Hotwheels/matchbox Elio

[AriLea]

At the LA show, Paul was a few minutes late to his presentation, because he was talking to the Matchbox or Hot Wheels marketers.
So has anyone heard more about that? I would love to buy a dozen of those myself.

 

[ks6c]

Maybe now folks can get yellow.....

 

[Sethodine]

I'd get a dozen of those in a heartbeat! Maybe e-mail hotwheels and share the response with us?

 

[TCBronson]

I would like a 1:18th scale diecast model of an Elio in white or silver!

 

[Adamant]

I'd get one in Red, Orange, Green, and Blue. I'd never take them out of the box and I'd keep them as collectables. Then whichever color vehicle I end up getting, I'll get the same color hotwheels and open that one up and stick it to the dash of my car. Would be cool. Very meta.

 

[HonestTex]

I'm thinking Hood Oriment...

 

[Charles Stanley]

I wrote to Matchbox / Mattel and Elio motors more than a year ago suggesting they get together and offer us an Elio replica. EM said they would forward my suggestion to the appropriate person. But they have as far as I know not said anything publicly about any plan to do this. Cameron that owns Elio Wear and I have talked about this too. He says that to have a replica made requires a commitment to buy a minimum that numbers in the tens of thousands. If anyone at EM is planning to offer replicas, this is likely a big speed bump. No one is going to want to lay out that much $$$ unless they have it and can be pretty sure they will sell enough of them. Just because a few of us say we will buy several of them is not enough for anyone to risk that much money. I believ we will get our chance to buy a replica of the Elio. but I'd be surprised if it happens any time soon.

 

[DAVID BROWER]

WHY DOESN'T SOME SMALLER ENTERPRISE 3-D PRINT THEM TO ORDER ?

THEY COULD DO THEM IN THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE AND EVEN TO THE
SCALE OF YOUR CHOICE !

SURE , IT WOULD BE A BIT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A DIE CAST MODEL ,
BUT THEY DON'T NEED TO MAKE ANY THAT ARE NOT ALREADY ORDERED
AND PAID FOR .

 

[NSTG8R]

WHY DOESN'T SOME SMALLER ENTERPRISE 3-D PRINT THEM TO ORDER ?

THEY COULD DO THEM IN THE COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE AND EVEN TO THE
SCALE OF YOUR CHOICE !

SURE , IT WOULD BE A BIT MORE EXPENSIVE THAN A DIE CAST MODEL ,
BUT THEY DON'T NEED TO MAKE ANY THAT ARE NOT ALREADY ORDERED
AND PAID FOR .

Actually, I've been studying AriLea's .stl file, and printing it would be pretty sketchy unless you had a dual head printer to lay down dissolvable support material. Going to try to import and modify from Designspark Mechanical when I get some time. I'm thinking if I removed the suspension and wheels so the body sits flat on the print bed it might come out much cleaner, and print the wheels and suspension separate (snap together if I do it right).

 

[NSTG8R]

Ah Ha! Since I'm off 'vacuum duty' until the Bronco game is over, I decided to see if I could get Ari's "Year One Elio" model to load. Turns out I needed to download an older version of the SketchUp file, and then convert it to a .rsdoc DesignSpark Mechanical file that "should" allow me to disassemble the model. Don't know how far I'll get, but it beats sucking water out of a leaking basement!

Pic of the model loaded in Designspark Mechanical: