from Playborhood Palo Alto / Menlo Park

Hot Wheels on the Sidewalk!

Posted: 03/19/08 10:17 AM

My son Marco and I have been having the time of our lives ever since our first eBay shipment of Hot Wheels track arrived a few days ago. 

I decided to get him the same kind of track that I got back around 1970 rather than the track Mattel sells today.  Perhaps this is just for sentimental reasons, but I have another rationale:  the old sets are just track and other parts that can be configured in myriad ways.  The new sets have departed from the concept of modular parts, and are more like kits.  This is similar to the change in Lego over the past few decades.

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by Mike Lanza

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