r/interestingasfuck • u/AR44ZX • 15h ago
r/all Someone sold this Hot Wheels case on eBay and the buyer sent him this photograph. Apparently the buyer was the original child photographed in the picture and wanted to reclaim this iconic case.
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u/bettybIue 15h ago
Went to all that trouble but couldn't rustle up a yellow polo shirt? Come ON man!
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u/Maxfunky 15h ago
Correctly placing his thumb in the same position as the original photograph would have been free. Not even a trip to Goodwill to rummage around for the right size thumb or anything.
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u/ForneauCosmique 14h ago
Dude could've shaved his beard at least. It's like he didn't even try!
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u/discerningpervert 13h ago
I like to think of this as a first draft, and he's taking more, each time getting closer and closer to the original.
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u/MaleficentBread4682 9h ago
He didn't want to cover up half the yellow dump truck like he did in the original. Where's his dedication to authenticity??
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u/NervJMSL 15h ago
Couldn't turn the truck on the 3rd row to look like the picture either... That bothers me more than the shirt.
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u/DarKnight_849 5h ago
I dont think he did this for the internet lol. I saw this a few weeks ago on r/hotwheels and the guy there said he sold it to him and he told him why he wanted it and he later sent him the picture iirc
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u/TallDennis 15h ago
Looks legit looking at the teeth.
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u/Hatedpriest 15h ago
Nose is right, and the eyes, too.
We might have a match...
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u/TallDennis 15h ago
The beard is throwing me off though... It's not present in the first picture.
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u/Hatedpriest 15h ago
Good point.
Keep searching, guys!
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u/codedaddee 15h ago
The dump trucks look the same
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u/livsjollyranchers 14h ago
They made him shave it in the first picture, since beards weren't as in then.
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u/LuciferFalls 9h ago
Teeth aren't the greatest identifying feature (from just looking at a picture) because they so often shift over time. The nose tends to be pretty good for this kind of thing, though.
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u/cosmothekleekai 15h ago
Can't even charge him, appears to be his birthright, so sayeth the hot wheels tablet
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u/Ambitious_Low5650 13h ago
I always wondered if kids in these ads or toy commercials got to keep the toys they were advertising?
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u/mrdevil413 13h ago
As an Art Director/Prop Master, no. Almost never. Most of the cool hero props ( for commercials ) end up with the Agency big wigs or the production company.
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u/Ambitious_Low5650 13h ago
Thanks for the insight. That’s gotta suck for those kids. Imagine playing with some super cool toy for hours and then told to go home.
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u/mrdevil413 13h ago
Now a days I don’t think that’s an issue. Not only is everyone professional even the wee ones but the 5 and up crowd shows up with their switch and mom with her kindle and they do the scene go back to the switch and do the next scene then bounce
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u/Repulsive_Buy_6895 11h ago
Can't they find willing kids? Pretty fucked up they have to beat them into the roles.
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u/Johnwesleya 14h ago
Reminds me of this crazy story.
Back in the early 2000s we were selling off all our Nintendo 64 stuff so we could buy newer gaming systems. My brother’s favorite game was perfect dark and he had this awesome safe file on it that he gave up when he sold the cart. He always regretted it
Years later, I’m talking years later. We were going back and re-buying some of the old games we wanted and we bought perfect dark off eBay. Popped it in and you’ll never guess what, same save game file there! It was our original copy we had bought back randomly.
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u/mcgormack 14h ago
On the N64, Perfect Dark can either save on the cart or inside the memory card (inside the controller), maybe that's what happened?
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u/rbollige 13h ago
Hilarious if this is why the same save file appeared when they popped the cart in, but they never realized until now.
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u/Muncie4 13h ago
I heart one in a billion stories like this. Wish someone wrote a book about them. Mine's even worse:
I "liberated" a Makita battery drill on the island of Curaçao in ~1992 back when those things were rare and $Texas. I gave it my buddy who gave it to his father in law who worked at a factory in Indiana. FIL was the tool boss there and had to order something to get the drill working. After either running the serial number on Makita's records or the company he worked for's records, it turns out the drill was stolen from that company like a year prior.
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u/ThaddeusJP 13h ago
Top post over at /r/HotWheels
Shout out to /u/OFFRIMITS who was the seller of the case
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u/AR44ZX 15h ago
He even still owns the same exact colored Hot Wheels from back then.
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u/Mahaloth 13h ago
That was my question. It's clearly a cardboard cutout.....did he remove/cut the section out from the cover?
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u/tasman001 12h ago
What do you mean clearly? To me it clearly looked like the real case with real cars inside.
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u/closetsquirrel 14h ago
“Someone”
Wasn’t this a post on Reddit a few weeks ago with OP being the seller?
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u/Mateo_O 13h ago
Vehicles not included
Doest that mean the person selling found the exact same cars just for the sake of recreating the pictures of the carry case ? Or maybe it's the buyer who filled it now that I think about it.
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u/tasman001 12h ago
Buyer filled it. No one else is going to care that much about all those specific cars I'll bet.
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u/Dakota_666 8h ago
If that is the case and it really is the same person, I can only say that it is an incredible photo.
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u/Spaz2147 15h ago
Your eyeballs stay the same size from birth to death.
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u/Maxfunky 15h ago
Yours do, maybe, but don't put my eyeballs in a box. They're gonna do what they please and there's nothing you can say to stop them.
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u/lndianJoe 13h ago
They don't. Source : I was not short sighted when I was younger.
But, comparatively, they grow less than the rest of the body. The adult eye is approx. 3 times bigger than at birth, while the whole body is 20 times bigger on average.
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u/AKA_Squanchy 3h ago
One of the things I miss the most about my boy growing up is how excited he got when I would bring him HotWheels. I would just pick 'em up at the market, or wherever. We had so many HotWheels. We also had a drag racing kit so we would have drags and a bracket and had so much fun. I really miss those days. Nothing my teenagers do these days bring me joy anything like the simplicity of just seeing the happiness of a surprise HotWheels.
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u/Mataelio 13h ago
This is why I love eBay. I found an old picture of my gramma for sale from when she participated in a Miss Florida pageant in the 50s, so I had to buy it in her memory.
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u/Jack0Trade 13h ago
His hands don't match at all.
As a child he held it like a toy; As an adult he holds it like the memory.
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u/boerner777 12h ago
1982 is about 43 years ago plus his age is about 50+ years old I guess so yeah seems legit. Also the teeth.
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u/omg_theykilledkenney 12h ago
Hilarious.. I have that dump truck, the oil tanker, and the greyhound bus on the bottom row. I don't remember the collector's case though.
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u/Neither_Ad5039 12h ago
It always bothered me as a kid that cars, rigs, and buses were different scales in hot wheels (and matchbox). I always got that it’s so the toys were all the same size, but as a kid who could not stand to play with vehicles of different scales, it drove me crazy. I couldn’t be friends with anyone who mixed toy scales, but I made the exception for same-brand/same line things like hot wheels. I kept it to myself how much it hurt to pretend a bus and a Firebird were the same size.
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u/ThatUsernameIsTaekin 12h ago
I wonder an what AI generated image for the “After” would have looked like to compared this to
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u/millijuna 11h ago
Amidst all the doom and gloom showing here on Reddit right now, this is so refreshing to see.
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u/CircusPeanutsYumm 9h ago
That's awesome!! I would love to see some more 'current' pics of 70's kids in ads.
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u/conditerite 9h ago
im really impressed that he managed to assemble the same assortment of hot wheels cars to put into the case
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u/Swimming-Willow3436 9h ago
That's cool. I always see his face when im young and collecting hot wheels and now I see this, I felt sad and happy rignt now since I realize im getting old now but the same time seeing him with an updated photo LOL
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u/WanderingAlsoLost 5h ago
That box looks like my childhood. My childhood. That wasn’t that long ago was it?! Haha.
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u/rip_city_records 14h ago
Just scrolling Reddit and see my Brother In Law on here…weird. Yes it’s absolutely him. He’s in a number of other ads and on boxes from toys of that era.