Godzilla’s Endless Rampages Have Finally Earned the Monster Its Own Hot Wheels Cars

Even with over 35 picture show under his smash , a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , uncounted award for director and film producer he ’s work with , arecent collaboration with King Kong , and a career cross 68 years , Godzilla is only now getting the recognition he really merit : Mattel is about to turn the towering prehistoric ocean monster into a Hot Wheels car .

Hollywood studios may seem focussed on box federal agency achiever and bringing home honored trophies come honour time of year , but ask anyone working in front of the camera and they ’ll distinguish you what really gets them out of bed every cockcrow at the crack of dawn and has them stay on set until the middle of the night is the slender chance that Mattel will honour their unvoiced oeuvre with a tiny 1:64 - exfoliation dice - casting cable car hold a evanesce resemblance to a fibre they ’ve bestow to life history .

In the past , we ’ve seenGal Gadot ’s Wonder Womangiven the four - cycle treatment , as well asAdam Driver ’s Kylo Ren , but year after year these reveals have been met with outrage from Gojira ’s fanbase , who ca n’t interpret why a career that started as far back as 1954 has gone completely ignored by the Hot Wheels academy — until now .

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throw it ’s just a few workweek aside , you ’re plausibly already planning for the forthcoming November 3rd festivities , on which we not only celebrate National Homemaker Day , National Sandwich Day , andNational Smart Home Day , but also Godzilla Day , clock to coincide with November 3 , 1954 , when Godzilla first made his large screen debut . This year ’s holiday is give way to be extra exceptional as Hot Wheels rolls out two new Godzilla - themed character cars . Good luck seek to log Z’s the Nox before .

Hot Wheels Godzilla Character Car

Available starting in early November for $ 4 only from Target , the 1:64 - ordered series Hot Wheels Godzilla Character Car is based on the plan of the six - wheeled Japanese HINO heavy construction truck . The wad of dust in the truck ’s bottom is made to resemble Godzilla ’s iconic dorsal fins , while the cab recreate the creature ’s head with a furrow brow and teeth chomping down on its locomotive engine . The truck is also marked with a number on the side which is in reality the day of the month of Gojira ’s silvern screen debut , as well as katakana lettering spell out Godzilla .

Hot Wheels Godzilla Monster Truck

A more meet four - wheeled take on Godzilla will be arriving from Hot Wheels a little afterwards , sometime in early 2023 , in the form of a 1:64 - scale die - cast monster truck with more detailing than the Character Car and a circle of four giant steering wheel that are far better suited for flatten a city . Hot Wheels has n’t revealed specific pricing for the Godzilla monster motortruck just yet , but to particular date these have usually been priced just a few dollars more than their smaller counterparts .

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