Hotwheels Inline Skates
Hotwheels makes tiny collector cars, yes ! But now they seem to be interested by the extreme sports too !
Check the kids skates they made (upper image), it looks a bit like the USD Legacy (check the skulls) with a Salomon Widebody and the overall look is not that bad!
more extreme sports goodies by Hotwheels :
^ Hot Wheel Green Ride and Blue Skull Skateboards
I like the warning they put with the skates :
Always skate smart. Use appropriate protective gear. If you’re not an experienced skater then learn to skate indoors at a roller skating rink. It’s a flat and smooth surface with no traffic to deal with. Take lessons.
source | thanks sqareface
^ You can play this Halfpipe Challenge Game
November 24th, 2005 at 1:47 am
ok……….
November 24th, 2005 at 2:09 am
Yeah. Like they’re not trying to get in the industry for the cash. Those skates also look uncannily like the junior (i think they were Grycons? cant remember) USD skate from the 2005 ISPO…
November 24th, 2005 at 2:14 am
ugly
November 24th, 2005 at 3:05 am
how weird, as usual. look how far the toe sticks past the soul plate. what is it with the wanna-be/no-name/kiddie skate manufacture-ers that produce such goolash looking skates. they are always all jagged with tons of lines and divits stitching and strange shapes….. yet still not very functional. i really honestly dont get it. why cant they just produce something simple like a Razor Genesis hard boot skate, something functional and asthetically simple and to the point. produce something a skater might actually consider adding to their list of possible skate choices instead of marketing to naive parents who wander into Big5 Sporting Goods Inc. Is it really that much cheaper for them to produce something so over the top and mongaloid?
November 24th, 2005 at 3:42 am
looks like a usd badge o the back of the sole plate
November 24th, 2005 at 4:47 am
it’s a USD transformer skate…
tranformed to be HOT WEELS :)
November 24th, 2005 at 4:59 am
my lil brother had the first versions of those in white/blue
they look like footsized car
November 24th, 2005 at 6:52 am
usd just farmed out their design
November 24th, 2005 at 7:35 am
i have nothing against these big companies coming in and having a go. i mean the last company to do that was salomon, and they did a lot for our industry.
but this…is just crap. they’ve borrowed a few good ideas but the whole thing really doesn’t come together
November 24th, 2005 at 7:37 am
i would skate them
November 24th, 2005 at 10:31 am
ok this just plain pisses me off
November 24th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
WOT IS IT WITH THESE STUPID WEE BOYS COMPANIES WONTIN TO LOOK KOOL AND FOOL FOLK INTO BYE IN THESE SHIT SKATES THT WILL BREAK WEN U PUT THEM ON UR FEET!!!!!!!!!
November 24th, 2005 at 5:06 pm
haha hthere so gay i wounder what there called probaly like porsche 2000’s or some stupid shit like that
November 24th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
they are usd transformers
November 24th, 2005 at 7:20 pm
all i can say is they have a backslide groove, so straight off they’re better than K2 (apart from the nemesis/trasfer).
November 24th, 2005 at 9:48 pm
what size do they go to? cause i wanna ride em HAHSHSAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
November 24th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
you guys are looking at this the wrong way…Hotwheels is a mainstream company. Aren’t mainstream companies necessary for the survival of rolling? I mean where would rolling be without K2, Salomon, or Roces? Granted, hotwheels is making a cheap imitation of anarchy skates, which is a cheap imitation of another cheap imitation, but you gotta take the bad along with the good. More companies=more money for the sport=cheaper/better parts, more competitions, more media exposure. I mean come on…They just made the snowboarding equivalent of “Lords of Dogtown”.
November 24th, 2005 at 10:40 pm
The frames do kinda look sick though….they’re like GC 2nd gen…minus the removable H-block
November 25th, 2005 at 12:15 pm
GAY GAY GAY GO FIND A REAL SKATE TO TALK ABOUT
November 25th, 2005 at 5:48 pm
Sure, if hot wheels were actually trying to get into the rolling business, it wouldn’t be such a bad thing. But since they’re making cheap skateboards too, they’re obviously just trying to cash in on “extreme” sports. They’re not about competing in the market and therefore improving design and technology, they just wanna make money off of stupid parents who think these hotwheel skates will be close enough to the Rollerblade TRS’s their son wants.
November 28th, 2005 at 11:05 pm
surely its a good thing, i mean kid buys shit skates, goes to a skatepark sees older guys (us) on real skates tearing shit up and thinks, “damn fool i want in on that action” then next christmas the kid might just ask for some size 2 usds or whatever, anything that gets kids into skateparks or whatever is good news
April 11th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
i bet there beter than k2 fatty 04s lol
May 20th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Ahahahahaha. Thats so gay its actually funny.
“Hot Wheels leading the way..”
September 20th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
These Skates are produced by USD they got a deal with Matel so they could sell them into all the Toystores. I thinks is the best idea to get some new kids into the sport.