Hot Wheels "Nostalgia" series...

[MaxVolume]

Well, they've done it again... taken completely irrelevant cars and slapped logos on them expecting anyone who loves what that logo represents to "collect them all".  Umm... a '55 panel van?  WTF does that have to do with arcade games of the '70s and '80s?  I'm sure a lot of us will get these as stocking stuffers or from clueless aunts, uncles and cousins.

www.atariage.com/forums/topic/205704-2600-hot-wheels

[SavannahLion]

That '55 is probably the least lame of the bunch. A '52 Chevy? The '49 Ford? Cool-One? The '52 Chevy is the same tool as the Carvel Ice Cream truck. Take a peek and see.

[MaxVolume]

That '55 is probably the least lame of the bunch. A '52 Chevy? The '49 Ford? Cool-One? The '52 Chevy is the same tool as the Carvel Ice Cream truck. Take a peek and see.

I'm just saying that none of them seem to have any relevance to '70s and '80s video games.  The 2600 one looks like it might be a '70s van of some sort, but not really what I think of when I think "'70s van".  I get that when you're doing cereal or something there's not really a vehicle that might fit each brand, but seriously... '40s and '50s vehicles to represent the '70s and '80s???  I get that you need enough flat space for a decent-sized logo, but the same people who remember those vehicles were the PARENTS of the kids who grew up with those games and might be tempted to buy the Hot Wheels cars now.  Since Hot Wheels had so many whacked-out futuristic original designs, why bog standard vehicles from 30 years prior to the games the logos advertise???