Our Hot Wheels community is
pretty big and with collectors from all over the world it is really
hard to see what everybody has, how many cars, how many sets, or how
they have them displayed and so on, BUT, i am going to help a little
bit regarding this aspect.
Starting from now i will
start a new series of videos on my channel called "Hot Wheels
Setup Race".
How this will work is you
guys can submit pictures, or videos with your Hot Wheels setups and i
will feature them on my channel, in a video once on 2 weeks and
everybody can vote which setup looks the best, the most entertaining,
the most interesting and inspired.
Your setup must be composed
out of track sets, cars, posters, another Hot Wheels products or all
combined. It doesn't need to have a track set specifically, but if it
has only cars it must be a display of at least 30 cars, arranged in
a nice visual order, they can be displayed on a wall, on a desk, or
on the floor ... it doesn't matter as long as it looks good in the
room and with the overall layout and color of the room.
Prizes :
1) The race will go on until
the end of the year where the winner will get a huge prize consisting
of a box full of Hot Wheels cars and even other brands, like
Majorette, Matchbox, Maisto and a shirt with the Setup Race
inscriptions and my channel logo.
2) There is also going to be a
winner in each episode and the winner is going to be chosen by your
votes. This time the winner setup will get a banner, made by myself,
with his winning setup to be promoted on my YouTube channel in the
announcement episode, on Facebook and on Twitter and it will also
automatically enter for the the final prize at the end of the year.
What you need to do to be
eligible to enter is :
You must submit at least 7
pictures, in widescreen format, landscape mode, with a resolution of
minimum 1280x720 px.
- a front picture with the
whole setup
- a side picture with your
setup
- 3 pictures with the key
sections of the setup
- if the setup has only cars
a picture with your favorite car and a picture with the most valuable
car in that setup
- if it has a poster a
picture with it
- Different other pictures
you consider are important for your setup, with other items and so
on.
You can submit as many
pictures as you want if you consider you have a bunch of stuff in
there, but the minimum is 7. Please submit clear pictures, with good
quality so we can all see the details of the setup as good as
possible, as a tip you can take the pictures during day light.
You can also submit short
videos with those pictures and these will have to be :
- maximum length 30 seconds,
in a wide format, of minimum 1280x720p, 30 fps, in the known formats.
- in the videos you can show
a short presentation of the setup, close-ups, key sections, lights
and so on.
How you can submit your
content :
You will have to use a free
storage website, like WeTransfer, where it allows you to send files
up to 2Gb of size.
- you will have to label
your files accordingly, 1 – being the front picture with the setup,
2 – a side picture of your setup and so on.
- send your content to :
hotwheelshobbi@gmail.com
- in the message box add as
the title 10h41 Setup Race and let me know details like the name of
your track sets, names about your setup components (shelves, cases –
with names, size and years); name of your favorite Hot Wheels car in
the setup and the name of the most valuable car in that setup as well
as the year of it.
- Write your name and your
social media/channel name so i can give you a shout out (YouTube,
Facebook or Twitter)
- any other details i might
use to explain better what your setup is all about.
Add your own email as well,
so you can receive notification for when i have downloaded your files
and then click transfer.
If your setup has not been
chosen for the first episode of the month, don't worry and wait until
the second episode of that month. If it has not been chosen then
either you can submit your content again to be featured in the next
month's episodes.
The submissions are opened
10 days from the release of the Setup Race video. I think this is going to be
very fun, let's hope you guys are going to participate. It will be
very entertaining and we can all see what cool and interesting setups
Hot Wheels collectors have made.
We are used to race our Hot
Wheels, so let the Setup Race begin. Happy collecting and i will see
you next time.
