Playing With Hot Wheels: Fun At Any Age

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Perhaps you’ve seen this Columbian billboard for Hot Wheels…

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Candidly, when I first saw it, all I could think was that some ad agency probably put that up themselves just to win a bunch of awards. Well, I’ve since learned the agency is the venerable Ogilvy and Mather and they have done this a few times. Including this fun execution installed in Mexico…

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But this past Memorial Day Weekend, Mattel brought the Hot Wheels advertising awesome stateside by performing this stunt at the Indy 500: the world record for a distance jump in a four-wheeled vehicle. Check out the orange launch track…

Man, that’s just a hill of fun. Well played O&M, well played. Now clean your room.

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By Dennis Ryan, CCO, Olson

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