Sizzlers Part 1

Here I examine two updates to the unique Sizzlers cars from Mattel. Introduced originally by Mattel in the early 70s, these were battery powered Hot Wheels that you could race on regular Hot Wheels tracks or on special Sizzlers tracks. I never had these as a kid. Playing Mantis re-introduced these back in 1996, and Mattel re-introduced them back in 2006. I profile both sets here. The PM set had not been run in, shockingly, 13 years since I got it! How time flies. A little work on the cars and they came back to life. Video released through Puffigus.

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Entertainment

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• sizzlers
• mattel
• playing
• mantis
• hot
• wheels

[radiotubes]

Playing Mantis thanks.And great info and voice.

[ToyKingWonder]

@radiotubes Thank you!

[ToyKingWonder]

Yes, I grew up with the regular hot wheels, as a matter of fact, my parents got me the very first "Drag Race Set", I believe it was Christmas 1967/8. (I still have every one of my original cars). I never had Sizzlers either when they first came out, don't know why, just never asked for them...

As a side note, a good friend of mine made a scale model of the Hindenburg, filled with helium and the propellers were driven by Sizzler motors!

[tdickensheets]

Hot Wheels! Please bring out Sizzlers cars. I don't care who have the rights of Sizzlers cars. I like Mattel cars better then other die cast cars. The Mattel just came out in Target Mattel Cars 2 Charge Ups.

[MRJACKSON19581]

@mainmahon they sealed them for safety reason ...so a child wouldn't easily open them and get to the acid battery..

[mainmahon]

I've never seen the Playing Mantis cars before.Maybe they didn't make it to the UK; all the good stuff never does! It's interesting that they made the effort to have a removable chassis like the on Hot Wheels XV racers & also Corgi ElectroRockets so you could get the batteries out.

Why did Mattel have to seal up the old & new Sizzlers to make getting them open so much of a pain?! They missed a marketing trick to sell everyone replacement batteries.

Thanks for sharing.

[stomp919]

Man im almost 50 years old and Sizzlers old and new RAWK!

[Nytro97]

Some good history...Thanks for sharing.

[KKD1247]

Sizzlers were cool. I was just getting a little too old for these (& girls were starting to mean a little more to me) but wished I could have played with these.