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Off Road Wheel Comparison
Topic Started: Jul 24 2012, 10:22 PM (3,200 Views)
craftymore
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Support your local demo derby.

In a recent COTD thread, Wes made a remark about how similar the Yatming and Road Champs large off road wheels look. See link for the post - http://swiftysgarage.net/topic/6937633/1/#new

With that in mind, here's a pic thread of the off road 4x4 trucks & SUVs in my collection.

Yatming Chevy 4x4
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Road Champs Chevy 4x4
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Hartoy Chevy 4x4
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Faie Ford Bronco
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Matchbox Chevy Blazer
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Matchbox Ford F-150
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Matchbox Jeep (Newer style wheels)
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Hot Wheels '97 F-150
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Hot Wheels Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40
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Hot Wheels Toyota Tundra
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Hot Wheels 1980s Chevy Blazer
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Real Toys Ford Bronco
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Real Toys Humvee
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Kidco Chevy Blazer
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Amazing how similar the wheels are from a total of eight different companies.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
I think Matchbox's came first (specifically the Blazer) and everyone else jumped on that with 'me too!' wheels. The only one I'm not sure about it being released before is the Kidco. And by then they were the same company (Universal)...
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juantoo3
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Swifty
Jul 25 2012, 12:14 AM
I think Matchbox's came first (specifically the Blazer) and everyone else jumped on that with 'me too!' wheels. The only one I'm not sure about it being released before is the Kidco. And by then they were the same company (Universal)...
I dunno...I've got another theory. I think they all buy from the same maker.
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jedimario
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RAWR
juantoo3
Jul 26 2012, 05:55 PM
I dunno...I've got another theory. I think they all buy from the same maker.
That's what I was about to say. Small changes perhaps to cut back on cost or in reaction to supply...there is just too much similarity for them to simply be copies.
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Douglas
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Swifty
Jul 25 2012, 12:14 AM
I think Matchbox's came first (specifically the Blazer) and everyone else jumped on that with 'me too!' wheels. The only one I'm not sure about it being released before is the Kidco. And by then they were the same company (Universal)...
I always thought similarly, where as the less popular brands don't bother much with R&D for wheel designs when they can just copy the designs of the big name companies that already put their money and effort into coming up with some decent looking ones.
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Spennyman
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Minivan
The blue "Evil Rider" is a copy of the Matchbox Blazer made by Faie. They go under the name Swiftrunner.
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SeberHusky
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Station Wagon
I do not know the correct definition, but one Matchbox website, the guy calls this wheel style the "Maltese cross".
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What a nice looking group of trucks and a great comparison. I like the older Hot Wheels and Matchbox wheels a lot (and all the copies), the newer styles look too blingy. Glad this got bumped, I have a Realtoy Hummer 4 door hardtop pickup and never knew who made it.
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