Hot Wheels Freeway

Chris Burden's Metropolis II is a futuristic system of 18 roadways, including one six lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. "Hot Wheels" cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour. Approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings every hour!
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[@thatlindgirlinutah5829]

My dad, Cookie Lind, would've loved that! He collected Hot Wheels from the day they were released until the day he died in March of 2011. My mom worked for Mattel when they came out in 1968 so he had a massive collection of them. He loved going to the conventions where he could hang out with all the other Hot Wheels fanatics. He became close friends with Carson Lev, an ex-Hot Wheels designer. I'm sure wherever my dad is now, he's racing his Hot Wheels and talking endlessly about them with anyone and everyone!

[@SicKSKITSO]

Thats so cool laure god bless your dad

[@offwhite_baby]

Laure Lind I’m so sorry to hear that

[@NW147yt]

Can we get a f in the chat for your dad

[@coolkid57456]

@@NW147yt f

[@shelleydumire8135]

💜

[@mrlatino1964]

That is one amazing piece of ART. Who wouldn't want one of those in your garage...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ain’t it something? Glad the world (mostly) recognizes it as art. And super fun!!

[@ArvinOngakaBatmanForever]

@@ToyManTelevision I Was a Bit of Fan Of Hot wheels Since I was 6 years Old, Born in the 93 and Now I'm 29, and My hear remains The Iconic Toy Car Hot wheels, and I Enjoy Played with It Crash,Drift, or any Type of Stuff, What a Nostalgia (Brought Back memories of my Childhood), And Missed my Childhood. ##SHOUTOUTHOTWHEELS4EVER. ##HOTWHEELSNOSTALGIA.

[@DangerousArmyGuy]

This giant toy car track is so awesome, I'm surprised that we didn't get a Hot Wheels City/Highway 35 version of it yet. That would have been SO AWESOME to see if there was such a version of this track!

[@acexprt]

Gotta get a camera on one of those cars!

[@dnsbrules_01]

It would get caught by the brushes that slow the cars a bit.

[@dnxx503]

@@dnsbrules_01 camera probably inside?

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Wow! Forget marble runs! That is next level technique. Thanks for sharing!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for watching!!! Some FUN.

[@robertholtz]

Been watching you for a while now and your show just gets better and better each and every week. Truly. I find myself looking forward to your next installment and this was just marvelous. Please consider me an official fan. To the next exciting adventure!!

[@pinkobreftempsla]

I saw this exhibit, and it was fantastic!!

[@efitter7]

One of the coolest things I've seen in a while! Thanks so much for sharing, Ethan

[@ToyManTelevision]

efitter7 I say this online and HAD to go see it. So cool!!

[@roysorenson4378]

Purdy Kool! Thanks for sharing!

[@rangerrick9842]

That is some first rate screwin' around - I love your video diaries - keep up the good work!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ranger Rick Love it! It fun to just sit n watch it. WOW

[@SanBrunoBeacon]

This is a great channel!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!!

[@jolenetwomey8280]

That's a tremendous piece of art along with being an engineering feat as well. The trains winding through it do add something.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I assume it’s still there.

[@doltonmurray1625]

Never boring! That looked like a great place. Would love to see you guys build a car ramp running along your railroad. Gonna pass this video onto my grandson who is a hot wheels car collector. Thanks for another great adventure.

[@clydesight]

YEs, this is very cool! Thanks for posting this!

[@TPNitrocircus199]

this is absolutly awsome

[@ToyManTelevision]

Tyler Brown How cool is this! Just plain FUN!!

[@carlosallende2595]

I was gobsmacked with this video, Thank You for mentioning it in a reply, where I mentioned Marty's Matchbox Makeovers and that I had subscribed, (?) then I went to check out my subscriptions and noticed that your Toy Man Television channel was not among them!!!! I don't know how that happened, I know I wanted to sub, then I couldn't remember your title to find you again and was about to go through my viewing history, when I saw I had new notifications, among which was yours with this cool link to these "Hot Wheels" art/sculpture. By the by, I really like your little retro rocket logo sputtering then rocketing away, reminds me of Wile e Coyote's creator Chuck Jones humorous style for some reason (maybe the sound effects). Seems you both are pretty much into anything and everything toy related (and more, I remember collecting Rat Fink cards and Tattoos when I was a kid, long gone, but the images of that art were burned into my brain as just some of the coolest stuff I'd ever seen) so, had you not included a link to this video, it may well have taken some time to find it. Can you imagine having a set up like that in your shed, or having a wife that would allow you to ( on that point, I wonder if he is married/still married?) have a set up like that in your shed/man cave? Really enjoyed this, Thank You. Carlos.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Yea the hot wheels track is amazing. Really fun. I love that it’s considered art! That’s a great museum. Weird mix of natural history with mammoths and saber tooth tigers. And art including auto design, films, posters, industrial designs. As mixed up as Los Angeles. So it fits. Chris Burton comes up with crazy crazy stuff. And he gets huge grants to do it. Getting paid to build the ultimate hot wheels track!! Now that’s high end screwing around

[@cashstrains652]

My dream hotwheels set

[@ToyManTelevision]

Totally amazing

[@jeffleblanc8850]

Wow that is awesome that dude has some patience really well constructed

[@NHfiddle]

I was fourteen(14)years old when Hot Wheels came out. My very first car was the Custom Mustang in red. forty some years later I started collecting these little gems, these and matchbox cars. Then I discovered all the 1:64 scale variants from other manufacturers. I have at least 1,000 cars between Hot Wheels, Johnny Lightening, M2 and Greenlight makers. Don't care much for the fantasy cars, just the production "muscle" cars of that era. I don't play with them, just collect and store them away in my private collection. Love this video. I was wondering when someone would build something of this magnitude, totally awesome.

[@ToyManTelevision]

YES!!! I was into matchbox. Still am. Saw hot wheels as ruining the "hobby". Hatted, and still do, the fantasy "kid" cars. Give me a stock 65 mustang GT. AND the idea of running on a track... Thought that was a sin. Mine were in the box!!! The box was COOL!!!!! Anyway time change and we evolve. LOVE the big tracks, my best cars are M2 I think. BUT still prefer Matchbox, in the box.

[@Soundsyouhearswithyourears]

The music choice suits the visuals well

[@lukemeister9816]

I love your video it's fun. I collect die casts of all sorts and hot wheels is close to the top.of my list. More variations were done in form of hot wheels than in scale models. I hope you make more great videos in the future. Thanks.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Luke Meister I love collecting these and many other things. But what fun to see this!

[@astromotive6047]

Imagine if someone used the video racer car to film a complete circuit around this track. :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

FUN. Probably crash, also FUN!!

[@kevinmacomber5067]

Very cool variation of a Rube Goldberg Machine.

[@ToyManTelevision]

North Central Lines On30 And just as pointless. Which is why its so COOL

[@ralphgreen8424]

Amazing!!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? What a toy! Er... art!

[@KyuubiTamer]

Now that's ART! :D

[@ToyManTelevision]

TRUE!!

[@wernersievers3153]

einmalig ,so etwas hab ich noch nie gesehen, schön !

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Werner Sievers Spielzeug als Kunst! Die hohe Kunst des "aufschrauben um" oder "cocking über", wie Sie sagen, in England

[@sungodspirit1502]

that is just sick as hell!!!

[@jadenstookey7676]

Wow that is something that should be really hard to do, well maybe because he pulled that off. Just got to love your videos!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Jaden Stookes Thanks! I love that "track". And I love that it's in a museum of modern art! Thanks for the share!

[@FasterTheDragster]

That. Was AWESOME!

[@ToyManTelevision]

+Faster The Dragster I love this thing!! I'll bet there are others too, as WE want to build one too. Anyway, if it's out there we will find it and shoot it!!

[@gezag.hanniker1940]

Yup that reminded me of Fritz Langs movie Metropolis

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!!

[@Bhousm76]

Hey thanks for this. Cool video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just amazing that this thing not only works, it almost never screws up. WOW.

[@ToFester]

Yes sir, that's pretty darn cool!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!!!! High speed screwing around!!!!!

[@lookinatcha5279]

This is awesome

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? And it always works!!

[@nazzswift8114]

Vert Wheeler : Pretty Cool Alec Wood: Cool Nothing It’s Hot....HOT WHEELS CITY!!!!!! Kids will never know

[@ToyManTelevision]

Nazzy Escobar hi. Amazing right?

[@nazzswift8114]

Toy Man Television This is amazing. Always been the dream . Oh my comment was a line from the Hot Wheels Highway 35 World Race Movie Lol

[@jeffbaker2897]

Super Cool!, Toy Man, enjoyed the video very much. 😎👌👍👍👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Fun thing! Hot wheels rule

[@railroadhistoryarchives]

That's way cool. Thanks Toy Man Television

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? This is metropolis 2. Metropolis 1 was mostly the same. Smaller and used real hot wheels cars. So nosy you needed ear protection. And the cars failed after a few months. So Chris redid it bigger and made his own cars! These are made by taking real ones and making molds off of the bodies. Then casting thousands of them of solid urethane. And small rubber wheels. Heavier. Faster quieter. Not as good looking. But dang cool.

[@trainguy111]

1:44 woah! That's a lot of hot wheels. Almost like one of those ball or marble machines, but with cars.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just love the look!! And the sound!!!

[@shanlancanabal7759]

Wow thats the coollest track ive ever seen

[@MrDieCast1978]

Awesome video my friend! :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Mr. Die-Cast 1978 THANKS! This is a fun one! WOW

[@Ourshow12]

Can you create your own hot wheel track?It doesn't have to be big,just awsome🚗

[@ferniegutierrez1517]

Im so glad I played with hot wheels growing up #Hotwheelsareawsome

[@ToyManTelevision]

They are just flat fun to collect. This track however it does take the cake right?

[@EasterIslander13]

That was cool

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing right?

[@16nowhereman]

I'm asking my wife to buy one of these for my birthday.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Good luck.

[@frasierthebichon7422]

It would be neat seeing cats right there watching this !!!

[@ck-uz8do]

Welcome to Hot Wheels City!

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s worth seeing.

[@mitchellyardanoff4666]

Great way to drive cats crazy!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Geeeez if a cat ever got loose it there...

[@fastdiecast1095]

They should put the gopro car on there and show us a fpv

[@Prin7er]

WOW!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing right?

[@IWANTABIGBUTTGAL]

All the vehicles need LED lights and more Light sources in the deep areas.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!! That would be fun!!

[@johnnieblaze8983]

$3.00? Lol, I remember my parents freaking out when Hot Wheels went from $0.79 to $0.89 per car. Even Hot Wheels Monster Jam trucks were only $2.49-$2.79 depending on the store. The last one I bought was $7.00

[@ToyManTelevision]

It all depends. Last one we got was $1.98.

[@SCPSPECOPS-taskforce]

COOL

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right?

[@barrysnider635]

There are certain things you see and seems unreal or impossible and this Hot Wheel city falls into this catagory how the heck could he get this working seems flawlessly ,,,,

[@gamingwithscoobyandrocket8511]

I want to see that with a GoPro on a car 🚘

[@TheShowgirl25]

WOW

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing. Just amazing “track”

[@RichieD088]

REMARKABLE !!!!!.. peace

[@ToyManTelevision]

FUN RIGHT?

[@adamackels73]

I wonder how many scale miles each of those cars accumulate everyday?

[@ToyManTelevision]

There goes yer 100k warranty.

[@chornobylreactor4]

I watched this video on Facebook with the original sound of the wee beady teeny tiny wheels It was both cute and annoying at the same time

[@nebaker4]

Why am I just seeing this? Can you take my money?

[@swbfuf]

this song sounds like weeping demon by nemesis theory

[@sacooper802]

your not wearing your seat belt?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Oops. I always do but, oops. In some of the shows I have it tucked under my arm as after getting a pacemaker it rubbed the darn thing. Used to that now. BUT in this case, oversight.

[@kae4466]

i am wondering if u can get an exemption in your state.

[@mikrodronefiendvideos5612]

soupercooper supersnooper

[@davidkoehler136]

I was11 when they came out, Im 64 now

[@H0TWHEELS]

Holly crap😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing right?

[@H0TWHEELS]

I love it lol

[@ntah3778]

I really need this one.tell me the price

[@chornobylreactor4]

It's a ouch I can tell you that

[@jw4321]

Seat belts save lives.

[@marblesjn]

I just noticed the trains.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And an Aroliner!!!!!!!!!!

[@Kilajs2]

How much did he sell the Hot wheels car track to the museum ? Also how much did it cost for him to make it ?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. They paid for it up front. Actually this is the second one he built for them. The first was smaller and noisy. He built all the cars himself so they would run quietly. Not sure on the cost.. but a lot.

[@KatoOnTheTrack1]

It needs a model rail road incorporated somehow lol

[@ToyManTelevision]

Look close. Many trains!

[@kennthmatthew8684]

i been there once too meny times

[@ToyManTelevision]

Some fun stuff. Some boring...

[@H0TWHEELS]

looks like Monday morning traffic😂😂😂😂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thats us in the little white car.

[@silvioricardosorianovudoyr5796]

it’s the metro realm in real life

[@WhiteCamry]

So that's where my boyhood ran off to.

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

I wanna build and paint a custom working hot wheel car to put on there with upgrade rubber wheels and reflective mirrors and a nice resin engine and a few other things but able to work on a track

[@ToyManTelevision]

All of these cars are custom castings. The real hot wheels kept falling apart. So these were cast off of those but heavy, strong, better wheels and tires. And thousands of them at that!

[@crystalclearchaos5387]

@@ToyManTelevision i could build one from a real hot wheel my skills for gaslands conversions would work add weights replaced the rivets holding the cars together with skrews use a stronger axel and replace the tires with rubber one with metal rims boom

[@williamwalls2711]

three bucks?????geez they a buck here in the mighty memphis

[@maynardcease6160]

Just keep Godzilla and King Kong out.

[@3DPeter]

"200.000 cars an hour" Wel that can't be true, because i see 3 conveyorbelts who turn over 6 cars a second, so 18 cars per second is 64800 per hour max.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes I misspoke. The “facts” on the track are all over the place. It’20,000 per hour.

[@bornbrit777]

Sorry to be "that guy" but the cars used on Metropolis 2" were not HOT WHEELS. They were cars that were made in China just for this exhibit. Chris did NOT use Hot Wheels for Metropolis 2 because the axles on the Hot Wheels couldnt handle the continuous, almost none stop movement. It was an issue he had with the Hotwheels on the first Metropolis. Because Metropolis 2 is a lot larger than Metropolis, he decided to use a different vehicle company.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Cast cars. The original ones were also so noisy people could not be in room with it. But the original plan was hot wheels and people have interest in those. So I cheated a bit. They are very much based on hot wheels and that concept.

[@unclejohnthezef]

1:40

[@zinhlemkhatshwa8837]

I wish I had hot wheels toys

[@ToyManTelevision]

He actually wore all of those cars out so he built his own! They look just like hot wheels cars but they’re much more robust.

[@diegodejesuscruz9120]

stand up metropolis movie the futuristic car highway

[@ToyManTelevision]

Never thought of that but you are right

[@belimdaawarren9832]

Me notice a train wait there trains I thought it only cars

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. And a monorail!

[@fabe0131]

Girl: I bet he thinks about other girls Me:

[@PikaDamos]

1:30 Volcano anyone?

[@lancebenson7839]

ohh shit JACKPOT!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Not sure where to build one, but NEED ONE.

[@lancebenson7839]

When i get me my own place imma build a wicked Hot Wheel city lol

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do it!! I was thinking of one hanging on a wall too. Less space and still FUN!!!

[@lancebenson7839]

All because were adults doesnt change nothing lol, were never too old to play with hot wheels & matchbox

[@randgrithr7387]

You could be going 200mph and a BMW will still tailgate you.

[@waterisgood6205]

The creator of hot wheels was married to the creator of Barbie... yeah, and hot wheels got the name when the creator was standing around with buds and deciding a name for the toy cars... being the 60s at the time a friend walked in the room picked up one of the cars and said, " WOW THATS SOME HOT WHEELS YOU GOT",,,,, good thing it was the 60s at the time.🤣

[@ToyManTelevision]

I’m a match box guy. But still... these move!!

[@charlesdavis5701]

Where is the cops car all that speeding lol.

[@helio1055]

Not orange not a real hot wheels track.

[@sacooper802]

I see when you drive your 68 fastback you wear a 4 point harness, no worries just giving you a hard time, enjoy your variety of videos.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Would go 5 point but if chafes. ALMOS HAVE THE BLUE ONE BACK!! From repaint. !!!!!!

[@davidaharris2561]

BEST Wife EVER ! ! !

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!

[@chacpaul]

You didn't have your seat belt on.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I always do. But sometimes when we look at the video I see it’s off. In a few cases it only looks like it’s off. But... amazing when you have a camera in your car the things you see that really open your eyes

[@fabe0131]

POV: your in my dream

[@johnaltyn3171]

As a professional artist, the street lights is NOT art. da Vinci is art.. This is why I don't hang around with artists hehehehe and I never get grants ehehhehe

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ah the “what is art” debate.

[@johnaltyn3171]

@@ToyManTelevision Indeed...Art is how best one might be able to "Con" vince others to agree what is art and what is not...ehehehe