liked to throw their things at a wall as hard as possible. =)
I had a collection growing up. I was hanging with my out of town cousins, and we were playing with them, always fighting over who had what. They were all mine, but my Aunt didn't want us fighting anymore, so she took nail polish and wrote our initials in big letters on the top of the cars so we each had some. But they were mine. I was a child. I'm now in my 40s. And I've never forgotten the pain.
this was a great little documentary. I actually had no idea both were owned by the same company. I also didn't know that Matchbox cars were more accurate, which makes me actually want to buy a couple Matchbox cars of my favorite cars.
A video I've been waiting for a while has finally come out.
Sure, im SURE you've waited for this EXACT video with this EXACT title🙄🙄🙄🙄
I like to eat apple
No way. THE REAL HAMILTON!
HE RETURNS
No ways 😮
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Sup dude. Love your work
as a collector of both, i appreciate the way matchbox consistently has better proportions to their cars than hot wheels
As a kid I remember Matchbox costing slightly less. Like if a Hotwheels was 1.19.. Matchbox car would be .99.
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A few other toy rivals you could do are Barbie vs Bratz Lego vs playmobil Play-doh vs silly putty and funko pop vs bobblehead
Airplane guy here, as such Matchbox is the earliest toy brand I remember. Their Skybusters from the eighties and nineties were pretty cool.
I have one Matchbox from my 7th birthday. It is stamped “Matchbox Speedfast No3 Porsche Turbo Made in England 1978 Lesney Products & Co.” Fast forward many years, schools, colleges, jobs, 2 grown kids, an ex wife, 22 motorcycles, 30ish cars, and I still have it in pristine condition. Also on my second Porsche 911 probably because of this $0.50 toy I received when I was 7…
I’ve picked up some modern Hot Wheels Porsches, but that 1978 Matchbox will always be with me.
It started everything.