Talk:Hot Wheels Update/@comment-114.124.245.12-20171210011452/@comment-31625642-20171212034122

Mattel has been AGGRESSIVELY marketing Hot Wheels, with these cars, paying a premium to have them inserted into games. So far as I know, Twin Mill and Bone Shaker were added as paid DKC in Rocket League, last spring, and all three cars to be added to Asphalt 8 (including those two from RLeague and Rip Rod) are also FORZA HORIZON 3 DLC, which was added last May, along with the track "Blizzard Mountain," which includes orange Hot Wheels track loops and barrels, etc.

So, no, it's not that GL is "running out of ideas." It's that Mattel, which makes Hot Wheels, is blitzing as many car-based games as they can pay to add fictional (digital) versions of their fictional cars.

Among them all, so far, I'm most surprised to see Hot Wheels in Forza, which is why I emphasized it. It's not an "arcade" racing game -- it's among the most far from it -- and they have spent a long time making their game driving "like actual driving," including cars and specs. There are no "fake speeds," where the speed that appears on the screen in Asphalt is not the "actual" speed, with respect to other cars.

I'd have expected to have seen Hot Wheels in "The Crew" or "Carmageddon" or even "DiRT" (except none of the three cars Mattel seems to be pushing are rally cars) long before appearing in Forza.

I'm REALLY surprised that the Hot Wheels cars didn't appear in the (most recent) Transformers movie/movies, and any accompanying video games, etc., except that Mattel and Hasbro (the company that makes and majority owns Transformers) are sort of competitors, but not so much that Michael Bay, who will take as much money as possible to destroy any franchise, couldn't have talked Hasbro and Tamara Tomy (which makes the (much better) Japanese versions of Transformers figures and also partially owns the franchise, along with Marvel Comics (although not the movie rights)) into taking Mattel's money, without a care in the world about how it would reflect on the franchise.

It's ALL $$$, unless it's £££ or some other denomination...