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Hot Wheels
Product type
Die-cast toy
Owner
Mattel
Country
United States
Introduced
May 18, 1968
; 52 years ago
Hot Wheels
is a brand of
die-cast toy
cars
introduced by American toy maker
Mattel
in 1968. It was the primary competitor of
Matchbox
until 1997, when Mattel bought
Tyco Toys
, former owner of Matchbox.
Many
automobile manufacturers
have since licensed Hot Wheels to make
scale models
of their cars, allowing the use of original design
blueprints
and detailing. Although Hot Wheels were originally intended to be for children and young adults, they have become popular with adult collectors, for whom
limited edition
models are now made available.
Speed Racer
Gō Mifune, also known as Speed Racer
マッハ ゴー ゴー ゴー
(
Mahha GōGōGō
)
Genre
Sports
Manga
Written by
Tatsuo Yoshida
Published by
Shueisha
Sun Wide Comics
Fusosha
English publisher
NA
NOW Comics
Wildstorm Productions
Digital Manga Publishing
Magazine
Shōnen Book
Demographic
Shōnen
Original run
June 1966
–
May 1968
Volumes
2
(
List of volumes
)
Anime television series
Directed by
Hiroshi Sasagawa
Peter Fernandez
(adaptation)
Produced by
Tatsuo Yoshida
Peter Fernandez
(adaptation)
Written by
Jinzō Toriumi
Peter Fernandez
(adaptation)
Music by
Nobuyoshi Koshibe
Studio
Tatsunoko Productions
Licensed by
NA
Trans-Lux
(originally)
Funimation
(currently)
Original network
Fuji TV
English network
AU
ABC
,
Network Ten
US
Syndication
Original run
April 2, 1967
–
March 31, 1968
Episodes
52
(
List of episodes
)
Anime television series
Speed Racer X
Mach Go Go Go: Restart
Directed by
Hiroshi Sasagawa
Hiroyuki Fukushima
Produced by
Kenji Yoshida
Makiko Iwata
Masatoshi Yui
Minoru Ohno
Yumi Murase
Written by
Masaaki Sakurai
Music by
Michiru Oshima
Studio
Tatsunoko Productions
Licensed by
NA
DIC Entertainment
(former)
Funimation
(current)
Original network
TV Tokyo
English network
US
Nickelodeon
Original run
January 9, 1997
–
September 25, 1997
Episodes
34
(
List of episodes
)
Manga
Mach GoGoGo!
Written by
Toshio Tanigami
Published by
Shogakukan
Magazine
CoroCoro Comic
Demographic
Children
Original run
January 1997
–
October 1997
Volumes
2
Related works
The New Adventures of Speed Racer
Speed Racer X
The Next Generation
Speed Racer
(NOW Comics)
Racer X
(NOW Comics)
Speed Racer: Chronicles of the Racer
Speed Racer: Born to Race
Racer X
(
Tommy Yune
prequel)
Speed Racer
(live action film)
Speed Racer
, also known as
Mach GoGoGo
(
Japanese
:
マッハGoGoGo
,
Hepburn
:
Mahha GōGōGō
), is a Japanese media franchise about
automobile racing
.
Mach GoGoGo
was originally serialized in print in
Shueisha
's 1966
Shōnen Book
. It was released in
tankōbon
book form by
Sun Wide Comics
and later re-released in Japan by
Fusosha
. Adapted into
anime
by
Tatsunoko Productions
, its 52 episodes aired on
Fuji TV
from April 1967 to March 1968. The anime was later re-broadcast on
Tokyo MX
from July 1 to September 25, 2008.
Selected chapters of the
manga
were released by
NOW Comics
in the 1990s under the title
Speed Racer Classics
. These were later released by
Wildstorm Productions
, a division of
DC Comics
, as
Speed Racer: The Original Manga
. In 2008, under its Americanized title,
Speed Racer
,
Mach GoGoGo
was republished in its entirety in the United States by
Digital Manga Publishing
and was released as a
box set
to commemorate the franchise's 40th anniversary, as well as serving as a tie-in with the
2008 film
. The television series itself is an early example of an anime becoming a successful franchise in the United States, spawning multiple spinoffs in both print and broadcast media. The show was watched by a total estimated audience of
40 million
viewers in the United States during the 1960s–1970s.