In recent times, the Hot Wheels brand has collaborated with a number of well-known video game franchises. The Super Mario series has received its own custom Hot Wheels line and games like Rocket League have even featured iconic Hot Wheels by including the Bone Shaker and Twin Mill as in-game download content.
The trend doesn’t look as if it will be stopping any time soon, with the team behind Minecraft announcing it has partnered with Mattel to release a new range of Minecraft themed Hot Wheels cars.
These new cars in the Minecraft line include an Enderman limo, Creeper rat rod, demolition derby Zombie car, Iron Golem garbage truck and a holler truck that can carry a race car on its back to represent a Skeleton riding a Spider.
Hot Wheels designer Bryan Benedict – who spent 10 years in the automotive industry designing cars before arriving at Mattel – shared his thoughts about the design choices made when creating the latest batch of Minecraft cars:
Enderman kind of wanders around aimlessly right? So it’s sort of like a lowrider vehicle that you would expect to be wandering around, just kind of cruising around... and then of course it’s got the block exposed in the trunk, with the trunk half open so you can see the block hidden in there, [because] it’s always carrying a block around.
Creeper was fun because it's this, as the name would suggest, kind of creepy character. I thought a rat-rod really felt like it got to that sort of gritty creepiness, and then a vehicle like that enabled me to have an exposed engine, which I then was able to translate as the TNT block. So it’s the TNT block itself which serves as the engine for the car.
For more insight about the design choices made, you can read about it directly on the Minecraft page.
This latest line of Minecraft Hot Wheels cars will launch this October, with more details promised to be released soon. Let us know if any of these sweet rides tempt you in the comments below.
[source minecraft.net]
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Are they coming to Wii U as well? Probably. They're very ugly. I used to to buy toys cars as a kid, I would not buy any of these.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE These are actual Hot Wheels toys, not gaming DLC.
@SLIGEACH_EIRE
Are you a Toy HATER ??
Your childhood seem miserable ....
@Nico07 I know, I thought they were going to be added to the game as well. Just look at that old school station wagon. Who would want to buy that? Even its colour is puke, literally puke coloured.
This does not look good.
0/10, the wheels aren't square.
To be fair, Mattel didn't do a good job of turning his ideas into a tangible product. His sketches are really nice and way more detailed than those plastic moldings.
Most of them look pretty meh, but I kinda dig the enderman one.
I've never understood why Hot Wheels are popular, they always look cheap and poor quality. I was always preferred Match Box toy cars, they looked far better.
Possibly the worst use of the franchise license I've seen yet, aside from the joke book, naturally.
@dizzy_boy I disagree. The hot wheels cars always last along time in our house and I have three boys.
My son Aiden will definitely want these cars. I think they look just fine.
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