| If you're buying toy model cars for the car loving | | | | Hot Wheels diecast, for example. If you remember |
| tyke in your family, let us make a humble | | | | playing with Hot Wheels growing up, you remember |
| recommendation: Go with diecast car models. | | | | how cool those cars were. Some of those 1:64 scale |
| Simply put, they just plain last longer. They're more | | | | diecast toys served as surprisingly accurate replicas |
| durable, and the dog won't want to chew on it! | | | | of real cars, while others were really neat little |
| How many times have you bought plastic toy model | | | | concept cars that were simply too crazy to ever be |
| cars for your kid, and the darn things are broken less | | | | put into production, or indeed, even presented as a |
| than a week after Christmas? Even one time is too | | | | concept car to a major car design firm. |
| often. The plastic they use to make toy cars tends | | | | But if you're talking about making toy cars, the sky is |
| to be kind of cheap and brittle, easily broken. | | | | the limit, so we've seen all sorts of cool Hot Wheels |
| The thing is, plastic is cheaper and easier when it | | | | shaped like dragons, scorpions and snakes, cars with |
| comes to mass production, so more and more, it's | | | | machine guns and missile launchers mounted on them, |
| becoming the choice material to create toy model | | | | and cars with way more rear wheels than any |
| cars with. Unfortunately, they don't last as long, | | | | compact sports car could ever possibly need for any |
| they're not quite as fun to play with, they don't look | | | | reason. And they're all diecast, because Hot Wheels |
| as good... but, the bottom dollar is preserved. Plastic | | | | has it together and they know that diecast toy cars |
| toy cars are more profitable to produce. | | | | last longer, and more importantly, that they're more |
| If you were a gearhead as a kid, you probably still | | | | fun to play with. They roll smoother, they look cooler |
| have some of your die cast model cars from your | | | | and they just plain make for better toys, overall. |
| childhood. Maybe you've passed them on to your | | | | In other words, a diecast toy car is the sort of thing |
| own kids, or even your grandkids. How many plastic | | | | you can pass on to the next generation, where a |
| toy cars get passed on from generation to | | | | plastic toy car is the sort of thing you can usually |
| generation? Not many. | | | | pass on to the trash can about a week after you've |
| Besides which, the fact remains that diecast toy cars | | | | opened it. |
| are usually much cooler. | | | | |