{"id":16477,"date":"2016-10-09T04:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16477"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T13:37:45","slug":"11-collectible-facts-about-hot-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=16477","title":{"rendered":"11 Collectible Facts About Hot Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2016\/z100916hotwheels_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"303\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Marck Mancini<\/strong>\u00a0and <b>Mental_Floss<\/b>\u00a0present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/86634\/11-collectible-facts-about-hot-wheels\"><strong>11 Collectible Facts About Hot Wheels<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">5. 16 MILLION HOT WHEELS CARS WERE SOLD IN 1968 ALONE.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Demand for these toys hasn&#8217;t waned: Mattel estimates that over 4 billion cars have been produced and claims that eight of them are bought every single second.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6. IF YOU\u2019VE GOT ONE WITH RED CIRCLES ON THE WHEELS, IT MIGHT BE WORTH SOME MONEY.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>From 1968 to 1977, thin red lines were typically painted around the sidewalls of Hot Wheels tires. But in an effort to cut costs, Mattel went with all-black wheels partway through 1977. Collectors prize the old \u201credline\u201d Hot Wheels\u2014in fact, certain mint-condition models sell for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">11. IN 2011, THE HOT WHEELS BRAND WAS INDUCTED INTO THE NATIONAL TOY HALL OF FAME.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>Located in Rochester, New York, the National Toy Hall of Fame honors the world\u2019s most influential playthings, from the cardboard box to Raggedy Ann. Mattel\u2019s Hot Wheels line was formally inducted in 2011, along with the dollhouse and the blanket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marck Mancini\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 11 Collectible Facts About Hot Wheels.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 5. 16 MILLION HOT WHEELS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16477\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}