Hi Woodsy
In their 2020 Mainline range Hot Wheels have included a series of ten models devoted to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. These are all existing models, decorated with graphics depicting various sports.
On 1st August I picked up several new Hot Wheels, including the first Olympic model that I have seen. It is a large scale skateboard called Skate Grom, which carries the copyright date 2013 on its metal base.
It is mainly purple, marked Tokyo 2020, and Skateboarding, the black plastic figure also has the Olympic symbol on his chest. This is model number 6 of the 10 in the series. Now to find the remaining nine.
With the Tokyo Olympic Games deferred until at least next year, if they happen at all, what is going to happen to all the souvenirs that have already been produced ? Will they be sold, or scraped ?
This little model now records a history that never happened - like something from a science fiction story, just like all the souvenirs produced for the planned coronation of King Edward VIII in 1937.
Paul Adams
New Zealand
It's the little things in popular culture that the regular folks miss, we see moments in time captured thru our obsession with tiny bits of plastic and metal that although small and apparently insignificant will confuse the hell out of historians in years to come and in a period of everything becoming digital if the lights ever do go out history will be erased and our ephemera ever more important -MJ Southcoast base
ReplyDeleteI agree MJ. Photos are a case in point. We have hundreds printed out from when our daughter was little. All hers of her own kids are online somewhere. How will they ever see them when they're older?
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