Did You Hear? Hot Wheels® Just Went Digital

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For the first time in decades

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00:00 Guys, this is so cool.

00:01 (upbeat music)

00:04 - Hi, I'm Billy Raybach with Automobile Magazine.

00:12 Today, Hot Wheels hooked us up with Hot Wheels ID,

00:15 the biggest update to the Hot Wheels system in decades.

00:18 We're gonna dive in and take a look right now.

00:21 On top, we have this two-fold orange box

00:27 and it's designed to look like the NFC chip

00:30 that's on the bottom of the car.

00:31 There's some glossy images of Hot Wheels track.

00:34 Right in the box, we have six cars.

00:35 We have an Aston Martin Shark Hammer, Mercedes AMG GT,

00:39 a Corvette C7R, and Howlin' Heat.

00:41 So it's a mixture of OEM cars and Hot Wheels own creations.

00:45 So right here, we have a chip and this is the ID chip

00:48 that identifies the car as being completely unique

00:50 in the world, just like a VIN on a real car.

00:52 We have some classic Hot Wheels track,

00:54 new Hot Wheels adapters,

00:56 and then what's arguably most important for this set,

00:59 the dock.

01:00 Now this dock is the portal from the real world

01:02 into the digital world.

01:04 When the Hot Wheels car drives across the dock,

01:06 the dock scans the chip

01:07 and then your car is uploaded into the digital world.

01:09 The track can actually track your car in real time

01:12 and every piece of track can communicate with each other

01:14 and then work together to upload all of the data

01:16 that you log in real life into your app.

01:19 So the new dock has connectors for the new system,

01:21 but it's also backwards compatible

01:23 with all of your old Hot Wheels track.

01:25 This is the Hot Wheels ID portal.

01:27 It has infrared sensors to log the speed

01:29 and an NFC sensor to log the car itself.

01:32 We went ahead and set up the track.

01:34 So now all I gotta do is fire up the app

01:36 and get my first car scanned into the app.

01:38 Here's our car and here's the chip right here.

01:40 We're gonna hold the chip up to the phone,

01:42 tap it right there.

01:43 Boom, done.

01:45 So now that the car is in the game,

01:46 all I have to do is touch the little Bluetooth reader here

01:48 and tap my portal.

01:49 So my phone knows exactly what my track setup is.

01:52 Put my phone down and now I'm ready to race.

01:54 Now that we're playing, I can pump the supercharger.

01:57 No D batteries like there used to be.

01:59 You wanna keep it in the blue.

02:01 And if you go red, you're going way too fast.

02:03 And I can watch them on here and then it's time to send it.

02:06 My phone kept track of the speed of my car.

02:12 So I had 97 miles an hour.

02:14 All of the RPM numbers, all of the miles per hour

02:16 are all in 164 scale, just like a Hot Wheels car.

02:19 Every mile that my car logs gets logged in the app as well.

02:22 So just like your real car collects miles on the odometer,

02:24 the Hot Wheels car also collects miles itself.

02:27 So you can show off to all your friends

02:28 how many miles your car has,

02:29 just like you would do with a real car.

02:31 So this is Hot Wheels ID.

02:32 It's a way of integrating play in the real world

02:34 with play on a mobile phone.

02:36 For Automobile Magazine, I'm Billy Raybach.

02:38 (car engine revving)

02:44 (upbeat music)

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