What is life like seen from a Hot Wheels car?

Hot Wheels cars brightened our most boring afternoons when we were kids. However, after seeing what we are going to show you, you will want to be 8 years old again.

Being a Hot Wheels car is not easy at all: you begin your life in a cold Mattel factory, you are put into a plastic package and then you go straight into a dark box. The next time you see the light you are already in a huge toy store, where you wait hanging from a hook for someone to notice your eye-catching flames or your big wheels.

You may have the bad luck of being chosen by a child who only wants you to use as a pacifier or, on the contrary, you may be the recreation of a legendary car that catches the eye of some collector. An example of these toys for adults is this Ford 1967 Mustang by Lego.

If these cars end up in a large collection, many times they are never even taken out of the package. However, these cars were created to be played with and, just as it hurts us when we see a large collection of sports cars that never leave an industrial warehouse, the same happens when we see that these little factories of smiles on wheels have never touched the ground.

Toys have the difficult mission of fighting against the latest generation consoles, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices that absorb the minds of children and not-so-children.

If you are one of those parents who still remember how much fun they had getting covered in mud in the park and building tunnels worthy of a civil engineer for your Hot Wheels to drive through, you are going to like this news. Also, you can use it to show it to your children and try to get them to put the iPad down on the table to awaken that passion for cars that is slowly being lost.

What if you combine a Hot Wheels car and an action camera?

Setting up a track full of loops, curves and slopes is already cool, throwing a car down it and watching it gain speed and perform a thousand and one stunts is even cooler. But we take it to another level if you combine a Hot Wheels car with an action camera, since you will be able to see the crazy life of one of these toys in first person and feel what the brand’s motto means: Full speed!

Knowing what the setting will be is already open to your imagination: you will only have to take a few track sections wherever you want to set it up, an action camera and a few Hot Wheels cars. The length of the circuit is up to you, but we propose as a challenge to overcome this huge Hot Wheels track that is 609 meters long.

However, now that summer holidays are approaching and the destination chosen is often the beach, we tell you that there are few better places to create the craziest circuits. Proof of this is this video in which we can see one of these cars navigate all kinds of obstacles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQM7-6hWvNA

You don’t even need to go to the beach, you can do it in your garden or, if you don’t have one, in the park. In this video, we can see how the creator builds obstacles by propping the track on boards and even on a portable fridge. Also, this one is an expert, since he launches two cars one after the other and points the camera at the first one, giving a privileged view of the dizzying movements of the second car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjLT29p2u-E

After watching these videos, we are sure we have awakened your inner child, so run to the nearest toy store and remind the little ones that there is more life outside screens and video games.