Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Hot Wheels Meets Cold War Russia

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I saw a neat commercial for the new Terrain Twister from Hot Wheels and couldn't help but but think of a great lack of creativity on the part of the toy maker, like being famous for being a cover band, rather than making unique and creative music.




The Terrain Twister recalls a Cold War era Russian design, the ZiL 2906 screw drive vehicle.

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The Terrain Twister seems to have been lifted directly from this Russian design.  I am also left thinking that there were some absolutely epic designs brought to fruition in Communist Russia, but I suppose that's what you get when workers have no choice but to work or spend their life in the Gulags. Yea, collectivism...




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