| 05.14.2018 – Hot Wheels brand has been around for sixty five years and still going strong for Mattel. Its one of the two iconic brands they’ve built their name from.
The other of course was Barbie that continues to evolve through modern times. With Hot Wheels is all about die-cast cars, but over years we see aircraft vehicles incorporated to their mainline to expand the variety for collectors to choose from. So far there are selected fictionalised aircraft to make it to the mainline that ‘as been around for decades and one of them is the Propper Chopper. |
The Propper Chopper is a fictional helicopter by Hot Wheels designer Larry Wood. It was introduced in 1990 and there have been many iterations of this aerial vehicle. So far the casting for this vehicle has evolved through the years with the changes from the folding two-piece to propeller to a permanent one piece with a longer tail.
These changes happened towards the end of 2014 and a new version for 2015, which probably cost saving for Mattel to make these minor changes. It’s interesting to find out how they retain its die-cast parts that some of their cars slightly have any. This new iteration have the “RSO Scout” and “Team 3” tampograph though its not a perfect copter with minor details remained unpainted like the previous versions it still has enough details to appreciate this edition.
In the real world the Propper Chopper is based probably from some design aesthetics of the Bell Helicopters like the 206B Jet Ranger III. But whatever Larry Wood had in mind to put the Propper Chopper together it has been around long enough due to some collector interest in aerial vehicles.
I never was a fan of bright colors when it comes to Hot Wheels cars, but this one seemed to find its way to grow on you. The bright yellow and red color seemed to match the blue skies when I had it taken at the backyard.
What I think of the Propper Chopper’s current casting is there are improvements namely a longer tail, but replacing the two-piece fold out propeller with s permanent one-piece diminish its overall aesthetics that was introduced in 1990. It is still a good looking version Hot Wheels take on a helicopter that rarely appreciated by many.
Overall it’s a good casting but personally I won’t collect all versions probably the last one that was released having the two-piece folding propeller to pair up with this one as a comparison good enough to be in my collection regardless if there are better color variants that came before or after this one. It’s good to have one casting that represent Hot Wheels’ attempt at producing an aerial vehicle namely the Propper Chopper.
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