Zip Rippers

Zip Rippers was a line of three-wheeled 1:64 scaled Hot Wheels vehicles who's main gimmick was each vehicle having a ripcord that could be used with the vehicle to push them off at powerful speeds. The line which was under the HW RACE banner lasted from 2015 to 2016 and was quietly discontinued after it's two year run, most likely due to poor sales and distribution.
== Vehicle Characteristics ==
The main characteristics of Zip Ripper vehicles was their massive single back rubber wheel that was almost the size of Monster Truck wheels from the time. These wheels where the ones that active during the time the ripcord is pulled from the vehicle in question, the two front wheels where one of the most early examples of the skinny HSRW wheel type being used in a HW toyline most likely due to the wheel making vehicles much faster then vehicles with wheels of normal thickness.
Each Vehicle from the line was a hole area where the ripcord could be place on the left side in the vehicle and with a simple strong pull the vehicle in question would activate the play feature that the line of known for.
== List of Vehicles ==
Twin Mill
Bad to the Blade
Bone Shaker
Muscle Mania (Zip Rippers)
Rip Roarin
Haulin' Horsepower (Zip Rippers)
== Toyline ==
The Zip Rippers toyline compared to others of it's magnitude was a medium size line with one set, one launcher and 6 different new castings, three of them being Zip Ripper variants of well known Hot Wheels making Muscle Mania, Haulin' Horsepower and Rip Roarin (who could be seen as the mascot of the line) the only brand new vehicles added to the vast HW universe.
==== Track Set ====
The Rip Up Raceway was a medium sized straight trackset which was only released in 2015. The set was very simple with having three obstacles the vehicle must go through being a single loop, adjustable jump and a specialized track piece that was meant to represent the vehicle ripping up the pavement road. This was done via switches on the piece that triggers the action. The set was list under the HW RACE banner during it's short time of store shelves and could connect to sets with Track Builder connection points. This was also notable for being one of the first sets to use orange tall wall track pieces.
Vehicles Include: Rip Roarin or Bad to the Blade
==== Launcher ====
The Super Kick Launcher is a unique launcher which features a sloped angled ramp-like track area supported by a yellow handle. The gray area could have a vehicle loaded into to be launched by the launcher's mechanism. The Launcher could be added on to other Hot Wheels track pieces.
Vehicles Include: Twin Mill
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