Did you know?

• 2021 Fireball Publishing asked to do the Official Mike Zarnock Hot Wheels Coloring Book!

• 2020 Guinness World Record for the most gravity fed loop-the-loops on a Hot Wheels track is 7, and was achieved by Mike Zarnock in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on 5 February 2020.

The Hot Wheels track measured 34 ft in length and was built as part of the Jaguar Land Rover display at the Chicago Auto Show 2020.


• 2007 Guinness World Record - Largest Collection of Different Model Cars.


• 2003 Guinness World Record - Largest Collection of Different Model Cars.

• 2011 - featured in "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!" book "Utterly Crazy!"


• 2008 - featured in the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! book #5 "Prepare To Be Shocked!"

• 2009 - Hot Wheels reproduced Mike's old Race Car as a Hot Wheels Car and included it as part of their nostalgic "Drag Strip Demons Series" as "Mike Zarnock's Altered Roadster".

• 2021 Received the Hall of Honor "Lifetime Acheivment Award"!


• 2020 Inducted into the Hall of Honor as a Hot Wheels Historian!


• 2009 Mike was inducted into the Diecast Hall of Fame as a Hot Wheels Historian!

• 2021 - Host on the History Channel's TV Series "The Toys That Built America" Episode 3 - Toy Car Wars


• 2020 - Self on NBC's Little Big Shots TV Series Episode 1 - Icing on the Cake
  Hot Wheels Expert/Hot Wheels Track Design


• 2018 - Host on the History Channel's TV Documentary - "Hot Wheels: 50th Anniversary Special"
  Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the most popular and disruptive toy in the world, Hot Wheels.
  
  
• 2017 - Featured in the film- Redlines to Treasure Hunts: The Cars, The Collectors, The Community.
  A documentary delving deep into the sub-culture of Hot Wheels Collecting around the world.
  
  
• 2015 - Featured in - Passion or Obsession: Inside the World of Extreme Collecting.
  

Mike is producer/editor and host of
"Hot Wheels TV" on YouTube.
An Internet program where he takes his audience deep within the Subculture of Hot Wheels Collecting via Conventions, Car Shows and other events around the world.
The program also features unboxing and review of the latest Hot Wheels product as soon as it's released!

He is Senior Contributing Editor at Die Cast X Magazine where he has written two Hot Wheels feature columns since 2011
"The Hot Wheels Highway" which focuses on the latest Hot Wheels releases and "Hot Wheels Flashback" reaching back into the historical archives of Hot Wheels releases of the past.

For full biography go to Mike Zarnock Biography

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