Hot Wheels vs. Matchbox

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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[@tiufb]

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.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

I'm half your age and I actually have a hand-me down of one of those.

[@ItzzzBeamo]

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

[@donfisherjr.2404]

Yes! I sent for that one too. A very cool H.W. car.

[@theodoreolson8529]

I had one of those too, back in the day.

[@jackjohnson833]

I’m more amazed your 63 and know how to use KZbin so well.

[@DerekL2005]

Matchbox did more realistic cars while hot wheels did like shark cars

[@KernelFault]

My car is a shark. It eats all my money.

[@neonotterpop2528]

​@@KernelFault😂

[@TheInkPitOx]

I have that one

[@mankind8088]

To this day that's the formula

[@ThisOldSkater]

or a toilet, or a hotdog. Hotwheels can get pretty far out there. Matchbox if I'm making a train set, hotwheels for fun!

[@Tinhare]

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.

[@johnwhitehurst7484]

I did the same.🙂 It was fun.

[@BienSwinginbase]

Matchbox was a little goated I think but Hot Wheels was absolutely goated bossman.

[@tinymetaltrees]

I like that! "Serious playing" 👍

[@BasedWarGoose]

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.

[@Tinhare]

@@BasedWarGoose well said. 😀

[@christopherrodriguez9514]

My story with hotwheels (car guy): my wife and I started trying for a kid, so everytime we went to a store id check out the hot wheels and only buy REAL cars so when they were old enough I could teach them about each model. Unfortunately there were multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, and my wife was just distraught BUT for 3 years I kept buying hotwheels to show her a sign of optimism. My son just graduated from kindergarten and we now have a collection of probably 600 cars.

[@jackgibb16]

Lovely story dude… future car guy right there.

[@FEdeRioBravo]

My son just turned 3 and have a large collection too. Matchbox City &Hot Wheel city play sets set's is my new vise.

[@BTD6-BLOONBURST]

That's HUGE like you have about 20 to 30 of all unique hotwheels (if none of yours are duplicates (

[@christopherrodriguez9514]

@@BTD6-BLOONBURST maybe, we do have 10 different falken tire cars with the teal/blue livery and my favorite is the purple rwb. Did scoop up a godzilla edition r32 skyline and a yellow and white liberty walk s15 that i havent let him touch yet lol

[@Hertz2pp]

❤❤❤

[@BWItoATXF]

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.

[@gold-818]

Also 92 baby here and yes if you wanted an accurate version of cars on the road you opted for matchbox cars, but I will say Hot Wheels had the better tracks. I also would mix Hot Wheels and Matchbox together as a kid which was considered heresy by some of my friends 😮

[@B-Shells]

The jingle I remember the most was, “Hot Wheels! Beat That!”

[@LoveMyUnusual]

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. 😂❤

[@pb5x5]

Just compare a 80's Matchbox and Hot Wheels to see the difference. Quality of the cast details and paint.

[@yokai1235]

o yeah the time hot wheels was cool

[@AccountFromGoogle]

That was from the ps2 game, right?

[@yokai1235]

@@AccountFromGoogle nope that was the jingle of hotwheels during the early 2000's

[@RetailRipper]

When mcdonald's had hotwheels in their happy meals 👌

[@alexander1485]

and Ronald McDonald as a mascot

[@JozMkII]

I liked when they had that happy meal box that had cutouts that could be folded into a track tunnel through the box

[@Matt-re3or]

I see other 80's kids here

[@corpsie666]

​@@Matt-re3or- kids nowadays will never know the magic of the toys that came with Happy Meals.

[@Matt-re3or]

@@corpsie666 I think I might still have some of the Stompers from the Happy Meal

[@ian3580]

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.

[@darkskinwhite]

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.

[@BenjamintheTortoise]

Same here. I'm 48 and only played with Matchbox. Always wanted a van with the tear drop window but never found it 😄

[@100percentSNAFU]

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.

[@hiimjustin8826]

Yeah kids hate toys and fantasy that makes sense

[@ItsDaJax]

Yall probably ate corn flakes and watched the saturday morning news too, huh?

[@mrgurulittle7000]

I grew up in Japan so I played with mainly Tomicas and some Matchbox, Hotwheels, and Majorets.

[@BenjaminWilley-j1o]

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. 🙂

[@mrgurulittle7000]

@@BenjaminWilley-j1oTomica 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.

[@AbandonedRaven]

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.

[@mrgurulittle7000]

@@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.

[@mrjsanchez1]

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!

[@marksylvain2839]

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.

[@whydidtheballooneatthefox282]

I love that! Never stop collecting!

[@ohyeah6453]

I hope you do Lego vs Mega Blocks next.

[@Remnazuo]

More like, "The superiority of Lego and the piddling challenger Mega Blocks"

[@TheInkPitOx]

It'd have to be Mega Blocks vs Duplo Also, I have not heard the name Mega Blocks in years

[@abelruiz1996]

​@@RemnazuoThe Halo line is actually good from megablock. its a shame Lego refuses to partner with violent videogames.

[@Remnazuo]

@@abelruiz1996 I'll be honest, I was surprised to see all the licenses that Mega Blocks has when I read the wikipedia page.

[@DropkickMurphysFan01]

@@TheInkPitOx mega bloks is now owned my Mattel...surprise.

[@joelbosso1331]

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

[@kcamera4975]

I agree. I started with Matchbox. Hot Wheels just felt cheaper and more delicate.

[@swh0001]

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

[@DavisSmith-px9ph]

real

[@DavisSmith-px9ph]

real

[@roark5t6]

Hot Wheels cars were often so crazy looking they broke my immersion during toy roleplaying sessions. >_>

[@sethdavis4382]

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.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Reading these comments is basically like mainlining 80s nostalgia lol

[@100percentSNAFU]

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 😂

[@BlueFox284]

Didn't McDonald's give those out in Happy Meals too? I had a couple of em'.

[@christianpoint0888]

That’s awesome !

[@santicar10]

Dude I read the first line and was like ‘wtf’ then I saw the rest lmao

[@BrodyAnimates]

my family has always called hotwheels and small car toys "dinky cars" or "dinkies", super cool to find out about the origin!

[@XyloNe112]

Hi

[@JohnMcLoughlin06]

Brodyanimates in this comment section is crazy! Love your videos man!

[@manapualabs]

My cousin woke up on his 18th b'day and found a b'day card and a matchbox van on his breakfast plate. Outside, on the driveway, was the life size van, same color and everything. Pretty cool.

[@Gr8Methos]

Scalpers, the bane of Hot wheel collectors

[@QuattroSG]

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.

[@corpsie666]

Scalpers used to tip Toys R Us workers to go back and bring out full boxes before the shelves needed to be restocked.

[@nursestoyland]

And any popular toy brand *cough cough* lego

[@geetoasty]

My dad felt this comment on a spiritual level

[@Diodorus79]

Man, don't mention, them. They're the bane of everything, collectible.

[@duhbullb]

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 😂

[@MrRezRising]

Man, the older kid down the block once pulled out one of those 100 car suitcases and my brain pretty much imploded.

[@theblackdiamondguy4606]

same i have a couple cases of matchbox hotwheels tomica realtoy etc to me they were all the same

[@deshaunx776]

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.

[@zombiedodge1426]

I just sold a bunch of mine at a yard sale, and now I've seen this video and wish I'd kept them. :(

[@broadcastmyballs]

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

[@lumbagoboi1649]

Yeah i wound up with a ton of beat up old lesney England matchbox cars going to thrift stores and stuff. The blue land rover was definitely my favorite along with the ford galaxie police car. Still have them today, just with even more paint chipped off than when i first found them lol

[@jimcurt99]

Totally a Hot Wheels fan- LOVED the car case shaped like the wheel

[@MetalJesusRocks]

I preferred Matchbox because their sports cars like Ferrari and Lamborghini did look more realistic

[@Canadian_Yoshi]

As a Matchbox fan, I've been waiting for this for a long time

[@ickisdog1592]

Plastic crap

[@mankind8088]

Diecast isn't plastic 😭🤣😂😭🤣😂😭😭🤣

[@x-90]

As a lifelong die cast collector so have I

[@Jay-jb2vr]

I always loved Matchbox, all the way back when they had metal chassis

[@TheOtherBill]

Hot Wheels is flash while Matchbox is class.

[@dadabetic]

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.

[@rumblehat4357]

And they literally came in a box. No bubble cards. The seller had to open the box and show it to you.

[@theblackdiamondguy4606]

ye thats basically greenlight and inno64 today lmao

[@iraulagunasperez5688]

😂😂Ignorant

[@DampNoodles]

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.

[@100percentSNAFU]

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.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@100percentSNAFU Is the 1983 Corvette a C4? If so they were assuming GM would get the car to market on time.

[@100percentSNAFU]

​@@skaldlouiscyphre2453Yes, it is a C4

[@theracingcanucks]

I like Hot Wheels but I do appreciate the realism of Matchbox

[@mullman]

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.

[@BasementBerean]

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.

[@wellmike]

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.

[@davidc1878]

@@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

[@JL-sm6cg]

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

[@perfectallycromulent]

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.

[@JL-sm6cg]

@@perfectallycromulent I used to smash them with my father's work bench clamp. He hated when I did that.

[@patrickmuhwheeney6518]

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...

[@rrai1999]

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

[@valutaatoaofunknownelement197]

A wholesome story that for a second I thought it was going to be another scalper horror tale.

[@jetscreamer1]

He is one of those annoying collectors that also hang out at Walmart.

[@Sbolde21]

That dude definitely lied to you lmao

[@patrickmuhwheeney6518]

Probably, but seeing his kid next to him made it seem legit... Thanks for the reply!

[@misaeljoelvera6631]

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

[@pensivepenguin3000]

Kind of fascinated with the dinky cars now because I’ve never heard of them before this video

[@fadeinfull]

Hot wheels > Matchbox 11:26

[@Roberto_Steele]

When I was little, my parents bought me a loop figure 8 hot wheels track set and I loved playing with it!

[@Toontastic_Juju]

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.

[@apulrang]

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.

[@ryanorzechowski14]

Company Man just does not miss. Another banger

[@tylerrichards5457]

Absolutely love this channel

[@cadimarucut7724]

yes😊

[@MrLukieJL]

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.

[@railtrolley]

I now have 3 Hot Wheels: 2 Ford Falcons, and a Holden Monaro. Waiting decades for them to produce Australian cars. One of the Falcons is the XB series coupe, same as shown at: 00:34. Bit too custom looking, so I'm converting to real riders wheels, and repainting it to look like a GT351.

[@boots8562]

Rob Thomas loved Matchbox cars as a kid, which is why he named the band Matchbox Twenty.

[@fubytv731]

Taika Waititi's dad loved Tyco when he was a child.

[@pensivepenguin3000]

He wanted to push them around, and he did, and he did

[@zombiedodge1426]

@@pensivepenguin3000 He used to be up until 3AM playing with them.

[@forgettablelisa]

He’s also Sinbad’s bitch

[@cadimarucut7724]

🎉🎉

[@ChevyCamaroIsBetter]

I loved both growing up. Hot wheels sets were for “speed” and Matchbox sets were for “adventures”.

[@jonc3903]

I was a huge Matchbox fan as a child. I am 48 now.

[@jagboy69]

You and me both... If you wanted a car with 4engines out front, you got a hotwheels, if you wanted authentic, ya had matchbox.

[@dennisd9554]

And Matchbox seemed to be better made. Hot Wheels always seemed cheap to me with flimsy axles.

[@BleachDemon707]

....and? You want a medal? Maybe Company man will notice you, huh? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@jonc3903]

@@BleachDemon707 Wow what is wrong with you? I feel sorry for you. You must really hate yourself.

[@100percentSNAFU]

​@@BleachDemon707I want a medal. A solid gold one preferably. Mail to : Turd Ferguson, PO box 69, Intercourse, PA. Thanks.

[@BRBTechTalk]

11:03 I was born in 1960. I had matchbox cars before I had any Hot wheels. Viceroy had a line of hard rubber cars they were pretty much indestructible but had a funky smell about them, they kind of smelled like sweet sour milk, I suppose you had to be there. I have seen a few nice collections of Matchbox and Hot wheels toy cars and kind of wish I didn't play so hard with mine when I was a kid as they were all scraped up and the plastic windows would be broken from making them crash hard. My favourite diecast car was the Batmobile from the 1966 TV series, I remember it had a little plastic flame that came out the back when you rolled it on the floor.

[@LotharSuhr]

I remember both companies made a red RR Silver Shadow. I had the classic MB version and was shocked when the HW suddenly arrived.

[@IamSnowbird]

My grandson has about 25 Hot Wheels at my house and many, many more at his house.

[@anthonycbudd]

2:03 "The company claims that Hot Wheels is the best selling toy in the world based on units" LEGO: 👀

[@not2hot99]

I don't think the bricks get counted separately

[@Anish_B]

Lego mainly comes in kits, so maybe thats why its less.

[@Krydolph]

At least LEGO is the biggest tire producer in the world :)

[@waifubreaks1572]

Unlike Legos, Hot Wheels aren't ridiculously priced.

[@Thinginator]

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.

[@geoffkirkpatrick9727]

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.

[@RudysGarage]

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.

[@81casperflip]

Maisto has entered the chat 😂

[@tonynelson5229]

I’m old. Just turned 55 and I still have a of my Matchbox cars from when I was a kid.

[@donfisherjr.2404]

Not as old as I am. I'm over 65 and still have many of my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. 😊

[@stlfatman]

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.

[@agatemaster1998]

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

[@100percentSNAFU]

​@@agatemaster1998The old carry cases and trays were so much better than the cases they have now.

[@whydidtheballooneatthefox282]

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

[@Randomark3087]

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.

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

I remember having some kind of "tornado" set back in 1999, had those battery charged hot wheels cars with it. good times.

[@RoKKr023i]

Criss Cross Crash was an excellent set. i was lucky to have it

[@altezza46]

Meanwhile, Majorette semi-trucks were my favorite growing up

[@Law0086]

I remember playing with those flip hood cars. Never knew who made them until now.

[@BigPlatinumDragon]

I'm a little sick inside right now, I used to own one each of the Corvette trophy set, and I never opened any of them and kept them in their boxes sitting on a shelf for years until I ended up loosing them when they were in storage and eventually I was to poor to pay off the storage unit and lost everything in it. While my favorite Diecast cars was and still is Hot Wheels, I would say that "Corgi" cars were my second favorite brand, not matchbox.

[@mikef8069]

As someone with extensive experience of running these on tracks, Johnny Lightning made the fastest die cast cars.

[@weaslemin7728]

Have you put them up against the og redlines?

[@GetAwayFroMe]

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.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

UPS vs Fedex vs DHL.

[@juancerda-duran1824]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworldthat’s an even better idea, he should’ve talked about DHL to begin with.

[@bobroberts2371]

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.

[@GetAwayFroMe]

@@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.

[@joelbosso1331]

@@runrafarunthebestintheworld and the effect Amazon has had on all three

[@nexusangel]

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.

[@100percentSNAFU]

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.

[@AWizardAndaMouse3432]

I have one Tomica car, and it’s the Ford Continental Mark IV

[@Josh_Quillan]

Tomica make Korean cars? As a diecast collector with an interest in Tomica, that's surprising - as you probably know, Japan does not rate Korean things at all normally, and their range in Japan has no Korean models. Do they have a Singapore-exclusive range?

[@Diodorus79]

Tomica cars are awesome. Now, if only the can replace those thin wheels, with the wide wheels!

[@asthmainhaler2378]

Was really surprised when Tomica did a collab with Oshi no Ko. Seemed really out of left field compared to the other collabs they did.

[@braydencolon316]

I have a 1 of 10k matchbox. It is a red Mini Cooper S that I bought because it looks like my car. I didn't realize that only 10k were made until I got home

[@excalibrrimcold9354]

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.

[@stefanbabicz357]

I'm loving the choices of companies you're highlighting lately. These are companies I don't typically think about.

[@shanelynch7757]

I was a matchbox kid - I loved the realism , I had a few hotwheels too but my matchbox cars were my favourites

[@joelbosso1331]

same here!

[@pp3k3jamail]

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.

[@shanelynch7757]

@@pp3k3jamail If its not that big of a deal - Why are you commenting????? People have different tastes in things - Get over it

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@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.

[@pp3k3jamail]

@@shanelynch7757 I'm commenting because it's a free country and I can comment if I want to b+tch

[@MarJay1980]

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.

[@ATSFVentaSpurNscaler]

I grew up playing with Matchbox cars in the 1960s before Hot Wheels came on the scene. I loved the realism of Matchbox vehicles. I never liked Hot Wheels because I felt that they looked fake and mainly represented racing machines. -from Thomas Lincoln Pilling

[@rmp5s]

I didn't care which when I was a kid. ANY car, I was all about it. I'm 40 now and that really hasn't changed much. lol

[@seanhutton7155]

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

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

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.

[@cornap1]

That orange track was legendary

[@markdanielczyk944]

And hurts also!🤣

[@eddiegv45]

I had lots of both growing up, loved them both!

[@F40M07]

“Democrats vs republicans” “Coke vs Pepsi” “Lionel vs MTH” This is the only question.

[@Grape_juice555]

when I was growing up in Australia, there was another car toy brand called “zuru” it was a ripoff of hot wheels, and they are a dollar each. (AUD gold standard) and hot wheels and 2 dollars each. (AUD gold standard.)

[@tubros]

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. =)

[@prettypic444]

My mom’s an elementary school teacher, and hot wheels are still some of the most popular toys students request for the reward box

[@Gegscape007]

Mattel needs to revive the Acceleracers franchise, give us Acceleracers 5, and put the existing films on streaming services.

[@SpaceGhost999]

When I was a kid, I always preferred matchbox over hot wheels. Matchbox made more realistic cars that I liked. I never liked all the goofy fantasy hot wheels cars. Anytime I'd get one, I'd trade them out

[@GLHS592]

I always liked both and other brands as well. My favorite was Matchbox because they always looked more realistic than Hotwheels. Hotwheels always looked more "cartoonish". Matchbox also had more construction and work trucks.

[@andythem320guy9]

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.

[@BleachDemon707]

No way?! You have BOTH toys?! Wow...🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Johnny Lightning die cast cars were amazing .

[@sikusuyu]

Yeah but they were too expensive 😭

[@bpdbhp1632]

These vs videos are great. Because you get a better view of what companies did right and wrong

[@SlMON_PETRlKOV]

Lego speed champions on top

[@LutayOvich]

I prefer hot wheels because they have a lot of cool fantasy castings. But if we talk about only real cars, I think matchbox is better, because they are most specialized on real cars

[@kylebroflovski2917]

Diecast cars, WOOO❗️

[@KernelFault]

Billet cars are better IMO.

[@carcrasher88YT]

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.

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

Tomica mishandled JL so badly, which is disappointing because it could have gone so much better.

[@delia_watercolors]

Matchbox 20 fans who aren't sure how they got here 👇

[@ileutur6863]

Although I prefer realistic toy cars, I've always been a bigger fan of Hot Wheels over Matchbox because they produce real cars with modifications like body kits and spoilers, which I loved because I grew up on NFS and Fast & Furious movies.

[@joeysimm5777]

I own one rare Hot Wheels car that came out in a Happy meal at McDonald's back in like early 2000s

[@guysfieri8900]

as a collector of both, i appreciate the way matchbox consistently has better proportions to their cars than hot wheels

[@hankhillsnrrwurethra]

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.

[@allenwiddows7631]

Personally, as a kid in the 1960s and ‘70s, I always preferred Matchbox over Hot Wheels for a couple of reasons. Matchbox cars were always better made and much more realistic; though Hot Wheels were admittedly cool, their thin axels had a tendency to bend over time, causing the wheels to go crooked. I noticed that the quality of Matchbox went downhill after Lesney left the picture.

[@everythingthrice2582]

As a kid I had a bucket full of hot wheels with a few matchbox slipped in. I still at the time referred to any model car as a 'hot wheels'

[@drewliedtke3415]

I only buy the good brands like Greenlight, Auto World and Tomica Limited Vintage, but will occasionally buy a Hot Wheels RLC.

[@jameslitterio7957]

Both of these 2 brands are amazing brands though I tend to lean towards Hotwheels over Matchbox. I just feel as if Hotwheels seem to be better built out of stronger materials so I normally buy more of them. Though I do have to mention matchbox only beating out Hotwheels due to the moving parts cars that they have. So I only really buy Matchbox for those cars. One finally note is that I have way more than 50 cars in my collection

[@ARYADAK]

Hot Wheels, honestly is better than Matchbox obviously.. but sometimes it was too crazy/flashy/fantasied, so Matchbox stands alongside Hot Wheels for me. Wise of Mattel to keep the characteristics of both brands.

[@deathrage5866]

I preferred Matchbox as a kid bcoz they were much heavier and had full metal bodies. Also I remember one of my favourite Matchbox vehicle was a helicopter and a prop plane, loved those. I don't know where the disappeared but i guess i'll have to find them later 😅

[@AhmedMohamed-rv6wl]

Hotwheels is the best because it has a movie in Netflix and games

[@Giliver]

yoooo so thats why my grandpa always called these "dinky cars" he'd always give me and my brother a new Hot Wheel every few weeks so i have buckets of them, it was a cool tradition for us kids.

[@sleepyren_]

so many people in the comments pretending that hotwheels just doesn't make real life cars. as if they don't make mostly real life cars now. AND as if matchbox didn't make fantasy cars as well.

[@Pixelatedleaf]

Matchbox makes an exact replica of cars while hotwheels makes flashy cool cars, for some reason, getting a hotwheel is more cooler than getting a matchbox, no wonder hotwheels beat out matchbox . Matchboxes are still cool as well, so I can't decide which one is better. Tho I have both

[@sped6954]

07:57 Thundershift 500! My little brother and I got that as a shared Christmas gift when it first came out, and somehow, we managed to not fight over it. It came with two cars, red and yellow. I want to say the red one was a Torino and the yellow one was a Monte Carlo. We had a bunch of other cars that also got lots of track time. It took some practice getting it just right, but we had contests to see how far we could make a car slide down the homestretch of track on its roof after making it flip over halfway through the high oval bank at the far end. For obvious reasons, this only worked if the car was launched from inner track, which in turn meant that we had to take turns since there was only one inner lane. Yeah, this was a REALLY fun set, like hours of fun.

[@Yodawg-s2h]

i like matchbox they make realistic cars and Hot Wheels make like cars with an unrealistic shape.

[@WLD_SDN]

Imma go with Matchbox. Because they makes more realistic cars than hotwheels

[@RetroEli82]

Hot Wheels for me, always thought they were cool looking. Another great video C.M.

[@ford4x4]

How come hot wheels still makes realistic looking cars and matchbox makes some fictional, hot wheels style cars??

[@LRamaekers]

I played with Matchbox more as a kid as I preferred the more realistic cars. I still had a lot of hot wheels as that’s what I would use with tracks. I loved them both 😂

[@SargeWolf010]

Out of these 2... Both are equal as For the others... M2, Greenlight, Majorette, Maisto, and others its a toss up...

[@PedroDelgado724]

I own about 2500 cars, 😅 70% if probably hotwheels alone