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How do I...

soupcan Sep 21 2006 10:56 PM

...post a youtube vid in my post?

Johnny Dickshot Sep 21 2006 10:57 PM

On the Youtube page you wanna link there's a window to the right called "embed" -- Just copy the code and paste it in the message.

soupcan Sep 21 2006 10:59 PM

Dude. They should call you 'Johnny Lightning'. So fast are you with the response. Thanks.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 21 2006 11:45 PM

I didn't realize. Just saw a yellow dot and followed it. Remember "Johnny Lightning"? A would-be competitor to Hot Wheels but their manufacturer lacked Mattel's marketing firepower.

Willets Point Sep 22 2006 08:11 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: I didn't realize. Just saw a yellow dot and followed it. Remember "Johnny Lightning"? A would-be competitor to Hot Wheels but their manufacturer lacked Mattel's marketing firepower. Hot Wheels themselves were an inferior knock-off of Matchbox.

KC Sep 22 2006 08:58 AM

I'll race my best Hot Wheels against your best Matchbox for a pack of baseball cards any day of the week. Inferior, bah ... elitist showcar swine.

soupcan Sep 22 2006 03:47 PM

Totally. Matchbox may have made the superior toy car but Hot Wheels were built for speed.

Vic Sage Sep 22 2006 05:31 PM

i can't get my son's matchbox cars to race properly on his Hot Wheels "Gorilla Attack" track. The cars are too solid and well-made to make it through the loop-de-loop. You can only use the lighter, crappier Hot Wheels cars.... which is a shame, cuz he inherited my collection of Marvel/Matchbox cars, and only a few of them will work. crappy hot wheels...

Willets Point Sep 22 2006 09:30 PM

soupcan wrote: Matchbox may have made the superior toy car but Hot Wheels were built for speed. Until like the second time you use them and the wheels are bent out of shape and they just roll to the left and stop dead. Hot Wheels are crap.

KC Sep 23 2006 09:07 AM

You didn't maintain your cars properly if they didn't last. Fine machinery built for speed needs to be properly cared for. I never had a Hot Wheel with wheel alignment problems. You were one of those kids who took one out of the box and bent the axle first thing ... weren't you?

cooby Sep 23 2006 09:56 AM

Willets you obviously have your brands confused in your head. Matchbox were for displaying, Hot Wheels are for racin'! You guys are bringing back memories. My son spent his first six years "parking" little cars on every couch on our house and there were times there was no place to sit down. I'll bet he's got a thousand of them

soupcan Sep 25 2006 09:43 AM

KC wrote: You didn't maintain your cars properly if they didn't last. Fine machinery built for speed needs to be properly cared for. I never had a Hot Wheel with wheel alignment problems. You were one of those kids who took one out of the box and bent the axle first thing ... weren't you? Dead on accurate. Those kids that pushed down too hard on their Hot wheels caused the axle bend. Responsible use of the car itself would never result in the alignment problem. Hey man you have a delicate machine you have to care for it in the proper way.

Willets Point Sep 25 2006 09:55 AM

Or you could get Matchbox, push 'em across the room at top speed and if they happened to crash into the wall, so be it. Barely scratch the paint. Tough and sturdy because they were built to played with by KIDS! Unlike Hot Wheels which were often misaligned out of the carton, had cheap decals that peeled off and got dented on the slightest contact with drywall. I guess you could value them the way you do fine china or Waterford crystal, but you couldn't actually,you know, PLAY with them.