Disney / Pixar Toy Story 3 Hot Wheels Die Cast Vehicle Turbo Chunk Review

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(More customer reviews)Turbo Chunk is the hardest to find of the 8 Hot Wheels Toy Story 3 character cars and therefore due to supply and demand the most expensive to obtain from online auctions and sellers. I'm guessing there's only one or two of these in a shipment box sent to stores with obviously the majority being for the more popular characters Wheelin' Woody, Rex Rider and Blastin Buzz. When you see the Turbo Chunk vehicle in the flesh (well metal) you can sort of understand why Mattel didn't have confidence to take the gamble of producing a lot of these things and hoping people would buy them. It's pretty much just a light orange semi truck without a trailer.
The only thing that links it at all to the toy character in the movie, besides the colour I guess, is the stalagmite type bumps on the roof of the cab. That's it nothing else. They could have at the very least put the stomach face thing from the character on the front grill of the truck. All that's there is a shiny reflective rectangle that's the same material they put in the windshield and side windows and what they made the engine out of. His arms with the distinctive hands could have extended backwards behind the cab maybe palms open where the rear wheel is. Really there's a lot of things that could have happened in the design faze. It's almost like they had decided and designed the other seven vehicles and then someone said, well you know we really should have eight vehicles and with no time left to design anything someone just grabbed a truck, said "Let's just paint it orange and put some triangles on the roof and pass it off as this character".
With nothing really identifying this vehicle as the character you've pretty much got to leave it in the packaging so people know what it is. The packaging isn't designed to be able to be opened without being destroyed, which is another negative for this item. Unless you absolutely have to collect every car in the series, I'd give this one a miss, especially if you can't get it for more than a few dollars.


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Toy Story > Hotwheels: Hamm on Wheels Die Cast Vehicle Review

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(More customer reviews)Hamm on Wheels is one of the better character cars representing the characters from Toy Story 3. I think this was originally designed to appear in the normal mass produced vehicles due to some of the design, and I would have bought it from there as it is a great representation of pigs on wheels and as good as most of the other creature cars Hot Wheels has brought out. As a representation of the specific money box character from the Toy Story movies though, I think it's good but could have better. I would have liked to have seen Hamm's oversized nose on the front of the car, it's a prominent feature of his character on screen and it really needed to be on the car and should be where the grill is. I think the engine and massive exhaust pipes were there when this was just in the regular mass produced range faze of design. The exhaust pipes didn't need to be there, which would also have kept the consistency with the other 7 vehicles in this series. If they wanted to include an engine maybe it would have been better to resemble the top of a coin or a note. The windshields would have also represented Hamm more if they were round like his eyes.
I would have also liked to see the belly cork that keeps the money in on the undercarriage or something since this was also a major part of his character.
The thing though that annoys me the most about this is that they scrapped the wheels with the gold hubcaps with the cent and dollar sign symbols and just grabbed some from the mass produced range. Now if this was sold in the mass produced range that would have been fine but these vehicles retailed for about six times the price so Mattel should have absorbed the few extra cents it costs them to mass produce and put them on these cars. Mattel and Hot Wheels did similar things with Wheelin' Woody, Rex Rider and some of the other cars too which I don't think is right since buyers did pay a premium price for these at the checkout and leaving them the same as their prototypes would have justified that.
But Hamm on Wheels is what it is and it's still a great car. The packaging it comes in is pretty good. There is a nice image of the character in the bottom right corner, I would have liked to have not seen the 3 in the Toy Story 3 logo so it could represent all three and any future movies but you can't have everything.

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