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February 7, 2021
Mattel, maker of Hot Wheels, has just released a new Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover to celebrate the landing of the NASA Perseverance rover on Mars on February 18.
This is the new Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover, a detailed 1:64 scale replica model based on the actual rover that will land on Mars on February 18, 2021. Image via CollectSPACE/ David Chickering/ Mattel.
The landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars is now only days away – on February 18, 2021 – and the toy-making company Mattel is helping celebrate! The creator of the very popular Hot Wheels series is releasing a new die-cast scale model – the Hot Wheels Mars Perseverance Rover, inspired by the real-life rover – to mark the occasion of its landing.