Hot Wheels milestones
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Hot Wheels milestones
Order by the year of each Hot Wheels milestone or casting. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
30
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3
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release years and dates
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How to play the Hot Wheels history timeline game
Moments from the life of Mattel's die-cast cars make up this deck: famous castings, new wheel styles, cartoons, video games, stunts and business deals. A short description sits under each title to tell you what the milestone was. The line opens with one card in place and its year in view. Read the next card, pick a gap, and see where it really belongs: if you were right the year appears beside it, and if not it still slides into its true slot while you lose one of your three lives.
The story begins with the very first cars on toy shelves and keeps going right up to the brand's recent licensing deals. Changes to the wheels themselves recur through the deck, and they're easy to confuse unless you remember how the cars in your own collection rolled. Screen tie-ins turn up throughout, in cartoons, films and racing games, so a TV or game card is not automatically recent. The individual castings are the hardest to pin down.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Hot Wheels hits toy stores Mattel's low-friction die-cast cars
- Deora casting Custom Dodge pickup carrying surfboards
- Twin Mill casting Twin-engine fantasy hot rod
- Hot Wheels cartoon on ABC Saturday morning animated series
- Snake and Mongoose rivalry Tie-in with drag racers Prudhomme and McEwen
- Flying Colors line Tampo-printed paint and flashy decals
- Redline wheels phased out Blackwall wheels take over
- Hot Ones wheels Gold-painted hubs and thinner axles
- Real Riders wheels Rubber tires on die-cast cars
- Hot Wheels computer game Made with Epyx for 8-bit computers
- Collector numbers All-blue blister cards
- Treasure Hunt series Limited cars hidden in the mainline
- Mattel buys Tyco Toys Matchbox comes under the same roof
- Hot Wheels Turbo Racing Nintendo 64 and PlayStation racer
- Hot Wheels: World Race Cartoon Network animated movie
- Hot Wheels: AcceleRacers Mainframe Entertainment film series
- Bone Shaker casting Skull-nosed rat rod by Larry Wood
- Super Treasure Hunts Spectraflame paint and Real Riders tires
- Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Cartoon Network series
- DeLorean time machine casting Back to the Future car joins the mainline
- Double Loop Dare Tanner Foust and Greg Tracy at the X Games
- Ferrari license lapses Mattel and Ferrari part ways
- Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels Orange-track expansion for Xbox and PC
- Hot Wheels Legends Tour Custom car builders compete to be cast
- Mars Perseverance Rover casting Die-cast NASA rover
- Hot Wheels Unleashed Milestone racing game
- Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge NBC car renovation contest
- Hot Wheels Let's Race Netflix animated series
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