Hot Wheels released a personal computer in 1999. When last the flame-wrapped blue chunk of plastic and circuitry graced our website, Joe Blevins described it as “a kid’s idea of what a personal ...

With its bright blue paint job and eye-catching flame decals, the Hot Wheels computer manufactured by a long-gone firm called Patriot in 1999 looks absolutely amazing. It’s definitely a kid’s idea of ...

Thousands of consumers expecting a Barbie or Hot Wheels computer this holiday are doubly out of luck--they won’t get their PC and they might never get back the $700 to $1,000 they paid for it either.

The computer went on to fail even these modest expectations by shipping with a faulty power supply that affected roughly half the first batch of sales; a number of... If you purchase a product or ...