The Scalpers Got Me... Again!

James here to give you guys a comparison between these two recently release AO Racing Porsche! We have Hot Wheels and MINIGT going head to head to find out how much of a difference exists between the two.

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[Newby]

$10 if you can find them on the pegs. Hot wheels scalpers are out of control. I'll take any premium brands like Inno, Mini GT, Hobby Japan over hot wheels. Hot wheels collectors think hot wheels are the best things on the market

[smamq]

The green wheels are apparently the ones they put on the car when it's in transport, so accurate in terms of color. I would take the Mini GT any day of the week still

[rhoansuede]

What I like with MiniGt is that they have the Sebring version of Rexy and soon Daytona (Kind of scalper-proof if you think about it), they have racing event variants!

[NP-iksp]

The lesser detail is expected and fine if you can actually find it on the pegs for sub $10

[VladimirBlarp]

HW collectors collect based on secondary market value, not whether it's a nicer product itself.

[D_Fender]

Was really excited for this piece to come out, especially for hotwheels because its one of the ones with more decals. Yet the more I look at it, I am quite disappointed on the lack of details on the hotwheels version. Definitely buying the mini GT for sure! Thanks for the showcase!

[motov-garage]

(Edit) the wheels on the HW is correct actually) its there "dress shoes" for transort and showings.(the actual race team said this). If you can find it in the stores its 7 to 10$, but online its 20$ right now.
I found mine at a oriellys for 9$ one night. Crazy part is the pegs there were well picked over and rexi was the only good thing there surounded by fantacy stuff.. like it was meant to be.
Also ill say HWs are built more solid because its a kids toy that might get played with or put on the track.
The mini gt obviously is better detailed, ill be buying the the pink roxi mini gt soon.

[CasvalSVER]

The prices people are willing to pay for Hot Wheels just doesn't make sense to me. I don't buy a ton of diecast like a lot of collectors do, but as a JDM fan, I switched to Tomica premium a long time ago. More accurate and way cheaper.

[gametimeracing]

Great comparison break down! Fantastic video!

[aurelianomonteiro]

That’s why I don’t go for hot wheels. Hot wheels price is cheap but they are not detail and lazy work while I rather pay a bit more money to get the best of mini gt work. No resell on mini gt while hot wheels need to pay resell price to get them.

[oatybuck]

The Hot Wheels version is less than $7 at Target - The Mini GT is not available at any store in northern California

[SCANDAL-]

Yeah Hot Wheels scalpers are outta control. Always gonna have love for Hot Wheels, but the scalpers are ridiculous. I've been using the SHOP app and found way better deals than what scalpers are trying to get. In fact I ordered 3 Mini GT Rexys wasn't even $50 and got free shipping and pre ordered the Mini GT Roxy. I went ahead and ordered the Hot Wheels Race Day set from the app for like $35 and pre ordered the Roxy too. All together didn't even spend $100. Really starting to get in the Mini GT, INNO, Kaito House. If I'm going to spend that kind of money, especially for premiums I'll get these instead of Hot Wheels. Definitely getting more bang for my buck and way better details.

[markzebr]

Most of the features that you noted on the Mini GT are exactly correct. I can say that as I know got to know the team and drivers from their start in IMSA. I attend a number of Sports car races of IMSA, Fanatec and the WEC. I also have hundreds of pictures of the cars and do Paddock Reviews.
IMSA requires all cars in the GT Daytona class to feature green number panels, green mirrors, green ends of the windshield banner and green endplates of the rear wing. GT Daytona Class, of which feature an all-Pro lineup of drivers, have red number panels etc. This is done for fans to easily identify the cars. The WEC or World Endurance Championship, of which your Sparky model is, are different in that they do not require specific-colored parts with the exception of the number panel. I believe that your Sparky model is one of those.
And YES, you are correct in that AO Racing has never had green wheels, only Hot Wheels would come out with that gimmick. This one of the many reasons that historical collectors have issues with the gimmicks of Hot Wheels and would never collect them let alone pay a premium price for them when Mini GT and Sparky make better models.
I know that AO Racing was much more excited about the Hot Wheels release as it would be made in the 10s of thousands and more fans would be attracted to the team. The "Roxy" could be considered as more of a collector's item as the livery was a one off as Rexy was racing at Le Mans. It was also very clever. AO Racing also has a purple dragon liver for their LMP 2 prototype named "Spike", also very clever.
The idea for all of this came from team owner and principle P.J. Hyatt's kids...yes the kids started it all.
James, as usual your work is first rate. I have a real bias for scalpers and how Hot Wheels create them in the efforts to sell millions of cars.

[geoffarmitage]

This is the problem that I have in the uk. As I have to work for a living, I never ever get first dibs on Hot Wheels at the shops and absolutely REFUSE to pay Scalper prices on auction sites - out of the 250 cars plus re-colours, I bought 23 cars in 2024 ! However, I now enjoy buying Mini GT BBR, Inno 64 and Tarmac etc.. The same price as a scalper Hot Wheels price but better quality and better value so It is a bit of a No Brainer !! And yes, I have bought the Mini GT Rexy - it's a beauty !!

[Hernooss]

5:25 AO racing has spoken about this rexy does have green wheels when traveling and displaying the car they use the green wheels. The black ones are just the racing wheels. There’s a photo of rexy in front of the hot wheels design center and it has green wheels.

[waiminkhant]

I would definitely take Mini GT. Here around my area, I could only get HW one from scalpers which goes up to $20+ due to rarity. But I can buy minigt one whenever I want for just about $17-18.

[Kirkbreezy]

Whats that case in the background you're using? I need some of those for my 1:18 scales wow

[sohchx]

I bought both. HW did a good job with it, and I was shocked that it actually had side mirrors. Obviously the GT version is superior

[jefem]

The mouth width of the Mini GT is actually correct, if you look closely the ends of the mouth is between the canards which is accurate to the real car. The Mini GT is scarily accurate to the real thing and so cool

[spidersdiecast]

Thanks a lot for the comparison. Definitely learned something about each one, even though I try to not get involved in the whole Rexy hype.🦖