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November 24th, 2003

Hot Wheels v. Matchbox

When I was a kid, I loved to play with toy cars. I had a whole suitcase full, and that thing would be ready at a moment’s notice. Long before Micro Machines, though, I had a lot of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars.

But there was always this rivalry between the two (similar to the short-lived Go-Bots v. Transformers one.) Matchbox didn’t have the cool packaging, but they had a number of neat cars. Hot Wheels had the marketing muscle and the great logo. But I sided with Matchbox. I’m pretty sure that Hot Wheels went all-plastic first, and Matchbox still had metal (or semi-metallic) parts on its cars. (Remember metal?)

Did you ever take sides in this car battle?

Posted in Childhood Memories

dada March 22, 2007, 5:53 pm

yo dudes the blings cars are so sweet i have all of them any one know when there comming out with new ones yo?

RMasta September 7, 2010, 8:58 pm

Hahaha oh my god…I was one of those kids playing with my Cadillac Escalade Bling and I still am *TODAY*

It’s so epic.

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