Mattel Hot Wheels Art Cars MS-T Suzuka Mattel, 2022
Day #2,757: September 18, 2024
Art Cars MS-T Suzuka Art Cars 6/10 - #170 / 250 - Orange
Hot Wheels 2022 Art Cars 6/10 Basic Cars
Item No.: Asst. L2593 No. GRY17 Manufacturer:Mattel Includes:n/a Action Feature:n/a Retail:$1.00 Availability: ca. 2022 Other: Also available in Mustard Yellow
Mattel has been making Hot Wheels, Art Cars for a few years, with several repeating motifs (some with variants and treasure hunts.) The 2022 MS-T Suzuka took its cues from manga, with a mecha-slathered orange car that has blue wheels and some utterly stunning paint applications. The car has been in production in one form or another for over 20 years, complete with a big spoiler and a body kit. Even without the coloring, it would be pretty good - and as a mostly action figure collector, I'm mostly fixated on the paint.
The car is nice, but if you look at the sides and the hood you see some incredible printing of some mecha saying "Race with me" on the hood. The yellow, black, and white all really pop over the orange body coloring, and you get a good look at a robot head that probably doesn't exist in three dimensions or on some other toy line. I'm not sure. But what I do know is the printing is incredibly crisp for such small lines and characters, and while that's theoretically nothing special in this era of "photo faces printed on heads" it's still impressive to see. It's also pretty telling that we don't see a lot of painting this good on larger, more expensive toys.
On the sides, the blue wheels pop nicely. If all we had was the hood, it would still be pretty good - but there are two separate illustrations. On the driver's side, our blue and orange robot pal is kicking up the side of the door, and on the passenger side is another shot of his head and shoulders plus characters saying something that I don't quite understand. But it looks cool, and aside from the color looks like it could've been ripped out of some comic somewhere. If that wasn't enough, there's an "I" on the roof because the cars spell out something every year. In 2022, it was "UNITY IN ART."
TRACK?
An original design covered in original designs, it's an impressive car - it shows what you can do for a dollar, if you really want to. We've seen a lot of printing on these cars over the years but the bold mecha art on a glossy orange car really looks incredible. If you stumble on one of these in the giant grocery store bins or endcaps, give it a look, I'm sure you'll be sufficiently impressed.
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