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How to Build a Hot Wheels City

Call in the construction crews—and ideally a 1982 Hot Wheels Workhorses Construction Crane—to help build your Hot Wheels city. Whether you're purchasing the die-cast models from scratch or selecting from your current collection, the Hot Wheels brand over the years has provided an inexhaustible supply of possibilities when it comes to buildings, roadways and vehicles. Nonetheless, you should take into account some basic parameters as you assemble your city. No self-respecting Hot Wheels community would be complete without a respectable police force, a hefty collection of expensive cars and at least one, though likely several, racetracks.

Things You'll Need

Hot Wheels vehicles
Hot Wheels play sets
Hot Wheels roads
Hot Wheels tracks
Other model-size toys

Instructions

Assemble the Infrastructure
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  Get creative with your roads.
  
  Construct the roads, using multi-lane, interconnecting road pieces for less congested traffic. The Hot Wheels Radical Roadway will get you started with straight and intersection road pieces, a bridge that sends vehicles airborne and a traffic light.
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  Provide rescue services. The Hot Wheels City Set Fire Station, with accompanying fire trucks and ambulances, and the Hot Wheels Police Headquarters, with police cars and helicopters, are a must for any city.
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  Unleash city utility vehicles, such as Hot Wheels garbage trucks, street cleaners, tow trucks and mail vans, unto your streets.
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  The Hot Wheels Train Station includes a working train and tracks.
  
  Offer multi-modal transportation options. You city could include access to the Hot Wheels Train Station, several types of taxis, a school bus system and “The London Standard” double-decker bus for tourists.
Build a Downtown
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  Beef up your city with additional services and amenities. The Hot Wheels Mega City Pack is a good starter set, providing a Downtown District, an Auto Center and the Hot Wheels Harbor.
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  Create opportunity for chaos. For instance, the Hot Wheels T-Rex Rampage set will give your city a nice variety of skyscrapers, along with a dinosaur bent on destruction. Consider the Shark Bite Bay set or the color-shifting Octo Battle set for cities with a heavy reliance on their harbors.
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  Build repair and maintenance centers for those inevitable car crashes, using sets such as the Hot Wheels Super Service Center, the Turbo Wash or the Ultimate Repair Rig.
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  Move the construction crews to an underdeveloped part of the city to allow for the next population boom.
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  Adding city amendities could get quite elaborate.
  
  Beautify your city, though you'll have to use elements from other toy sets, perhaps a variety of Lego trees and plant life, for example.
City Traffic
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  Select what specific time period your city will reflect. Hot Wheels collectible models have spanned the decades of car design, from the vintage past to an imagined future, since their introduction to the toy market in 1968.
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  Add a variety of Hot Wheels vehicles.
  
  Assemble a variety of vehicles to populate the new city, including several models of cars, vans, trucks and motorcycles. Add a few Nascar race cars and dragsters for speed variety on your roadways.
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  Diversify your business landscape with tractor-trailers, company-branded transport vehicles and ice-cream trucks for the children.
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  Provide a racetrack, ideally one that circles around and through the current buildings. Your options here are virtually endless, but should include a vehicle launcher, several 360-degree loops and at least one jump, perhaps over a city park.

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