The Hot Wheels Collab With Tony Hawk Now Up For Preorder – SI Showcase

Sizzling Wheels is finally getting into fingerboards and partnering with an all-time terrific to make it transpire. You might know him as Birdman, seen him on Rocket Electrical power, The Simpsons, or someplace else in the media, but Very hot Wheels is now collaborating with Tony Hawk and releasing “Hot Wheels Skate.”

Not only do these have a Tony Hawk glance and experience, but the Scorching Wheels Skate line wants to attractiveness to all. In contrast to Tech-Decks and other fingerboards, a single board is only a couple of bucks and features a lovely set of skate shoes that act as teaching wheels.

The comprehensive selection of boards, diecast vehicles, and sets will start in August with pre-orders currently at Walmart. But here’s the scoop, SI Showcase got to chat with Tony Hawk to unpack the Sizzling Wheels Skate line.

Mattel’s inaugural Hot Wheels Skate line is composed of a couple of distinct goods but starts off with the common fingerboard. You can select from a bevy of designs, and after you acquire it, you can get finger-skating considering the fact that it will come fully pre-assembled. And as a kid who performed with Sizzling Wheels automobiles for several hours, these fingerboards are up to snuff and developed really hard. You can also get a pack that features the fingerboard and mini-sneaks paired with a matching diecast motor vehicle or a selection of four boards.

As with other fingerboards and diecast vehicles — Scorching Wheelx or Matchbox, just take your choose — you can start out with just 1 or get many at as soon as. And to make the partnership with Tony Hawk a fact, the Sizzling Wheels staff attained out to him.

“I was excited simply because I felt like they have such a good creative crew and way,” Hawk said. He ongoing to say that he had Scorching Wheels expanding up as a kid and made use of to make them do loops and set up tracks.

Apparently adequate, Hawk defined that it was his “inspiration for actually executing a skateboard loop due to the fact I noticed it is doable to stick on a wall like that. [It was] before I realized there were being roller coasters, and so they’ve always been a significant component of my lifestyle.”

Safe to say that Tony Hawk is excited about the partnership, but also for the likelihood to work on the line, decide on amongst patterns and get arms-on with developing out the playsets. The line is composed of pleasurable kinds like a taco truck (Tony’s most loved) and extra typical ones like a quarter pipe, something that you’d come across in an precise skate park.

The innovation of mini sneakers that can be connected or detached from the board is an exciting twist in fingerboarding. It makes it possible for you to use your fingertips to get a minor additional footing and execute some neat methods on and off a miniature halfpipe. We requested Tony about his preferred trick with a Hot Wheels Skate board, and he reported a hand-plant or an invert.

“Since that’s what I employed to do literally all through university with my fingers prior to we at any time realized about miniature skateboards,” explained Hawk. 

So it feels like a authentic whole circle moment for him, on fingerboards and skateboards in typical. Alongside with a collaboration on the full Incredibly hot Wheels Skate line, Mattel and Hot Wheels will also be creating a donation to Tony Hawk’s “The Skateboard Project” foundation. It is been all around for 20 a long time, and Tony expanded that it is “helped to open about 600 skate parks now as a result of that time with a whole lot additional on the way.”

We’re pumped about the new Incredibly hot Wheel Skate line and dig that it is innovating in the fingerboard and toys room. The first Sizzling Wheels Skate line will be up for preorder from Walmart and will start out delivery in August.

We’ll depart you with this idea as very well. We questioned Tony what his favored piece of tech was, and he stated that it was his cell phone, thanks to the cameras. You can movie, capture and edit on just one unit — alternatively than employing super VHS and only linear editing as Tony experienced. You will undoubtedly be capable to capture some outstanding footage of the Warm Wheels Skate line.

• Incredibly hot Wheels Skate Single Board ($2.99 walmart.com)
• Incredibly hot Wheels Skate Collector Sequence Assortment ($5.88 walmart.com)
• Very hot Wheels Skate Multi-Pack Assortment ($11.99 walmart.com)
• Sizzling Wheels Skate Drop-in Skate Set Assortment ($14.99 walmart.com)
• Hot Wheels Skate Amusement Park Skate Established ($29.99 walmart.com)

Charges are exact and products in inventory at time of publishing.