And, since 1968, part of that enthusiasm has probably included Hot Wheels, the pocket-sized diecasts that fill up many a ...

Many people grow up with a bucket of Hot Wheels cars somewhere in the house. The funny thing is that plenty of those same people end up rediscovering them years later. Something about those tiny metal ...

Inflation, the curse of our pocketbooks and the Federal Reserve, has hit almost every good in the U.S. But the price of a beloved toy has managed to hover around $1 — for more than 50 years. Hot ...

Less than a year ago, Rogelio Mills was visiting his adult son, an avid Hot Wheels collector, when he realized that the toy cars had taken over the apartment. There were hundreds and hundreds of them.

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