Weird Hot Wheel Gimmicks
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Over the years there's been many Hot Wheels with really weird gimmicks, so in this video I wanted to go over all the most interesting ones I could possibly find! The fact that a simple hotwheel can be a fidget toy, a dice, a camera, or even a musical instrument is truly fascinating!
I've already made a hotwheel video a while ago, and now that my content style has gotten a lot better I decided to give it a re-do. This time we are focusing specifically on the silly gimmicks, so there might be some repeats from my previous hotwheel video. Hope you enjoy 😁 Also I moved into a new house before recording the on-camera sections, so there's echoey audio and not the best lighting. I have big plans for awesome background sets in my new office, so stay tuned for that!
Behind the scenes: • Weird Hot Wheel Gimmic...
Special thanks to @Shibbi for helping record some things
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Table Of Contents
0:00 Intro
0:27 Moving Parts
3:12 Gamersupps Sponsor
4:06 More Moving Parts
7:49 Jaw Chomping Cars
9:25 Real World Functionalities
15:11 Mutant Machines
17:10 Split Speeders
19:16 Technology
21:43 Leftover Gimmicks
23:13 Outro
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Also thanks for all the suggestions in the comments!!! Clearly there are SO many more gimmicks I didn't mention, and I am writing them all down for a possible sequel
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@@kaetrianosOH GOD WE SUMMONED HIM
They should make a gimmick where they make a series of hotwheels called cold wheels
then every car that is a part of the "coldwheels" series is just a normal boring car with absolutely nothing added to make it interesting
evil hot wheels be like
@@mattstuff9938 i think that would just be modern day matchbox?
what about warmwheels
Sega hire this man
Random guy: ay bro what instrument do you play
Me: hotwheel car
me personally I play the woman
I play the sparrowbloodhound
Honestly, as someone who grew up with a Hot Wheels obsession in the 2000's, these videos have been a nice trip down memory lane, pun fully intended. I think you do a good job explaining why Hot Wheels are so fascinating both as Toys and as a brand. I remembered some of the gimmicks you talked about like the Lightracers, but stuff like the Split Racers I never heard about! So thanks for the video! 😃
Hot wheels is the definition of:
“Lets just slap a… thing on wheels. I don’t care if it defies the omniverse, put it on the shelves!”
And then they be like "alright now uh.. add 'inator' at the end."
@@CesarSalad69Bone Shakerinator?
@@extrememeowman3782Tankinator
@@CesarSalad69Transinator
HotWheels now is more of "yeah those gimmicks don't really work... But damn, everyone wants these Civics and Land Cruisers, let's cater to the collectors instead for dough" even though that should've been Matchbox's job
Getting paid to play with hot wheels, pollygon is living the life
every man's dream
@@slashr406 I hope to one day amass The Original 16, both 1:64 and 1:1.
@@SRGIProductions?
@@dancelikean1diot I'm talking about finding all the cars at junkyards and restoring them. The beatnik bandit is kind of a special case because the real one is actually at the National automotive museum in Reno, Nevada.
So I might just have to replicate it instead.
for every one of the original 16, there will be a 1:1 full scale version Just casually chilling in a garage.
@@SRGIProductions OHH sorry i understand now
WOAH! I LOVE Doohickeys, gimmicks, doodads AND Gizmos!
Not geegaws though? Those a bridge to far for you? I also find your apparent lack of appreciation for tchotchkes and whatsits disheartening. And don't even get me started on thingamajiggers...
Honestly, the Attack Pack stuff deserves a video unto itself, they're pretty insane.
Why does the Attack Pack stuff have mouths?
As a hot wheels, i can confirm that these are the hot wheel car gimmicks that have ever been released of all time
how is life as a hot wheels
@@littIegoober its pretty nice i get to stay in the same spot for 5 hours until someone throws me out of the window
NO WAY !!!
@@splunch.yay skydive :D
i’m a huge fan
I actually used the wrench gimmick when I was working on a project and just happened to find this old hotwheel, and it works fairly well.
😮
@@simplysupercoolguyalt1701 😮
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PONGON! if you want to get rid of the drawing on the car at 7:13, then use hand sanitizer, it works, i've fixed stuff with dat before.
Or something that contains alcohol, just don't try beer, it's a bad idea
@@seiu1990 i could use vodka >:) (i don't own any vodka)
YOU SMART IMA TRY THAT ON PAPER (joke)
12:00 other then being a literal stamp, You can actually put other cars ontop of the Embosser which then also means they like a Car Carrier.
fun fact the wrench on the tooligan is 13 mm which is one of the most used wrench sizes as 13 mm almost exactly equals 1/2 inch. The socket on the bottom is 10 mm which is popular enough that there is a meme in the mechanic community about 10 mm sockets constantly getting lost.
Nerd.
@@_Ayad_what a nice person
As a kid on a family trip to New York we went to the big Toys R Us with the ferris wheel in the middle (it shut down 😭)
My mom gave me a whole 100 dollars to spend for the day thinking i would spend it all on different things. I went STRAIGHT to the hotwheel section and blew it all on the sickest most awesome cars.
Was at least ONE of them a Treasure Hunt or Super Treasure Hunt?
@@SRGIProductions I'm not really sure where they are. I want to find them again but idk if they burned up in the fire or not.
@@carto4028 the what
@@AceJackWagon885 he worked at Fazbear Frights
I would like a video on the non-car hotwheels please.
POV my teacher: what is your favorite instrument? Me: hot wheel
I was surprised you never mentioned the Bakugan Hotwheels, I always thought they were one of the more unique gimmicks in the series
Ballistics, I think they were called.
Oh my god these sound sick, I'll probably mention it in a part 2 if I make one
The WHAT?
@@PolygonDonut hello :D
@@Percival917Don't worry, those set of vehicles weren't associated with Bakugan in any way at all besides the folding into a ball feature because other than they they aren't connected at all.
They did have playsets for them to where you can shoot them out of a minigun type launcher thing which was cool as hell
I remember some of my childhood Hot Wheels collection having openable hoods to admire the engine. This was a feature that dates all the way back to 1968, when Hot Wheels first started. The chrome engines were either exposed or had a hood that you could open to admire it, just like a real car. Only problem is that the metal pegs holding the hood to the rest of the body were rather brittle and could easily break off, eventually losing the hood entirely. Nevertheless, this feature persisted in late '90s-early 2000s Hot Wheels castings before being discontinued all together in I believe 2006-2007.
I must've had one of the last of them it was a 69 Dodge Charger brown with some pretty good looking stripes on it, anyways like almost all of my Hot Wheels they got rusted
Opening goods were cut out for cost cutting. The extra part required extra tooling and metal, which cost extra money. A few cars still retain their pre-cost-cutting interiors, so when drilled apart they still have engines even if you cannot access them normally.
Yeah there are MANY cars that have openable engines, even I have those. I probably should've mentioned them
@@Zed32_Customs Now, that is fascinating. It makes sense for the feature to be removed in cast revisions. I still somewhat miss it, though.
@@nickrustyson8124 Rusted and oxidized. The signs of age and much love. If you have the expertise, it's easy to restore.
Pongon is like that one neighbor that is too energetic and childish, but is a cool guy once calm.
Pongon funni !!!!!!!!
Our very first CZcams videos were filled with a Hotwheels video racer. The part about it that frustrated me the most as a kid was the lack of storage, It could only record for a couple minutes. Everything else about it was awesome, even though the video quality wasn't that good it still provided a very unique perspective. It was like my childhood dream came to life and appeared in my local Target!
More Hot Wheels videos yay! Unironically, HW Fantasy/Originals need more fans because HW of late has been influenced by people obsessed with boring real life stuff
What
@@G.M.C2005 Licensed cars are boring for Hot Wheels.
@@RaiuAdami eh to each their own. i personally just collect irl cars except in certain situations where the fantasy is rly cool like the mad manga
@@RaiuAdami It's understandable. However, I was different. The thing that drew me into Hot Wheels was the licensed cars, especially classic cars. I guess classic car culture is an acquired taste.
Oh, and NO ONE can get me to hate classic Mustangs.
@@DxrkYo I gravitate towards classic cars. Your Mustangs, Camaros, Corvettes, Chargers and Challengers, etc.
I still have yet to find a '68 Mercury Cougar.
I love your hot wheels videos. Such a breath of fresh air in a niche dominated by hard-core collectors (yes, me included).
1:17 I have a Jet Threat 1.0 from 1970. It has a little hatch that can be opened to expose an orange turbine thingy! Its also all metal, so its ridiculously heavy.
5:00 im sure you noticed, but the Whip Creamer 2 can also be used as a makeshift kazoo/whistle. It also has a predecessor called Whip Creamer which was released in the early 70s.
6:55 yeah, the emoticar sucks. Generally just not the best design imo.
7:30 The head that sticks out the top of Skull Shaker is actually a depiction of Larry Wood, the designer of the original Bone Shaker.
10:30 carbonator is the goat of hot wheels gimmicks. They release a special one every new years so that you open definitely-not-beer with it.
20:20 in all my years of collecting, i have literally never heard of the Speed Readerz. Props for digging up this relic of hot wheels history.
20:45 i have found way to many of these at thrift stores. Not one had functioning lights.
There are a few other castings with fun gimmicks that i can think of:
Side Kick: weird sliding cockpit thing that is activated by pulling on the exhaust.
The Heavyweights Series: a bunch of work trucks that were released in the early 70s, each with a unique moving feature. There is a commercial for them somewhere on youtube that emits dangerous levels of charm.
ConVertAbles: odd series of cars that do weird things when put in hot water i guess. Idk, all of mine are broken.
Ford Taurus Stocker: A red Nascar that was exclusive to the Ford Auto Assembly playset. It can be taken apart into 3 pieces, the base, body, and engine. Its extremely rare and obscure.
Sizzlers: Motorized hot wheels! Some came with a huge bumper that is hilariously called the "Mouse Mustache".
Circuit Crashers: Monster Trucks that explode when crashed!
Crack-Ups: cars from the early 80s that have flipable panels that show damage when you crash into them.
Tech Trax: very short lived series of cars that could bend in the middle and gave them a sort of suspension, or that was the idea anyways. They never really worked.
Hot Wheels ID: Cars with micro chips in them so that you can download them into a racing game. Pretty short lived series as nobody cared about the game.
Steering Rigs: Semi trucks that would turn the cab from a steering wheel mounted in the trailer. They're tricky to get the hang of, but satisfying when you do.
Revealers: The cars themselves are dayglow and reek of the 80s, but they came wrapped in a paper that would supposedly dissolve when dipped in water. Also, the packaging would give you a Dairy Queen coupon for a free ice cream(expired in 1984). Get one and see if a DQ will let you redeem it.
I cannot wait for the Color Shifters video!
Omggg thank you for all the suggestions, these will definetly go in a part 2
Oh no! There were even more examples that I had listed but it looks like youtube never posted the edit! I'll see if I can remember most of them.
Top Speed / Solar Flares: Translucent plastic cars that can twist in the middle. Hot wheels said it made them better on the track, but they are actually way too lightweight, causing them to crash too easily.
X-V Racers (1980s): Gyro powered stunt cars. Not much is really known about the operation of these cars even though they are fairly common.
Motorized XV Racers (1990s): same concept as the Sizzlers cars, but lighter and faster.
Scorchers: spring powered cars? Not exactly sure how these work, all of mine are broken.
Power Command: Pull-back-n-go cars that can be locked in place, then launched by tapping on their rear spoiler.
Shift Kickers: same concept as Power Command, but they are launched by "shifting" a lever on the top of the car.
Mini Race Timers: micro-scale hot wheels that could be worn as a watch and displayed the time in their windshield.
Flip-Outs: Cars with spring-loaded flippers on the bottom. When crashed they'll flip violently into the air.
Does anybody notice that his voice sounds like a command but he has long hair and painted nails
20:44 core memory unlocked
2:42 “I want the toaster car I want the toaster car!” *Y I P P E E*
15:21 dude those cars are actually sick! They can even deform on slides and you can wobble them in every possible way
21:39 I do not believe that!!!!! Man, I already had one of these when I was 15 years old......I think, I really liked the playset, especially the car, but unfortunately I didn't pay much attention to it because I had Sonic and super Sonic dolls!!!! And I played more with these toys than with this playset........what do I do, I'm a big Sonic fan child! 😅
The Embosser can have a car on the top of it and I didn’t know the embosser actually had a stamp in it
polygon donut never fails to make us joyous and full of whimsically!!
ngl I'd let him do it to me
Ngl I like the content I just think his edits are annoying
@@graetness Perish.
@@user-kz3mp5rr7e calm down its just an opinion
what a doodad you are
God these videos are just 20 minutes of straight stimming for my brain, thank you
How to fix the half number. Stick your finger in and see which side faces up after
I didn't grow up playing with hot wheels and frankly ive never been interested in them that much. But i really love all of your videos that review weird gimmicky products so i watched this one anyway! I absolutely love the sheer creativity and fun that hotwheels embodied in these cool cars! Its such a shame so many of these neat gimmicks didnt take off. Id love to see more of these funky cars if you make a part 2 in the future! The wiggly snake cars are so underrated why did nobody like them!!
this is exactly what i needed in my life!!!!
thanks polygon for this!!
this has opened my eyes!!!
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@@CKIES-vr8cyreal
16:52 Hotwheels Centipede
Im gonna say it now and no one will prove me wrong
"HOT WHEELS PEAKED AT ACCELERACERS"
IT DID
polygon donut’s evil twin, pylon pastry, will not let me in his basement
update: he now will not let me out of the attic. send help.
XD?
hot wheels when cold wheels walks in:🙀😯😧🙀😲
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Hot Wheels fans when Cold Tracks fans walk in: 😨
The flying toaster would make good friends with the car toaster
So many weird sound effects built in to this dude
As autistic person myself, I find your videos very interesting, especially with the way you edit them, love you !!
This is a certified skrombly video
The bendy hot weels bracelet and necklace drip goes HARD as hell ngl
every single detail about this channel feels like pure unadulterated insanity i love it 10/10
Polygon doughnuts, videos of kinder like Christmas. It doesn’t come often, but when it does it’s truly special
8:28 Okay this one got me
THE CUTE NOISES I CANT!! 😭😭😭
the embosser can actually get used to carry other hotwheel cars.
The only thing stopping this beast of a goober is the time it takes to ship things 😔😔
I would believe it to be his painted nails
@@arfdoge9735YOURE WRONG!! SULPHURIC ACID
Now I want a video about non-car Hot Wheels.
I have one of those “train cars” and their pretty amazing sense I like trains, and the little car you can shove inside that comes with it.
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I wonder what polygon was like before the lobotomy
13:48 *nightcall starts playing*
18:53 I need the Hot Dogger AAAAAAAAAAAAA where buy
4:33 And they fixed the mechanism so it doesn’t put stress on the plastic, neat.
The nostalgia trip is really great but trying hard to be very funny just kills it.
23 minutes of silly goober??? Splendid, gnyarp gnyarp certified 🔥🔥🔥🔥
12:09 I USED DIDNT KNOW THAT PUT THE LOGO ON THERE 💀 I used it to put other cars on top of it
i love this content. it's so wholesome!!! it's so refreshing to watch a video that just someone pouring out all their love for a thingy for half and hour. keep it up!
The jet threat has gotta be one of my favorite hotwheels cars.
22:20 "in the future, everything is chrome."
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0:32 AYO I HAVE DAT ONE BUT IN GREEN!!
There were also speed winders (which were produced in 2017 and closed in 2018😶). They had a built-in small rotating mechanism with a rubber band, thanks to which the car could go very fast, depending on how many revolutions were made in the mechanism.
There's an openable body gimmick hot wheels which I've owned back in the day, it's called Ground FX.
Yeah, there is another kinda recent one called Cloak and Dagger. There are other older ones like the Hyperliner, Volkswagen New Beetle Cup and Morris Mini.
2:23 The absolute chaos behind those eyes
2:24 somehow hearing the dog sniffing makes me feel like a dog is actually sniffing near my face and I love it
i want a video about NOTHING but Volkswagen beetle toys
14:07 TADC ACKNOWLEDGED!! YIPPEE
WEEE
20:16 the demons woke up
I think the humans wear helmets so the human faces do not look uncanny
Translated for gnarp gnarp: I think the zumans wear zelmets so tze zuman faces do not look uncanny
There's actually a ton of different gimmicks back in the day that Hot Wheels had done. One's that I seek out at flea markets are Crack Ups from 1985-1987. They were hot wheels with panels, hoods, or tailgates that would flip around when hit to reveal damaged counterparts. So, you can reenact derbies with them. You also can't forget the Sizzler line in 1970-1978 I believe and later released Sizzlers II. These cars had motors and could be charged using a gas pump shaped charger and would fly down the tracks. They also had the RRRumblers line, which were Motorcycles that had a transparent or thin car frame underneath so they can still be used on the track but can be separated to be displayed as the motorcycle itself.
I don't know what the line was called, but they were literally dolls with roller skates. The skates were basically a small frame with four wheels and was made by Mattel, but considering they're super rare, I don't know much on them.
A new line that I had collected as a kid was the Rapid Transit line. A two pack, including a hot wheel sized train and its respective train car that could be connected like the Loopster you mentioned in the video.
Also, a majority of the vintage Redlines had various features themselves, like the Sidekick had the seat slide out the side, most of the Heavy Weights had cool features, and many others. Although most of these are hard to get to very expensive to buy.
we love hotwheels with silly thingmabobs and doohickeys ❤
I love the animal themed cars for some reason i cant stop watching them my mind is slowly decoposing 😹😹
The embosser looks like a freaking tow truck 💀
19:08 hmmm
fun fact: the shark bite car as seen in 7:50 had an appearance in the roblox game Vehicle Simulator, but it was for the 2018 hotwheels collab so im lucky to get one :D
Seeing the Rumblers made me nostalgic and reminded me also of Crashers, Modifighters, Rev-Ups and Maniacs (that electronic toy with the dude you can make him vomit). Also the Super Slammers, Micromagnetics and Custom Motors (and other gimmicks with the Monster Jam subline). There is probably enough ground to cover for a part 2.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE MANIACS DUDE
Ughhh I knew there would be tons that I forgot... I'll see if i can do a part 2 sometime
I had a red roller toaster myself, i happy to saw it here :D
I have never been more proud of myself for saying "guacamole gamer fart 9000" at the same time as a youtuber
You know it’s gonna be a good day when polygon donut posts
Id love to see a video on the non car hot wheels vehicles you mentioned tbh
"Uhmmmm, Achualllyyyayohsa, almost every hotwheel has wheels, which means they have moving parts 🤓🤓🤓"
SOMEONE'S forgetting about that entire line of Star Wars Hot Wheels that came with finger ring stands instead of wheels.
I have a minor hot wheels collection…and your hot wheels vids makes me want to get into collecting vintage hot wheels
16:04 OH MY GA-
everything, can be a hotwheels.
Man forgot the one gimmick that didn’t get cancelled instantaneously
Pongon is probably in debt
I actually own the braille twin mill and I love it and how good the execution is :)
11:21 one must imagine polygon donut happy
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19:22 omg you just unearthed a deep forgotten childhood memory! I remember seeing the ad for this on t.v and thinking it was the coolest thing!!!
I think the Hot Wheels Brick Rides are quite an awesome concept! I have two and sometimes have minifigures ride them.
I recently got three Loopster cars from the 2024 series and the couplers are actually backwards if you want the Loco Motorin or Thomas trains to pull them.
I remember kinda wanting the Video Racer back in the day to make it ride model and toy trains. It was released before GoPros caught on.
I can't believe you forgot Turbo Driver! It's a USB game controller that uses Car-tridges that are the cars that appear within the online game (which was shut down in 2010). My Mom bought one to give to Toys For Tots, but it just sat in our basement closet for years.
13:15 brick and mortar.. rick and morty
pongon videos are the definition of weird but clever
( i like it)
pongon vids are actually just my autism personified
Generally, you can remove sharpie from smooth surfaces using hand sanitizer
HELL YEAH, I always wanted to see you make a video about hot wheel stuff, hot wheels was in my childhood, I absolutely loved getting to play with them when I was a kid 😊
Keep up the amazing work btw 💜
thank you so much for posting. i just moved and my cats are sad and confused. and theres so much that happened in this week for me. so much that i havent gotten a good rest for 2 days now. nearly had a panic attack this morning. thank you so much polygon. i needed this
I literally just moved in the middle of making this video too!!! And my cat was also very confused. He is used to the new house already though 😁
Babe wake up, Polygon Donut posted a Hot Wheels video
alternative ending:she says who’s “polygon donut?”
@@Mrduckythethird Alternative ending 2: You don't have a girlfriend and it's all in your head
i have had a coupe clip on my keys for about a year now and its legit the only reason my key fob still works. i mash em up against each other while pushing the button and it works
literally EVERYTIME.