Collection of colorful toy cars with various designs and building blocks in red, green, and black.

Mattel’s Brick Shop only launched a year ago but has since gone from strength to strength in putting out a varied lineup of models for every enthusiast. Want a huge, blue-chip collectible Mercedes-Benz 300SL set that you can spend hours putting together? Done. Feeling a pang of nostalgia for the teal Honda Civic that got you through the college years to your first job? Sure thing, here’s one that you can swap out the wheels on.

Green sports car model at 1:64 scale, part of an officially licensed vehicle building set.

Most of the reason the Brick Shop team has managed to get the rollout right with a mix of obvious heroes like the Lamborghini Miura and secret-enthusiast-handshake cars like the Audi RS2 is down to close work with the designers at Hot Wheels. Located in El Segundo, California, the Hot Wheels team members are all gearheads of one flavor or another, and the passion they have for all wheeled things is genuine. Just, you know, scaled down for those iconic orange tracks.

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Small scale is where you’ll find the latest Mattel Bricks sets, now built to the same size as the roughly 1/64th scale Hot Wheels themselves. They’re simple little cars, fewer than 30 pieces per kit, and at $4.99 each, they’re as dangerously tempting as an open family-size bag of potato chips. You can’t just have one.

Red Hot Wheels car held above assorted building pieces on a table.

The launch sets include a 2018 Audi TT RS, a 1991 Acura NSX, a 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, a Maserati MCPura, a 1999 Honda S2000, and a Bone Shaker (a 20-year-old hot rod by Hot Wheels design legend Larry Wood). The sets will be sold in blind boxes, so you’ll be getting a car at random when you’re buying them, adding to the fun. Launch is planned for January of next year, so you’ll be able to get your hands on one even if Santa pegged you on the naughty list for doing burnouts.

Even better is that these six tiny cars are only the first wave. By the end of next year, Mattel plans to have 20 models of 1/64-scale cars, making getting the full lineup something of a challenge for collectors. Even if you’re less serious about completing the series, one or two of these things are surely going to “accidentally” fall into the cart when you next go shopping for groceries.

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Caleb Miller began blogging about cars at 13 years old, and he realized his dream of writing for a car magazine after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University and joining the Car and Driver team. He loves quirky and obscure autos, aiming to one day own something bizarre like a Nissan S-Cargo, and is an avid motorsports fan.

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