Do kids still play with hotwheels / matchbox cars?

[twinrider1]

My son is 5 and he loves Hot Wheels and both he and my daughter like board games.
Great way to spend time with your kids.

 

[Maleficus]

I am a speech therapist and I can give a definitive yes, almost all the kids I see love toy cars.

 

[ballmode]

I always wondered if people still collect them. They tend to be easy to track and collect its just a matter of finding them during a refresh or a high traffic area where they would be refreshed for another series.

 

[BoomerD]

My littlest grandson still loves them (not quite 7)
The older one, (just turned 11) almost never plays with them anymore...and hasn't since he was about 8.

 

[xanis]

I freaking loved Matchbox/Hotwheels cars when I was young. I still have ~300 sitting in the basement at my parents' house I think.

 

[thomsbrain]

If they don't have access to their DSi, many still love to play with them. (I work with kids). I once taught a baby to make vroom noises and push a Hot Wheel before he could talk.

 

[eldorado99]

I used to have about 400 of the things but I know theres about 100 of them buried where my sandbox used to be at my parents place because I pretended there was an earthquake. 😛 I should bring the ones I still have out of the attic because they would make good work desk ornaments.

 

[MotionMan]

My kids (one of each) have access to a Mac, each have a DS, play on our iPhones and share a Wii.

They also love playing with Hot Wheels/Matchbox cars and play houses, playing "store" and playing board games (including oldies like 'Chutes and Ladders') and the like.

MotionMan

 

[aldamon]

What makes hotwheels fun are the tracks.

This. My friend had a two-lane ramp attached to his ping pong table. We drag raced for hours at a time with our entire collections.

 

[Sentrosi2121]

My 2yr old has just discovered Hot Wheels and absolutely loves them. I'm sure he'd love the tracks too. Perhaps for a Christmas present we can set him up with some tracks. He does love his wooden train set and loves to design tracks. I get the "Daddy? Help me with the tracks please?" on a nightly basis.