Hot Wheels

"I can go to a toy store and buy a $30 Hot Wheels set for Killian that has a lot more toys in it, has more loop-de-loops, has more jumps, has more magic in it than the Hot Wheels pinball machine. It is one of the most lazy interpretations of a theme I've ever seen in the history of pinball."

Hot Wheels pinball is lazy and worse than a $30 toy store set

"None of the things that kids love to do with Hot Wheels was found in the Hot Wheels pinball machine, another terrible game to collect"

Hot Wheels pinball missed the point of the property

"Hot Wheels was a great game. Let's put it this way. When I played it, the marketing rollout on that game, not so hot. And then of course it hit the AMOW show in Louisiana and then literally two, three weeks later we shut down the whole country because of COVID"

Hot Wheels was a great game with good flow but suffered from poor marketing rollout and COVID timing

"I do think this is a really good effort from American pinball. And I do think at the price point of this game, which is $6,000, I think you get a lot of pinball here."

Hot Wheels is a really good effort from American Pinball at $6000 price point, holds its own against Stern Pro games

"Jack Danger has told me that Hot Wheels is American pinball's best game to date"

Hot Wheels is American Pinball's best game according to Jack Danger

"Hot wheels is definitely a theme that I think is a good pinball machine as far as like the structure of what it already is like loops and speed and things but truthfully kind of lame"

Hot Wheels theme is lame and won't appeal to adult buyers

"This to me is the pro version of hot wheels and you're only going to get the pro version of the game... That to me is what American Pinball has just done with hot wheels... They yanked all that stuff out, made a barren game in hot wheels. This game is barren."

Hot Wheels is essentially a 'pro only' version with everything stripped out compared to American Pinball's previous games

"And a Hot Wheels game that doesn't have a loop de loop. It doesn't have a jump. It doesn't have a car wash. It doesn't have a corkscrew ramp. It has nothing that makes Hot Wheels Hot Wheels."

Hot Wheels pinball lacks theme integration and assets

"The problem with hot wheels is the same problem and I think it's the same pitfall people fall into. Is that the pinball buying demographic is not the same demographic of everything else that's out there that's successful"

Hot Wheels is a questionable theme that won't appeal to pinball buying demographic

"I'm telling you right now ap's hot wheels is going to most likely disappoint... if hot wheels were a popular theme that would sell you a thousand plus pinball machines if hot wheels were a theme that pinball buyers wanted it would have been made already by Stern pinball"

Hot Wheels theme will fail because it's not popular in the pinball community

"I don't think it's a good theme. No, and I'm sure it's something like, I'm sure Mattel was like, oh, you know, we've sold a billion of these cheapo cars."

Hot Wheels is not a good pinball theme for middle-aged demographic

"is hot wheels starting with two strikes and I'm gonna say this I think it is as much as people are like hot wheels I just I it's not a it's not a theme pinball buyers need to have"

Hot Wheels theme starts with two strikes

"this is like an eight year old boy who wishes he had a car or a license and he buys this $2 piece of tin at the store. And if you're a 45 year old Gen X pinball guy, guess what, you have a car. There's no wish, you know, there's no, no wish has been fulfilled by that theme."

Hot Wheels is not a good pinball theme because 45-year-old Gen X pinball buyers already have real cars

"I have not heard anything from anyone at American Pinball asking me to maybe take it down. They haven't chimed in with anything... if this was wrong, if this was inaccurate, would they chime in and clarify that Hot Wheels is in fact not coming out from them?"

Hot Wheels is going to be the next American Pinball game based on lack of denial from the company

"Hot Wheels is not a take my money now. No questions asked theme... I don't think for most people it's a take my money now theme"

Hot Wheels is not a 'take my money now' theme and will be wait-and-see

"This game is not the second coming of pinball. There's nothing fucking in it"

Hot Wheels pinball is overhyped and not impressive

"This should have been game number two. Imagine Hot Wheels with Joe Balcer having the bomb he had with Oktoberfest."

Hot Wheels should have been made earlier when American Pinball had a bigger budget

"You know who finds that kind of story exciting? Three-year-olds. Three to six-year-olds really get excited about muscle cars and dinosaurs together at last."

Hot Wheels theme of cars battling dinosaurs is childish for grown pinball collectors

"This game looks like it needs to be priced at $59,95. I firmly believe that. There's too much competition at the $7,000 plus price point for this game."

Hot Wheels needs to be priced at $5995 to compete, not $7000+

"I said American Pinball, because of the first two games not doing well, was going to lower the bomb significantly. Significantly on Hot Wheels and what you were going to get is going to be a much more barren experience."

Hot Wheels is a significant step backwards with much less physical content than previous American Pinball games