 If you guys enjoy watching me get absolutely fleeced by collectors, this is gonna be the best episode yet. Ladies and gentlemen, I am coming at ya with the one, the only Hot Wheels PC. The good news for me is that the $1,900-ish US dollars that I spent to acquire this thing is considerably less than the $6,000 bounty that I offered on the WAN show for a full set, including the tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, mouse pad, and racing wheel. All of which I've got. The bad news is that that ended up being just to borrow it. I have to send it back when I'm done. MSI's GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming X Trio 10GB has it all. Performance, low noise, and RGB gamer aesthetics. Check it out today at the link in the video description. Full disclosure, guys. I could have spent the full bounty amount and gotten a Hot Wheels PC and full set of accessories that I could have kept. But the main reason that I didn't is because I don't want one. And I'm not the only one. Both the Hot Wheels computer and its cuter cousin, the Barbie computer, were colossal failures for a number of reasons. Starting with, well, the branding. You see, in 1999, it was more common for families to have a single desktop computer that everyone shared. And even though they were priced quite attractively at just $600 US dollars, the tackiness of the design inherently made it a niche product because it was really only for families where Junior or Lil Miss was going to have their own computer in their room. Problem number two was the product. I mean, on the surface, it sounded pretty good. Intel CPU, Windows 98, a whole host of included educational software and games. I mean, the Hot Wheels one. Check this out. Even came with a Hot Wheels branded steering wheel and pedal for racing games. Only the computers themselves were sick. A full 50% of the initial units apparently suffered from bad power supplies, causing a rush of customer service complaints and returns. Let me just make sure this is the tear down one. Hold on. Thing matters worse. Even if the quality was perfect, the product faced significant criticism for being a pretty underwhelming computer, even for the low price. Holy shit. Patriot Computers was based in Canada. Sorry, all the disappointed children on behalf of my fellow Canadians then. Wait, what? Okay. Got our CD-ROM drive, floppy, as well as a hard drive in there. I believe this unit here was a Celeron 333 model with a six gig hard drive, I want to say. 6.4. The other one's got a 10 gig. Oh, wait. No, I think I get it. It's all one big piece here. I think I actually do have to take out this stupid screw in the bottom. This is the for parts one. Okay. Wow. It literally does not have a single expansion slot. I mean, look at this rear IO shield. Two USB twos, modem, speaker mic, monitor out. Oh, serial and two more USBs. That's it. Pop the ID and floppy cables off and let's see if we can... Oh yeah, there we go. Slide the drives out, get a bit of a better look at that supremely unimpressive motherboard. What? The motherboard tray just pops out like that? Wow. Well, that would make assembly pretty easy actually. Good idea, Patriot computers. Too bad you never lived to see it through. I wonder if they actually did a custom board for this thing. Oh, nevermind. This is from back when Intel made their own motherboards. See, there's actual Intel branding right there on the board. Definitely nothing stand out about this machine other than the failure rate. Apparently so many of these died during the product life cycle that the manufacturer, Patriot computers was ultimately driven to bankruptcy. Don't feel too bad for them though. They went down real NCIX like actually accepting orders and people's money up until the very end leaving thousands of people with computers that they ordered and were not going to receive. Mattel ended up having to issue $100 free toys and gift certificates to angry parents who thought they were going to be getting a Hot Wheels PC or Barbie PC for their kids for Christmas but found out last second that they were going to end up with nothing. But did their kids really miss out? There's only one way to find out. In addition to this for parts unit, I've actually got what this particular collector refers to as a museum grade Hot Wheels PC that is fully functional. And for funsies, I'm going to tell my kids that I replaced their computer with this and see what they think of it. It looks good. Do you want to try it? Okay. Press it harder. Yeah, there you go. This button is to open up the CD drive. Oh. Oh, we got to turn on the monitor too. Can you press the power button on the monitor? You got to give it a little pushy push there. Hey, there we go. I missed that sound. So it's got some games already loaded on it. When you just move this a little bit, it goes so far. Yeah. So this is a new technology. It's actually a ball mouse. It's for ballers. Do you know what a baller is? No. A baller is someone who's just, you know, they ball too hard, right? So it's got like a ball in there. So the ball moves a little roller inside the mouse and that's what moves the cursor around. Pretty much what I'm trying to say is there's no way to adjust that. Who put Napster on this? Why don't we try a game that it comes with? So Hot Wheels actually shipped the PC with a CD wallet and a collection of software. Official collector's guide. Rally challenge. Tattoo designer. We've got Brian the electrician threw a few things in here for me as well. Need for Speed 2. Why don't we try Lost Vikings 2? Can I try something? Can you roll tab? I actually do not know. Is that not be running a window? Okay. Hey, there we go. What do you think? Does this seem better than the Elec computer? We're looking for the big shiny metal thingy that brought us here. Well, I know a spell that could send you there. Of course you don't buy a Hot Wheels PC to play Lost Vikings. You buy a Hot Wheels PC to play racing games. Please tell me there's a driver CD in here. All right. Why don't you fire up the stunt track driver? Okay. You want to do the goldfish bowl race, the room race, sandcastle race? I don't know. Well pick one. Any. Fine. Maybe slightly more cooperative. Okay. This one. Thanks. Okay. Do you know which one is gas? This one. Yep. Okay. Here we go. Wait, does this game even use the wheel? Oh, okay. Wow. You sure wipe out a lot, kid. I don't know, but you got to steer a little bit. Are you supposed to use the, like, what are you even supposed to hold on? But does this control it? It totally does. You have to like crank it though. What the? Oh, you're going backwards. That's a new trick. What's wrong with this computer compared to the old one? I see lots of lines. Scan lines. And the steering wheel doesn't work much. You know, some people pay good money to have scan lines on their, on their content. See, it doesn't work. I just turned all the way. Okay. Let's try something else. Let's try Need for Speed. All right. You know what? Forget the wheel. It's hard. Why don't you just use the keyboard? What do you think? This game got pretty good graphics? Yeah. Are you sure? Kind of. I like it. I like the old computer better. What do you think? Is this a pretty cool computer? Yeah. I'm going to quit this one. Is there a Minecraft on it? Minecraft you say? Uh, no. It does have other games though. Do you want to try some different games? Um, yeah please. There's Magic School Bus Solar System. Okay. So you just click on stuff. Maybe try clicking on Liz. Uh, you got to click on them. Why I want to cool facts about Uranus. Cool facts about Uranus. Sure. Uranus. Let's go with that. Uh, so I'm going to click there. 32,000 miles across. 84 years. It's been 84 years. For one year, at least 15 moons. Oh yeah. There's that CD-ROM spinning up. We've got to load that content. What do you think? Pretty good graphics? As good as Minecraft? Yeah. You know, I think my kids, uh, unironically probably wouldn't care if I swapped out their existing computer with this one. I'll be right back. Go ahead and cut for a sec. Uh, hold on. I'll be right back. Go ahead and cut. Okay. Uh, is there a video here, Andy? Yeah, I think so. Ow. Okay. Well, the whole kids react to part didn't go exactly how I expected. I sort of thought they'd be like, oh, why is the monitor so big? Oh, why is it so loud? Oh, why do the graphics suck? They just don't care at all. I guess content's still king, right? So just like I'm the king of sponsor segues like this one, this video is brought to you by Manscaped. Manscaped is forever changing the grooming game and they're featuring the weed whacker nose and ear hair trimmer. 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