If you grew up playing with toy cars, chances are you still have one or two laying around your house (or maybe even a whole collection), and if your car of choice was Hot Wheels, you might just be ...

Hot Wheels 5-Packs are great if you want to kickstart a new collection, but fantasy castings are typically the driving force ...

you might have played with and even collected Hot Wheels die-cast toy cars as a kid. You may, like the geeky author of this story, still collect them as an adult. In any case, car enthusiasts ...

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or a Star Wars or Toy Story character car. That variety is one of the highlights of the job, according to Jun Imai, who has been at Hot Wheels for 14 years and leads the transportation design team.

But here, all the picture frames, trophies and knickknacks connect back to one thing: Hot Wheels. The wall behind his desk is full of cars ... of Mattel, the toy’s manufacturer.