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Netflix only recently introduced that its animation roster for 2024 features a new collection based mostly on the Hot Wheels toy franchise from Mattel. Titled Hot Wheels Let’s Race, the brand new collection is because of hit Netflix in 2024.
Alongside two first-look photos of the brand new collection (see above and beneath), we received an official logline for the brand new present that’s created and produced by Mattel Television:
“Based on the number-one selling toy in the world, Hot Wheels Let’s Race is a high-octane series that ignites and unlocks the challenger spirit within every racer! The series follows the newest generation of racers as they experience mind-blowing races, extreme stunt contests, and thrill-seeking challenges.”
Rob David, Vice President at Mattel Inc., teased in his LinkedIn submit we are able to count on “hot rods, lowriders and GT Scorchers” within the new collection.
The new undertaking comes at a time when Mattel is considerably upping its funding into leisure, with a present roster of 14 initiatives coming off the heels of its large field workplace blockbuster within the type of Barbie. Numerous animated Mattel initiatives can already be discovered on Netflix, together with Ever After High: Epic Winter, He-Man collection, and a slew of Barbie animated specials.
Who is the animation studio behind Hot Wheels Let’s Drive? Sprite Animation Studios who’re based mostly out of Los Angeles. They’ve already labored on a slew of Netflix initiatives earlier than, together with, most just lately, Gudetama: An Eggcellent Adventure in late 2022, however they have been additionally behind Pokemon: Mewtwo Strikes Back and Kong of the Apes. Elsewhere, the studio has labored on TINPO, Yo-Kai Watch,
Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Season 1. Cr. NETFLIX © 2023
When will Hot Wheels Let’s Race be launched on Netflix?
Netflix hasn’t publicly introduced a Hot Wheels Let’s Race launch date.
Netflix, of their press launch, said that the collection would arrive in 2024, whereas Mattel went one step additional, saying it’d arrive someday in Spring 2023.
What’s on Netflix can report that the collection is at present eying a launch on Netflix in March 2023, particularly on March eleventh. That’s, after all, topic to alter.
Per The Toy Book, further credit embody:
Rob David, Vice President, Content Creative at Mattel Television (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Melanie Shannon, Senior Manager, Creative Content at Mattel Television (Masters of the Universe: Revelation), and Jordan Gershowitz (Sharkdog). Rob David, Christopher Keenan (Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go) and Fred Soulie (Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge) function Executive Producers, with Mike Roberts (Final Space) and Diane A Crea (Barbie: Epic Road Trip) as Producers.
Other new children animated collection confirmed for 2024 embody Dee & Friends in Oz and Mighty Monsterwheelies plus different returning favorites.
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