Hot Wheels Color Reveal 1:64 Scale Vehicles with Surprise Reveal & Repeat Color-Change; Gift for Kids 3 Years Old & Up - GYP13, Pack of 2

Amazing toy for my little lad. He loves watching them change colour. I have brought 2 tubs.

Great product my son loves the lm

My 5 years soon real like to play with them.

I got these for my older nephews to try. Like others, we were a bit unimpressed when we followed the directions we had seen in the product description here for removing the gunky ‘colour reveal’ yellow paint and colour changing effect – warm water to get the paint off, and cool to experience the colour change. In the tube I got, we received a lorry and a car. warm water just about washed the colour reveal paint away, though in some places this was really thick and needed to be picked off. My nephews were not impressed with the colour revealed vehicles, which seemed really basic, with the least elaborate designs any of us could remember seeing on Hot Wheels vehicles.So then we tried to get the colour to change. Cool water did not seem to work, but I did notice that after we’d soaked the vehicles in cool water there was a faint blistering of dark colour visible on the roof of the orange car. So I decided to test the hypothesis that what was needed wasn’t cool water but ice water. We didn’t have any ice cubes, so I popped the two vehicles in the freezer. After about a minute I opened it back up, and the colour change had worked. The decal sets on the alternate colour versions were an improvement over the very plain initial appearance, though are still not exactly the most exciting and the colours seem sludgy and uninspiring.Afterwards, I realised that the instruction leaflet included with the cars does actually say to use ice water – but with such a detailed (and inaccurate!) description of the needed process in the online product description, it’s not surprising that this seems to be getting missed. These were very overpackaged, with lots of unnecessary plastic, and more than £10 for two rather dull vehicles is too high an asking price.

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I don’t get the excitement frankly, but they’re not for me. My son loves these. They are quite messy to play with as it needs ice cold water and room temperature water. But he can make up games that go on for an hour with a single colour changer and a couple of other cars.

My son thought the cars were really exciting. Orange colour reveal stained them slightly but not a huge problem. However they were left outside for a couple of days and no longer change colour with temp. When they did work the water had to be really ice cold to work.

Followed the instructions. Didn’t work as well as I’d hoped or as fast as the kids would have wanted. Got a bit frustrating, tbh. Plus, made a lot of mess. Would recommend carrying out this experiment in the back garden.