Mattel’s Brick Shop Has a Realistic Super Car Kit For Your Super Car Fan
No longer are Mattel’s Hot Wheels just for the kiddos; Brick Shop brings life-like supercars to an affordable scale
You might think of Mattel’s Hot Wheels as fun little die-cast collectibles for the fan/kid set, and you wouldn’t be wrong. Add tracks, ramps and a friend and a Hot Wheels set can be hours of racing fun.
But when it comes to the cars themselves, die cast cars can be full of style but lacking in function; mostly, the wheels are the only working part.
That’s where Hot Wheels sister brand, Brick Shop, adds a new dimension of enthusiast fun: building a dream car piece by piece, creating a scale model designed to replicate the original down to the most minute detail.
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Brick Shop Lets You Be Designer, Builder and Fan of a Life-like Super Car
Brick Shop is the Lego-like division of Mattel, though focused purely on cars. Started just two years ago, Brick Shop has a different take on replicating cars, from supercars like the Maserati MC20 or a classic Acura NSX to car fan favorites like the ’62 Chevy Pickup truck or a ’07 Honda S2000.
Brick Shop collaborates with manufacturers to ensure authentic and accurate designs, colors and even interior details. Unlike Hot Wheels, which leans on the creativity of modified and imaginative cars, Brick Shop brings the history and legacy of the most famous cars in the world to its kits.
To create that authentic look and feel, kits use a blend of bricks and molded plastic parts, metal components and even real rubber tires to create a scale model that, once completed, will look and feel like a mini version of the real thing (minus the engine). That you built yourself.
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An Affordable Peek Into a Priceless World
Brick Shop kits are priced from about $21 to about $130 and allow fans access to cars they might only dream of—or see on social media. Building a kit car allows you to see inside the process of how a car’s design comes together. Brick Shop provides directions and information, but fan videos tell so much more, from history to design reasoning to how a car functions.
With moving parts, such as steering wheels that turn, doors that open, interchangeable wheels and wheel covers, optional bumpers and diffusers and decals like the ones seen on competition cars, the kits lend a feeling of authenticity.
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Six New Models Expand the Brick Shop Lineup
This year Mattel added two Lamborghini models to the lineup, starting with the one of the most classic sports cars ever built, the Lamborghini Miura. The Miura, a limited-production sports car that set Lamborghini on it’s performance and racing journey, is notable for being one of the most valuable cars ever; last year’s auction of a Miura for $4.9 million was one of the highest prices ever paid for a vintage car.
But a Miura can be yours for just $130. It’s one of Brick Shop’s top of the line kits, offered in a 1:12 scale kit with 1,524 pieces. Brick Shop also offers a smaller scale Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato.
Also new this year is the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 offered in a 1:16 scale model with 793 pieces; the ’84 Audi Sport quattro with 864 pieces and ’94 Toyota Supra MKIV with 824 pieces, all priced at $53.99.
The most affordable line is the 1:32 scale collection, which includes the Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato with 268 pieces, the ‘83 Chevy Silverado with 223 pieces and the ’20 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R with 261 pieces; this collection is priced at $21.59.
Best of all, each kit comes with a die cast model, too, so you really get two cars in one kit. Anyone who thought collectable cars were only for little kids or billionaires can now have an incredible collection—that they built themselves.
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